This project was originally written by Tom Butterworth and commissioned by VIDVOX, 2012.Last year in a collaboration Tom Butterworth we had the pleasure of sharing a powerful new set of open source video codecs called Hap with the Mac real-time video community. The Hap codec project is open-source, licensed under a FreeBSD License, meaning you can use it in your commercial or non-commercial applications free of charge. Other software for encoding and decoding Hap Use QuickTime Player 7 or a third-party player. Note that the current QuickTime Player on macOS does not support non-Apple codecs. Although QuickTime displays a slider, it has only two effective settings: below 'High' a fast low-quality encoder is used, and at 'High' or above a slower high-quality encoder is used. Hap and Hap Alpha have a quality setting. Hap Q Alpha - Good image quality with an alpha channel at a higher data-rate.Hap Q - Good image quality at a higher data-rate.Hap Alpha - Reasonable image quality with an alpha channel.Using the Hap QuickTime CodecĪfter installation, the codec will show up when exporting video in applications which support QuickTime. Requires at minimum MacOS 10.6 Snow Leapord, or Windows Vista with QuickTime 7 installed. DownloadĪn installer for the Hap QuickTime component can be downloaded from the Releases page. Note that there is no advantage to using Hap over other codecs if the application you will be using for playback does not support accelerated Hap playback.įor information and example code to support accelerated playback via this codec in your application, see the Hap sample code.

Video can be decoded to RGB(A) formats for playback in any existing application, or if an application explicitly requests it, to compressed texture formats for accelerated playback on graphics hardware. The Hap QuickTime codec supports encoding and decoding Hap video. For general information about Hap, see the Hap project. This is the home of the Hap QuickTime codec. Hap is a video codec for fast decompression on modern graphics hardware. Please use a modern alternative, such as one listed on the Hap video website.

QuickTime codecs are no longer supported.

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