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Ultravideo HEVC encoder. Version 2.3.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install kvazaar

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install kvazaar

MacPorts ports tree · multimedia/kvazaar/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install kvazaar

Debian stable package indexes · kvazaar · source: deb.debian.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#kvazaar

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/kv/kvazaar/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S kvazaar

Arch Linux sync databases · kvazaar · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

overview

Package summary

Ultravideo HEVC encoder

Commands and aliases

  • kvazaar

history

Project history and usage

Kvazaar is an academic open-source HEVC/H.265 video encoder developed by Ultra Video Group, aimed at portable, research-friendly, and high-performance encoding.

Project history

Ultra Video Group describes Kvazaar as an award-winning academic encoder developed since 2012. The project is implemented in C, optimized with SSE and AVX intrinsics, coordinated by Ultra Video Group, and developed on GitHub.

Adoption history

Kvazaar's adoption sits between video-coding research and practical media tooling. The official page notes support in FFmpeg and Libav, giving the encoder a route into de facto multimedia frameworks while preserving its role as an open research implementation.

How it is used

Kvazaar is used as a command-line HEVC encoder for YUV and Y4M-style workflows, targeting x86, x64, PowerPC, and ARM on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Its goals include coding efficiency close to HM, portability, real-time speed, and optimized compute and memory use.

Why package nerds care

Kvazaar is notable because video codecs often arrive as hard-to-package reference software or heavily optimized vendor stacks. Kvazaar gives package managers a BSD-licensed, cross-platform HEVC encoder with an academic provenance and ongoing benchmark-focused release notes.

Timeline

  • 2012: Development began on the academic HEVC/H.265 encoder.
  • v1.0.0: Release notes reported major rate-distortion and speed improvements over v0.8.3.
  • v2.1.0: License changed from LGPL-2.1 to BSD-3-Clause.
  • v2.3.2: Release focused on 10-bit encoding fixes and rate-control/cost-calculation improvements.

Related projects

  • Kvazaar is related to the HEVC/H.265 standard, the HM reference encoder, FFmpeg, Libav, and other Ultra Video Group projects such as uvg266 and uvgKvazaarHW.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:video

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
kvazaarcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version2.3.2
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv2.3.2

https://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:kvazaar
Version2.3.2
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kvazaar
Homepagehttps://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar
Repositoryhttps://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar
Upstream docshttps://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar#readme
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Source archivehttps://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar/archive/refs/tags/v2.3.2.tar.gz
Build dependenciesautoconf, automake, libtool
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namekvazaar
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

kvazaar 2.3.1-2

HEVC encoder - application

https://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar

sudo apt install kvazaar
  • Section: video
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 2 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Kvazaar
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: kvazaar from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

kvazaar-doc 2.3.1-2

HEVC encoder - documentation

https://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar

sudo apt install kvazaar-doc
  • Section: doc
  • Architecture: all
  • Source Package: kvazaar
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Kvazaar
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: kvazaar-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libkvazaar-dev 2.3.1-2

HEVC encoder - development files

https://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar

sudo apt install libkvazaar-dev
  • Section: libdevel
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: kvazaar
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Kvazaar
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libkvazaar-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Debian apt95%

libkvazaar7 2.3.1-2

HEVC encoder - shared library

https://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar

sudo apt install libkvazaar7
  • Section: libs
  • Architecture: amd64
  • Source Package: kvazaar
  • 4 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Kvazaar
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: libkvazaar7 from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

kvazaar

nix profile install nixpkgs#kvazaar
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Kvazaar
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/kv/kvazaar/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
pacman95%

kvazaar 2.3.2-2

An open-source HEVC encoder

https://github.com/ultravideo/kvazaar/

sudo pacman -S kvazaar
  • License: BSD-3-Clause
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 4 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Kvazaar
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: kvazaar from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
MacPorts95%

kvazaar

sudo port install kvazaar
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Kvazaar
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: multimedia/kvazaar/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • autoconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • automakeBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libtoolBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • x265Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, codec, h265, hevc, media.
  • ab-av1Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, media, video-encoding.
  • svt-av1Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, codec, media, video-encoder.
  • svt-vp9Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, codec, media, video-encoder.
  • a52decShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, codec, media.
  • basis_universalShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, codec, media.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment