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>you hit play in Netflix on your phone — how many people would have any way to tell how much of their data plan that used? Instead of focusing on the client, w
by wmsiler 7y ago
>you hit play in Netflix on your phone — how many people would have any way to tell how much of their data plan that used?
Instead of focusing on the client, what about the server? How happy would Netflix be to reduce their outbound traffic by 20%? I'm guessing it's quite happy.
- acdha 7y agoOh, don’t get me wrong: I love better codecs and I want them to happen. I’m just with the person upthread who was saying H.264 will stick around: Netflix and YouTube can upgrade rapidly because they control the clients and have robust transcoding pipelines: if it saves 10% on bandwidth costs they’ll recoup the work quickly. It’s upgrading everyone else that’ll take awhile, especially since so much video is natively produced as H.264.
- p0nce 7y agoNetflix is already using HEVC since a while.
- acdha 7y agoYes - that’s why I used them as an example because they’ve published details about the benefits and how they compare codecs. https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/toward-a-practical-perceptual-video-quality-metric-653f208b9652 https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/toward-a-practical-perce...