
The good news for Linux users is that the H.265 codec is available in the popular encoding suite “ffmpeg.” Although ffmpeg probably exists in your distro’s repositories, it might be out of date or it might not have support for H.265 compiled in. 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.


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.
