What kind of magic is this shit. I transcoded a h264 480p 43minutes

>>57167324
It's the magic of math

>>57167324
It's just much better compression. h265 has had well over a decade of improvement in compression techniques to draw on since h264

You did get a little bit of quality reduction since you re-encoded an already encoded source, but it doesn't matter if you can't tell the difference.

>>57167324

yeah, now take a look at your cpu/gpu usage while playing those two files.

>>57167324
How is that magic?

I mean, you come from a single cell with about 1.5GB of information and that was enough for creating the complex shitposting machine you are today.

Having an entire season 1080p of a show in x265 be smaller than 3 episodes of 1080p x264 with no quality difference?

yeah, it's pretty rad.

I can't be assed to encode myself though, so whenever a season ends I just replace the entire season into 1080p x265 encodes instead of the previously 720p x264 encodes which take up much more space with an inferior quality.

>>57167324
If I wanted to start ripping my DVDs and blu-rays to HEVC, what software should I use?

>>57168145

x265, obviously

>>57168145
x264 since x265 is still garbage

>>57167859
is it high or low
>t.PeasantWithNoPC

>>57167324
well we still don't have very many devices that can natively play HEVC with GPU acceleration yet, unlike H264.

>>57167324
>What kind of magic is this shit

"Magic" that demands an insane amount of resources to decode. There's a reason why more popular codecs don't compress nearly as well. They're designed more for practical compatibility.