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Open Source H.264 Codec
18 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 3 stories, 15 comments · first 2013-12-12 · latest 2025-02-16
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Cisco published their implementation under BSD license: https://github.com/cisco/openh264/
comment by mtlynch · 2024-12-02 · in What will enter the public domain in 2025? -
…to guard for it. I'm guessing that obeying this calling convention is the purpose of those macros. https://github.com/cisco/openh264/blob/db956674bbdfbaab5acdd... https://github.com/cisco/openh264/blob/db956674bbdfbaab5acdd...
comment by electroly · 2022-11-22 · in Please restore our registers when you’re done with them -
One of the linked pull requests: https://github.com/cisco/openh264/commit/db956674bbdfbaab5ac... Macros in a macro assembler .. not very nice.
comment by pjc50 · 2022-11-22 · in Please restore our registers when you’re done with them -
…H.264 in WebRTC with gstreamer and Firefox. It does not enable generic H.264 playback, only WebRTC. https://github.com/cisco/openh264/issues/2835 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenH264
comment by carlsborg · 2019-06-02 · in Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox -
https://github.com/cisco/openh264 can do both encode/decode.
comment by lieff · 2018-09-22 · in Minih264 – Minimalistic, single-header library for encoding H264/SVC -
…covered by their license. Specifically, to be covered you have to download a binary release from https://github.com/cisco/openh264/releases during the installation to be covered by Cisco's MPEG LA patent license, but they provide builds…
comment by andrewl-hn · 2018-08-15 · in Serverless Docker Beta -
…lower than x.264 even when set to baseline profile... I'll see if I can dig up some statistics. [1] https://github.com/cisco/openh264/issues/2067 [2] https://github.com/cisco/openh264/issues/1844
comment by yaur · 2016-03-04 · in H.264 is supported in WebRTC from Chrome 50 -
The way that article is written makes it sound like a closed-source codec, but it is actually open: https://github.com/cisco/openh264 and the code is better than I expected from a commercial project, it even uses may_alias properly. I…
comment by astrange · 2015-09-09 · in Apple September 2015 Keynote -
…iceweasel packages). But note that OpenH264 is free software available under the BSD license: https://github.com/cisco/openh264/ Firefox downloads binaries from Cisco because Cisco can legally distribute this software in binary form in…
comment by mbrubeck · 2015-06-17 · in Chromium unconditionally downloads binary blob -
You mean this H.264 video player? https://github.com/cisco/openh264
comment by thristian · 2014-10-14 · in Firefox 33 -
…patent fees are already covered, so that small projects can freely use the decoder/encoder. [1] https://github.com/cisco/openh264
comment by xooyoozoo · 2014-06-19 · in Twitter's GIF hack -
Well, when I posted the comment it was like this https://github.com/cisco/openh264/blob/3747f562492ea301b84e3... view history here https://github.com/cisco/openh264/commits/master/CONTRIBUTOR...
comment by est · 2013-12-14 · in Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec -
…initially, members of the project seemed to be from the same Cisco family, it looks welcoming: https://github.com/cisco/openh264/blame/master/CONTRIBUTORS
comment by espadrine · 2013-12-13 · in Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec -
https://github.com/cisco/openh264/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS Contributors are 100% Chinese. Is this project make in Cisco China R&D?
comment by est · 2013-12-13 · in Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec -
…it's nearly inscrutable without a named constant or a comment or something . Here's one example: https://github.com/cisco/openh264/blob/master/codec/encoder/... Where does "15" come from? I suppose if I'd written a codec like this before,…
comment by crbnw00ts · 2013-12-12 · in Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec