Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Joachim Bauch <bauch@struktur.de>
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* Package name : kvazaar
Version : 2.2.0
Upstream Author : Ari Lemmetti, Marko Viitanen, Alexandre Mercat,
Jarno Vanne
* URL : https://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar
* License : BSD 3-Clause
Programming Lang: C, C++, ASM
Description : Kvazaar is an open-source HEVC encoder
Kvazaar is an award-winning academic open-source video encoder
for the state-of-the-art High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265)
standard developed since 2012. Kvazaar is being developed in C and
optimized in SSE/AVX intrinsics under the BSD-3-Clause license
since v2.1.
The development is being coordinated by Ultra Video Group and the
implementation work is carried out on GitHub.
The main development goals of Kvazaar are:
- Coding efficiency close to HM
- Easy portability to various platforms
- Real- time coding speed
- Optimized computation and memory resources
Kvazaar includes all coding tools of Main, Main 10, and Main Still
Picture profiles of HEVC and its modular source code facilitates
parallelization on multi and manycore processors as well as
algorithm acceleration on hardware.
This cross-platform HEVC encoder is targeted at x86, x64, PowerPC,
and ARM processors on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Kvazaar is also
supported by de-facto standard multimedia frameworks FFmpeg and Libav.
My main motivation for packaging Kvazaar is to be able to use it
from the corresponding libheif plugin, but it could also be used
by FFmpeg and Livav.
A similar package would be x265 which is GPL licensed where Kvazaar
uses BSD license. Kvazaar is faster than x265 for various inputs.
I'm planing to maintain it from the Multimedia Team which I'm
already a member of. For the first release I will need a sponsor,
but I'm planning to apply to become a DD in the near future, so
hopefully at that point I can maintain it without external help.
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