MPEG 108, Valencia

MPEG 108 Valencia 480x319Zetacast supported Samsung at the 108th meeting of MPEG and the 17th meeting of JCT-VC, held in Valencia from 27 March to 4 April 2014. 

This meeting finalised the work on Range Extensions of HEVC, to extend colour sampling from 4:2:0 to 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 formats and to extend data representation to greater than 10 bit depth.

MPEG is the Moving Picture Experts Group of ISO/IEC, more formally designated ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, which has been developing various standards for the coded representation of video, audio and related data since 1988. The Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) is a joint activity between MPEG and VCEG, the ITU-T Study Group 16 Question 6, which is currently developing the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard.