For years the HEVC (H.265) was considered a very popular video codec. Now a group of experts, some of whom are developers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, has brought a successor onto the market. A decisive advantage of the new codec is said to be a bit rate reduction of up to 50 percent.
A new standard in video coding
Now the IT expert group has successfully launched the new Versatile Video Codec (VVC) as a new standard in the video codec market. This valuable information was announced by the Fraunhofer Institute itself. This means that the fifth official generation of codecs in the field of video codecs is now seeing the light of day. The VVC is thus the successor of the HEVC (H.265), which represents the fourth generation of video codecs from the so-called MPEG research group.
The improvements
It is not without reason that the Fraunhofer Institute calls the new video codec the biggest improvement in the developments of the MPEG research group so far. Praiseworthy is not...
