Merged today to the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library is an APV decoder and APV bitstream muxing and demuxing capabilities. APV is the Advanced Professional Video Codec originally developed by Samsung and is a royalty-free format.
APV is intended for professional-grade video recording purposes and designed around the need of high quality cinematic video recording and post production. APV relies on technologies 20+ years old in order to assemble a royalty-free codec. Samsung hopes APV can fill the need for prosumers with smart phone video recording for perceptually lossless video quality while taking around 20% less storage compared to existing video codecs. APV is currently an IETF draft standard.
Merged a short time ago to FFmpeg Git is the APV decoder for libavcodec as well as muxer and demuxer capabilities for the Advanced Professional Video codec. Among the early optimizations added to this APV coded is AVX2 transquant support for up to a 5.77x speed-up over the common C code as tested on an Intel Alder Lake system.
In addition to this FFmpeg APV support, via the Academy Software Foundation is also the OpenAPV project for open-source encode and decode capabilities for the APV codec.
