AVC/H.264

 
Advanced Video Coding

AVC/H.264 is an encoding and compression system for digital content defined by the AVC Standard as initially defined in ISO/IEC IS 14496-10. 

AVC/H.264

 
Advanced Video Coding

AVC/H.264 is an encoding and compression system for digital content defined by the AVC Standard as initially defined in ISO/IEC IS 14496-10.

Detailed description


H.264, MPEG-4 Part 10, or AVC, for Advanced Video Coding, is a digital video codec standard which is noted for achieving very high data compression. It was written by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the 1S0/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as the product of a collective partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). The ITU-T H.264 standard and the 1S0/IEC MPEG-4 Part 10 standard (formally, 1S0/IEC 14496-10) are technically identical.
 

H.264 is a name related to the ITU-T line of H.26x video standards, while AVC relates to the 1S0/IEC MPEG side of the partnership project that completed the work on the standard, after earlier development was done in the ITU-T as a project called H.26L. It is usual to call the standard as H.264/AVC (or AVC/H.264 or H.264/MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-4/H.264 AVC) to emphasize the common heritage.
 

The intent of the H.264/ AVC project was to create a standard that would be capable of providing good video quality at bit rates that are substantially lower (e.g., half or less) than what previous standards would need (e.g., relative to MPEG-2, H.263, or MPEG-4 Part 2), and to do so without so much of an increase in complexity as to make the design impractical (excessively expensive) to implement. An additional goal was to do this in a flexible way that would allow the standard to be applied to a very wide variety of applications (e.g., for both low and high bit rates, and low and high resolution video) and to work well on a very wide variety of networks and systems (e.g., for broadcast, DVD storage, RTP/IP packet networks, and ITU-T multimedia telephony systems).

Patents and agreements


Philips licenses its essential patents for AVC/H.264 through MPEG LA. For further details or questions please contact MPEG LA: www.MPEGLA.com

Contact us

* This field is mandatory

*
*
*
*

Philips values and respects your privacy. Please read our privacy notice for more information.

You are about to visit a Philips global content page

Continue

You are about to visit a Philips global content page

Continue

Our site can best be viewed with the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome or Firefox.