Audio Video Coding Standard
Audio Video Coding Standard ( AVS for short ) is a Chinese audio codec that was proposed as a national standard in 2004.
The People's Republic of China is endeavoring to develop its own standards that define compression methods for digital audio and video in order to consolidate its technical independence from abroad. The main aim is to avoid the license fees to MPEG LA , which are considered too high, for the standards it manages (for example MPEG-2 , used in DVD and DVB ). For example, the license fees for a DVD player are said to be US $ 2.50, while the manufacturing costs of the devices have now fallen sharply and the license fees therefore already make up a significant proportion of the sales price.
On April 30, 2005, the time had come when AVS was raised to the national standard after being presented to the public. It also seeks to HDTV Successors of the DEA are used
Open source implementations of an AVS video decoder can be found in the OpenAVS project and within the libavcodec program library . This is integrated in many freely available video playback programs such as MPlayer , VLC or xine .