High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, is a video compression standard which succeeds H.264. While H.264 itself was a groundbreaking improvement in video compression, HEVC allows to achieve the same picture quality level as H.264/AVC, but with an even better compression. So, the file size can be smaller. This is important when dealing with 4K or Ultra HD media, especially with online media content. Storage and bandwidth are never unlimited so media file size needs to be as small as possible.
Advertisement
