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#Kvazaar
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An open-source HEVC encoder licensed under LGPLv2.1
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Join channel #kvazaar_hevc in Freenode IRC network to contact us.
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Kvazaar is not yet finished and does not implement all the features of
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HEVC. Compression performance will increase as we add more coding tools.
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http://ultravideo.cs.tut.fi/#encoder for more information.
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[](https://travis-ci.org/ultravideo/kvazaar)
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##Using Kvazaar
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Usage:
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kvazaar -i <input> --input-res <width>x<height> -o <output>
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Optional parameters:
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-n, --frames <integer> : Number of frames to code [all]
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--seek <integer> : First frame to code [0]
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--input-res <int>x<int> : Input resolution (width x height) or
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auto : try to detect from file name [auto]
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--input-fps <number> : Framerate of the input video [25.0]
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-q, --qp <integer> : Quantization Parameter [32]
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-p, --period <integer> : Period of intra pictures [0]
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0: only first picture is intra
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1: all pictures are intra
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2-N: every Nth picture is intra
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--vps-period <integer> : Specify how often the video parameter set is
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re-sent. [0]
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0: only send VPS with the first frame
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1: send VPS with every intra frame
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N: send VPS with every Nth intra frame
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-r, --ref <integer> : Reference frames, range 1..15 [3]
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--no-deblock : Disable deblocking filter
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--deblock <beta:tc> : Deblocking filter parameters
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beta and tc range is -6..6 [0:0]
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--no-sao : Disable sample adaptive offset
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--no-rdoq : Disable RDO quantization
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--no-signhide : Disable sign hiding in quantization
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--smp : Enable Symmetric Motion Partition
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--amp : Enable Asymmetric Motion Partition
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--rd <integer> : Rate-Distortion Optimization level [1]
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0: no RDO
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1: estimated RDO
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2: full RDO
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--mv-rdo : Enable Rate-Distortion Optimized motion vector costs
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--full-intra-search : Try all intra modes.
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--no-transform-skip : Disable transform skip
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--aud : Use access unit delimiters
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--cqmfile <string> : Custom Quantization Matrices from a file
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--debug <string> : Output encoders reconstruction.
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--cpuid <integer> : Disable runtime cpu optimizations with value 0.
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--me <string> : Set integer motion estimation algorithm ["hexbs"]
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"hexbs": Hexagon Based Search (faster)
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"tz": Test Zone Search (better quality)
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--subme <integer> : Set fractional pixel motion estimation level [1].
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0: only integer motion estimation
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1: fractional pixel motion estimation enabled
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--source-scan-type <string> : Set source scan type ["progressive"].
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"progressive": progressive scan
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"tff": top field first
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"bff": bottom field first
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--pu-depth-inter <int>-<int> : Range for sizes of inter prediction units to try.
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0: 64x64, 1: 32x32, 2: 16x16, 3: 8x8
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--pu-depth-intra <int>-<int> : Range for sizes of intra prediction units to try.
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0: 64x64, 1: 32x32, 2: 16x16, 3: 8x8, 4: 4x4
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--no-info : Don't add information about the encoder to settings.
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--gop <string> : Definition for GOP [0]
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- 0 disabled
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- 8 B-frame pyramid of length 8
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- lp-gop syntax, defined below (example: g8d4r3t2)
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--bipred : Enable bi-prediction search
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--bitrate <integer> : Target bitrate. [0]
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0: disable rate-control
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N: target N bits per second
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--preset <string> : Use preset. This will override previous options.
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ultrafast, superfast,veryfast, faster,
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fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow, placebo
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Video Usability Information:
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--sar <width:height> : Specify Sample Aspect Ratio
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--overscan <string> : Specify crop overscan setting ["undef"]
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- undef, show, crop
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--videoformat <string> : Specify video format ["undef"]
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- component, pal, ntsc, secam, mac, undef
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--range <string> : Specify color range ["tv"]
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- tv, pc
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--colorprim <string> : Specify color primaries ["undef"]
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- undef, bt709, bt470m, bt470bg,
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smpte170m, smpte240m, film, bt2020
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--transfer <string> : Specify transfer characteristics ["undef"]
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- undef, bt709, bt470m, bt470bg,
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smpte170m, smpte240m, linear, log100,
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log316, iec61966-2-4, bt1361e,
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iec61966-2-1, bt2020-10, bt2020-12
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--colormatrix <string> : Specify color matrix setting ["undef"]
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- undef, bt709, fcc, bt470bg, smpte170m,
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smpte240m, GBR, YCgCo, bt2020nc, bt2020c
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--chromaloc <integer> : Specify chroma sample location (0 to 5) [0]
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Parallel processing:
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--threads <integer> : Maximum number of threads to use.
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Disable threads if set to 0.
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Tiles:
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--tiles-width-split <string>|u<int> :
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Specifies a comma separated list of pixel
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positions of tiles columns separation coordinates.
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Can also be u followed by and a single int n,
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in which case it produces columns of uniform width.
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--tiles-height-split <string>|u<int> :
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Specifies a comma separated list of pixel
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positions of tiles rows separation coordinates.
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Can also be u followed by and a single int n,
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in which case it produces rows of uniform height.
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Wpp:
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--wpp : Enable wavefront parallel processing
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--owf <integer>|auto : Number of parallel frames to process. 0 to disable.
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Slices:
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--slice-addresses <string>|u<int>:
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Specifies a comma separated list of LCU
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positions in tile scan order of tile separations.
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Can also be u followed by and a single int n,
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in which case it produces uniform slice length.
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Deprecated parameters: (might be removed at some point)
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Use --input-res:
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-w, --width : Width of input in pixels
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-h, --height : Height of input in pixels
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###For example:
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kvazaar -i BQMall_832x480_60.yuv --input-res 832x480 -o out.hevc -n 600 -q 32
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The only accepted input format so far is 8-bit YUV 4:2:0.
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### LP-GOP syntax
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The LP-GOP syntax is "lp-g(num)d(num)r(num)t(num)", where
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- g = GOP length.
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- d = Number of GOP layers.
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- r = Number of references, where one reference is always the previous picture,
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unless temporal scaling is used. The others are key-frames.
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- t = How many references to skip for temporal scaling, where 4 means only
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every fourth picture needs to be decoded.
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##Presets
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The names of the presets are the same as with x264: ultrafast, superfast, veryfast, faster, fast, medium, slow, slower, veryslow and placebo. The effects of the presets are listed in the following table, where the names have been abreviated to fit the layout in GitHub.
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| 0-uf | 1-sf | 2-vf | 3-fr | 4-f | 5-m | 6-s | 7-sr | 8-vs | 9-p
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rd | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3
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pu-depth-intra | 2-3 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 1-3 | 1-4 | 1-4 | 1-4 | 1-4 | 0-4
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pu-depth-inter | 1-3 | 1-3 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-3
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me | hexbs | hexbs | hexbs | hexbs | hexbs | hexbs | hexbs | tz | tz | tz
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ref | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6
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deblock | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1
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signhide | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1
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subme | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1
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sao | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1
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rdoq | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1
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transform-skip | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1
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mv-rdo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1
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full-intra-search | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1
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##Kvazaar library
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See [kvazaar.h](src/kvazaar.h) for the library API and its
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documentation.
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When using the static Kvazaar library on Windows, macro `KVZ_STATIC_LIB`
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must be defined. On other platforms it's not strictly required.
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The needed linker and compiler flags can be obtained with pkg-config.
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##Compiling Kvazaar
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If you have trouble regarding compiling the source code, please make an
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[issue](https://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar/issues) about in Github.
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Others might encounter the same problem and there is probably much to
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improve in the build process. We want to make this as simple as
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possible.
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###Required libraries
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- For Visual Studio, the pthreads-w32 library is required. Platforms
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with native POSIX thread support don't need anything.
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- The project file expects the library to be in ../pthreads.2/
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relative to Kvazaar. You can just extract the pre-built library
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there.
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- The executable needs pthreadVC2.dll to be present. Either install it
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somewhere or ship it with the executable.
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###GCC
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- Makefile can be found in the src directory.
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- Yasm is expected to be in PATH.
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- Alternatively, NASM can be used by passing `AS=nasm` to make.
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On Linux, both the shared and the static library are built and installed
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by default. On Windows and OS X, the default is to only build the
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DLL/dylib. The static command line program is built by default on all
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platforms.
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The default targets can be installed by running `make install`.
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###OS X
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- The program should compile and work on OS X but you might need a newer
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version of GCC than what comes with the platform.
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###Visual Studio
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- VS2010 and older do not have support for some of the C99 features that
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we use. Please use VS2013 or newer or GCC (MinGW) to compile on
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Windows.
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- Project files can be found under build/.
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- Requires external [vsyasm.exe](http://yasm.tortall.net/Download.html)
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in %PATH%
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- Run `rundll32 sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables` and add PATH to
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user variables
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- Building the Kvazaar library is not yet supported.
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##Contributing to Kvazaar
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See http://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar/wiki/List-of-suggested-topics
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for a list of topics you might want to examine if you would like to do
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something bigger than a bug fix but don't know what yet.
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###For version control we try to follow these conventions:
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- Master branch always produces a working bitstream (can be decoded with
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HM).
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- Commits for new features and major changes/fixes put to a sensibly
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named feature branch first and later merged to the master branch.
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- Always merge the feature branch to the master branch, not the other
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way around, with fast-forwarding disabled if necessary. We have found
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that this differentiates between working and unfinished versions
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nicely.
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- Every commit should at least compile. Producing a working bitstream is
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nice as well, but not always possible. Features may be temporarily
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disabled to produce a working bitstream, but remember to re-enbable
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them before merging to master.
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###Testing
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- We do not have a proper testing framework yet. We test mainly by
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decoding the bitstream with HM and checking that the result matches
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the encoders own reconstruction.
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- You should at least test that HM decodes a bitstream file made with
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your changes without throwing checksum errors. If your changes
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shouldn't alter the bitstream, you should check that they don't.
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- We would like to have a suite of automatic tests that also check for
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BD-rate increase and speed decrease in addition to checking that the
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bitstream is valid. As of yet there is no such suite.
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###Unit tests
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- There are some unit tests located in the tests directory. We would
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like to have more.
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- The Visual Studio project links the unit tests against the actual .lib
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file used by the encoder. There is no Makefile as of yet.
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- The unit tests use "greatest" unit testing framework. It is included
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as a submodule, but getting it requires the following commands to be
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run in the root directory of kvazaar:
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git submodule init
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git submodule update
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###Code style
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We try to follow the following conventions:
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- C99 without features not supported by Visual Studio 2013 (VLAs).
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- // comments allowed and encouraged.
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- Follow overall conventions already established in the code.
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- Indent by 2 spaces. (no tabs)
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- { on the same line for control logic and on the next line for functions
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- Reference and deference next to the variable name.
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- Variable names in lowered characters with words divided by underscore.
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- Maximum line length 79 characters when possible.
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- Functions only used inside the module shouldn't be defined in the
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module header. They can be defined in the beginning of the .c file if
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necessary.
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###Resources for HEVC bitstream features
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- A good first resource for HEVC bitstream is JCTVC-N1002 High
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Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Test Model 12 (HM12) Encoder
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Description
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- Many good articles regarding specific parts of HEVC can be found on
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IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
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Combined issue on High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) Standards and
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Research
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- The specification tends to follow the reference implementation, not
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the other way around, so check HM if the specification is unclear.
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