High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), a video compression standard, is the successor to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding). HEVC is said to double the data compression ratio compared to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC at the same level of video quality. It is able to support resolutions up to 8K UHD (8192×4320).

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