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MPEG-H: High Efficiency Video Coding

Standard: MPEG-H
Part: 2

HEVC provides a novel video format with a compression capability twice that of AVC

Editions

Edition - 3: ISO/IEC 23008-2:2017 [3rd Edition]

Publication Year: 2017
Status: published
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Edition - 4: High Efficiency Video Coding

Publication Year: 0
Status: released
Motivations: A new edition of the standard is needed to integrate the prior amendments to the previous edition. Also, a new profile of HEVC with encoding of a single (i.e. monochrome) colour plane and restricted to a maximum of 10 bits per sample to complement other 10 bit profiles, such as the Main 10, Main 10 Still Picture, and Main 4:4:4 10 profiles is needed in a variety of applications that may require signalling of 10 bit monochrome auxiliary information, such as depth information and alpha planes, and additional supplemental enhancement information, e.g. fisheye video, SEI manifest, and SEI prefix messages.
Objectives: Specification of a profile of HEVC that that will have an encoding of a single (i.e. monochrome) colour plane and will be restricted to a maximum of 10 bits per sample, in a manner otherwise consistent with the prior specified “range extensions” profiles of HEVC.\r\n\r\nThe specification of additional supplemental enhancement information will also be included, including fisheye video, SEI manifest, and SEI prefix messages.

Edition - 5: HEVC 6th edition

Publication Year: 0
Status: ongoing
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Whitepapers

Publication dateTitle
2018-04-21White paper on HEVC support for consumer HDR and WCG video
2015-02-20White Paper on HEVC
2024-11-13White paper on HEVC

Meeting documents

MPEG 149

Publication dateTitle
2025-02-20Text of ISO/IEC 23008-2:202x (6th ed.) CDAM 1 Additional profiles and SEI messages

MPEG 148

Publication dateTitle
2024-11-13White paper on HEVC

MPEG 143

Publication dateTitle
2023-08-25Text of ISO/IEC 23008-2:202x (5th ed.) CDAM1 New profiles and SEI messages

MPEG 142

Publication dateTitle
2023-08-01Preliminary working draft 3 of additional colour type identifiers for AVC and HEVC

MPEG 139

Publication dateTitle
2022-10-21Preliminary working draft of HEVC multiview profiles supporting extended bit depth

MPEG 137

Publication dateTitle
2022-02-18Text of ISO/IEC 23008-2:2000 CDAM2 High-range levels
2022-04-13High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Test Model 16 (HM 16) Encoder Description Update 16

MPEG 134

Publication dateTitle
2021-07-06High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Test Model 16 (HM 16) Encoder Description Update 15

MPEG 131

Publication dateTitle
2020-10-10High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Test Model 16 (HM 16) Encoder Description Update 14

MPEG 129

Publication dateTitle
2020-03-10Text of ISO/IEC 23008-2:201x/CDAM2 Additional supplemental enhancement information
2020-04-17High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Test Model 16 (HM 16) Encoder Description Update 13

MPEG 128

Publication dateTitle
2019-12-21Defect report for HEVC (ISO/IEC 23008-2)
2019-12-21High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Test Model 16 (HM 16) Encoder Description Update 12
2020-01-11Preliminary draft of shutter interval SEI message

MPEG 127

Publication dateTitle
2019-10-07High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Test Model 16 (HM 16) Encoder Description Update 11
2019-10-07Defect report for HEVC (ISO/IEC 23008-2), AVC (ISO/IEC 14496-10), and Video CICP (ISO/IEC 23091-2)

MPEG 126

Publication dateTitle
2019-07-07High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Test Model 16 (HM 16) Encoder Description Update 10

MPEG 124

Publication dateTitle
2018-11-14Text of ISO/IEC 23008-2:201x/PDAM1 Additional supplemental enhancement information

MPEG 121

Publication dateTitle
2018-03-27WD of additional supplemental enhancement information for HEVC