MPEG-5 Essential Video Coding (EVC) is an international video compression standard developed by MPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11). The standard consists of bitstream specification, decoder specification, conformance specification and reference software.

The MPEG-5 project started in 2018, and a Call-for-Proposals (CfP) was issued in October 2018. Divideon was one of the companies that responded to the CfP and has continued to contribute to the standardization process. The MPEG-5 EVC standard was completed and published in 2020.

The final specification text is available for purchase here.

A draft specification text is available here.

A description of the Test Model used in the development process is available here.

An  introduction to the technology in MPEG-5 EVC (presented at ITU Workshop on “The Future of Media”) can be found here.

An overview paper of MPEG-5 EVC (presented at IBC 2019) can be found here and another overview paper of MPEG-5 EVC (presented at the SMPTE Conference 2019) can be found here.

The following video shows a presentation about EVC held at SMPTE conference 2019 in Los Angeles by Divideon’s CEO Jonatan Samuelsson-Allendes.

If you are interested to learn more about MPEG-5 EVC or if you have an interest in results and technical details of MPEG-5 EVC, please contact info@divideon.com.