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samstave
on June 3, 2017
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A hands-on introduction to video technology: image...
Just curious as I never bothered to think about this before, in all H. Codecs/standards... what does the "H" stand for?
barrkel
on June 3, 2017
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It's an ITU spec naming convention - think things like X.25. They're all <letter>.<digit>+. The letters aren't often very mnemonic. The letter is a large bucket classification, audiovisual and multimedia systems for H.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/publications/Pages/structure.asp...
profpandit
on June 3, 2017
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Don't know, but it was associated with the ITU as opposed to the ISO before they decided to merge their efforts
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