Versatile Video Coding Standard: A Review from Coding Tools to Consumers Deployment

TL;DR

This paper reviews the Versatile Video Coding standard, discussing its coding tools, real-time implementations, and consumer applications, highlighting its role in advancing video compression technology since 2020.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of VVC standard features, implementation status, and industrial trials, bridging technical details with practical deployment insights.

Findings

VVC standard offers improved compression efficiency.

Real-time implementations are emerging and expanding.

Industrial trials demonstrate practical viability.

Abstract

The amount of video content and the number of applications based on multimedia information increase each day. The development of new video coding standards is a challenge to increase the compression rate and other important features with a reasonable increase in the computational load. Video Experts Team (JVET) of ITU-T and the JCT group within ISO/IEC have worked together to standardize the Versatile Video Coding, approved finally in July 2020 as ITU-T H.266 | MPEG-I - Part 3 (ISO/IEC 23090-3) standard. This paper overviews some interesting consumer electronic use cases, the compression tools described in the standard, the current available real time implementations and the first industrial trials done with this standard.