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Originally Posted by iwod
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VVC is very technically promising. We saw some comparisons of HEVC at 2x the bitrate of VVC, and VVC has more natural looking motion artifacts. As with the last 20 years of codec development, newer codecs tend to just lose detail instead of showing blocking/ringing at high QP. VVC > HEVC > H.264 > VC-1 > MPEG-2/H.263 in this regard.
HEVC licensing is quite confusing, particularly because not all licensors even publicly publish what use cases they are even licensing for.
VVC is unlikely to succeed unless that patent licensing is clearer than for HEVC. And it will have a lot more patents.
That was the general consensus.