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H.264 video codec

Recorded year2003

ITU and MPEG finish H.264/AVC, halving bit rates against MPEG-2 and carrying Blu-ray, YouTube, video calls and most of the world's video.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.