InterDigital to Showcase VVC Multilayer Coding at IBC 2026

InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDCC), a wireless, video and AI technology research and development company, will showcase state-of-the-art video codec innovation at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), taking place in Amsterdam from September 11 – 14, 2026. InterDigital will demonstrate at IBC alongside NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Japan’s sole public service media organisation, and Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF) partners, spotlighting enhancements to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard to deliver premium, high-quality streaming experiences.

VVC Multilayer Coding
At IBC 2026, InterDigital and NHK will demonstrate two aspects of the VVC Multilayer Main 10 profile, specifically content overlay and spatial/quality scalability. The demonstration is powered by a VVC multilayer software decoder.

The content layering approach demonstrated by NHK shows content personalisation enabled by VVC multilayer and MPEG-H 3D audio coding, highlighting the technology’s ability to switch video and audio in a coordinated manner to empower richer user experiences. By reframing the base layer and overlaying additional content, like captions or sign language translations, in an enhancement layer, users can choose between viewing the base or a selected enhanced experience. The contributions to scalability made by InterDigital demonstrate how a VVC enhancement layer can deliver significant improvements in quality in broadcast and streaming applications, offering greater efficiency than independent encoding.

This joint demonstration is aligned with the VVC multilayer coding verification test, published in April 2026, as MPEG document AG 5 N208. Read the document here.

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Experience Streaming Excellence at the MC-IF booth
At the MC-IF booth in Hall 2.B13, MC-IF members including InterDigital, in collaboration with NHK, will demonstrate new features and capabilities of VVC. Together, MC-IF members will highlight how the industry is embracing VVC as the foundation for next-generation video delivery at scale, as the codec moves from development and early ecosystem experimentation to commercial deployment at national scale in countries like Brazil.

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