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by ksec
2209 days ago
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The widely deployed AVC is still AVC Main Profile, which is what Youtube and many other Streaming / Broadcasting uses due to devices compatibility. EVC Baseline is expected ( or claims ) to be 20% better than AVC High Profile. So you should expect ~30% better than current AVC all while being royalty free. The beauty of EVC baseline is that it is quite power efficient. Considering AVC already require the least computation in modern codec, EVC baseline offer 30% reduction in bitrate while requiring NO increase in decoding complexity and is actually 40 to 50% less in encoding complexity. Note: None of these has been tested outside of its members as it does not provide a reference encoder due to "new" patents arrangement with this codec. So we have no way to verify those claims. Edit: Will add the link to document with those claimed figures later. Edit2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Itt0cOvgXU |
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Anyway, if those claims bear out then it would seem like EVC has a possible future as an "AVC killer," though the computation complexity factors are complicated by the wide deployment of hardware acceleration for AVC encode/decode. Of course, hardware support could materialize for EVC as well, but it does rather complicate possible adoption for what we'll call a "sub-generational" improvement, in a world coming around right about now to AV1 hardware support.
Perhaps reduced computational demands could lead to a niche of usage in unaccelerated environments. I don't know if there's an example of significant uptake for an "in-between" step like this that one could point to as a possible model for success, though.