David_Harry
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Mr Monio Posted at 12-9 02:37
It has not been a niche format anymore at least since Apple adopted it and it plays just fine on my Samsung Tab 2 tablet, which has like a 3 or 4 year old CPU in it, not to mention it has been supported by all recent GPUs, CPUs, at least those with integrated GFX, most TV sets manufactured for the last couple of years, media players etc. If backward compatibility is of a concern, DJI can make x265 optional, there is no reason anymore to waste disk space with h264. Anyway, I suspect x265 is not coming anymore to this iteration of OP, regardless if the current hw supports it or not, but it should be the default format in the next version.
No one has said it's a niche format.
You are now talking about playback devices that have hardware decoding for H.265, that's a far cry from streaming it.
None of these compatible playback devices make any difference to the fact that H.265 is way harder to edit. I'd imagine that most people with a Pocket are simply not just shooting clips for individual playback on their own on a TV. Most people will be editing the footage and it's these people that would be severely limited by the Pocket using H.265
Plus, once edited, you have a choice of codecs to export to anyway. At that point you could just encode a production to H.265, although it's a bad choice as far as compatibility is concerned if the idea is to share the video files. |
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