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Read moreMake sure to visit us at our kiosk in the Intel booth at 5.B65, where we will be demonstrating enhancements to x265 that improve the throughput of encoding for ABR streaming by over 2X by leveraging Machine Learning on the CPU. We continue to innovate in this space to bring ground-breaking improvement in performance and […]
Read moreBy Bhavna Hariharan x265’s ability to leverage AI to accelerate encoding Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR) has been presented in the paper titled “Adaptive Multi-Resolution Encoding Scheme for ABR Streaming” that is to appear in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018. Adaptive streaming enables dynamic adaptation to changes in network conditions by […]
Read moreBy Dieison Silveira (Ph.D. Student, PGMICRO/UFRGS) & Vignesh V Menon A detailed energy consumption analysis, accounting for the consumption components of CPU, cache memories and main memory, for all x265 presets executing in a multi-core system was presented in the paper titled ‘Performance and Energy Consumption Analysis of the x265 Video Encoder’ published in 2017 […]
Read moreBy Pradeep Ramachandran A month or so back, we published a white-paper that gave high-level results on the encoder gains that we saw from our recently implemented AVX512 kernels in x265. We have now published a more detailed paper that tears the results down into more detail, including per-kernel gains for AVX512 over AVX2. The […]
Read morex265 version 2.8 with cool new features including AVX512 accelerating, dynamic refinement (that enables optimized encoding for ABR streaming), support for measuring VMAF has been released! More details in our release notes at http://x265.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes.html#version-2-8
Read moreAs it turns out, the x265 project turned 5 a couple of months back; our first commits from the HM encoder date back to March, 2013. And being the geeks that we are, we didn’t even realize it! Many thanks to all those who have enabled x265 accomplish all that it has over 5 years! […]
Read moreBy Pradeep Ramachandran Now that the dust has settled, it is time to thank all the contributors for enabling a great showing by x265 at NAB 2018. We showed-off our new ML-accelerated content adaptive encoding for ABR, AVX-512 acceleration, and the recently added support for HDR10+/HLG at NAB. We received great feedback on what people […]
Read moreBy Pradeep Ramachandran Finally, the acceleration that we’ve all been waiting for is here! We’ve been working extensively with Intel for the last few months to use Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) to accelerate x265. After much effort, we’re delighted to share that we’ve been able to accelerate 4K HDR encoding in main10 profile […]
Read moreBy Pradeep Ramachandran After what seems to have been a long delay, AV1 finally froze its bitstream last week! Like many folks in the industry, we have been waiting for this moment for a long time to see what a truly ‘royalty-free’ codec can can bring in terms of tools to the encoding space. A […]
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