The two most commonly used video compressions are AVC (H.264) and HEVC (H.265). The majority of HD broadcasting, video sharing, mobile streaming, and digital surveillance use either an H.264 or H.265 video compressor. We all remember saving videos to our PCs and how much disk space they would take up as well as how long they would take to upload for sharing. Converting those videos with the LEADTOOLS H.264/AVC compressor will decrease the file size by roughly 30% and converting with the LEADTOOLS H.265/HEVC compressor drops the file size by nearly 60%. You may be thinking, "Well, it's been saved at a lower bit rate, so the quality must have dropped". That is not the case though. These compressors will maintain the same visual quality as the original, so there is no need to worry. With everything being recorded at much higher resolutions - 2k and 4k - these days, the H.265 compressor is a better solution than H.264. Many of the online streaming sites have encoded their videos with H.265/HEVC compressors, which helps to greatly reduce lagging and dreaded "buffering" message.
The below code shows how to create an HEVC compression solution in C++. If you want a complete step-by-step tutorial, check out our Convert Video to HEVC/H.265 and AVC/H.264.
HRESULT ConvertFile(IltmmConvert* pConvert, LPCWSTR pszVideoCompressorName, LPCWSTR pszAudioCompressorName)
{
//Set the target format to AVI
pConvert->put_TargetFormat(ltmmConvert_TargetFormat_Avi);
//Set the Video Compressor
IltmmCompressors* pCompressors;
pConvert->get_VideoCompressors(&pCompressors);
SelectCompressor(pCompressors, pszVideoCompressorName);
pCompressors->Release();
//Set the Audio Compressor
pConvert->get_AudioCompressors(&pCompressors);
SelectCompressor(pCompressors, pszAudioCompressorName);
pCompressors->Release();
//Run the conversion
HRESULT hr = pConvert->StartConvert();
WaitForCompletion(pConvert);
return hr;
}
//Method to select the desired compressor based on the name
void SelectCompressor(IltmmCompressors* pCompressors, LPCWSTR pszCompressorName)
{
long index;
BSTR bstrCompressorName = SysAllocString(pszCompressorName);
pCompressors->Find(bstrCompressorName, &index);
pCompressors->put_Selection(index);
SysFreeString(bstrCompressorName);
}
Try it out!
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