Codecs
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Codecs is a focused collection within Encoding & Codecs, with 68 curated resources. Notable topics include AV1, HEVC, and VP9.
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- 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.
- wav1c — Wondrous AV1 CoderSpec-compliant AV1 encoder written from scratch in safe Rust with zero dependencies; usable as a library, via C FFI, WASM, or as an FFmpeg…
- Guide to HEVC/H.265 Encoding and PlaybackHEVC's main advantage over H.264 is that it offers roughly double the compression ratio for the same quality. This means that a video file…
- h265nalClean H.265 NAL unit parser library and tool with unit tests, designed for embedding in other projects.
- hardware-video-encoderHardware encode wrapper (VAAPI/NVENC) for H.264/HEVC via FFmpeg libraries, supporting VBR/CQP on Linux.
- HEVC DRM Market UpdateSince time eternal, the streaming industry has toiled with and extolled the virtues of CODECs and their key enablement of the entire digita…
- HEVC Format Range Extensions (RExt) — Fraunhofer HHIAuthoritative explainer of the HEVC RExt profiles covering high bit depth and 4:2:2/4:4:4 chroma subsampling, with reference software point…
- hevc-readerRust HEVC/H.265 bitstream syntax reader/parser, forked from h264-reader.
- HEVC/H.265 Video Coding Standard: Part 1Part one of the HEVC/H.265 video coding standard lecture series by Dr. Dan Grois, Benjamin Bross, Dr. Detlev Marpe and Karsten Sühring, int…
- HEVC/H.265 Video Coding Standard: Part 2Part two of the HEVC/H.265 video coding standard lecture series by Dr. Dan Grois, Benjamin Bross, Dr. Detlev Marpe and Karsten Sühring, cov…
- HEVC/h265 Video Coding Standard - ISO/IEC 23008-2Defines the compressed video format HEVC/h265
- HM — HEVC Test Model Reference Software (JVET GitLab)Canonical JVET repository for the HEVC reference encoder/decoder HM, including the software manual PDF documenting every configuration para…
- HomerHEVCReal-time open-source HEVC encoder, LGPL licensed.
- imazen/heic (pure-Rust HEVC/HEIC)Pure-Rust HEVC/HEIC decoding backend, no unsafe, no_std+alloc, passing 49/49 ITU-T conformance vectors.
- Kvazaar HEVC EncoderAn open source HEVC encoder developed by Tampere University. Kvazaar is aimed at academic research and ultra HD content encoding, offering…
- Membrane.H265.Parser — HEVC Stream Structure Conversion DocsElixir Membrane Framework H.265 parser documentation covering Annex B versus hvc1/hev1 stream structures and conversion between them.
- OpenHEVC DecoderAn open source high-performance HEVC decoder. OpenHEVC was developed to provide a fast HEVC/H.265 software decoding solution and has been i…
- Standardization of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)Standardization of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Jens-Rainer Ohm, Institute of Communication Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, DE
- SVT-HEVCAn open source high-performance HEVC encoder from Intel (Scalable Video Technology for HEVC). SVT-HEVC is optimized for speed and latency,…