New ‘Versatile Video Coding’ standard for the next-generation video compression

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The new Versatile Video Coding (VVC) compression standard has the flexibility to enable emerging applications such as 360-degree omnidirectional immersive multimedia, remote screen sharing, cloud-based collaboration, cloud gaming, and region-based extraction and merging.

It also offers improved quality encoding for ultra-high definition (UHD) and high-dynamic-range (HDR) video as well as conventional video coding applications.

The experts team responsible for the development of VVC recently agreed the technical specification of the new standard, moving VVC toward final ITU approval with the ‘consent’ to enter the concluding ‘last call’ phase of its standardization process.

VVC will be published as ITU H.266/ISO IEC 23090-3 and results from the work of the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET), the latest team to lead the longstanding collaboration of the ITU-T Study Group 16 Video Coding Experts Group and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 (Moving Picture Experts Group, MPEG).

“The video compression algorithms standardized in collaboration by ITU, ISO and IEC continue to enable giant leaps forward in video quality,” said ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao. “They are also central to industry’s ability to meet rising demand for video, the most bandwidth-intensive source of data exchanged over global networks.”

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