Standards: Appendix C - H-Series Codecs

This is a list of the much used ITU-T video coding standards and their H-Series names.

This is an Appendix to our series of articles on Standards.

H.261 - MPEG-1
H.262 - MPEG-2
H.263 - MPEG-4 part 2
H.264 - MPEG-4 part 10 - AVC
H.265 - MPEG-H part 2- HEVC
H.267 - Under development

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