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Old 25th January 2017, 17:03   #4652  |  Link
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Originally Posted by mandarinka View Post
Seems that next-gen HEVC has been researched for some time: https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=174245
I wonder if this time, it'll be viable to extend x265 to support the new format instead of starting from scratch (or from the reference encoder), or if the differences will be too big again.
Anything is possible with enough time, money and motivation. The question of whether to start with the reference or with x265 depends on your software development philosophy. We like to use an agile software development methodology, which stresses the need to always have a stable build that works. With a new coding standard, the reference encoder gives you a stable build that works (can encode valid bitstreams for that standard). So we would likely start there, and then slowly replace every piece of the reference encoder with our own code, just as we did with x265.
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