[1][2][3][4] The standard consists of a royalty-free subset and individually switchable enhancements.
[7] Each can be individually turned off and, when necessary, replaced by a corresponding cost free baseline profile tool.
This structure makes it easy to fall back to a smaller set of tools in the future, if, for example, licensing complications occur around a specific tool, without breaking compatibility with already deployed decoders.
[7] A proposal by Samsung, Huawei and Qualcomm forms the basis of EVC.
[8] MPAI aims to significantly enhance the performance of EVC by improving or replacing traditional tools with AI-based tools, with the goal of reaching at least 25% improvement over the baseline profile of EVC.