x265
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x265 is an encoder for creating digital video streams in the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) video compression format developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC). It is available as a command-line app or a software library, under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later; however, customers may request a commercial license.
Key facts
- Software.logo
- File:X265 (HEVC encoder, logo).svg
- Software.other_names
- H.265, HEVC/H.265
- Software.developer
- MulticoreWare
- Software.programming language
- C++, x86 assembly
- Software.genre
- Video codec
- Software.license
- GPL-2.0-or-later, or optionally an on-request commercial license
- Software.standard
- High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- video codec
- Based on
- x264
- Official website
- x265.org
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- different from
- High Efficiency Video Coding
- user manual URL
- x265.readthedocs.io
- operating system
- Microsoft Windows
- programmed in
- C++
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0
- software version identifier
- 4.1
- source code repository URL
- bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git/src/master
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Technical details
- Quality and efficiency
- Usage
- Open-source adopters
- Commercial adopters
- References
- External links
x265 is an encoder for creating digital video streams in the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) video compression format developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC). It is available as a command-line app or a software library, under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later; however, customers may request a commercial license.
==History== x265 builds on source code from x264, an open-source video encoder for the previous MPEG video coding standard, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. The project has licensed the rights to use the x264 source code. Development on x265 began in March 2013. MulticoreWare made the source code for x265 publicly available on July 23, 2013.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “x265” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.