Fador

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by Fador 4y ago
According to what I've read, MPEG LA would also charge the some fees for "free software". It makes me wonder if e.g. ffmpeg would adopt VVC would they have to pay for it? https://www.streamingmedia.com/Article
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by Fador 4y ago
Thanks! Fraunhofer HHI has already released vvenc ages ago: https://github.com/fraunhoferhhi/vvenc and it's _really_ good on compression performance as well as speed. The difference is that we used our own HEVC en
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by Fador 4y ago
Right now it's mostly that we have been working on the HEVC for the past 10 years and it's basically just easier for us to continue with the next version developed from that. Would be much harder to "start from scratch"
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by Fador 4y ago
Well, I think it does if any company wants to take use of our software and if they pay for the licensing fees, there should be no problems. ..and for personal use it might be hard to crack down ;) I might add that we are a university resear
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by Fador 4y ago
Our Kvazaar HEVC encoder was converted to the new standard during the past couple of years. Some general info on the conversion process for the Intra part is described in our open-access paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/do
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Uvg266: BSD licensed VVC encoder based on Kvazaar released(github.com)
27 points by Fador 4y ago|11 comments
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by Fador 5y ago
Original release discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7142987 One of the problems back then was the GPL license. Since the project has been started and maintained by Tampere University (of Technology) with publi
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Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder license changed to 3-clause BSD(github.com)
6 points by Fador 5y ago|2 comments
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Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder released under GPLv2(github.com)
93 points by Fador 13y ago|62 comments