Versatile Video Coding
| Versatile video coding | |
| Status | In force |
|---|---|
| Year started | 2017 |
| First published | 2020 |
| Latest version | 3rd Edition 29 September 2023 |
| Organization | ITU-T, ISO, IEC |
| Committee | SG16 (Secretary: Simao Campos) (VCEG), MPEG |
| Base standards | H.261, H.262, H.263, H.264, H.265, ISO/IEC 14496-2, MPEG-1 |
| Predecessor | H.265 |
| Domain | Video compression |
| License | RAND |
| Website | www |
Versatile Video Coding (VVC), also known as H.266, ISO/IEC 23090-3, and MPEG-I Part 3, is a video compression standard finalized on 6 July 2020, by the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) of the VCEG working group of ITU-T Study Group 16 and the MPEG working group of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29. It is the successor to High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC, also known as ITU-T H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2). It was developed with two primary goals – improved compression performance and support for a very broad range of applications.