MPEG group working on AVC replacement for Ultra High Definition video of the future

The tech around Super Hi-Vision technology may not be completely worked out yet, but with that on the way, plus HD for mobile devices and even more streaming, the 88th meeting of the MPEG/ISO standards group in Maui was apparently a busy one as attendees voted to work on a new, better form of compression to replace MPEG-4 AVC. "High Performance Video Coding" (HVC) is just a dream at the moment, but be sure to pencil that in as one more spec to look out for in the future. Of course, they didn't mention a delivery system for 22.2 channel audio, but we'll just assume that's being handled as well.

[Via EE Times UK]

[(Unverified) Posted May 5th 2009 10:16PM]

It's a free for all!

[(Unverified) Posted May 5th 2009 11:27PM]

mmmmmm more res.

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 1:38AM]

I bet they got a lot done in Maui...

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 3:21AM]

Meanwhile, RED moves right along with their mystery compression which seems to defy the implied challenge of newer and better codecs - and perhaps reality itself.

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 4:38AM]

I would be a lot happier for the rest of the encoding community to put all of this time, money and energy in doing what RED is 'supposedly' doing. I don't EVER see the need for that many pixels for a cinema application.

Computer/workstation practical applications are another thing all together. But that's not what the MOVING PICTURE Expert Group do.

[(Unverified) Posted May 6th 2009 12:19PM]

Japan has been messing about with UHD for years. Since the '70s IIRC.

[Biggiesized Posted May 6th 2009 10:51PM]

The replacement for H.264 has been in development for several years now.

It's called H.265. They're trying to squeeze another 50% compression efficiency.