Video Codec Specifications
Explore 19 curated Video Codec Specifications resources in Standards & Industry — tools, guides, and references for video developers on Awesome Video.
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Video Codec Specifications is a focused collection within Standards & Industry, with 19 curated resources.
Resources
- 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…
- JPEG XS software (official)Official JPEG committee page listing JPEG XS reference software and open-source implementations of the low-latency mezzanine codec.
- 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…
- Video Coding - BBC R&DBBC video encoding R&D home page
- VP9 Bitstream & Decoding Process Specification v0.6Official Google draft bitstream and decoding process specification for VP9.