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According to news from this site on June 4, Intel took the lead in March 2022, ahead of Nvidia and AMD, and became the first company to announce full support for AV1 codec. That is, its Arc graphics card can not only decode AV1 videos, It can also be encoded.
Intel today once again leads AMD and Nvidia, announcing that its Xe2 core display is the first to support H.266 (VVC) decoding capabilities.
Note from this site: The full name of VVC is Versatile Video Codec. The related video codec standard was released in 2020. It is the successor of HEVC/H.265. The compression efficiency is 50% higher, which helps to reduce Storage space occupied, improve streaming video quality.
Unfortunately, unlike H.264 and 265, H.266 has not been adopted by the market. Intel says H.266 can compress file sizes by an additional 10 percent compared to AV1.
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