Microsoft will be in Windows 10 will default to a h265 codec of your choice, allowing the user to, among other 4k videos can play. In addition, the successor of Windows 8.1 can handle video content in mkv containers is stored.
The advent of the codec in Windows 10 has been announced in a tweet from a Microsoft employee Gabriel Aul. The h265 codec, also known under the name high efficiency video coding, is the successor of the widely applied to the h264 codec, which is a lot for hd videos is used. With the new codec can video at the same quality, on average, a factor of two better compression than h264. This lends the hevc codec for 4k video, and in theory, it can also be used to compress 8k video. By the codec by default in the operating system to include all installed applications, including browsers, are able to make use of.
It is unclear yet whether the h265 codec, which Microsoft in Windows 10 will provide future gpus with built-in hevc hardware acceleration support, though that is quite probable. In the coming months are the first gpus that have this feature are expected to hit the market. Also unknown is whether Microsoft’s hevc codec support for the main still picture profile, which was developed to compress images.
In addition to h265 support, Microsoft announced earlier that Windows 10 also can handle the mkv format. These containers are popular for video, and the mkv format includes the ability to use different soundtracks and subtitles in a single file package.
Windows 10 is also the lossless flac audio format support, making such music files now in Windows Media Player to open.
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