MPEG 109, Sapporo

MPEG 109 Sapporo 480x360Zetacast supported Samsung at the 109th meeting of MPEG and 18th meeting of JCT-VC, held from 30 June to 11 July 2014 in Sapporo, Japan.

This meeting marked the completion of work on version 2 of the HEVC standard. HEVC v2 comprises three amendments to extend the functionality of HEVC v1, which was completed in January 2013:
• Amd.1 – Range Extensions (RExt)
• Amd.2 – Multiview Extensions (MV-HEVC)
• Amd.3 – Scalable Extensions (SHVC)

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.