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Old 11th June 2013, 05:30   #1  |  Link
thebombzen
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H.265/HEVC specification released, any decoders/encoders in sight?

Hi, According to Wikipedia, the H.265/HEVC spec was released on 7 June 2013, which I found for free on ITU-T's website:

http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.265-201304-I/en

Now that HEVC has been officially finalized and released, corporations (ATEME, DivX, maybe not Google) will be jumping up and down to quickly put forth their own HEVC decoders and encoders. However, as history has shown, open-source software often beats proprietary software. Look at x264, OPUS, nothing has wider support than FFmpeg, and Linux servers are an industry standard.

While on Wikipedia it says that many companies are now putting their feet forward in the HEVC market, does anyone have an estimation for free and open-source (BSD, (L)GPL, etc.) decoders or encoders? Note that X265 doesn't count, as it's most likely a "lite" version:

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Originally Posted by X265's Google Code Site
Currently, I working on my commercial version, it is cooperation with a China university, we improvement the compress performance and try more advanced feature (many-cores, taskpool, GPU, etc).
Also, is this move going to kill x264? It seems that does happen for software, for example, the Blender3D Cycles rendering engine effectively killed Luxrender. Codecs for inferior formats such as LAME still live but notice that LAME's last stable release was in 2011 (2 years ago) and probably still exists only because there's no good free as in freedom encoder for AAC (FFmpeg's is terrible, so is vo-aacenc, FAAC and fdk-aac are nonredistributable and Nero's and Apple's are not open-source, etc.).
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