Hevc

[Parabola]

As a long time lurker here as a professional video codec engineer, I came back expecting to see a ton of excited posts about HEVC but there are none. Where's the buzz these days... where are the busy open source projects?

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[JEEB]

We already have a thread for HEVC here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=165673) (it just doesn't show up by default in the list because the forum limits the shown threads by maximum age since the last post, which is by default set to one month), and there are multiple people working on HEVC as we speak. Smarter is making a decoder over at libav for the libavcodec library (repo (https://github.com/smarter/libav/commits/hevc)), and prunedtree was working on an encoder during his free time.

No-one yet has taken on the task of possibly creating a HEVC encoder on the x264 base, the "x265" project on Google Code was done by a Chinese fellow who got a couple of commits into x264 back in 2004 -- and does not really look that active from an open source perspective. The x264 development team does welcome such development, but it does need both a team of developers that can do it, as well as the will to actually go through it to the end, which is often the biggest obstacle with things.