HEVC, the designated standards-based successor to H.264, launched in 2013 to great acclaim and even greater expectations. Then come back and finish the rest of the article. Just for fun, if you want to see if your version of Chrome version plays HEVC, navigate Chrome to bit.ly/play_hevc on the Bitmovin site and see if the video plays. There are several other caveats, particularly relating to DRM and HDR, which we’ll explore below. However, most of these platforms-particularly Mac, iOS, Android, and Windows-already support HEVC in hardware. Note one major caveat, however: HEVC is enabled in Chrome only when playback support is already available on the underlying platform, whether Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, or Android. It’s now officially supported for Chrome 104, and with a little investigation also found out that it’s enabled by default for Chrome 105 for all platforms, ready to be used in the wild.” Daniel Weinberger, who penned the post, stated, “Quietly, without any announcement or updates on support pages, Google fixed a bug in Chrome with a significant implication for the video streaming industry: Support for adaptive streaming of HEVC/H.265 video content has finally been enabled!. In case you haven’t heard, here’s what we learned from the Bitmovin blog entitled Google Quietly Added HEVC Support in Chrome. In this article, I’ll attempt to piece their inputs together to help you understand exactly what happened and allow you to draw your own conclusion as to what it might mean. Many spoke on the record, and many didn’t. Then I started reaching out to colleagues and contacts whose opinions I value to get their reactions and thoughts. When I first heard that Google Chrome played HEVC, I checked the weather in Hades to determine if the River Styx had, in fact, frozen over.
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