OpenH264 VS libde265

Compare OpenH264 vs libde265 and see what are their differences.

OpenH264

Open Source H.264 Codec (by cisco)

libde265

Open h.265 video codec implementation. (by strukturag)
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OpenH264 libde265
17 3
5,358 1,643
1.3% 1.4%
5.9 7.7
11 days ago about 1 month ago
C++ C++
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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OpenH264

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenH264. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.

libde265

Posts with mentions or reviews of libde265. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Zooming HEIC image doesn’t load photo in Memories app
    1 project | /r/NextCloud | 10 May 2023
    sed -Ei 's/# deb-src /deb-src /' /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool git-core apt-get build-dep imagemagick libmagickcore-dev libde265 libheif cd /usr/src/ git clone https://github.com/strukturag/libde265.git cd libde265/ ./autogen.sh ./configure make -j$(nproc) make install apt instal libheif-dev cd /usr/src/ wget https://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz tar xf ImageMagick.tar.gz cd ImageMagick-7* ./configure --with-heic=yes make -j$(nproc) make install ldconfig
  • libde265.dll
    1 project | /r/Malware | 24 Jul 2022
    After googling... It's a video codex
  • Libde265 – open H.265 codec implementation
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenH264 and libde265 you can also consider the following projects:

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

libvpx - Mirror only. Please do not send pull requests.

nvidia-vaapi-driver - A VA-API implemention using NVIDIA's NVDEC

Vireo - Vireo is a lightweight and versatile video processing library written in C++11

OpenFrameworks - openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.

FaceUnity - Things related to FaceUnity SDK and Agora SDK

QtAv - A cross-platform multimedia framework based on Qt and FFmpeg. 基于Qt和FFmpeg的跨平台高性能音视频播放框架. Recommand to use new sdk https://github.com/wang-bin/mdk-sdk

qTox - qTox is a chat, voice, video, and file transfer IM client using the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol.