Hevc

Parabola · 21st November 2012, 16:37

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 · 21st November 2012, 17:25

We already have a thread for HEVC here (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), 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.

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Parabola Registered User Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 41	Hevc 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? Study HEVC with Parabola Explorer: http://www.parabolaresearch.com/expl...-analyzer.html Last edited by Parabola; 21st November 2012 at 16:40. Reason: signature missing!

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JEEB もこたんインしたお！ Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Finland / Japan Posts: 512	We already have a thread for HEVC here (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), 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. __________________ [I'm human, no debug]