Comparing EVC, LCEVC, and VVC with H 264, HEVC, and AV1

Описание: This video discusses findings from the recent Streaming Media article entitled Testing EVC, VVC, and LCEVC: How Do the Latest MPEG Codecs Stack Up? (https://bit.ly/codec_soup) If you haven’t seen the article, it compares EVC (main and baseline profiles), LCEVC (with x265 as a base layer), and VVC with x265, x264, Libaom-AV1, and the MainConcept HEVC encoder.

Why not just read the article and skip the video? Several reasons:

You’ll learn how LCEVC performs with AV1 as a base layer. As an enhancement codec, LCEVC is limited by the quality of the base layer. In the article, LCEVC with x265 as a base layer did well, but an open question was whether this performance would scale with higher quality codecs. The webinar will present these results.

You’ll learn how the MainConcept HEVC encoder compares to x265 using 2-pass VBR encoding. The article included the MainConcept HEVC codec because Moscow State University tests show x265 as a laggard that doesn’t represent true HEVC encoding performance. MainConcept performs better in MSU trials and is available as an FFmpeg plug-in which simplified testing (the same codec is also available in SDKs). In the article, MainConcept outperformed x265 by about 20% but that was with QP/CRF-based encodes. The webinar will include new 2-pass VBR-based comparison data to reveal if MainConcept is an effective replacement for current x265 users.

You’ll get updated on the royalty and implementation status of EVC, LCEVC, and VVC. This information wasn’t included in the article.

Who Should Watch?

• Encoding professionals who want to learn about the comparable performance of all relevant codecs
• Technologists charged with evaluating and/or deploying new codecs in their organizations