JVET-X0020 Deployment status of the HEVC standard [G. J. Sullivan]
This information contribution contains a survey of deployed products and services using the HEVC standard and the formal specifications in which it is supported, along with a brief introduction to the standard written for broad readership. Revision marking is included to show changes relative to JVET-V0020-v2 of April 2021.
Notes on developments not reported in previous similar contributions are below.
As of approximately July 2021, a survey of encoding and transcoding trends with 503 respondents from “a very wide range of industries … from educational institutions and production companies to traditional broadcast channels and cable networks” by Bitmovin, Streaming Media, and Help Me Stream Research Foundation was conducted. (This survey had a somewhat different purpose from the developer trends reports discussed previously.) When asked for further detail on the deployment statistics in this survey, Christian Timmerer, Chief Innovation Officer & Head of Research and Standardization at Bitmovin, stated that among those who responded with identification of video coding formats that they use, the survey data showed:
- 81% reported currently using HEVC
- 88% reported expecting to be using it in one year
Additional and new broadcast usage and streaming service developments were reported in Benin, China, Congo DRC, Croatia, Czech Republic, Kenya, Netherlands, Poland, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, and United States; additional service by Amazon; product usage by GoPro, various new professional encoders.
Completed transitions to the use of HEVC for all terrestrial broadcasting were noted in Croatia, Czech Republic, and Netherlands. Exclusive use of HEVC was also noted for Benin and Seychelles, which did not have legacy digital terrestrial broadcast systems.
Additional products noted included Amazon EC2 VT1 live multistream cloud computers featuring Xilinx Alveo U30 media accelerator cards and the GoPro Hero10 Black sports camera.
Professional encoding offerings were updated, noting offerings by Ambarella, Appear, Ateme, AWS Elemental, Beamr, Chyron, Cisco, Elecard, Fraunhofer HHI, Harmonic, LiveU, MediaKind, NTT Electronics, Rohde & Schwarz, Socionext, and Vitec.