Apple makes seventh developer betas of High Sierra, iOS 11, tvOS 11, watchOS 4 available [...
Keeping up with the one per week cycle, apple has updated all of its developer betas, with seventh releases of iOS 11, macOS 10.13 High Sierra, tvOS 11, and watchOS 4. [Updated with public beta info]
Alongside beta 5 of High Sierra, Apple launched a Safari extensions section of the Mac App Store. This most recent beta version adds APFS support to the 2012 Mac Pro tower.
The "Messages in iCloud" feature was removed in the iOS 11 beta 5 release, and Apple claims that it will ship in a future software update to iOS 11. Users can continue to receive and store messages on each device, and they can continue to backup and restore messages using iCloud Backup.
The previous updates were on August 14, with it only a week after the previous beta.
Update: A public version of the iOS 11 beta is available for people registered in Apple's Beta Software Program.
macOS 10.13 High Sierra
The macOS High Sierra update, with build number 17A352a, contains a number improvements like Apple File System integration, migration from H.264 to H.265, and Metal 2, alongside other refinements. The previous beta sported build number 17A344b.Alongside beta 5 of High Sierra, Apple launched a Safari extensions section of the Mac App Store. This most recent beta version adds APFS support to the 2012 Mac Pro tower.
iOS 11
The most notable changes in iOS 11 overall are back-end enhancements and an improved voice for Siri, plus Apple Pay and Photos services enhancements. The Do Not Disturb While Driving feature was introduced during the second beta. The seventh beta of iOS 11 has build number 15A5362a, with the previous holding number 15A5354b.The "Messages in iCloud" feature was removed in the iOS 11 beta 5 release, and Apple claims that it will ship in a future software update to iOS 11. Users can continue to receive and store messages on each device, and they can continue to backup and restore messages using iCloud Backup.
tvOS 11
Release notes for the fifth tvOS beta remain very short, with very few issues noted or changes specified. The previous tvOS build was numbered 15J5360b, and the current has been incremented to 15J5369a.WatchOS 4
Apple's watchOS beta 4 has build number 15R5365a. Prior betas delivered the announced "Toy Story" watch faces to testers, and also fixed issues related to haptic feedback, music playback, location-based HomeKit triggers and Siri usability. The previous built was build number 15R5357b.The previous updates were on August 14, with it only a week after the previous beta.
Update: A public version of the iOS 11 beta is available for people registered in Apple's Beta Software Program.
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Update:
Now I've also tested 4K video. Bad news is QT Player and Quicklook report they cannot play the HVEC vesrion 'as it is from an unknown developer and unknown file format!' So back to VLC.
The file size change is equally dramatic on my test 13 second clip: 4K H264 152 MB dropped to 25 MB 4K HVEC
2) I still can't get my samples to play back. What did you use to convert to HEVC?
The sizes are exactly correct for my samples, I'll add screenshots of info dialogs when I get back to my Mac Pro, I'm on a MBP at the moment. Even my 4K was way more than 50% but I was amazed at the reduction I got on the 1080p. It was an action shot of an offshore cigar boat race my company produced a few years ago, lots of movement, so not something I expected to compress a long way.
The option box to convert doesn't appear unless the source file is in a format it likes I discovered. The 4K footage was straight off the card from a Lumix FZ2500, I'll have to check to see what it was set to as it offers quite a few file types. The 1080p was output from FCPro. Anything smaller than 1080p doesn't offer the conversion so far, and many 1080p formats didn't either, it was trial and error on my part.
Are you saying the latest VLC doesn't play them back for you, what did you use to convert in your tests? For me VLC is only way i have found for 4K but anything that supported QT played back the 1080p HVEC even Quicklook (space bar).
2) I didn't even know that QTX could convert to HEVC.
edit: I'm not seeing an export to HEVC option in QTX with Beta 7. How are you doing it?
Here you go. I never tried Handbrake. Note the odd size of the original 1080p is due to the Sony oblong pixel technology, it is 1080p on play back and I see the conversion changed that so if anything should have been larger! Ignore the naming too, some idiot labeled it SD it wasn't obviously from dimensions. The Lumix was set to AVCHD MP4 LPCM .Mov. What is your 4K source?
Also, it looks like your videos play in VLC Player, not in QTX or iTunes.
I am glad you enlightened me about Handbrake! It works on converting old NTSC 640 x 480 to HVEC and just took a 188 MB file down to 17.6 MB with no quality drop and did it in seconds on a Mac Pro. That is staggering. My archives of video are about to get shrunk considerably. Weirdly, these play back in QT no problem in 10.13. It will be interesting to see if they do in 10.12 not that that will matter soon.
I used the first one in this list that's a .MOV/MPEG-4 container shot in 4K from iPhone 6s with 29.970fps.
Using the aforementioned website and a test 4K video I was able to verify that you can re-ncode from 2160p/4K from H.264/AVC to H.265/HEVC. I was able to verify that the HEVC video will playback in both QTX and iTunes. I was also able to verify that the HEVC conversion dropped the file to just 30.4% of the original.
The complexity, as noted by the screenshots for these videos are low, which may be why it plays back, or it could be something about the Handbrake encoder. If only I couldn't playback in QTX and iTunes after using Handbrake with a less than 2160p source (i.e.: less taxing to the decoder) but you could playback 2160p content QTX and iTunes after using QTX's encoder, then I'd say the issue was with Handbrake's encoder, but you've stated that you still need to use VLC for playback, so I have to think that profile complexity is an issue the issue. Additional testing is required.