ITU Approves H.265 HEVC Video Format; Promises High Quality Video At Lower Bitrates

While streaming videos on the internet, you have to make sure that you have proper bandwidth. If you are on a low-bandwidth network you often have to switch to the lower quality stream to make sure that you watch the video without buffering. So considering the rise in high quality video demand with lower bit rate across the world, a successor of the highly popular H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) was drafted. Today this new video compression standard has been approved by the The International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The High Efficiency Video Coding also known informally as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) promises to deliver high-quality streaming video, even on low-bandwidth networks as it produces the same quality video as that of H.264 but at half the bit rate.

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The product was developed by the collaborative efforts of ITU Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). Companies like ATEME, Broadcom, Cyberlink, Ericsson, Fraunhofer HHI, Mitsubishi and NHK have already showcased implementations of HEVC. This format includes a includes a ‘Main’ profile that supports 8-bit 4:2:0 video, a ‘Main 10’ profile with 10-bit support, and a ‘Main Still Picture’ profile for still image coding. Teams also working on extending the functionalities if HEVC by adding support for 12-bit video as well as 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 chroma formats, scalable video coding and an extension of HEVC targeted for stereoscopic and 3D video coding.

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