To place VVC into perspective, the codec produces an 84% savings in the number of bits needed to compress 1080p HD compared to the bits required by MPEG-2, the compression scheme used for ATSC 1.0.

MPEG LA, LLC, the world leader in digital video patent pool licensing for nearly 25 years, announced today the development of a pool license for the n ...

DENVER —MPEG LA, LLC has announced that the VVC Patent Portfolio License (“VVC License” or “License”) is now available. The joint license includes patents that are essential to the Versatile Video ...

Access Advance and MPEG LA will both administer patent pools for VVC, but it's still unclear what will be covered under the patents and what the likely royalty costs will be.

The next-generations VVC/H.266 codec has been announced as a follow-up to H.265. Like the previous codecs, H.266 promises a significant reduction in size with no apparent quality loss.

Testing AV1 and VVC After a year of work on a codec optimised for streaming, processing time appears to be dropping significantly.