The Motion Pictures Expert Group (better known as MPEG) submitted for consideration a proposal for the new video codec H.265 (High Efficiency Video Coding - HEVC), which hopes to increase the compression of videos to double compared to the current standard MPEG-4 H.264 while maintaining the same quality, so that the space occupied by a video be halved to less bandwidth used by applications and online video to be able to broadcast or download the videos with twice speed!
The new video codec HVEC reviewed by 450 people at a conference in Stockholm according to the president of the Swedish Annex to MPEG, its use will affect HVEC important industry, and forecasts the videos they want to occupy 90% of total online traffic in 2015! Moreover, he believes that 2013 will be possible to use it for commercial purposes.
Probably, the first devices that will support the new video format will be smartphones and tablets that will see him next year, with Apple being one of the first companies that will rush to support it, something he had done with the H .264.[Via Engadget]
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