H.265/HEVC has barely gotten off the ground in adoption due to the double patent pool situation…
H.265/HEVC is ubiquitous on video-focused devices. It's used in every streaming service's encoding ladder. It's used for OTA DTV. It's used for Blu-ray. It's very popular for torrents. Apple devices capture to H.265. AV1 will be (deservedly) considered wildly successful when it reaches current H.265 adoption levels, several years from now.
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H.265/HEVC is ubiquitous on video-focused devices. It's used in every streaming service's encoding ladder. It's used for OTA DTV. It's used for Blu-ray. It's very popular for torrents. Apple devices capture to H.265. AV1 will be (deservedly) considered wildly successful when it reaches current H.265 adoption levels, several years from now.