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Browse 64 curated codecs resources for video development on Awesome Video.

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  • Cisco OpenH264An open source H.264 (AVC) encoder and decoder library by Cisco, provided under a license that allows free use (Cisco covers MPEG LA licens…
  • Daala Codec (Xiph)An experimental video codec from the Xiph.Org Foundation that aimed to achieve next-generation compression (the effort preceded and influen…
  • FFV1 CodecFFmpeg’s FFV1 is a lossless intra-frame video codec. It’s open, extremely efficient for archiving video, and is defined in an ongoing stand…
  • Samsung APV Developer DocumentationOfficial APV profile and spec documentation from Samsung, including the 422 HQ/LQ profiles shipping on recent Galaxy devices.
  • VVdeC (Fraunhofer VVC Decoder)An open source Versatile Video Coding (H.266/VVC) software decoder by Fraunhofer HHI. VVdeC supports Main10 profile and can decode 4K/8K co…
  • XVC Codec (Divideon)XVC is a proprietary but openly documented video codec by Divideon that claims high compression efficiency. An open source evaluation imple…
  • av1-codec-comparisonGoogle internship research project comparing SVT-AV1 and rav1e coding tools against libaom for quality and speed.
  • libde265An open source H.265/HEVC video decoder written in C. libde265 can be used to decode HEVC bitstreams in software and is often integrated in…
  • libvpx (VP8/VP9 Codec Library)The reference implementation of VP8 and VP9 video codecs (WebM Project). libvpx provides encoding and decoding for VP8/VP9, which are open…
  • AOMedia — AV1 Decoder Verification Tool (Argon Streams)Official AOMedia distribution page for the Argon Streams AV1 decoder verification suite and its spec-coverage reporting.
  • AV1 CodecConference talk deck on working with the AV1 codec — encoding workflows, tooling and practical adoption notes for video engineers.
  • AV1 decoder modelDescription of the AV1 decoder model.
  • Introducing SVT-AV1: a scalable open-source AV1 frameworkBy Andrey Norkin, Joel Sole, Kyle Swanson, Mariana Afonso, Anush Moorthy, Anne Aaron.
  • Jean-Marc Valin — Core Coding Tools in AV1 (paper)Free technical paper on AV1 core coding tools (partition trees, MV referencing) by the Opus/Daala codec engineer.
  • NotEnoughAV1Encodes-QtLinux Qt GUI wrapping aomenc/rav1e/SVT-AV1 encoders with chunked parallel encoding support.
  • SVT-AV1An open-source AV1 encoder and decoder from the Scalable Video Technology project. SVT-AV1 is optimized for performance and multi-threading…
  • SVT-AV1 v3.0 Release Announcement (AOMedia)Announcement of SVT-AV1 3.0: 15-25% speedups in presets M3-M10 fast-decode mode, 10-25% Arm SVE2 high-bit-depth gains, lossless and AVIF mo…
  • SVT-AV1-PSY — psychovisual SVT-AV1 forkCommunity fork of SVT-AV1 adding psychovisual fidelity enhancements (perceptual tuning, metrics) that are being upstreamed to the mainline…
  • SVT-AV1-PSYEXActively-maintained fork of SVT-AV1 with psychovisual tuning; improves default perceptual quality settings. Successor to the discontinued p…
  • SVT-AV1: an open-source AV1 encoder and decoderBy Andrey Norkin, Joel Sole, Mariana Afonso, Kyle Swanson, Agata Opalach, Anush Moorthy, Anne Aaron.
  • The Hidden AV1 Gift in Google MeetwebrtcHacks reverse-engineering of Google Meet's AV1 rollout: when AV1 is selected, its SVC modes, and observed quality/bitrate behaviour.
  • Tinkering with AV1-SVC Support in JanusMeetecho engineering write-up on implementing AV1 SVC layer forwarding in a production SFU, including Dependency Descriptor handling.
  • VersatileFilmGrain (InterDigital)Software model of hardware-friendly film grain synthesis supporting MPEG FGC SEI and AOM/AV1 parameters, from InterDigital R&D.
  • aom-av1-lavish — tuned aomenc forkFork of libaom/aomenc hyper-tuned for perceptual fidelity using butteraugli, VMAF and SSIMULACRA2 rate-distortion optimization.