[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] libx265: 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 are no longer experimental

[Stephen Hutchinson]

On 8/23/2015 1:14 PM, Derek Buitenhuis wrote:
> On 8/22/2015 7:17 PM, Stephen Hutchinson wrote:
>> x265 itself removed its warnings about these a while ago.
>> ---
>>   libavcodec/libx265.c | 8 --------
>>   1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
>
> Are they ratified in the standard now?
>
> - Derek
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It would appear that version 2, which is where the
range extensions and higher bit depths are supposed
to be, was approved in October 2014 and published
in January 2015.  It's already been superseded by
version 3 (approved in February and published in
April), which seems to focus on 3D.

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/recommendations/rec.aspx?rec=12296
http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.265-201410-S
https://hevc.hhi.fraunhofer.de/rext