What They Say
The DVB Project has added VVC to the specifications to the DVB-AVC specification which has been approved by the DVB Steering Board and is available now as DVB BlueBook A001r19. Further codecs are to be added and the AVS3 codec is the current focus and AV1 next in line for evaluation.
VVC, published in November 2020, is the latest member of the family of video coding standards developed jointly by ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG. According to results from MPEG, it is capable of encoding video with on average 50% bitrate savings for the same subjective quality compared to HEVC, its predecessor in the same family. This makes VVC one of the most efficient video coding technologies currently available, DVB said.
The revised DVB-AVC specification includes four conformance points for VVC, the minimum requirement being a baseline receiver capable of supporting resolutions up to 4K (3840×2160) with HDR. The three additional conformance points cover the support of high frame rates (HFR), and resolutions up to 8K (7680×4320).
What We Think
The aim of the inclusion of VVC is to boost the adoption of UltraHD and 8K. (BR)
