Looking for "libde265" package review / sponsor

[Joachim Bauch]

Hi,

On 03.04.2014 17:06, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Am Montag, den 31.03.2014, 08:26 -0400 schrieb Reinhard Tartler: 
>> I wonder in what ways libde265 compares to the HEVC decoder we
>> currently have in libavcodec? Which one is faster? Does one of them
>> support more HEVC streams? What extra benefit does libde265 bring to
>> Debian, and what applications require it?
> 
> Is the decoder in libavcodec based on OpenHEVC? Is OpenHEVC also able to
> encode h.265 content? Is x265 also able to decode h.265 content? Are
> there any more implementations than those three that were already
> mentioned? Why is that all so complicated? ;)

:)

libde265 and the openHEVC-based decoder in libavcodec are currently at
about the same development status with comparable performance, reaching
around 50fps @ 4K. With libde265, the applications or plugins depend on
a smaller library which is more modular.

We are concentrating on streaming applications and want to support
additional features that are not possible with a catch-all API, like
dynamic switching between sub-streams with different fps. Work on a
complementing encoder is currently starting.

We have ARM NEON support in the queue and are evaluating whether CUDA
support makes sense.

Applications/plugins using libde265 are a GStreamer 0.10/1.0 plugin
[1], a HEVC/H.265 decoder plugin for VLC 2.x [2] [3] and DirectShow
filters for Windows [4].

Best regards,
  Joachim

[1] https://github.com/strukturag/gstreamer-libde265
[2] https://github.com/strukturag/vlc-libde265
[3] https://github.com/strukturag/vlc
[4] https://github.com/strukturag/LAVFilters