Aug 22, 2024 14:00:00

Intel Announces Cancellation of Open Source High-Speed H.265/HEVC Encoder Project

Intel has announced the discontinuation of the open source high-speed H.265/HEVC encoder development project '

SVT-HEVC ', which has been inactive since 2021. Intel is calling on those who wish to continue development to fork it independently.

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Intel Discontinues High-Speed, Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Project - Phoronix

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Discontinues-SVT-HEVC

'SVT-HEVC' is a software-based video coding technology that is highly optimized for Intel Xeon processors. The SVT-HEVC encoder is open source, and when used, it distributes encoding processing across multiple Xeon processors to achieve optimal processing efficiency.

Development has been ongoing with Intel's involvement since 2018, but updates have stopped since v1.5.1, released on June 3, 2021.

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Intel has announced that it will no longer be maintaining the project, and that development and contributions, including maintenance, bug fixes, new releases and updates, will end. The repository has already been archived and is now read-only.

From now on, Intel will no longer accept patches for SVT-HEVC.

If you want to continue using SVT-HEVC, develop it independently, and keep the patches, you can create your own fork and continue doing so.

Furthermore, news site Phoronix notes that 'there are excellent open source H.265 encoders available, such as x265 and Kvazaar .'