<story><title>X265 3.0 released</title><url>https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/src/46b84ff665fd301e384328972d3d1312a8c74599/doc/reST/releasenotes.rst?at=default&amp;fileviewer=file-view-default</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristofferR</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s only recently been possible to actually use x265 for transparent encodes, previous versions of x265 removed film grain&amp;#x2F;digital noice to such a degree that the quality was worse than x264 at equivalent bitrates. Combine that with the massively increased costs in both encoding&amp;#x2F;decoding time (and worse x265 encoding tools&amp;#x2F;knowledge), x265 simply wasn&amp;#x27;t worthwhile except for crappy re-encodes at super low bitrates for people with crappy internet.&lt;p&gt;Recently you&amp;#x27;ve begun to see a lot of x265 releases though, usually with HDR, the only significant feature x264 can&amp;#x27;t provide.&lt;p&gt;For sub-4K SDR content there&amp;#x27;s really no incentive for pirates to switch to x265, it&amp;#x27;s just a nuisance. With torrenting people don&amp;#x27;t pay for the extra bitrate x264 requires, unlike hosting services like Netflix, the ~20% bitrate savings of x265 are not important at all, especially compared to the other &amp;quot;costs&amp;quot; of compatibility issues and 10X longer encode times.</text></item><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Must say I&amp;#x27;m massively surprised at how low adoption of 265&amp;#x2F;hevc is in ahem the eyepatch wearing part of the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stordoff</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s only recently been possible to actually use x265 for transparent encodes, previous versions of x265 removed film grain&amp;#x2F;digital noice to such a degree that the quality was worse than x264 at equivalent bitrates.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve noticed this recently - Slow RF16 encodes were _visually_ worse (as in during casual watching I was asking if the source was really this bad, and when I went back to compare it was not[1]). Going to Slower is not tenable (a movie encode already takes ~8 hous, going to Slower makes it take nearly 2 days) (and I&amp;#x27;m not even sure it would help), and increasing the RF to 14 would mean as I&amp;#x27;m as well off keeping the original file (in some cases, RF16 is already almost as big as the original).&lt;p&gt;[1] Random framegrab, not checking the labels until after - in every case, it was obvious which was which.</text></comment>
<story><title>X265 3.0 released</title><url>https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/src/46b84ff665fd301e384328972d3d1312a8c74599/doc/reST/releasenotes.rst?at=default&amp;fileviewer=file-view-default</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kristofferR</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s only recently been possible to actually use x265 for transparent encodes, previous versions of x265 removed film grain&amp;#x2F;digital noice to such a degree that the quality was worse than x264 at equivalent bitrates. Combine that with the massively increased costs in both encoding&amp;#x2F;decoding time (and worse x265 encoding tools&amp;#x2F;knowledge), x265 simply wasn&amp;#x27;t worthwhile except for crappy re-encodes at super low bitrates for people with crappy internet.&lt;p&gt;Recently you&amp;#x27;ve begun to see a lot of x265 releases though, usually with HDR, the only significant feature x264 can&amp;#x27;t provide.&lt;p&gt;For sub-4K SDR content there&amp;#x27;s really no incentive for pirates to switch to x265, it&amp;#x27;s just a nuisance. With torrenting people don&amp;#x27;t pay for the extra bitrate x264 requires, unlike hosting services like Netflix, the ~20% bitrate savings of x265 are not important at all, especially compared to the other &amp;quot;costs&amp;quot; of compatibility issues and 10X longer encode times.</text></item><item><author>Havoc</author><text>Must say I&amp;#x27;m massively surprised at how low adoption of 265&amp;#x2F;hevc is in ahem the eyepatch wearing part of the internet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fireattack</author><text>&amp;gt; previous versions of x265 removed film grain&amp;#x2F;digital noice&lt;p&gt;I noticed it as well, glad it gets fixed.&lt;p&gt;Do I need to toggle&amp;#x2F;change any particular parameter, or just use defaults on newer versions to fix it though?</text></comment>