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		foepys on Oct 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro Netflix is using H.265 with adaptive bitrate encoding if your device supports it, what codec is Apple using? Simply comparing bitrates is outdated.

tpmx on Oct 13, 2020 [–]

With my browser (chrome) it was H.264. Still, I'd take 6 Mbps H.264 over 1.5 Mbps H.265 any day. I'm sure the apple stream was VBR as well - I tried to pick a representative/average segment to do the quick calcs on.

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