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28-01-2013, 11:56
*ITU ratifies new online video codec to ease pressure on global networks * Editor | 28-01-2013 The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has agreed on a new video coding standard designed to address the growing issue of network pressures as online video proliferates. Indeed, the United Nations' agency for information and communication technology is confident that the new codec, building on the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standard, will considerably ease the burdenonglobal networks where it suggests that video accounts for more than half of bandwidth use. It claims that the new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) will need only half the bit rate of its predecessor, ITU-T H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 Advanced Video Coding (AVC), which it calculates currently accounts for over four-fifths of all Web video. Somewhat bullishly, the ITU claims that the deployment of HEVC will