I’m a bit of a layman in regard to video codecs, what’s the actual difference?
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So basically, quality can differ across them but most of the time you're gonna be happy with how it looks. But where it makes a bigger difference is file sizes. That's the main reason why I care
H.265 whenever i can use it
I'm on the same opinion as you, I'm super sad we lost all HEVC encodes just for 1 and 2 GB for a movie is amazing, and it is 1080p which is perfectly enough. There is nothing which will replace that for a while, I can imagine.
The one most browsers supports.
x265 for 4k hdr
x264 for 1080