The emerging mpeg-5 evc standard-applications, technology and results

For more than 30 years, digitalization in the media industry has enabled new services, increased reach of conventional services and brought a continuously improving TV experience to consumers all over the world. One of the most central technology components in digital media distribution and consumption is compression and in particular video compression, since video data represents by far the largest amount of data in most media services. Over the years, multiple different video coding standards and proprietary codecs have emerged and the compression performance of new generations of codecs is constantly improving. However, the compression efficiency is not the only factor that determines how well a codec is suited for usage in different application areas – and eventually – how widely deployed the codec will become. The MPEG-5 Essential Video Coding (EVC) standard, presented in this paper, is being developed by MPEG using a novel process targeted at addressing business requirements, including licensing, as well as technical requirements, so as to facilitate rapid deployment and widespread use of the standard throughout the media industry.