LGPL H.265 Codec Implementation Available; Encoding To Come Later

New submitter Zyrill writes "The German company Stuttgarter Struktur AG has released a free and open source implementation of the H.265 codec, also termed 'High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)' which is now available on Github. At the same video quality, H.265 promises roughly half the bitrate as compared to H.264. Also, resolutions up to 8K UHD (7680 × 4320 px) are supported. The software is licensed under LGPL. Quoting from the homepage where the software is also available for download: '[This software] is written from scratch in plain C for simplicity and efficiency. Its simple API makes it easy to integrate it into other software. Currently, libde265 only decodes intra frames, inter-frame decoding is under construction. Encoding is planned to be added afterwards.'"

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Re:Hardware acceleration?

[jedidiah]

> Let me know when I can slap a desktop class processor in my Nexus10

Well that's what you get for using lame hardware and trying to pretend that it's anything but a bad joke.

ARM hardware sucks. Plenty of us will happily point out this fact given any opportunity. You don't even need to use the most extreme examples to demonstrate this either.

"Mobile" devices are like a blast from the past (90s) when it comes to performance.