OpenAPV

[youngkwonlim]

Project description

OpenAPV will develop a royalty-free, open-source, open standard video codec for professional video capturing and post-production.

Sponsor from TAC

Samsung Electronics

Proposed Project Stage

Sandbox

Please explain how this project is aligned with the mission of the Academy Software Foundation?

Video codec is widely used by motion picture industry but it becomes a roadblock of various open source platform as there is no royalty-free open source, open standard video codec for professional video capturing and post-production.

What is the project’s license for code contributions and methodology for code contributions?

BSD 3-Clause

What tool or platform is utilized for source control (GitHub, etc.), and what is the location

(e.g., URL)?

https://github.com/cpncf/apv

What are the external dependencies of the project, and what are the licenses of those dependencies?

None

What roles does the project have (e.g., maintainers, committers?) Who are the current

core committers of the project, or which can a list of committers be found?

Several engineers from Samsung Electronics

What mailing lists are currently used by the project?

None

What tool or platform is leveraged by the project for issue tracking?

GitHub

Does the project have an OpenSSF Best Practices Badge? Do you foresee any

challenges in obtaining one?

It does not have currently. No challenges are identified.

What is the project’s website? Is there a wiki?

https://github.com/cpncf/apv-spec

What social media accounts are used by the project?

None

What is the project’s release methodology and cadence?

as needed.

Are any trademarks, registered or unregistered, leveraged by the project? Have any

trademark registrations been filed by the project or any third party anywhere in the world?

None

[lgritz]

Very interesting!

Is it possible to use Apache-2.0 instead? It's the preferred default these days, and I think for video codecs in particular, the community would benefit from the greater level of certainty it provides regarding patents.

[youngkwonlim]

Our current preference is BSD 3-Clause as proposed as it is the least restrictive one. However, we can certainly review that option as well.

[youngkwonlim]

Please find the slides I have presented at the TAC meeting yesterday. Thank you again for the useful suggestions at the meeting. Please feel free to ask any further questions/comments.
OpenAPV proposal.pdf

[youngkwonlim]

If you are interested in reviewing the current status of open source project for APV, please feel free to check this repository, https://github.com/openapv/openapv

[reinecke]

Hi @youngkwonlim - do you happen to have data comparing APV to codecs like ProRes and HT J2K with metrics like:

• PSNR scores
• VMAF scores
• encode/decode speed (ideally using both open source and commercial implementations for J2K)

I'd love to see a slate of these metrics to better understand where APV fits into the landscape.

[youngkwonlim]

Hi Eric,

We can't directly compare APV with ProRes as we don't have license. But we have unofficial comparison result with a professional video codec implemented in ffmpeg in our presentation material. Please refer it as a preliminary result. We will discuss internally how much data we can provide.