<story><title>A Sneak Peek Comparison of x264, x265, and libvpx</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/a-large-scale-comparison-of-x264-x265.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jjcm</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m sad they skipped out on a 4k resolution test. I&amp;#x27;d really like to see how they compare at those resolutions or higher, since really x265 isn&amp;#x27;t really going to be ubiquitous in hardware for another couple years. At that time 4k should (hopefully) be the standard, or at the very least will be a common use case.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Sneak Peek Comparison of x264, x265, and libvpx</title><url>http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/a-large-scale-comparison-of-x264-x265.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>corysama</author><text>&amp;gt; x265 outperforms libvpx for almost all resolutions and quality metrics, but the performance gap narrows (or even reverses) at 1080p.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not clear if this means libvpx is sometimes better than x265 at resolutions &amp;gt; 1080p or &amp;lt;= 1080p.  I think the author intended &amp;quot;occasionally better when &amp;lt;= 1080p&amp;quot;</text></comment>