HAP-Codec

[Thomas]

Any plans to support the HAP-Codec natively in Ventuz?
And before asking - why...
Size is in the range of mpeg2, but resolution can be higher than FullHD, quite less usage of CPU and the possibility of Alphachannel.

http://vdmx.vidvox.net/blog/hap

/Thomas

[chriss0212]

hi Thomas,

you are not the first

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3490&p=6585&hilit=hap+codec#p6585

biggest pro of hap is: it is a gpu decoding codec and really pretty fast in decoding. many media servers are already using it and it would be awesome if ventuz would too!

greetz

christian

[Thomas]

It´s not only the fast decompression, but the possibility to use alpha, too.

To answer Dirk´s question from thw thread mentioned by chriss; quality of hap-videos is comparable with mpeg2, when using hap-q quality is better but the size of the file is more than double.

/Thomas

[chriss0212]

hi thomas,

for using alpha you can use huffyuv codec. also very fast and lossless! but: will result in huge file sizes

greetz

christian

[Thomas]

moin chriss,

the hap-videos are delivered by an agency and I have to use them in another application.
Just want to use them in Ventuz too.

/Thomas

[u-double-u]

Hello, another codec supporting alpha-channels would be "Lagarith".
http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html

cheers.

[chriss0212]

but lagarith is extremely performance hungry!

huffyuv is MUCH better here!

greetz

christian

[Götz_B]

HAP made it in V5.2

FEATURE 8000 Added support for fully hardware accelerated Hap/HapA/HapQ/HapQA video playback.

http://www.ventuz.com/ventuz-5-what-is-new