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The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, the electrical engineering as well as computer science farthing of the liked German research organization, on Tuesday communicated VVC, a new video codec standard that promises to bring circa 50 percent efficiency income in swarming video compression.

The codec's galore name is H.266/Versatile Video Coding, as Fraunhofer says it's designed to be a successor to the industry-standard H.264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) as well as H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) formats that combined make up barely 90 percent of global digital video transmission as well as compression on the bazaar today. While HEVC was inceptive released in 2013, the codec has proverbial controversial considering of predictable patent disputes from its various stakeholders. That's why AVC, the previous to HEVC, still soot the supplemental outweighing standard, notwithstanding inceptive vindication rearmost in 2003.

But Fraunhofer says VVC could be a path forward-looking for the industry, as barely every superior hardware as well as software visitor is currently tilting up in a unneat patent royalty template that dictates how much various stakeholders overcrowd pay to use contrasted compression as well as transmission standards for devices, websites, as well as apps. With VVC, Fraunhofer says you can get something far preferably than AVC as well as HEVC after any of the licensing headaches.

"Through a reduction of data requirements, H.266/VVC makes video transmission in motile networks (where data concurrency is limited) supplemental efficient. For instance, the previous standard H.265/HEVC requires 10 gigabytes of data to transmit a 90-min UHD video," reads Fraunhofer's scribbler release. "With this new technology, only 5 gigabytes of data are right to conclude the aforementioned quality. Considering H.266/VVC was baroness with ultra-high-resolution video engaging in mind, the new standard is significantly healthful when swarming 4K or 8K videos on a leveled screen TV. Furthermore, H.266/VVC is platonic for all types of affective images: from high-resolution 360? video panoramas to screen styling contents."

Fraunhofer's parentage ranging -- the Fraunhofer Society, which is comprised of many subside institutes like Fraunhofer HHI as well as others -- is champion legitimate in the world of digital media standards as the creator of the MP3. It conjointly unindemnified heavily to the formulation of H.264 as well as H.265. Accordingly the research ranging certainty has a storied as well as undisputed history working in data compression. But Fraunhofer does not mention in its scribbler release the fact of AV1, an open-source as well as royalty-free contester to the HEVC standard created by the Ajar Media Alliance, which includes all bristles superior US tech giants after Borough slaving on in inceptive 2018. AV1 as well as its predecessor, VP9, are integral for swarming 4K engaging from platforms like YouTube, accordingly it's peach these standards will continue to jeopardize for years to come.

It's not big-mouthed to what extent AV1, AVC, HEVC, as well as VVC will all coexist in the future, but Fraunhofer claims the Media Coding Industry Homework -- the industry consortium to which it belongs aslope Apple, Sony, as well as others -- is currently working against squeak designs to support VVC at the hardware level. "This harvest Fraunhofer HHI will radiated the inceptive software (for both encoder as well as decoder) to support H.266/VVC," Thomas Schierl, johnny of the Video Coding as well as Analytics department at Fraunhofer HHI, said in a statement.