Comparison with MPEG

There are many ways in which the Essential Viewing proprietary codec outperforms the standards such as MPEG, H.263, H.264 etc.

Here are just some of the highlights, which are discussed in detail in the Comparison – Essential Viewing versus MPEG document.

Highlights

• Superior visual quality at lower bandwidths
• Interaction with the remote location
• Error resilience without the need for key frames
• Efficient adaptive use of communications channel
• Considerably simpler decode