The Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF) has launched a new open-source software decoder development initiative for Versatile Video Coding (VVC / H.266).
The initiative aims to accelerate practical VVC adoption by delivering a highly optimised, openly available software decoder that complements emerging hardware decoder support and helps the broader video ecosystem evaluate, integrate, and deploy VVC across more devices and applications, said the organisation.
The MC-IF said the initiative’s goal is to seed an industry-oriented open-source VVC decoder project focused initially on mobile and application-level integration. The planned development roadmap targets a high-performance implementation with Android arm64 optimisation, a stable C/C++ interface, FFmpeg integration, and Android JNI access paths.
The project is expected to provide a practical baseline for application developers, device ecosystem participants, service providers, and technology vendors seeking to experiment with and deploy VVC in real-world workflows, added MC-IF.
“As the industry navigates the path towards widespread adoption of VVC, practical open-source tools that enable solution providers across the ecosystem to evaluate, test and deploy the new codec are essential. This open-source software decoder initiative is intended to give the ecosystem a strong, collaborative foundation for bringing VVC to more applications and devices,” said Justin Ridge, President, MC-IF.
Ittiam Systems is serving as the development partner for the initial implementation.
