Done :-) Form filled in.

Excellent.

DENVER, CO, US – 16 January 2014) – MPEG LA, LLC announced today that a group of 25 companies have agreed on HEVC license terms expected to issue as part of an HEVC Patent Portfolio License in early 2014. A summary is attached. Final agreements are yet to be concluded.

Full list of parasites:

• Apple Inc.
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• Cisco Technology, Inc.
• Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) of Korea
• Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
• Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
• HUMAX Co., Ltd.
• JVC KENWOOD Corporation
• KT Corp.
• LG Electronics Inc.
• M&K Holdings Inc.
• NEC Corporation
• Nippon Hoso Kyokai
• Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
• NTT DOCOMO, INC.
• Orange SA
• Siemens AG
• SK Telecom
• Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Thomson Licensing
• Vidyo, Inc.

http://www.mpegla.com/main/pid/HEVC/default.aspx

The documents on Daala look much more substantial and promising than I would have expected from the bold claims they've been announced with :-)

(And ~20 years after having used lifting filters for audio processing in research projects myself, I am happy to see that this very useful class of filters becomes utilized for video processing now, too.)

Regarding the Panasonic claim:

Panasonic is developing a video codec enabling equal or better picture quality compared to standard encoders at 1/20th the processing time, while still being compliant with the HEVC international standard specifications expected for 4K video transmission.

This is not difficult to achieve: They do not claim to achieve the "equal or better picture quality" at the same compression ratio than the original. Once you're ok with spending more bandwidth (which is always a good idea for recording video in cameras) you can just skip many of the more computationally expensive options HEVC includes.

4K HEVC Technology

Panasonic is developing a video codec enabling equal or better picture quality compared to standard encoders at 1/20th the processing time, while still being compliant with the HEVC international standard specifications expected for 4K video transmission. A demonstration of this will be carried out at the Panasonic booth. As one of the core technologies of 4K video transmission, HEVC technology can increase the value of 4K video by improving the connectivity of devices and the convenience of sharing content between devices. In the future, Panasonic will expand this HEVC technology and enable high quality video transmission even on low speed communications lines.

Huh.

More info about Daala

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo1.shtml

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo2.shtml

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo3.shtml

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo4.shtml

@luxis Cool thank you, hopefully I'll have some time to give it a try this coming week!

Almost forgot. All top Chinese phones will have H.265 hardware decoding support (up to 1080p30) as new MTK chipset has it. They start shipping in December or so.

@bimdas

I suppose quite soon. And pirates together with TV chipset manufacturers will be ahead again :-)

I have done some testing with h265 using cinec on some BMCC prores stuff and I was blown away. A 1gb file would be converted to a couple MB with basically no loss.

@sangye shoot raw, edit/grade, export max quality, convert to h265 ; )

@Sangye

I suggest to avoid Voldemort hideout on technical stuff :-)

I can see this HEVC technology coming to stills too. As the image quality of the sensor advances and megapixels increase north of 36MP, an 8bit JPEG isn’t going to cut it. H.265 for stills will offer tiny files sizes and massive resolutions, whilst moving away from 8bit to 10bit for smoother gradation and colour.

It is all funny, but this is just LOL.