This talk will give a first glimpse of the upcoming video coding standard Versatile Video Coding (VVC), scheduled to be released in a first version by the end of 2020. Based on technologies from HEVC, VVC has new coding tools and features in the proposal, which significantly increase the coding performance and ensure continuous innovation of video codecs technologies, while not to directly inheriting the licensing problems of HEVC. We will go into detail on some of these tools, show the performance improvements compared to HEVC and explore the challenges we expect to encounter as we plan for the next codec evolution.

Presented at Demuxed 2018 in San Francisco.