The Moving Picture Experts Group issued a draft international standard of a new video-compression format, H.265, said to be twice as efficient as the current H.264/AVC standard.
The multi-industry body met last month to draft a standard for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) that would enable faster delivery of current quality video using less bandwidth or greater video quality using the same bandwidth as H.264 today.
Another area where the MPEG Visual Technology team is working on was said to be “a new kind of 3D video compression format, which would enable a new standard for 3D video systems that would do away with 3D glasses.”
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