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Limits RegistryH.266/Versatile Video Coding, finalized by the Joint Video Experts Team (ITU-T and ISO/IEC MPEG) in 2020, cuts data requirements by roughly 50% compared to its predecessor HEVC/H.265 at the same visual quality, according to the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, which co-led its development. It is the current state-of-the-art general-purpose video compression standard as of 2026, though hardware decoder support is still rolling out.
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H.266/Versatile Video Coding, finalized by the Joint Video Experts Team (ITU-T and ISO/IEC MPEG) in 2020, cuts data requirements by roughly 50% compared to its predecessor HEVC/H.265 at the same visual quality, according to the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, which co-led its development. It is the current state-of-the-art general-purpose video compression standard as of 2026, though hardware decoder support is still rolling out.
The reported average bitrate reduction achievable by the Versatile Video Coding (H.266/VVC) standard relative to High Efficiency Video Coding (H.265/HEVC) at matched perceptual quality, per its co-developers.
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Limits Registry. LR-VVC-CODEC-COMPRESSION-GAIN. Bitrate reduction of the H.266/VVC video codec over its predecessor. 2026.