HEVC will become a mainstream trend in the near future. HEVC has already been integrated into more and more consumer products and services like TVs, mobile devices, Netflix, especially the 4K Ultra HD TV in 2020 like Sony's A8G series, Samsung The Frame 4K QLED TV, etc. I know that the Adobe Media Encoder and a few other Apps support h.264 hardware encoding, but i want the new shiny, more awesome codec :-). It means we are able to directly play 4K, and 8K UHD videos online on smartphones, tablets and other portable devices. Since converting video files on the CPU is rather slow (especially for HEVC) i thought that maybe some macOS video software developers have already implemented a way to use the GPU for boosting encoding speed but also with HEVC support.
Furthermore, this new video compression standard greatly improves the bit-stream so users can take less time to stream videos and save more room as such videos are compressed at a smaller size but with good quality. To put it simply, compared with H.264 video, H.265 video offers a smaller video size at the same level of video quality, and enhances video quality at the same bitrate. HEVC aims to encode video at the lowest possible bit rate by using a tool like CTU (Coding tree unit) to save around 50% of the bitrate while maintaining a high level of video quality in transmission with lower bandwidth utilization ratio.
