HEVC format

[johnnyshinta]

Has anyone got HEVC working? I tried shooting at FHD 60FPS and UHD 60fps and it still comes out as a mp4. I shot a 4 minute video of my daughter on Easter and it was over 400mb as a mp4. Pretty sure it would be about half as HEVC

 

[chanchan05]

Has anyone got HEVC working? I tried shooting at FHD 60FPS and UHD 60fps and it still comes out as a mp4. I shot a 4 minute video of my daughter on Easter and it was over 400mb as a mp4. Pretty sure it would be about half as HEVC

Mp4 is a container, and HEVC is a compression standard. The video being in an MP4 doesn't have anything to do with it being HEVC or not. In fact, since MPEG was the one who developed the HEVC compression format, mp4 seems an expected output. As for size, it seems right. This guy encoded an HEVC video 4min 28 secs long and it came out at 587mb, while encoding the same video to the older H.264 format yielded 755mb: https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/15/4k-video-hevc-codec-file-size/

 

[johnnyshinta]

Thanks for the info. Since I've only ever recorded using HEVC on an iPhone before I wasn't able to see the extension and thought it would be different.

 

[afh3]

It was indeed nice to see the h.265 standard included on S9+. Now, however, the hardware transcoder on my Synology NAS is no longer capable of rendering my new phone's video when this feature is enabled. (It does, of course, playback properly with the transcoding turned off.)

Sigh. Behind every upgrade is, well, another upgrade.

Much to my wife's delight, I naturally ordered an updated NAS that will transcode h.265.



OK, so I lied about her being delighted.

 

[chanchan05]

Thanks for the info. Since I've only ever recorded using HEVC on an iPhone before I wasn't able to see the extension and thought it would be different.

It would depend on the recording device since various containers support HEVC. For example, the Matroska container supports it as well (mkv). So what the extension would be depending on the software of the recording device which controls the format of the container. So the extension may differ from device to device, but it won't mean it's not HEVC anymore.