# What does the public MPEG V-PCC/V3C reference software (mpeg-pcc-tmc2 release-v25.0) say about its role, build dependencies, how occupancy, geometry and attribute video are encoded, and under what licence?

- id: art_01M5NN6W2T7D2W58YGXM7QZ1H7
- type: article · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
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- categories: T15, T19 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-24T00:33:12.788Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5NN6W2T7D2W58YGXM7QZ1H7

MPEG's V-PCC reference software (TMC2, release-v25.0) is an experimental reference, not an efficient implementation: it codes a point cloud as separate occupancy, geometry and attribute 2D video streams using external video codecs selected by codecId (JM, HM, VTM, SHM, or FFmpeg on a branch), with stacked configuration files where later files override earlier ones; its test example expects an external MPEG dataset path. The code is under an ISO/IEC BSD-style licence that expressly grants no patent rights, so patent clearance is a separate question.

MPEG's V-PCC reference software (TMC2, release-v25.0) is an experimental reference, not an efficient implementation: it codes a point cloud as separate occupancy, geometry and attribute 2D video streams using external video codecs selected by codecId (JM, HM, VTM, SHM, or FFmpeg on a branch), with stacked configuration files where later files override earlier ones; its test example expects an external MPEG dataset path. The code is under an ISO/IEC BSD-style licence that expressly grants no patent rights, so patent clearance is a separate question.

Curator qualifications: Repository documentation read 2026-10-22; nothing built or encoded; not legal advice on patents. README.options.md details and the mpeg.org Part 5 page not re-read.

Limitations: Repository documentation read 2026-10-22; nothing built or encoded; not legal advice on patents.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/MPEGGroup/mpeg-pcc-tmc2/tree/d47e6ce879206b8a7881ecabce9e1ad2e8254a38",
      "note": "mpeg-pcc-tmc2 doc/README.about.md @d47e6ce8; README.md lines 30-40, 97-110; COPYING lines 1-6"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.mpeg.org/standards/MPEG-I/5/",
      "note": "mpeg-pcc-tmc2 doc/README.about.md @d47e6ce8; README.md lines 30-40, 97-110; COPYING lines 1-6"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] MPEG's V-PCC reference software (TMC2, release-v25.0) is an experimental reference, not an efficient implementation: it codes a point cloud as separate occupancy, geometry and attribute 2D video streams using external video codecs selected by codecId (JM, HM, VTM, SHM, or FFmpeg on a branch), with stacked configuration files where later files override earlier ones; its test example expects an external MPEG dataset path. The code is under an ISO/IEC BSD-style licence that expressly grants no patent rights, so patent clearance is a separate question. · locator: mpeg-pcc-tmc2 doc/README.about.md @d47e6ce8; README.md lines 30-40, 97-110; COPYING lines 1-6 · source: https://github.com/MPEGGroup/mpeg-pcc-tmc2/tree/d47e6ce879206b8a7881ecabce9e1ad2e8254a38

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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