CP PLUS Teknologix Labs is set to implement H.265/HEVC standard in its upcoming range of video surveillance devices. An immediate successor standard to H.264, H.265 standard offers various improvements over H.264. H.265 implementation has generated huge optimism given industry's struggle with shortage of bandwidth, spectrum, storage, and imminent need to take growing HD content for multi-platform delivery.
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With the implementation of H.265 standards, CP PLUS plans to introduce a range of video surveillance devices that support H.265 decoding and deliver its benefits
over 40% lesser bandwidth use.
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A video coding format is a content representation format for storage or transmission of digital video content (such as in a data file or bitstream). Examples of video coding formats include MPEG-2 Part 2, MPEG-4 Part 2, H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10), HEVC, etc.
The existing standard H.264 offers 40 to 50 percent bitrate reduction over MPEG-2, yet it has limitation on delivering HD content for broadcast and online. With the 4K/UltraHD cameras being introduced as a video technology revolution, the need for improved H.264 standard was overdue. H.265 meets the Ultra HD rendering requisite over even lesser bandwidth.
H.265 or HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) doubles the data compression ratio compared to H.264/MPEG-4 at the same level of video quality. Alternatively, it can provide substantially improved video quality at the same bitrate. It can support 8K Ultra HD or resolutions up to 8192x4320.
With the implementation of H.265 standards, CP PLUS plans to introduce a range of video surveillance devices that support H.265 decoding and deliver its benefits over 40% lesser bandwidth use.
The potential benefits offered by H.265 standards are as below:
* Accelerate demand and sale of 4K/Ultra-HD screens which has been largely limited due to large price difference and absence of UHD content. H.265 can offset the second challenge.
* Huge opportunities from reduced bitrate requirements enabling broadcasters and broadcast & online vendors to bundle more channels/content on existing delivery mediums.
* Extend far greater video quality experience compared to H.264 encoded sequence at the same bitrate.
* Ability to offer higher quality video images under bandwidth-constrained mobile networks.
* Realize differentiated and premium 4K content, multi-view encoding etc.
“H.265 encoding standard is one of the major encoding standard which will allow us to implement 4k solutions while keeping all network bandwidth on the bay. It will be a significant development for the future technological growth in HD surveillance”, said, Yogesh Dutta, COO, CP PLUS.