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Intel Discontinues High-Speed, Open-Source H.265/HEVC Encoder Project
As part of Intel's Scalable Video Technology (SVT) initiative they had been developing SVT-HEVC as a BSD-licensed high performance H.265/HEVC video encoder optimized for Xeon Scalable and Xeon D processors
Intel has ceased development and contributions including, but not limited to, maintenance, bug fixes, new releases, or updates, to this project. But as mentioned with other great alternatives like x265 and Kvazaar out there, this is likely the end of SVT-HEVC although it did perform excellent on Intel Xeon servers -- as well as AMD EPYC and other x86_64 hardware. The SVT-VP9 GitHub repository remains under Intel's Open Visual Cloud account although it hasn't seen any new commits in four months and the last tagged release was back in 2020.
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