The Main profile is designed to replace HEVC, with ~30% savings and a clearer, potentially cheaper royalty policy than HEVC because only four companies contributed IP. The Baseline profile is supposed to replace H.264 with ~30% savings and a supposedly royalty-free posture. There are two profiles, Baseline and Main.

VVC is the logical successor to H.264 and HEVC, with dozens of companies contributing IP, aggressive quality targets (30% to 50% over HEVC), minimal concerns about encoding/decoding complexity (10x HEVC is OK), and minimal concerns about presenting an affordable and cohesive royalty picture until the very end of the development cycle when the Media Coding Industry Forum got involved.ĮVC was MPEG's answer to AV1 and HEVC's calamitous royalty rollout.

For a complete discussion of what each codec was attempting to accomplish, please check this article. Table 1 shows basic data regarding the three MPEG codecs launched in 2020. I'll review those results and send you on your way.

Then I'll identify the other codecs that we tested for encoding time, encoding quality, and decoding performance. I'll start with a quick refresher on the three new MPEG codecs, including their IP picture and the expected performance envelope.

It's not as exhaustive as I would like, but the results should help you understand the goals for the three newer MPEG codecs and how they stack up against older codecs. As far as I know, this is the first time any study has compared the quality and performance of codecs representing Essential Video Coding (EVC), Versatile Video Coding (VVC), and Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC), as well as AV1, HEVC, and H.264.

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