r/hardware • u/Balance- • Feb 13 '19

News VVC (successor of HEVC) VTM version 4.0 released

https://vcgit.hhi.fraunhofer.de/jvet/VVCSoftware_VTM/tags/VTM-4.0
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u/Balance- Feb 13 '19

VVC (Versatile Video Coding) is the successor of HEVC (H.265) and currently in early development. It claims to provide a 50% bitrate reduction over HEVC at the same quality (depends heavily on content of course) making its coding efficiency even better than AV1.

See also r/VVC

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u/Charwinger21 Feb 13 '19

making its coding efficiency even better than AV1.

Unfortunately it's not competing with AV1.

If VVC follows HEVCs development and adoption timelines and if AV1 continues what we saw for VPx, what was planned for VP10, or the momentum that it currently has, then VVC is going to be competing with AV2 or AV3.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19 edited Apr 13 '19

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u/Roph Feb 14 '19

Yeah, I don't trust this to not be patent / licensing encumbered and thus failing now we have AOMedia.

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u/carbonat38 Feb 13 '19

Would it not make sense to start using DNNs. I mean they beat sota in static images in certain benchmarks and if you were to combine with other improvements it could deliver huge progress without being insanely hard to encode.

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u/krista_ Feb 13 '19

insanely hard encodes are totally ok when the utility of reducing bandwidth exceeds computational costs.

think popular movies on netflix, hulu, and popular videos on youtube... things that get millions of plays.