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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon strukturag

alternative h265 encoder?

Open tumagonx opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

since libheif is LGPL, would it be nice to use non-GPL heic encoder? effectively combining x265 and libheif make it GPL alternative: kvazaar: BSD svt-hevc : BSD but have patent clause

what's the obstacle supporting one of those, legal or technical-wise?

tumagonx avatar Jan 03 '22 01:01 tumagonx

SVT-HEVC and SVT-AV1 have been on the roadmap for ages, the issue is development time. PRs welcome. I've been waiting for the 0.88 release of SVT-AV1 to give it another go, that tag should drop any moment now.

Of course any HEVC plugin is going to have patent issues, kvazaar should have the same given the ugly situation.

silverbacknet avatar Jan 03 '22 02:01 silverbacknet

I'd also love to see this! I'm using libheif via libvips and I'd like to use an HEVC plugin to produce HEIC images.

AttilaTheFun avatar Jan 20 '22 05:01 AttilaTheFun

Looks like kvazaar is now in as of https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/commit/2fb10639d8094578c493522f91d7f04e6b7c92ef

bradh avatar May 29 '23 10:05 bradh

Yes, I've added kvazaar support.

Does anyone have any experience with svt-hevc? Is it worth to add support? The last commit seems to be more than a year ago.

farindk avatar May 30 '23 10:05 farindk