![]() Note that respondents include representation throughout the video encoding and delivery ecosystem, so even if few publishers deploy VVC or EVC streams in 2022, encoding and other services that will ultimately deploy these codecs appear to be in the process of adding them to their technology stack.įigure 1. To set the stage for the rest of this article, I've shared a chart from the Bitmovin report (see Figure 1 ), which shows the new codecs that survey respondents plan to add in 2022. We all knew H.264 usage had to decline at some point, and it appears that the decline has started. ![]() ![]() This data was backed up by predictions from Rethink Technology Research's "Media & Entertainment Transcoding Workload and Device Royalty Forecast 2020-2030," which has H.264 usage dropping from around 80% of all traffic in 2020 to about 25% of traffic in 2030. H.264 is the closest we have to a universal codec, which is why it was surprising that in Bitmovin's "Video Developer Report 2021," H.264 usage actually dropped from 92% in 2020 to 83% in 2021 among survey respondents. If you feel like I missed a significant event, please add a comment about it in the online version of this article. Codecs are many, but space is limited, so I'll be brief. In this 2022 codec update, I'll identify the most significant announcements from the last year relating to H.264, VP9, HEVC, AV1, Versatile Video Coding (VVC), Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC), and Essential Video Coding (EVC).
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