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HAP is an opensource codec dedicated to high performance playback. It has several flavour with and without alpha (HAP, HAPA, HAPQ, HAPQAlpha, HAP Alpha Only, HAPR)
OBS can handle HAP, HAPQ, alpha channels but use CPU decoding (FFMPEG)
It could be interesting to handle this codec using a dedicated pixel format, to get high performance playback. It would allow to use OBS Studio as a media server in some events.
I'm currently running OBS as an automated media server in an event in the United Arab Emirates. It's feeding a LED screen at 8192x1280 @50FPS (nVidia surround dual output). Why OBS and not a classic media server like Resolume, Hippotizer, ModuloPi, etc. ? Because it's really quick and easy to set-up, automating task (Advanced Scene Switcher), slave another OBS (spare), update contents, create slideshows from pictures, video playlists, write text, display web pages, etc.
The only problem I have is the codec options to play videos at this kind of resolutions. H264 could be an option but as it have no alpha channel support, in some case I can't use it.
ProRes / ProRes 4444 with alpha won't play well over 1920x1080
So HAP could be a perfect option.
Someone already posted this suggestion here 2 years ago : https://ideas.obsproject.com/posts/1756/support-hap-gpu-decoding
He is the author of the Jokyo HAP encoder suite : https://jokyohapencoder.com/ and seems to be ghosted on this project.
Thanks!
noar
More info about the codec (an offical decoding library (BSD licence) :
https://github.com/Vidvox/hap
Snappy library :
https://github.com/google/snappy
OBS can handle HAP, HAPQ, alpha channels but use CPU decoding (FFMPEG)
It could be interesting to handle this codec using a dedicated pixel format, to get high performance playback. It would allow to use OBS Studio as a media server in some events.
I'm currently running OBS as an automated media server in an event in the United Arab Emirates. It's feeding a LED screen at 8192x1280 @50FPS (nVidia surround dual output). Why OBS and not a classic media server like Resolume, Hippotizer, ModuloPi, etc. ? Because it's really quick and easy to set-up, automating task (Advanced Scene Switcher), slave another OBS (spare), update contents, create slideshows from pictures, video playlists, write text, display web pages, etc.
The only problem I have is the codec options to play videos at this kind of resolutions. H264 could be an option but as it have no alpha channel support, in some case I can't use it.
ProRes / ProRes 4444 with alpha won't play well over 1920x1080
So HAP could be a perfect option.
Someone already posted this suggestion here 2 years ago : https://ideas.obsproject.com/posts/1756/support-hap-gpu-decoding
He is the author of the Jokyo HAP encoder suite : https://jokyohapencoder.com/ and seems to be ghosted on this project.
Thanks!
noar
More info about the codec (an offical decoding library (BSD licence) :
https://github.com/Vidvox/hap
Snappy library :
https://github.com/google/snappy