AVS represents national Audio and Video coding Standard. The main technical characteristics of AVS- Video and audiostandard are illustrated in this paper. Comparing with the corresponding international video and audio coding standard MPEG- 4AVC/H.

• 介绍了音视频编码标准AVS中的主要技术特点；对AVS标准所采用的主要技术进行了综述；给出了AVS视频标准与MPEG-4AVC/H.