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Advanced Video Coding

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Advanced Video Coding

Summary

Advanced Video Coding is an ITU-T Recommendation[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of itu_t_recommendation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,043 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Advanced Video Coding's instance of is recorded as ITU-T Recommendation[3].
  • Advanced Video Coding's instance of is recorded as video compression format[4].
  • Advanced Video Coding's instance of is recorded as ISO standard[5].
  • Advanced Video Coding followed H.263[6].
  • Advanced Video Coding was followed by Recommendation H.265: High efficiency video coding[7].
  • Advanced Video Coding was followed by High Efficiency Video Coding[8].
  • Advanced Video Coding's developer is recorded as Moving Picture Experts Group[9].
  • Advanced Video Coding is part of MPEG-4[10].
  • Advanced Video Coding is part of ITU-T recommendations H-series[11].
  • Advanced Video Coding's Commons category is recorded as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC[12].
  • Advanced Video Coding's official website is recorded as https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.264[13].
  • Advanced Video Coding's media type is recorded as video/H264[14].
  • Advanced Video Coding's file extension is recorded as mp4[15].
  • Advanced Video Coding's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/h.264[16].
  • Advanced Video Coding's different from is recorded as x264[17].
  • Advanced Video Coding's uses is recorded as Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding[18].

Body

Publication

Part of include MPEG-4[10], a file format[19] and ITU-T recommendations H-series[11].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Advanced Video Coding followed H.263[6]. Successors include Recommendation H.265: High efficiency video coding[7] and High Efficiency Video Coding[8].

Why It Matters

Advanced Video Coding ranks in the top 6% of itu_t_recommendation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,043 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 98 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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Thomas Wiegand

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . RFC 6184: RTP Payload Format for H.264 Video. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 24d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-06-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Follows → H.263
    Website → —
    Different from → x264
    Followed by → Recommendation H.265: High efficiency video coding, High Efficiency Video Coding
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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