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HEVC competes with [AV1](/av1) which has similar compression quality and provides a free license.", "spec":"https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.265", "status":"other", "links":[ { "url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?format=default&id=1332136", "title":"Firefox support bug (WONTFIX)" }, { "url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding", "title":"Wikipedia article" }, { "url":"https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=684382", "title":"Chrome support bug (WontFix)" }, { "url":"https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1842838", "title":"Firefox support via OS API bug" } ], "bugs":[ ], "categories":[ "Other" ], "stats":{ "ie":{ "5.5":"n", "6":"n", "7":"n", "8":"n", "9":"n", "10":"n", "11":"a #1" }, "edge":{ "12":"a #1", "13":"a #1", "14":"a #1", "15":"a #1", "16":"a #1", "17":"a #1", "18":"a #1", "79":"a #4", "80":"a #4", "81":"a #4", "83":"a #4", "84":"a #4", "85":"a #4", "86":"a #4", "87":"a #4", "88":"a #4", "89":"a #4", "90":"a #4", "91":"a 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support](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_apps-insider_wmp/windows-10-hevc-playback-yes-or-no/3c1ab780-a6b2-4b77-ac0f-9faeefd4680d)", "2":"Reported to work in certain Android devices with hardware support", "3":"Supported only on macOS High Sierra or later", "4":"Supported for all devices on macOS (>= Big Sur 11.0) and Android (>= 5.0) if Edge >= 107, for devices with [hardware support](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/updated-dev-channel-build-77-0-211-3-is-live/m-p/745801#M6548) on Windows (>= Windows 10 1709) when [HEVC video extensions from the Microsoft Store](https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/hevc-video-extension/9NMZLZ57R3T7) is installed", "5":"Supported for all devices on macOS (>= Big Sur 11.0) and Android (>= 5.0), for devices with [hardware support](https://github.com/StaZhu/enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-decoding) on Windows (>= Windows 8), and for devices with hardware support powered by VAAPI on Linux and ChromeOS", "6":"Supported for devices with hardware support (the range is the same as Edge) on Windows in Nightly only" }, "usage_perc_y":21.24, "usage_perc_a":68.6, "ucprefix":false, "parent":"video", "keywords":"h265", "chrome_id":"", "shown":true }