heartbeat vs OpenH264

heartbeat

Desktop implementation of Remote Photoplethysmography – Measuring heart rate using facial video. (by prouast)

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OpenH264

Open Source H.264 Codec (by cisco)

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heartbeat		OpenH264
	Project
1	Mentions	17
518	Stars	5,358
-	Growth	1.3%
2.9	Activity	5.9
2 months ago	Latest Commit	10 days ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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heartbeat

Posts with mentions or reviews of heartbeat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-23.

[PROJECT]Heart Rate Detection using Eulerian Magnification
4 projects | /r/computervision | 23 Dec 2021

C++ (this is the one I'm the most familiar with since it's much older but has all the fundamental components): https://github.com/prouast/heartbeat

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.

[mpv] openh264 on RedHat?
2 projects | /r/redhat | 19 Jun 2023

I've installed mpv but was unable to play any videos see this. Then I compiled and installed openh264 from github. Yet, I still have performance issues, video plays like a slide show..
Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement
1 project | /r/Fedora | 3 Jun 2023

The codecs are open source. Gstreamer. Ffmpeg. H264.
Do flatpaks have h264 hw acceleration
2 projects | /r/Fedora | 30 Apr 2023

No, it is definitely using hardware acceleration on a number of platforms: https://github.com/cisco/openh264/tree/master/codec/encoder/core and https://github.com/cisco/openh264/tree/master/codec/decoder/core. However, the docs say it will fallback to C/C++. But I don't believe that's happening on popular platforms like x86, ARM, and Aarch64.
TikTok girl‘s hot dancing.
2 projects | /r/StableDiffusion | 25 Apr 2023

I found the extension but haven't been able to get it to work yet. It needs openh264 installed and I haven't been able to figure out where to put the binary for it yet, but if you figure it out let me know! Lol :D
firefox cant play h264 or 5 five videos
1 project | /r/firefox | 3 Apr 2023

If you had the media.gmp.decoder.enabled pref flipped to true, I might have guessed that Firefox updated the OpenH264 plugin and downgraded it. You could try replacing the library from one at https://github.com/cisco/openh264/releases/tag/v2.3.1. Go to about:support, open your profile directory, and find the gmp-gmpopenh264/1.8.1.2 folder. Replace the binary with the one from the linked github page. Restart Firefox.
Displaying streaming video, can it be done natively and using hardware decoding in vb.net ?
3 projects | /r/visualbasic | 25 Mar 2023
proprietary software got installed after installing virt-manager which is opensource?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 5 Jan 2023
Please restore our registers when you’re done with them
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Nov 2022
Shouldn't the free version of Resolve on Linux support mp4 natively?
1 project | /r/davinciresolve | 6 Apr 2022

Now that CISCO has released an Open Source H.264 Codec available on all major platforms what excuses does Blackmagic Design have left?
Uncommon and huge resolutions in h264
1 project | /r/ffmpeg | 1 Mar 2022

Outside of the hardware implementations, the other popular H.264 encoders are MainConcept (which I think Adobe licenses). There are a few others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Software_encoders. Cisco's OpenH264 is free, but last time I checked was limited in profile support. The repo claims "Max frame size is 36864 macro-blocks".

What are some alternatives?

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

M5Core2-Heart-Rate-Display - Show the heart rate sent by a Bluetooth Low Energy heart rate sensor on the display of an M5Stack Core2

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

eulerian-remote-heartrate-detection - Remote heart rate detection through Eulerian magnification of face videos

libde265 - Open h.265 video codec implementation.

pyVHR - Python framework for Virtual Heart Rate

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

Waifu2x-Extension-GUI - Video, Image and GIF upscale/enlarge(Super-Resolution) and Video frame interpolation. Achieved with Waifu2x, Real-ESRGAN, Real-CUGAN, RTX Video Super Resolution VSR, SRMD, RealSR, Anime4K, RIFE, IFRNet, CAIN, DAIN, and ACNet.

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

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

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

FaceUnity - Things related to FaceUnity SDK and Agora SDK

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