hevc.js: An H.265 Decoder in WebAssembly for Browsers

Description

Account of writing a from-scratch C++17 HEVC decoder compiled to WASM at 236 KB gzipped, passing 128/128 conformance streams, with WebCodecs re-encode and fMP4 muxing into MSE.

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