Editing Advanced Video Coding (section)

== Naming ==
The H.264 name follows the [[ITU-T]] [[ITU-T#Recommendation categorization|naming convention]], where Recommendations are given a letter corresponding to their series and a recommendation number within the series. H.264 is part of "H-Series Recommendations: Audiovisual and multimedia systems". H.264 is further categorized into "H.200-H.499: Infrastructure of audiovisual services" and "H.260-H.279: [[Video encoding|Coding]] of moving video".<ref>{{Cite web |title=ITU-T Recommendations |url=https://www.itu.int:443/en/ITU-T/publications/Pages/recs.aspx |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=ITU |language=en-US}}</ref> The MPEG-4 AVC name relates to the naming convention in [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]/[[International Electrotechnical Commission|IEC]] [[MPEG]], where the standard is part 10 of ISO/IEC 14496, which is the suite of standards known as MPEG-4. The standard was developed jointly in a partnership of VCEG and MPEG, after earlier development work in the ITU-T as a VCEG project called H.26L. It is thus common to refer to the standard with names such as H.264/AVC, AVC/H.264, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, or MPEG-4/H.264 AVC, to emphasize the common heritage. Occasionally, it is also referred to as "the JVT codec", in reference to the Joint Video Team (JVT) organization that developed it. (Such partnership and multiple naming is not uncommon. For example, the video compression standard known as MPEG-2 also arose from the partnership between [[MPEG]] and the ITU-T, where MPEG-2 video is known to the ITU-T community as H.262.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.262|title=H.262 : Information technology&nbsp;— Generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information: Video|access-date=2007-04-15}}</ref>) Some software programs (such as [[VLC media player]]) internally identify this standard as AVC1.