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It turns out, Intel has officially ended SVT-HEVC. The SVT-AV1 project a while ago was already punted to the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) project and one of its lead maintainers having joined Meta from Intel two years ago. SVT-AV1 continues excelling great outside the borders of Intel but SVT-HEVC (and SVT-VP9) have remained Intel open-source projects but at least officially SVT-HEVC has ended. SVT-HEVC discontinued SVT-HEVC hadn't seen a new release since 2021 and there are already several great open-source H.265 encoders out there like x265 and Kvazaar. But as of a few weeks ago, SVT-HEVC upstream is now discontinued. The GitHub repository was put into a read-only state and the discontinuation notice reads: "DISCONTINUATION OF PROJECT This project will no longer be maintained by Intel. Intel has ceased development and contributions including, but not limited to, maintenance, bug fixes, new releases, or updates, to this project. Intel no longer accepts patches to this project. If you have an ongoing need to use this project, are interested in independently developing it, or would like to maintain patches for the open source software community, please create your own fork of 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. Meanwhile SVT-VP9 doesn't have any discontinuation notice at this time. 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. 11 Comments Tweet Related News Intel Uncore Linux Driver Prepares ELC "Efficiency Latency Control" Feature Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.6 Released For Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Intel Publishes Updated CPU Microcode For A Variety Of Security & Functional Issues Intel Begins Queuing Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.12 Linux 6.11 Merges Intel P-State Patch For Emerald Rapids To Yield Better Performance Linux Prepares For Intel Arrow Lake H With Mix Of Lion Cove, Skymont & Crestmont Cores About The Author Michael Larabel Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. 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