Collaborative Trial: Application of HEVC Technology to Niconico Live
Ryuichi Tanida, Kenichi Miyazaki · NTT technical review · 2015
Dwango Co., Ltd.operates Niconico Live, the largest live streaming service in Japan based on the legacy video codec H.264/MPEG-4 (Moving Picture Experts Group, version 4) AVC (Advanced Video Coding).Meanwhile, NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories has been working on a high-speed software encoder based on H.265/MPEG-H, also known as HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), the updated high-performance successor to H.264. Dwango and NTT have now joined forces in a collaborative trial to test and evaluate the new HEVC video compression standard.