Meta’s Facebook has no plans to use VVC (Versatile Video Codec/H.266) in the near future, nor does it envisage betting big on HEVC, and is even more bullish when it comes to EVC (Essential Video Coding). As a founding member of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), hearing Meta sling mud at MPEG standards is nothing surprising or new, but it is interesting considering the social media giant’s recent breakthroughs with one particular MPEG standard – LCEVC (low complexity enhancement video codec). Ahead of Faultline’s own Video Codecs webinar this week (see separate write-up in this issue), we tuned into a recording from the recent Streaming Media Connect online event, where Facebook’s Director of Video Encoding, David Ronca, described EVC…