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| April 1 2025 |
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Firefox for Android version 137.0 begins supporting HEVC
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| July 29 2024 |
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Tenth version of HEVC/H.265 standard was approved, which is the latest version.
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| September 13 2023 |
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Ninth version of HEVC/H.265 standard was approved.
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| June 2023 |
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Data from Can I Use shows an estimated 88.31% of browsers support playing HEVC videos in HTML5 webpages
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| December 2022 |
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Opera version 94 adds HEVC support on platforms matching Chrome's support
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| October 2022 |
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Microsoft Edge version 107 adds support for HEVC on macOS 11+ and Android 5.0+
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| October 25 2022 |
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Google Chrome version 107 was released, introducing native support for HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) hardware decoding across all platforms where hardware support is available.
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| August 22 2021 |
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Eighth version of HEVC/H.265 standard was approved.
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| 2020 |
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JPEG XL image compression standard introduced as a royalty-free raster-graphics file format supporting both lossy and lossless compression.
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| July 6 2020 |
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The Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard was officially finalized.
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| November 29 2019 |
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Seventh version of HEVC/H.265 standard was approved, adding SEI messages for fisheye video information and annotated regions, and corrections to minor defects.
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| October 22 2019 |
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Technicolor SA rejoined the HEVC Advance patent pool after previously withdrawing in 2016.
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| June 29 2019 |
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Sixth version of HEVC/H.265 standard was approved, adding SEI manifest and SEI prefix messages, and corrections to minor defects.
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| 2018 |
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AV1 video coding standard is released as an open source format, developed from VP10, Daala, and Thor, and subsequently adopted by major content providers like YouTube and Netflix.
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| September 20 2018 |
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Nvidia released the GeForce RTX 2080 graphics card (TU104 model), which featured a full fixed function HEVC Main 4:4:4 12 hardware decoder, representing an advancement in video codec hardware support.
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| April 2018 |
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First working draft of the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard was released.
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| March 28 2018 |
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The Alliance for Open Media finalized the royalty-free alternative video coding format AV1, in response to HEVC's high licensing fees.
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| February 13 2018 |
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Fifth version of HEVC/H.265 standard was approved, adding omnidirectional video SEI messages, a Monochrome 10 profile, a Main 10 Still Picture profile, and corrections to minor defects.
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| October 2017 |
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JVET issued a final 'Call for Proposals' for the new video compression standard.
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| October 2017 |
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HEVC was recognized with a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award for its material effect on television technology.
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| September 2017 |
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Safari starts supporting HEVC in version 11
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| July 2017 |
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Microsoft Edge begins supporting HEVC on Windows 10 1709+ for devices with supported hardware
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| March 31 2017 |
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Velos Media announced their HEVC license covering essential patents from Ericsson, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Sharp, and Sony.
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| January 2017 |
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Screen content coding (SCC) extensions were published.
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| December 22 2016 |
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Fourth version of HEVC/H.265 standard was approved, adding seven screen content coding extensions profiles, three high throughput extensions profiles, and four scalable extensions profiles.
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| November 22 2016 |
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HEVC Advance revised their policy to allow royalty-free software implementations of HEVC for consumer mobile devices and personal computers.
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| February 3 2016 |
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Technicolor SA withdrew from the HEVC Advance patent pool and announced they would directly license their HEVC patents.
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| January 2016 |
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Extensions for screen content coding (SCC) were completed, covering video with rendered graphics, text, or animation.
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| December 18 2015 |
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HEVC Advance announced changes to their royalty rates, including reducing the maximum royalty rate for Region 1 countries to US$2.03 per device and creating annual royalty caps.
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| October 2015 |
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MPEG and VCEG formed the Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET) to evaluate video compression technologies and develop requirements for a next-generation video compression standard.
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| July 22 2015 |
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HEVC Advance announced their licensing terms with rates varying by country, device type, HEVC profile, and features, including a content revenue sharing fee.
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| April 29 2015 |
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Third version of HEVC/H.265 standard was approved, adding the 3D Main profile.
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| March 26 2015 |
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HEVC Advance was formally announced as a competing patent licensing group, covering 500 essential patents.
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| January 2015 |
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The second version of HEVC was published, and extensions for 3D video (3D-HEVC) were completed.
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| 2014 |
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The second version of HEVC was completed and approved, including multiview extensions (MV-HEVC), range extensions (RExt), and scalability extensions (SHVC).
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| November 3 2014 |
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Android Lollipop was released with out-of-the-box support for HEVC using Ittiam Systems' software.
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| October 31 2014 |
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Microsoft confirmed that Windows 10 will support HEVC out of the box, with Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 9860 adding platform-level support for HEVC and Matroska.
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| October 29 2014 |
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Second version of HEVC/H.265 standard was approved, adding 21 range extensions profiles, two scalable extensions profiles, and one multi-view extensions profile.
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| September 29 2014 |
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MPEG LA announced their HEVC license covering essential patents from 23 companies, with the first 100,000 devices being royalty-free and subsequent devices charged at $0.20 per device up to an annual cap of $25 million.
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| September 18 2014 |
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Nvidia released the GeForce GTX 980 (GM204) and GTX 970 (GM204), introducing the world's first HEVC hardware encoder in a discrete graphics card.
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| September 9 2014 |
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Apple announced the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which support HEVC/H.265 for FaceTime over cellular.
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| September 5 2014 |
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The Blu-ray Disc Association announced the 4K Blu-ray Disc specification, which supports HEVC-encoded 4K video at 60 fps, Rec. 2020 color space, high dynamic range (PQ and HLG), and 10-bit color depth.
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| August 13 2014 |
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Ittiam Systems announced the availability of its third generation H.265/HEVC codec with advanced 4:2:2 12-bit support.
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| April 5 2014 |
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eBrisk Video, Inc. and Altera Corporation demonstrated an FPGA-accelerated HEVC Main10 encoder at the NAB show, capable of encoding 4Kp60/10-bit video in real-time using a dual-Xeon E5-2697-v2 platform.
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| 2013 |
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HEVC was designed with a focus on progressive scan video, deliberately omitting specific coding tools for interlaced video and instead introducing a metadata approach for handling interlaced video transmission.
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| June 2013 |
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The first version of the HEVC standard was published.
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| April 2013 |
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A performance comparison was released comparing Main 10 and Main profiles using 3840×2160 10-bit video sequences, demonstrating a 5% bit rate reduction for inter frame video coding in the Main 10 profile.
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| April 13 2013 |
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First approved version of the HEVC/H.265 standard containing Main, Main10, and Main Still Picture profiles was released.
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| January 2013 |
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The first version of the HEVC standard was ratified by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC).
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| October 2012 |
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Main 10 profile was added to HEVC at the October meeting based on proposal JCTVC-K0109, supporting 10-bit video for improved quality, color space support, and higher dynamic range in consumer applications.
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