Company
Date Published
Author
Jonathan Taylor
Word count
935
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Daily Adaptive HEVC is an industry-first implementation that provides all the benefits of HEVC while preserving essential cross-platform support, allowing developers to extend HEVC capabilities to iOS users without sacrificing support for others. It works by encoding both H.265 and H.264 together, with the latter serving as a reliable fallback for scenarios where HEVC is not available, utilizing device hardware acceleration and granularly optimized encoder settings to provide parallel video streams that look great but use less device power and bandwidth. With Daily Adaptive HEVC, developers can build better mobile-centric interactive live streaming apps, enable creators on their apps to produce better recorded content, and provide enhanced experiences for iOS users, unlocking use cases that would typically bottleneck network or CPU.