MLVC: Multi-platform Learned Video Codec for Real-World Deployment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28027v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:32:50 GMT
• Title: MLVC: Multi-platform Learned Video Codec for Real-World Deployment
• Abstract summary: MLVC is a hardware-robust neural video encoder designed for practical cross-platform inference.<n>On the VCD video conferencing benchmark, MLVC achieves >70% BD-rate (MOS) improvement over hardware HEVC.<n>Both the encoder and decoder run at 100 FPS on average on commodity NPUs from Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Neural video codecs have surpassed classical codecs in coding efficiency but remain impractical for deployment due to cross-platform incompatibility and high computational cost. Existing quantization-based solutions fail to produce deterministic results across diverse hardware platforms, leading to catastrophic decoding failures. We introduce MLVC, a hardware-robust neural video codec designed for practical cross-platform inference. The key idea is to explicitly transmit scale parameters through the hyperprior, which guarantees entropy coding consistency across devices without requiring bit-exact arithmetic. While this increases bitrate overhead, we recover most of the coding efficiency through architectural improvements (gated memory, ReGLU activation), a long-term reference recovery mechanism, and domain-specific perceptual training. On the VCD video conferencing benchmark, MLVC achieves >70% BD-rate (MOS) improvement over hardware HEVC, the strongest deployable baseline, while reaching subjective quality competitive with DCVC-RT, which cannot operate across diverse platforms. Both the encoder and decoder run at 100 FPS on average on commodity NPUs from Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm. MLVC is the first neural video codec to combine competitive compression performance, real-time speed, and cross-platform robustness across diverse consumer devices, making it suitable for widespread deployment. Code will be released.

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