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Old 18th September 2019, 00:32   #160  |  Link
soresu
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Originally Posted by benwaggoner View Post

The current target completion date for the VVC spec is July 2020. There is no WAY it is going to be used in that summer's Olympics! HEVC transport is becoming common, particularly for 4K. We likely could see some VVC used for the 2024 summer Olympics. Even the 2022 Winter Olympics might be too soon for any mission critical applications.
I just saw an announcement from Beamr about 8K HEVC encoding at 79 fps, sounds like they have it in the bag - I wonder if they are using SVT at all?

Edit: Found a PDF release from AMD about it, seems their new 64 core EPYC chip managed it. Link here.

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