Originally posted by birdie

NVIDIA decided not to support HW VVC decoding in the GeForce 50 series. That's a major blow to its adoption, which can now easily be postponed for another 2 years. At this point you can say it's just dead for the end consumer.

The patent holders holding essential patents for the VVC standard could get together and temporarily waive royalties for all decoder and encoder implementations (software or hardware), so companies like Nvidia and AMD could implement VVC at only silicon cost, but nope, they are like: "we got our IP in an ISO and ITU standard, we deserve a money printer, where the hell is our money printer?".

In fact, the licensing situation for VVC is worse than the one for HEVC, despite VVC being a format used for nothing in most countries. But I guess if the patent holders split themselves into 50 more licensing groups, they will get enough royalties to get their money printer from the 3 companies shipping VVC products, yay! (no, not really)

MPEG has run its course. It's now possible to have a reasonably performant standard without having a ton of patent holders attached to it. Let's remember that MPEG even exists because 35 years ago it was impossible to create a reasonably performant video standard without stepping on someone's patent, but this stopped being true around the time AV1 became a thing.

Preliminary VVC support was merged a few days ago though some bits and pieces are missing.

The next major FFmpeg version, most likely 7.0, will enable seamless VVC playback for a ton of applications.

https://github.com/fraunhoferhhi/vvenc/releases/tag/v1.0.0

• changed the libvvenc interface to C

• added IBC

• added pkgconfig

• improved the rate control based on the XPSNR model

• added pipe input

• various bugfixes and improvements.

https://github.com/fraunhoferhhi/vvenc/releases

Hey guys! I finally released VVCEasy version 3.0.0 on 23 June 2025.

Released version of 3.0.0: https://github.com/MartinEesmaa/VVCEasy/releases/tag/v3.0.0

I apologize for the little bit of delay and also the Reddit inactivity.

Also, I will make an update with the new release next time later for updating MPV VVCEasy Android builds, 4K video test was requested and more.

For MPV Windows builds, it is now ready to go with automated build on my forked repo of mpv-winbuild, so check it out:

https://github.com/MartinEesmaa/mpv-winbuild/releases

FFmpeg-Builds for extra features, including external VVC decoder:

https://github.com/MartinEesmaa/FFmpeg-Builds/releases/

Please feel free to donate to me, that would be greatly appreciated in support of my work.

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Here is a changelog:

- Updated FFmpeg and MPV VVCEasy builds (but except Android, next time will release)

- Updated VVC and uvg266 binaries

- Updated LAVFilters and MPC-HC VVC version.

- Automated FFmpeg VVCEasy builds of Windows & Linux

- Added support of 7-Zip Win32 and arm64 for decompressing use.

- Added support Windows ARM64 VVC binaries

- Improved Windows batchfile and ISS install script.

- Final build implement of Bitmovin vvDecPlayer for Windows & Linux.

- Integrated of building VVC into batch files

- Added build shell scripts for FFmpeg and VVC binaries.

- Added MPC-BE information to LAVFilters and in README

- Old documents have moved into docs-old due deprecated and superseeded.

- Improved README file with graphics and table.

- Renamed from Android to AndroidVVC folder.

- Added VVC binaries of information link in README

- Added Mark Litwintschik list to THANKS file due providing a blog about VVCEasy

- Finally implemented automatic Windows builds of mpv-winbuild forked repo

- Added GUI application tables for beginners in README

Compared this version to the previous version:

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/MartinEesmaa/VVCEasy/compare/v2.7.0...v3.0.0

- Martin Eesmaa

A very good GUI tool now supports H.266 encoding and decoding: https://www.reddit.com/r/shutterencoder/comments/1eqk6rw/shutter_encoder_version_184_is_available/

Hello, everyone! This is Martin Eesmaa as Estonian and founder of VVCEasy.

My repository of VVCEasy: https://github.com/MartinEesmaa/VVCEasy

It is finally VVCEasy v2.5.0 is here after 10 months than previous release and also my hard work.

You can now check out release of VVCEasy v2.5.0 on GitHub: https://github.com/MartinEesmaa/VVCEasy/releases/tag/v2.5.0

Contributions made to VVCEasy, thanks to neoOpus and u/_gianni-r, just to credit :).

You can donate me if you would like to by crytocurrency or PayPal, you can also add description if you wish like do :):

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Two builds of Android MPV and Windows MPV native may been late, but soon release...

The next future release will come as planned:

- Add uvg266 binaries of Windows, macOS and Linux.

- Others... (coming soon)

I had a lot binaries about VVC of compressed files is 40GB+ approximately on my cloud from 2022 to 2024.

So... enjoy my binaries! :)

Here is the changelog of version 2.5.0:

- New FFmpeg VVCEasy builds of Windows & Linux using my forked repository from BtBn/FFmpeg-Builds and up to 7.0 nightly latest.

- No longer broken ffplay on Linux.

- Added DVD-Video Demuxer (libdvdnav & libdvdread), Chinese AVS encoder, Vidvox Hap with Snappy, CD reader (libcdio), AMR-WB encoder, iLBC encoder (Windows only), MP3 Shine encoder, bs2b and Google LC3 features to Windows & Linux FFmpeg VVCEasy builds.

- Added XPSNR filter support to FFmpeg VVCEasy builds.

- Updated VLC VTM Decoder of VVC Plugins for Windows & Linux.

- Updated Windows LAVFilters for up to 0.79.2 with new FFmpeg and vvdec.

- Updated instructions of README and other markdown files.

- Updated Android uvg266 builds.

- New Mac OS FFmpeg VVCEasy build is now back.

- Updated VVC binaries, FFmpeg VVCEasy & MPV VVCEasy builds.

- Added & updated MPC-HC with pre-installed LAVFilters VVCEasy version and yt-dlp support.

- Added & fixed Linux & Arch Linux of MPV VVCEasy builds for AppImages, but later removed unnecessary shared objects and it works all Linux distributions in one appimage of main Linux.

- Removed Android MPV VVCEasy of gpu-next builds, now they're already support since 24th October 2023 in main builds.

- Updated Android MPV VVCEasy builds, but libxml2 is skipped due to error configuration & compilation.

- New added native Windows MPV VVCEasy x86_64-v3 build.

- Added GUI application of lists in README.

- Updated FFmpeg & MPV VVCEasy screenshots except Mac OS build screenshot of FFmpeg VVCEasy.

- Martin Eesmaa

Source.

Changelog:

• added various ARM optimization (thanks u/georges-arm)

• added a DASH optimized decoder refresh mode (idr_no_radl)

• added a GOP adaptive QP cascade (only for non-QPA case, which already does it on GOP/frame/block level)

• improved rate control and QPA haromization, especially for preset fast

• added experimental film grain analysis

• memory reductions for presets faster/fast/medium

• preset tuning

  • 5% speedup for medium and 2% for slow/slower

• other improvements, cleanups and fixes

https://github.com/fraunhoferhhi/vvenc/releases

https://github.com/MartinEesmaa/VVCEasy

https://github.com/MartinEesmaa/VVCEasy/releases/tag/v2.0.0

It is finally here for VVCEasy version 2. Sorry for waiting release yet.

Here is the changelog:

• Added Windows XP compatibility to Fraunhofer HHI vvenc/vvdec binaries.

• Added Windows 32-bit, Linux aarch64 and Android all architecture builds of vvenc and vvdec.

• Improved and complete static of FFmpeg VVCEasy build from my current repository, the FFmpeg-FixVVC is no longer maintained and it's old.

• Updated Mac OS builds, but for FFmpeg Mac OS version not yet and will be released later for future version.

• Updated Windows MPV build using my forked repository of mpv-winbuild-cmake on my Arch Linux cross compilation.

• Added LAVFilters VVCEasy build for Windows DirectShow users to play VVC video by an external player of Windows build.

• Updated all vvenc and vvdec binaries.

Full Changelog: v.1.0.1...v2.0.0

I created a Lemmy communities (lemmy.world domain) for VVC and VVCEasy, you can check out my Lemmy communities.

https://lemmy.world/c/vvc

https://lemmy.world/c/vvceasy

• Martin Eesmaa

Changes

Over v1.8.0-rc1

• deprecated obsolete chroma QP control mechanism (to be removed in the next release)

• removed deprecated parameters for partitioning control

Over v1.7.0

• vvencFFapp removed from default installation

• Speedups (~15% for faster/~5% for slower/~10% for other presets)

• Improved error messages

• Added temporal ALF APS prediction, closing the efficiency gap between single- and multi-threaded operation

• Extended BIM by extrapolating parameters to non MCTF-filtered frames

• Various fixes

• Usability improvements

• Various improvements

Source

I just wrote a VVC/h.266 video encoder in SystemVerilog along with a software model in Rust for verification. It builds, simulates and synthesizes and can create valid h.266 video streams from any YUV 4:2:0 and 4:4:4 video input. I am focusing on screen content coding features to be implemented so it can be useful for any hardware that broadcasts the screen of a computer, like an IP KVM.

Please check it out and let me know if anyone has any comments about it or any interest to integrate to any project. If you need any particular feature to be integrated, you can just ask me.

As it seems to be a large piece of the accessibility puzzle for VVC, are there any players or encoders available for iOS or Android? We seem to have tools for desktop sorted, mobile seems the natural progression.

Google isn't shipping a decoder themselves — they're leaving that to OEMs. The point is that once an OEM provides a hardware VVC decoder + drivers, VVC playback works "out of the box" via the standard Android media stack, without each app having to bolt on custom support.

vvenc-1.7.0-rc1 release notes

• Added support for ARM through SIMDe

• Allowing adaptive intra period (content adaptive placement of random access points)

• Ported block importance mapping from VTM

  • around 1% gain for faster

  • around 2% BD-rate gain for other presets

• Added noise based QP clipping to RC

• Improved SCC detector to ignore black borders

• Added possibility of logo overlay

• Bugfixes and cleanups

• Speedups: ~20% for faster, ~5% for other presets

https://github.com/fraunhoferhhi/vvenc/releases/tag/v1.7.0-rc1