Re:Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2
by astrange on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @08:03PM
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The comments on this article are not technically interesting and mostly seem fear-based. An HEVC encoder is perfectly usable for home use, nobody will break in and sue you.
I suppose not many people are qualified to comment on the program, though.
Anyway, this code is unusually clean and actually structured, which is rare considering the horrors of most encoder codebases (libavcodec mpegvideo, android, any commercial source…). That's probably because it's not optimized for speed; most people act as if writing optimized code literally requires you to leave out comments and make the program ten times longer.
But it is pretty much an academic codebase and doesn't really do much. Following x265's progress would be better for the moment if you want to use HEVC for anything.
I suppose not many people are qualified to comment on the program, though.
Anyway, this code is unusually clean and actually structured, which is rare considering the horrors of most encoder codebases (libavcodec mpegvideo, android, any commercial source…). That's probably because it's not optimized for speed; most people act as if writing optimized code literally requires you to leave out comments and make the program ten times longer.
But it is pretty much an academic codebase and doesn't really do much. Following x265's progress would be better for the moment if you want to use HEVC for anything.