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Originally Posted by avih
Guys/gals, the discussion is a good one, but there's no need to get personal. Please keep it on topic. Thanks.
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Yeah.
All, bear in mind x264 devs have contributed x264 technologies and techniques to x262, xvid, and xvp8. In my experience with them, including DS, they are much more pragmatic than religious, and care more about making ever-better looking video than about any particular bitstream or feature.
I would be
startled if at least some core x264 contributors weren't already making plans around HEVC. And lots of the good things about x264 are quite applicable to HEVC. A lot could be done just by swapping out parts of the reference encoder with adapted x264 bits. It wouldn't be a fully optimized encoder, but it certainly wouldn't take years to have an encoder that reliably gives better quality than x264 at non-glacial encoding speeds.