A Complete End to End Open Source Toolchain for the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) Standard

Adam Wieckowski; Christian Lehmann; Benjamin Bross; Detlev Marpe; Thibaud Biatek; Mikael Raulet; Jean Le Feuvre

doi:10.1145/3474085.3478320

A Complete End to End Open Source Toolchain for the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) Standard

Adam Wieckowski
, Christian Lehmann
, Benjamin Bross
, Detlev Marpe
, Thibaud Biatek
, Mikael Raulet
, Jean Le Feuvre

Heinrich Hertz Institute
ATEME

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Abstract

Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is the most recent international video coding standard jointly developed by ITU-T and ISO/IEC, which has been finalized in July 2020. VVC allows for significant bit-rate reductions around 50% for the same subjective video quality compared to its predecessor, High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC). One year after finalization, VVC support in devices and chipsets is still under development, which is aligned with the typical development cycles of new video coding standards. This paper presents open-source software packages that allow building a complete VVC end-to-end toolchain already one year after its finalization. This includes the Fraunhofer HHI VVenC library for fast and efficient VVC encoding as well as HHI's VVdeC library for live decoding. An experimental integration of VVC in the GPAC software tools and FFmpeg media framework allows packaging VVC bitstreams, e.g. encoded with VVenC, in MP4 file format and using DASH for content creation and streaming. The integration of VVdeC allows playback on the receiver. Given these packages, step-by-step tutorials are provided for two possible application scenarios: VVC file encoding plus playback and adaptive streaming with DASH.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	3795-3798
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450386517
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3474085.3478320
Publication status	Published - 17 Oct 2021
Event	29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2021 - Virtual, Online, China Duration: 20 Oct 2021 → 24 Oct 2021

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Name	MM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

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Conference	29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2021
Country/Territory	China
City	Virtual, Online
Period	20/10/21 → 24/10/21

Keywords

dash
ffmpeg
gpac
hls
mp4
open source
versatile video coding (vvc)
video streaming
vvdec
vvenc

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Wieckowski, A., Lehmann, C., Bross, B., Marpe, D., Biatek, T., Raulet, M., & Le Feuvre, J. (2021). A Complete End to End Open Source Toolchain for the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) Standard. In MM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (pp. 3795-3798). (MM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3474085.3478320

Wieckowski, Adam ; Lehmann, Christian ; Bross, Benjamin et al. / A Complete End to End Open Source Toolchain for the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) Standard. MM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021. pp. 3795-3798 (MM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia).

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A Complete End to End Open Source Toolchain for the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) Standard. / Wieckowski, Adam; Lehmann, Christian; Bross, Benjamin et al.
MM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021. p. 3795-3798 (MM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia).

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Wieckowski A, Lehmann C, Bross B, Marpe D, Biatek T, Raulet M et al. A Complete End to End Open Source Toolchain for the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) Standard. In MM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2021. p. 3795-3798. (MM 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia). doi: 10.1145/3474085.3478320

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