Looking for "libde265" package review / sponsor

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:15 AM, Joachim Bauch <bauch at struktur.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but I didn't get any feedback
> on my ITP bugreport on mentors.debian.net [1] for almost a month now,
> so I decided to also try here...
>
> I packaged our H.265/HEVC decoder library "libde265" for Debian and am
> looking for review and a sponsor to get it included in Debian.
>
> * Package name    : libde265
>   Version         : 0.6-1
>   Upstream Author : struktur AG
> * URL             : https://github.com/strukturag/libde265
> * License         : LGPL
>   Section         : libs

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?

Thanks for your work on the package!

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard