Advantages
- It represents the standard for all Blu-Ray videos
- It has better video quality and it’s more fluent for real-time playback than other standards
- Very good compression performance
- It has very good network transmission (because the encoded video files are small)
Disadvantages
- It doesn’t handle well the bit errors
- Royalties must be paid in some cases
- It requires more computer power for encoding and decoding
Features
- Improved inter-prediction and motion estimation
- Improved intra spatial prediction and transform
- Improved algorithms for encoding
- Low latency feature
- Simplified profiles