A Study on the Required Video Bit-rate for 8K 120-Hz HEVC/H.265 Temporal Scalable Coding

Abstract

This paper studies the video bit-rate required for 8K 119.88 Hz (120 Hz) high efficiency video coding (HEVC)/H.265 temporal scalable coding that can partially decode 59.94 Hz (60 Hz) video frames from compressed 120 Hz bit-streams. We compress 8K 120 Hz test sequences using software that emulates our developing HEVC/H.265 encoder and conduct two types of subjective evaluation experiments to investigate the appropriate bit-rate for both 8K 120 and 60 Hz videos for broadcasting purpose. From the results of the experiments, we conclude that the required video bit-rate for 8K 120 Hz temporal scalable coding is estimated to be between 85 and 110 Mbps, which is equivalent to the practical bit-rate for 8K 60 Hz videos, and the appropriate bitrate allocation for the 8K 60 Hz video in 8K 120 Hz temporal scalable video coding at 85 Mbps is presumed to be ~80 Mbps.