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You're talking nonsense. H.265 is an ITU-T standard and was adopted as the standard for broadcast television ATSC. This isn't an Apple developed codec.

And many more companies support it over AoM: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/HEVC/Pages/Licensors.asp... http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/HEVC/Pages/Licensees.asp... http://www.hevcadvance.com/pdfnew/LicensorList.pdf http://www.hevcadvance.com/pdfnew/LicenseeList.pdf

Including the likes of: BBC, Samsung, Dolby, GE, MediaTek, Philips, Mitsubishi, Warner Bros, Sony etc. And as for hardware vendors well AMD, Intel, Nvidia etc all support H.265.




> This isn't an Apple developed codec.

I didn't say it was, I said Apple was pursuing it.

> And many more companies support it over AoM

You can't claim that yet as AV1 isn't yet finalized.


> You can't claim that yet as AV1 isn't yet finalized.

Do more companies support it? Yes.

Failure to ship is also a competitive disadvantage - AV1 may be great (we don't know) but if this one gets traction first that may not matter.


HEVC is competing against VP9. AV1 is competing against the successor to HEVC.




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