libvpx
Codec library implementing VP8 and VP9 encoders and decoders / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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libvpx is a free software video codec library from Google and the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). It serves as the reference software implementation for the VP8 and VP9 video coding formats, and for AV1 a special fork named libaom that was stripped of backwards compatibility.
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Original author(s) | On2 Technologies / Google |
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Developer(s) | Alliance for Open Media |
Initial release | May 19, 2010; 13 years ago (2010-05-19)[1][2] |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | C, assembly |
Operating system | Unix-like (including Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X), Windows |
Type | Video encoder and decoder |
License | New BSD license |
Website | www |
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As free software it is published also in source code under the terms of the revised BSD license. It ships with the commandline tools vpxenc
/aomenc
and vpxdec
/aomdec
that build on its functionality.