The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) has announced in a press release that the successor of the well-known H.265 HEVC video codec has been fully developed. Several years have gone into research and development.
The project was carried out with well-known partners, among them Ericsson, Intel, Huawei, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Sony and of course Apple. The move to the H.266 VVC codec is necessary because in the future 8K content will be available and the data rate will be kept under control. The new codec is supposed to be 50% more efficient, so the increase in data volume should be manageable with improved resolution.
H.266 VVC is again 50% more efficient than the previous codec
The name VVC is the abbreviation for Versatile Video Coding. The codec has been given this name because it is suitable for all resolutions and also supports 360 degree videos. So the future is already prepared, as soon as the first chips in hardware are able to encode and decode this codec, the first content should be found.
Fraunhofer HHI has a wealth of experience in the development of compression codecs: the predecessors H.264 AVC and H.265 HEVC also originate from the institute. And not to forget the mother of all mainstream compression codecs, mp3. Although this was developed by Fraunhofer IIS (Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen), it was also at that time that Fraunhofer Institute laid the foundations for a worldwide structure.
