The JCT-VC meeting sessions began at approximately 9:10 a.m. on Thursday 20 January, 2011. Meeting sessions were held on all days (including weekend days) until the meeting was closed at approximately 1:55 p.m. on Friday 28 January. Approximately 248 people attended the JCT-VC meeting, and more than 400 input documents were discussed. The meeting took place in a co-located fashion with a meeting of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) – one of the two parent bodies of the JCT-VC. The subject matter of the JCT-VC meeting activities consisted of work on the new next-generation video coding standardization project now referred to as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).
Information regarding logistics arrangements for the meeting had been provided at http://mpeg95.org.