High Efficiency Video Coding
HEVC was standardized by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), a collaboration between ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T Study Group 16 VCEG. It's known as MPEG-H Part 2 by ISO/IEC and as H.265 by ITU-T. The first version was ratified in January 2013 and published in June 2013. The second version, including multiview, range, and scalability extensions, was approved in 2014 and published in 2015. 3D and screen content coding extensions followed in 2015 and 2017 respectively, catering to graphics-rich content. In 2017, HEVC received a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award for its significant impact on television technology.