Alternately, it means that the quality of the video can be substantially improved at the same bit rate, something very important for very high definition (i.e. This means that video at the same quality needs only half of the bandwidth (or file size).

H.265 doubles the data compression ratio compared to H.264 and can support resolutions up to 8192×4320. MPEG-H/H.265: The next generation encoding format with support for 4K and 8K resolutionsĪfter H.264 came H.265. It also has a few other names, most commonly High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or MPEG-H.

MPEG-2/H.262: Used for DVD and other digital mediums.

MP3: Part of the MPEG-1 standard, ubiquitous today.

After DVD came Blu-ray, which as well as supporting videos encoded in MPEG-2, also supported H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding (MPEG-4 AVC) as it was officially known. MPEG-2 was also ratified by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as H.262. It was also used as the underlying video standard for digital satellite (DVB-S) and digital terrestrial TV (DVB-T). After MPEG-1 came MPEG-2, which was chosen as the video compression standard for DVD video.

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