It is no secret that video accounts for the vast majority of traffic over mobile networks. In the run up to NAB Show 2024, one of the flagship events for the video industry, the Media Coding Industry Forum (MC-IF) published a primer on the benefits of a new compression codec in the mobile sector. Versatile Video Coding (VVC, a.k.a H.266), is the latest of the MPEG codecs. Published in 2020, we are now entering the stage when support moves from software into dedicated silicon. To this end, Qualcomm is on the cusp of adding VVC support in its next flagship Snapdragon design. At ChinaJoy and then MWC, a demo showed Tencent’s VVC software decoder on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2…