High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as , is a video compression standard designed to succeed H.264 (AVC). It offers significantly better data compression while maintaining high visual quality. Hacker News Key Advantages Storage Efficiency : HEVC can reduce file sizes by roughly 50% compared to H.264
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HEVC uses "Coding Tree Units" (CTUs). While older formats used small blocks to process images, HEVC uses blocks up to High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as