x266 VVC Encoder

[benwaggoner]

Originally Posted by kurkosdr

The authors of xeve claim better-than-x264-level quality for EVC Baseline: https://github.com/mpeg5/xeve

So it can probably achieve x264-level quality.

It's impossible to extrapolate without knowing how the other encoders were tuned. The "twice as good as HEVC" seems really, really implausible, particularly given that we have much more mature HEVC encoders available, like x265.

As always: https://web.archive.org/web/20141103...x/archives/472

[benwaggoner]

Originally Posted by kurkosdr

The authors of xeve claim better-than-x264-level quality for EVC Baseline: https://github.com/mpeg5/xeve

So it can probably achieve x264-level quality.

Based on codec features, yeah, I suspect an equivalently well optimized EVC Baseline could outperform x264.

x264 has a crazy amount of optimization for a wide variety of use cases and content types, so making something in x264's ballpark is pretty monumental class. x265 itself got a big head start by building on top of x264's source code and algorithms.