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I have to say I'm still kind of lost. my last post I had some questions about the ChromeBox. The post from then were all over the map. Does anyone have a chromebox that can answer my questions or has the general feeling of everyone changed, for me to consider something else? What wrxtasy wrote about the cromebox is making me worry that it can't do the job.
Essential: The Nvidia Shield isn't out yet nor has it proven itself. I'm looking for something known to work well with the issues I stated above in my other post.
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Ok. If Chromebox or any Minix boxes won't do the trick nor any other box out there currently, I have no choice once again to delay. Do not close this thread. I will be back from time to time to ask if anything has come out that can fully handle H.265. ...even though some boxes say they can, but can't. Thank you guys for the replies.
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Why are you so set on h265?
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And why do you have too many h.265 files?
Since they are small sized h.265 files, then they are compressed files and you could get the same quality h.264 compressed file at nearly the same size.
You stated that you aren't interested in 4K, then if that is the case you don't really need h.265 for 1080p or 720p files. Because quality vs quality, h.264 and h.265 will be the same with only about a few 100MB (give or take) difference between them.
I have tested compressing many different movies with both h.264 and then h.265, and to get the same quality file with a BD movie is not worth the small amount of space it saves to use h.265.
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It is simply not true that you could get the same quality H.264 compressed file at nearly the same size as H.265. H.265 files are considerably smaller as you can achieve the same (perceived) quality with a much lower bitrate. This has not just the advantage of using a lot less space, but a lot less bandwidth. Not everyone has unlimited quotas, and the smaller the files, the cheaper it'll be to get them. Yes, that's right, some people actually download their content from the internet. This also means they don't necessarily get to choose what format the files are in. If sources are H.265, then that's that. Not sure how it is for others, but I, personally, prefer to just be able to play the files I have. As far as I'm concerned, I'd want for everyone to switch to H.265 now. Enough of H.264 and Hi10P already!