M A R K
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So where do you draw the line?I certainly don't disagree with anything you've said here but you are missing the point. The ongoing discussion in this thread is not at all about the laws in different countries and states or the capabilities of major law enforcement entities. It's about the necessity of providing dash cam footage to literally anyone involved in adjudicating your matter, whether legally or for insurance purposes, with files they can easily open and view using the skills, equipment and software they normally have available to them. And this applies to whatever format you supply initially as well as the raw original files you may be demanded to provide in the event your matter comes under legal dispute. So, going back to the OP's request, H.265 files are a poor choice.
H264 was had no native support in Windows XP or Windows 95 etc and there are certainty still Windows XP machines out there.
So by your argument if you insist on pandering to the lowest common denominator, you would need a dashcam that records in AVI format I guess or how about RealMedia?
In the real world you record in whatever works for you safe in the knowledge that somebody qualified to perform digital forensics on such a file to validate its authenticity would be able to play it no problem where as for those that are not qualified to validate the integrity of the file, just making them a copy in a format that works for them (how about QuickTime) is perfectly fine.