H265 Codec for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 is here!

Enhancing Your Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 with H.265 Codec

In this video, we explore how H.265 encoding can transform your Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365 experience by providing high video quality at half the bandwidth of H.264. We guide you through enabling H.265 on your GPU-enabled VMs, highlighting its benefits like bandwidth efficiency, improved user experience, cost savings, and future-proofing. Detailed prerequisites and configuration steps via Group Policy are covered, along with actual testing results demonstrating smoother performance. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell for more tech tips.

00:00 Introduction to H.265 Encoding
00:40 Why H.265 for Azure Virtual Desktop?
02:38 Prerequisites for Enabling H.265
05:06 Configuring Group Policy for H.265
06:47 Testing and Results
08:59 Conclusion and Final Thoughts