How To Decode VVC/H.266 Video On A Mac

Versatile Video Coding, aka VVC, H.266, or MPEG-I Part 3, is a new video codec that was finalized in 2020. VVC has an encoding complexity of up to 10 times that of HEVC and a decoding complexity 2 times that of HEVC. I’ve had a lot of time to play around with VVC, and it is unbelievably efficient—standard definition video can be encoded to be as low as just a few dozen Kbps, and decent 4K video can be as low as just 4Mbps. This completely blows away the capabilities of HEVC and AV1. Since 2020, support for VVC in third party apps has been nearly nonexistent, until now.

In July of 2023, a great media player called Elmedia Player added support for VVC/H.266 video in their app for MacOS. This means right out of the box, this app can decode video encoded in VVC.

This video isn’t sponsored by the company behind this app, I just think it’s a great app for Mac users. Encoding video into VVC at the time of recording requires building your own app. Depending on how this video does, I’ll make a video in the future detailing how to build the Fraunhofer Versatile Video Encoder and how to encode video into VVC using command line prompts. Leave a comment below if you’d like to see that.

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