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> everyone realized the quality was worse and not much faster

I can't speak for the h264 situation, as I wasn't involved at the time, but with the newer h265 hardware, it is obnoxiously faster with minimal (in terms of end-user, not distributor) quality loss.

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Are those the CPU instructions or the GPU ones?

I remember when h264 CPU accelerators hit the scene. It was a game changer.

I don't know anything about h265 CPU accelerators, I'm comparing GPU HEVC (h265) encoding with a dedicated chip on the GPU to standard CPU encoding. (Using libx265 IIRC)

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