The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has unveiled a new video coding standard riding
on the PrimeTime Emmy award winning ITU-T H.264 /Moving Pictures
Experts Group (MPEG-4) ‘Advanced Video Coding’ (AVC), was agreed by ITU
upon by member states, on Friday, January 25, 2013.
Officials of ITU informed ITRealms that the new codec will
considerably ease the burden on global networks where, by some estimates, video
accounts for more than half of bandwidth use.
According to ITU, the new standard, known informally as
‘High Efficiency Video Coding’ (HEVC) will need only half the bit rate of its
predecessor, ITU-T
H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 ‘Advanced Video Coding’ (AVC), which
currently accounts for over 80 per cent of all web video.
Also, the HEVC, ITU noted, would unleash a new phase of
innovation in video production spanning the whole Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) spectrum, from mobile devices through to Ultra-High Definition
Television (UHD-TV).
ITRealms gathered
that ITU-T’s Study Group 16 had agreed first-stage approval of the
much-anticipated standard known formally as Recommendation ITU-T H.265 or
ISO/IEC 23008-2.
“It is the product of collaboration between the ITU Video
Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group
(MPEG),” an ITU official statement remarked.
Noteworthy is that ITU is the leading United Nations agency
for information and communication technology, spanning over 145 years.
As such, ITU coordinates the shared global use of the radio
spectrum, promoted international cooperation in assigning satellite orbits,
worked to improve communication infrastructure in the developing world, and
established the worldwide standards that foster seamless interconnection of a
vast range of communications systems.
Additionally, ITU oversees from broadband networks to new-generation wireless technologies, aeronautical and maritime navigation, radio astronomy, satellite-based meteorology and converging fixed-mobile phone, Internet and broadcasting technologies, ITU asserts as always its commitment to connecting the world.
Remmy Nweke
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