Any idea when H.266 support is coming to Infuse?

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This codec is not available in tvOS. And without this, infuse will not have full support. And why do you need H266 today?

Ah I didn’t know it depends on tvOS Some other players have it Hardware support for Intel etc. has been announced for this year H.266 is coming around slowly

Apple doesn’t have support for it and I doubt they will until it’s used by Apple to deliver their content.

The film industry has not yet adopted any new coding standards. And until that happens, it doesn’t make any sense to add support for new codecs. Don’t worry, as soon as the industry adopts the new standard, the codec it has chosen will be immediately added to Apple TV and other media players. Or, as…

I know VVC support has been suggested before , but that was almost a year ago and did not come with a concrete idea. VVdeC is a software decoder for VVC that allows playback on devices without hardware support for VVC decoding, i.e. all Apple devices for now. Elmedia Player’s implementation of VVdeC …

Nice post with good info! A15 chip in AppleTV should be pretty capable of software decoding? Maybe even 4K HDR? Not sure how to test this atm

Geekbench says that the A15 Bionic chip scores around 5700 for multi-core CPU tasks as compared to the M3 MacBook Air’s score of around 12000, which means the current Apple TV 4K is probably about 2.1 times slower — so I would expect to see something like 80% CPU utilization on the Apple TV when sof…

Just to ask (because I’m new here), does this (the in-progress tag) mean that support for H.266 VVC is currently being added in Infuse? Even without any support from Apple devices or software? (Not a complaint, I’d love to see it, just asking for clarification).

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It will be software decoding only.

H.266 (VVC) support

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Add VVdeC Software Decoder for H.266 VVC Suggestions	0	185	November 10, 2024
Hardware Decoding vs Software Decoding Video Playback	2	2300	March 29, 2017
More VP9 codec support Suggestions	23	1349	March 7, 2024
When do we get proper x265/H.265/HEVC support? Video Playback	5	2688	December 10, 2016
Apple TV 4k with Infuse and x265 content Apple TV	3	8742	September 26, 2017

Add VVdeC Software Decoder for H.266 VVC

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185

November 10, 2024

Hardware Decoding vs Software Decoding

Video Playback

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2300

March 29, 2017

More VP9 codec support

Suggestions

23

1349

March 7, 2024

When do we get proper x265/H.265/HEVC support?

Video Playback

5

2688

December 10, 2016

Apple TV 4k with Infuse and x265 content

Apple TV

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8742

September 26, 2017

H.266 (VVC) support

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