The XVC Video Code”A Revolutionary Software-Defined Video Compression Format
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- Publisher
- SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
- Doc Type
- Journal Article
- Content Type
- Original Research
- Abbreviated Title
- SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
- Volume
- 128, No. 10, pp. 1–8
- Abstract
- Efficient video compression is a key technology component that enables high-quality media services across different platforms and connection types. Several different video codecs have been used since the start of TV digitalization, and more efficient compression methods are constantly being developed. This paper focuses on mobile video streaming applications, a rapidly growing application area for which it is absolutely crucial to use the network resources as efficiently as possible. However, compression efficiency is not the only factor that determines which video codec is best suited to be used. There needs to be a clear and reasonable licensing scheme, the encoding complexity needs to be at a manageable level, but most importantly, the receivers must be able to support decoding of the codec. The xvc codec is a software-defined video compression format, which, in our tests, delivers unprecedented compression performance, is available with a single reasonable license, and with a light-weight decoding process that can be run in software on today’s mobile phones and tablets.
- Publication Date
- 2019-11-01
- DOI
10.5594/JMI.2019.2937737- ISSN
- Print:
1545-0279| Electronic:2160-2492 - Link
- https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2019.2937737
- Author(s)
- Jonatan Samuelsson
bio
Jonatan Samuelsson is a co-founder and chief executive officer of Divideon, a software development and technology licensing company. Divideon develops the open-source software-defined video codec xvc. Before starting Divideon, Samuelsson worked as a researcher and project manager at Ericsson. He received an MSc degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, and started working with video compression research and development in 2007. Samuelsson was actively involved in the standardization of HEVC and is currently contributing to the standardization of VVC and EVC where he is one of the editors of the standard. Samuelsson has also contributed to standardization work in Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB), Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Samuelsson has been involved in setting up the Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF) and is serving as MC-IF board director and chief communications officer. - Keyword(s)
- Licensing, Next-generation Video Codecs, Open Source, Software-defined, Video Coding, Video Compression, Xvc
- Copyright
- © 2019 SMPTE
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