


It supports resolutions up to and including 8K UHD. It is by far the most commonly used format for the recording, compression, and distribution of video content, used by 91% of video industry developers as of September 2019. Block diagram of video coding layer of H.264 encoder with perceptual quality scoreĪdvanced Video Coding ( AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding.
