What They Say
MPEG said that it has completed a verification test assessment of the new Versatile Video Coding (VVC or H.266) standard for ultra-high definition (UHD) content with standard dynamic range.
According to the organization, it showed that VVC
“provides a compelling gain over its predecessor, the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard produced in 2013.”
The test found that VVC made bitrate savings of roughly 45% compared to HEVC for comparable subjective video quality.
VVC has been produced jointly by MPEG as ISO/IEC 23090- 3, along with the ITU-T, which has approved VVC as H.266.
What We Think
VVC faces real competition with AV1 (Google Requires AV1 Support ) which is free of licencing costs. IEEE Spectrum said earlier this year that HEVC compresses more efficiently than AV1, although at the expense of complexity and longer compression times.
Microsoft said in October that it would add support for hardware acceleration of AV1 in Windows 10, although there is little hardware that can exploit that, so far.(BR)
Data from the BBC in 2019, comparing codecs.
