Versatile Video Coding (VVC) / H.266: HEVC successor

[birdie]

Live VVC/H.266 UHD Encoder Announced by Spin Digital, CPU-based software solution.

[edison]

Originally Posted by LigH

The VLC decoder plugin by InterDigital Inc. was shipped in VVCEasy and works well for raw streams from uvg266. Next test - multiplexing... MP4Box should be able. Martin Eesmaa mentioned license issues around Exhale and XHE-AAC, so audio will be more conservative.

PS: MP4Box can create an MP4 containing VVC video. But VLC with plugin does not decode the video in it.

I have try the MP4Box (GPAC version 2.0-rev0-g418db414-master, download from https://www.videohelp.com/software/MP4Box), seems not work:

C:\Program Files\GPAC> .\mp4box.exe -add .\VVC.h266 -new d:\h266.mp4
[FFDmx] Fail to open .\VVC.h266 - error Invalid data found when processing input
Filters not connected:
mp4mx (importer:file=000001F4D587BD40) (idx=1)
[Importer] Error importing .\VVC.h266
Failure while importing media: Filter not found for the desired type
Error importing .\VVC.h266: Filter not found for the desired type

[LigH]

The media-autobuild suite compiled already branch v2.1-DEV of MP4Box for me.

[LigH]

New uploads: [Windows][GCC 12.2.0][64 bit]

VTM Encoder/Decoder Version 17.2 da9773ea

Fraunhofer VVC Encoder ver. 1.6.0 364c605

Fraunhofer VVC Decoder ver. 1.6.0 01fbc8e

[olduser217]

Realtek launched set-top box SoC that supports 4k VVC decoding.

https://www.realtek.com/en/press-roo...x-soc-rtd1319d

[ksec]

Originally Posted by olduser217

Realtek launched set-top box SoC that supports 4k VVC decoding.

https://www.realtek.com/en/press-roo...x-soc-rtd1319d

As far as I am aware, all broadcasting companies are moving or plan to move to VVC. RealTek being a large player in this market certainly need to response. Especially its usage in India and China.

[benwaggoner]

Originally Posted by ksec

As far as I am aware, all broadcasting companies are moving or plan to move to VVC. RealTek being a large player in this market certainly need to response. Especially its usage in India and China.

My sense from IBC is that the broadcast and consumer electronics companies are looking to move adopt VVC over the next few years, just as AVC and HEVC was broadly adopted by those industries around five years after standardization. There's no doubt that VVC is substantially the best available standardized video codec today and for some years to come. VVC+ and AV2 are being worked on, but are at least a few years from standardization, and a few years after that before potential practical deployability. And mobile always fast follows for CE compatibility.

Sustainability was a bit topic at IBC, with a lot of talk about the need to constrain bandwidths to save electricity. So that's an added incentive to adopt newer more efficient compression tech, on top of the other usual reasons.

There wasn't much talk about AV1 at IBC outside of a checklist feature for multi-codec products. LC-EVC got more attention than I'd expected. It's maturing nicely as a technology. I didn't hear any mention of EVC outside of people explaining that LC-EVC isn't related to it.

[birdie]

vvenc 1.6.1 is something to behold, though it's extremely slow.

Tried it with `--preset slower --qp 20` (near perfect detail preservation) and it's really really really good. Beats AV1 by a wide margin.

For a 1080p source that's ... 0.04 fps on my Ryzen 7 5800X.

I used mp4box (master git version) to mux the resulting video.

[ksec]

Originally Posted by birdie

vvenc 1.6.1 is something to behold, though it's extremely slow.

Tried it with `--preset slower --qp 20` (near perfect detail preservation) and it's really really really good. Beats AV1 by a wide margin.

For a 1080p source that's ... 0.04 fps on my Ryzen 7 5800X.

I used mp4box (master git version) to mux the resulting video.

Any Screencaps ?

[LigH]

New uploads: [Windows][GCC 12.2.0][64 bit]

VTM Encoder/Decoder Version 18.2 714f05a7

Fraunhofer VVC Encoder ver. 1.6.1 8ea0dc5

Fraunhofer VVC Decoder ver. 1.6.0 2c548eb

[andrew.46]

I have created a couple of VVC files with vvencapp under Linux; I have failed however to find an easy way to play these files back under either Windows or Linux. Something I have missed?

[birdie]

Originally Posted by andrew.46

I have created a couple of VVC files with vvencapp under Linux; I have failed however to find an easy way to play these files back under either Windows or Linux. Something I have missed?

This and this.

[Gravitator]

Still no response to scene change.

[benwaggoner]

Originally Posted by Gravitator

Still no response to scene change.

With VTM or VVCEnc?

[Gravitator]

Привет!
VVCEnc. Is there a way for VLC to play from an mp4 container?

[LigH]

A plugin by InterDigitalInc does exist, but to play it out of containers, VLC's splitters need updates, and the conversation derailed.

[LigH]

New uploads: [Windows][GCC 12.2.0][64 bit]

VTM Encoder/Decoder Version 19.0rc1 cf6653dc

Fraunhofer VVC Encoder ver. 1.6.1 34d3898

Fraunhofer VVC Decoder ver. 1.6.0 6494d7a

[Jamaika]

Changes I take no responsibility for. Why LigH codecs have SIMD AVX2.

//#if defined( __MINGW32__ ) && !defined( __MINGW64__ )
//# define SIMD_UP_TO_SSE42 0
//#else
# undef SIMD_UP_TO_SSE42
//#endif

Very interesting.

//#    ifndef _WIN32
  // don't detect AVX, as there are problems with MSVC production illegal ops for AVX
  ext = AVX;
//#    endif

When using AVX512 we need to add USE_AVX2.

#  ifdef USE_AVX2
  doCpuidex( regs, 7, 0 );
  if( !( regs[1] & BIT_HAS_AVX2 ) )
    return ext;
  ext = AVX2;
#  endif

vvencapp: Fraunhofer VVC Encoder ver. 1.6.1-c5da1b5 [Windows][GCC 11.3.1][64 bit][SIMD=AVX]
https://www.sendspace.com/file/xhydxt
XEVE: eXtra-fast Essential Video Encoder ver. 0.4.2-a7425e3
https://www.sendspace.com/file/ic1vv7

[LigH]

Well, I simply used the media-autobuild suite, which uses MSYS2 + MinGW by default (in case of VVC apps, only MinGW64), and GnuCC 12.2 (could use Clang alternatively).

I am no developer. I am happy when the suite passes, and try educated guesses to make it work with the help of more educated people when something fails.

[hajj_3]

Patent pool update: Access Advance has now published a list of their patents. The access advance patent list shows the expiry date of each patent and whether it is for decoding or encoding, which is nice

MPEG-LA patents: https://www.mpegla.com/wp-content/uploads/VVC-att1.pdf
Access Advance patents: https://accessadvance.com/wp-content...tent-List.xlsx

Total patents for MPEG-LA + Access Advance for the following countries:

UK: 16 + 25 = 41
USA: 36 + 314 = 350

MPEG-LA licensors (patent owners), total number: 12:

b<>com
British Broadcasting Corporation
Digital Insights Inc.
FG Innovation Company Limited
Fujitsu Limited
Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd.
Koninklijke KPN N.V.
Nippon Hoso Kyokai
Orange
Siemens Corp.
Tagivan II LLC
Vidyo, Inc.

Access Advance licensors (patent owners), total number: 34:

Alibaba Singapore Holding Private Limited
B1 Institute of Image Technology, INC.
Chips&Media, Inc.
CommScope Technologies LLC
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation (Affiliate of Dolby Laboratories, Inc.)
Dolby International AB (Affiliate of Dolby Laboratories, Inc.)
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Fujitsu Limited
GE Video Compression, LLC (Affiliate of General Electric Company)
Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
HFI Innovation Inc. (Affiliate of MediaTek, Inc.)
IDEAHUB Inc.
Industry-Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University
Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
IUCF-HYU (Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University)
JVCKENWOOD Corporation
KDDI Corporation
Koninklijke Philips N.V.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
Korean Broadcasting System
Kuaishou Technology
Kwangwoon University, Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
NEC Corporation
OP Solutions, LLC
Panasonic Holdings Corporation
Sisvel International S.A.
SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
Sun Patent Trust
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) Research & Business Foundation
SZ DJI Technology Co., Ltd.
Toshiba Corporation
University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University
XRIS Corporation

Interestingly Sisvel (the patent pool company) is on the list of access advance patent owners.