Introduced MPEG H.265 video compression standard

The international organization Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) at a conference in Stockholm presented a draft of a new standard for video compression H.265 / HEVC .

The new codec provides the same visual quality as the current H.264 / AVC, with half the bitrate, according to a press release .

H.265 (also known as High Efficiency Video Coding or HEVC) will be used primarily for transmitting video on mobile networks, as well as for a television signal. Considering that the share of video content in total global traffic by 2015 can grow up to 90%, improving compression by a factor of two is a very useful thing.

Ericsson Research Specialist and MPEG Swedish Group Chairman Per Fröjdh expresses the hope that H.265 can be launched for commercial use in 2013.
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By 2014, MPEG promises to adopt a standard for 3D video compression.

Interestingly, a few years ago, Motorola released a study (pdf) on the effect of video content on the bandwidth of LTE networks. In it, they published a graph with the evolution of video codecs, according to which the quality of video compression doubles every 6-8 years as a result of the emergence of more efficient encoding methods.