Vidyo and Samsung prepare a new video coding standard for telepresence

Video, multipoint video conferencing solution provider in the workplace, and the South Korean multinational Samsung Electronics, have announced their contribution to the new High Efficiency Video Coding Standard HEVC – H.265, developed with the aim of halving the bit rate required to develop video of the same quality as that achieved by the currently dominant H.264 codec.

Video y Samsung Electronics have submitted a response to the call for proposals for scalable extensions of the new High Efficiency Video Coding Standard known as HEVC (H.265). HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) is the next step in video coding and is currently being jointly developed by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) y el ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). The objective of this new encoding is to reduce by half the bit rate required to develop video of the same quality as that achieved by the H.264 codec..

Vidyo pioneered the use of Scalable Video Coding in video conferencing in 2007, with the scalable extension of H.264 in its adaptive video software-based architecture. Currently, brings extensive experience in scalable video codec design and implementation of the HEVC standard to ensure it will have the features necessary for real-time video communication over the Internet and wireless networks. Vidyo's contributions to the HEVC project contain technical designs of 19 Pending patent applications related to Vidyo.

Alex Eleftheriadis, Vidyo chief scientist and company co-founder, has commented: “Vidyo products and business development have demonstrated that the right way to realize video communication on the Internet and mobile devices is through the use of the VidyoRouter architecture with scalable video encoding. This architecture eliminates the need for transcoding and ensures 'technological transparency', providing an experience without interruptions due to performance failures arising from issues such as network reliability, MCU latency, o endpoint capability. As a result, any new codec designed for real-time communication will have to be scalable, y, in this sense, we are delighted to be part of the HEVC process, where we already participate with H.264 SVC. With its upgradeable software, Vidyo is now 'HEVC ready', when the new codec is released”.

Since its introduction to the market in 2008, VidyoRouter architecture has made the most of the HEVC codec, enabling Vidyo to transform the industry by developing smaller transcoding processes, Low latency and high fidelity video communication between Vidyo's own endpoint-based SVCs. “Vidyo has been an active participant in the HEVC standardization process. In addition to encouraging standards bodies to extend HEVC with the goal of achieving scalability, since January 2011, has been making technical contributions with proposals for scalable coding tools”, Jill Boyce explained, Director of Algorithms at Vidyo.

Towards true interoperability

True interoperability requires standardization of means of transport and signaling. Here, Vidyo has participated in the development of the RFC 6190, which defines the way SVC video is transported over the Internet, as well as SVC extensions to H.241, which specify how video connections are established on H.323 endpoints. Vidyo's continued contributions to these standards are intended to ensure the interoperability of this new generation of video communication solutions..

Ofer Shapiro, CEO and co-founder of Vidyo, has qualified: “Vidyo makes personal telepresence ubiquitously available. Well-designed and flexible standards that promote interoperability between solutions from different vendors, with technologies such as VidyoRouter architecture, are crucial to achieving this vision. This is why Vidyo has taken the lead in developing standards around scalable video encoding, largely due to our unique brand of talent, to the experience of our technologists, and the significant contributions in terms of intellectual property that they have made”.