Standards & Industry
Explore 335 curated video standards and industry specifications — codecs, container formats, and streaming specs on Awesome Video.
Subcategories
- Adaptive Streaming Standards
- Best Practices & Guidelines
- Closed Captioning & Subtitling Standards
- DRM & Content Protection Standards
- Industry Forums & Standards Bodies
- Specs & Standards
- Vendors & HDR
- Video Codec Specifications
Resources
- HDR10+ Official FAQ and Certification OverviewHDR10+ Technologies' official FAQ explaining the SMPTE ST 2094-40 dynamic metadata basis, scope of the system, and the certification/adopte…
- HDR10+ Technologies — Official SiteOfficial home of HDR10+ (SMPTE ST 2094-40) dynamic metadata: adopter specification access, certification program and ecosystem documentatio…
- SL-HDR1/2/3 Deployment Across AVC, HEVC and VVC (InterDigital/Philips, SET)Technical deck on single-layer HDR systems SL-HDR1/2/3, their carriage in AVC/HEVC/VVC, and adoption in SBTVD, ATSC and DVB.
- Samsung SDC22: HDR10+ SALT and Automatic HDR Video CreationSamsung Developer Conference session on the SALT SDK for automatic HDR10+ video creation in production workflows.
- Samsung SDC23: HDR10+ Gaming SessionSamsung Developer Conference technical session on HDR10+ Gaming, covering UE5 plugin and GPU API support.
- APV Codec Specification (IETF, now RFC 9924)IETF document track for the Advanced Professional Video codec, published as RFC 9924 in February 2026.
- AV2 Bitstream & Decoding Process Specification v1.0.0Official released AV2 specification text from the Alliance for Open Media.
- AV2 Specification (AOMedia)Official site for the AV2 video codec specification, released v1.0.0 in 2026, with the full self-contained spec document.
- AVC/h264 Video Coding Standard - ISO/IEC 14496-10Defines the compressed video format for AVC/h264
- FFV1The FFV1 lossless video codec specification.
- HDMI 2.1: features, specs and news about the latest HDMI standardThe gateway to a super high-definition future is ever-nearing
- ISO Base Media File Format Reference SoftwareReference software implementation for the ISO Base Media File Format, providing code for encoding and decoding multimedia files that confor…
- JPEG AI Becomes an International Standard (JPEG Committee)Official JPEG committee announcement that the learning-based JPEG AI coding standard reached International Standard status, with scope and…
- MPEG Event message track format for the ISO base media file format - ISO/IEC 23001-18ISO/IEC 23001-18, the Event Message Track Format specification — defines how timed event messages (emsg) are carried as tracks in ISO base…
- MPEG High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF)MPEG specification for the High Efficiency Image File Format, a standard for storing and managing high-quality images with advanced compres…
- MPEG ISOBMFF 'MP4' - ISO/IEC 14496-12ISO/IEC 14496-12, the ISO Base Media File Format specification — defines the structural 'MP4' container that most modern media files and st…
- MPEG point cloud compressionTechnical specification for MPEG point cloud compression standards used in encoding and decoding three-dimensional point cloud data for eff…
- MPEG-5 Standards Overview (EVC & LCEVC)Overview of MPEG-5 Part 1 (EVC) and Part 2 (LCEVC) codec standards with links to specifications.
- MPEG-H Audio a Next Generation Audio (NGA) codec - ISO/IEC 23008-3Defines the compressed audio format MPEG-H Audio a Next Generation Audio (NGA) codec
- Overview of the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) Standard and its ApplicationsOpen-access record for the IEEE TCSVT overview paper by Bross et al., the de-facto reference text describing VVC's coding tools and applica…
- The H.264 Sequence Parameter SetThis is a follow-up to my World’s Smallest H.264 Encoder post. I’ve received several emails asking about precise details of things in two e…
- VP9 Bitstream & Decoding Process Specification v0.6Official Google draft bitstream and decoding process specification for VP9.
- Video Coding - BBC R&DBBC video encoding R&D home page