The purpose of this academic open-source project is to develop a video encoder for the emerging High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. This Kvazaar HEVC encoder is being developed towards the following goals:

Coding efficiency close to HEVC reference encoder (HM)
Modular encoder structure to simplify its data flow modeling
Efficient support for different parallelization approaches
Easy portability to different platforms
Optimized encoding speed without sacrificing its coding efficiency, modularity, or portability
Reduced computation and memory resources without sacrificing its coding efficiency, modularity, or portability
Excellent software readability and implementation documentation

Achieving these objectives requires encoder with design decisions that make this open-source encoder unique:

The encoder is developed from the scratch (HM used as a reference)
The implementation language is platform-independent C