HEVC breaks the video quality of 4k

I was converting 23.47GB H.265 video to HEVC that gave me brilliant size video of 5.03GB after conversion.

But...

  • It lacks in terms of frame rate when viewing on 5K monitors,
  • Data rate decreases a lot on HD monitors,
  • Just like iPhone XS selfie problems there is a smooth filter applied on every 4k video that I converted. It just not vanishes the video originality but the quality also.

Upper screenshoot indicated HEVC video & lover one indicates H.265 video.

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Image quality is reduced because of size limit of less than 2.0MB.

MacOS Mojave

Version 10.14 (18A391)

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

Posted on Oct 8, 2018 10:07 PM

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Posted on Oct 9, 2018 9:31 AM

What did you intend to do?

  • H.265 is HEVC (similar to ‘H.264 is AVC’).
  • You second (lower) screen shows H.264, not H.265.
  • The data rate (bitrate) is the file size divided by the duration. The smaller file will always have a lesser data rate, for the same duration.
  • Converted files with lossy codecs will always have generation loss. Each export has worse quality than the one is was exported from.
  • Converting to reduce file size will compromise quality. The trade-off should be apparent. Even with H.264 to HEVC.
  • H.265 has more efficiency (quality for file size) than H.264. Side-by-side comparison shows conversion to HEVC and conversion to H.264 should get about 1:2 file size ratio, meaning HEVC can be roughly twice as efficient. Your conversion is pushing it much more (1:4.7), losing more details in the process.

(Edit: I may have mixed up ‘source’ and ‘export’ initially.)

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Oct 9, 2018 9:31 AM in response to yashmaanjs

What did you intend to do?

  • H.265 is HEVC (similar to ‘H.264 is AVC’).
  • You second (lower) screen shows H.264, not H.265.
  • The data rate (bitrate) is the file size divided by the duration. The smaller file will always have a lesser data rate, for the same duration.
  • Converted files with lossy codecs will always have generation loss. Each export has worse quality than the one is was exported from.
  • Converting to reduce file size will compromise quality. The trade-off should be apparent. Even with H.264 to HEVC.
  • H.265 has more efficiency (quality for file size) than H.264. Side-by-side comparison shows conversion to HEVC and conversion to H.264 should get about 1:2 file size ratio, meaning HEVC can be roughly twice as efficient. Your conversion is pushing it much more (1:4.7), losing more details in the process.

(Edit: I may have mixed up ‘source’ and ‘export’ initially.)

Oct 9, 2018 10:07 AM in response to Urquhart1244

Well! You said we have to compromise quality if size reduction is required. Now you are saying better software program can provide best quality in HEVC video up-to its limits.

My question arrises here to you is:

  • What if still HEVC video can't provide same build quality up-to H.264 video?
  • If it does-not provide same quality then why would people how prefer quality as their 1st priority prefer to use this feature?

Oct 9, 2018 10:31 AM in response to yashmaanjs

What if still HEVC video can't provide same build quality up-to H.264 video?

Let me try a sample. And then you can see for yourself. I found the source, and I’m getting it now.

If it does-not provide same quality then why would people how prefer quality as their 1st priority prefer to use this feature?

This is not about H.265 vs. H.264, but about ‘A’→‘lossy copy of A’. The ‘generation loss’ argument still holds: a copy of a copy is less than the original. H.264 to re-encoded H.264 would be even worse than H.264 to H.265.

H.265 makes 4K streaming more accessible, as 15–25 Mbps is more available than 30–50 Mbps per device. And cheaper too, as people are paying for bandwidth, even if averaged out in large groups.

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