VC-2 Reference Encoder and Decoder ---------------------------------- Copyright (C) Tim Borer, James Weaver and Galen Reich 2010-2020, British Broadcasting Corporation. < galen.reich@bbc.co.uk > This repository contains a SMPTE 2042-1 VC-2 reference encoder and decoder. It can be compiled using autotools on Linux or Windows and includes the following executables once compiled: o EncodeStream -- an encoder which will encode a VC-2 compliant stream using one of the supported LD or HQ profiles. o DecodeStream -- a decoder which will decode a VC-2 compliant stream which complies with the LD or HQ profiles. The EncodeStream tool supports the following profiles: o HQ_CBR -- an encoder for the High Quality (HQ) profile of VC-2 which encodes at a constant bit rate. o HQ_ConstQ -- an encoder for the High Quality (HQ) profile of VC-2 which encodes with a constant quantiser value. o LD -- an OBSOLETE encoder for the Low Delay (LD) profile of VC-2. (included for backwards compatibility). In addition, an optional utility (DecodeFrame) is includeded which takes in the compressed bytes of a VC-2 frame without any surrounding headers. This is not compiled by default but can be enabled with the --enable-frame-decoder flag (./configure --enable-frame-decoder). The googletest testing framework can be used to run tests on the repository. This requires the googletest submodule to be added by git submodule init git submodule update (or using --recurse-submodules when cloning) Then using `make check' to build and run the tests. Additional help on each executable will be printed if it is run with the --help parameter.