H.265, also known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), is a video compression standard designed to deliver high-quality video using less storage space and bandwidth than older standards such as H.264. It achieves greater compression efficiency by using advanced techniques to analyze and encode both individual frames and the differences between consecutive frames.
H.265 is widely used for 4K and high-resolution video streaming, digital television, video recording, surveillance, and media distribution. Its improved compression makes it useful for delivering detailed video over limited bandwidth while reducing file sizes, although encoding and decoding H.265 generally require more processing power than H.264.
