Faultline’s surprise revelation at IBC 2022 that opposers (albeit few) to the LCEVC standard still exist was an unfortunate distraction from the work going on inside the MPEG-5 camp during the event – which is a growing force with a now 27-company-strong hivemind. While we have been privy to numerous LCEVC demonstrations, newer visitors were impressed, we are told, by demos of LCEVC-HEVC at the IBC booth. As well as bandwidth savings, the quality benefits of LCEVC as an enhancement layer to HEVC encoding were even visible at a distance, with a distracted gaze. So, while last week’s IBC write-up post-IBC was opinion-oriented, let’s attempt to pen a follow-up on LCEVC without deviating too much from the facts. The first…