Behind GPAC
GPAC is developed at the Multmedia Group of Telecom Paristech, and professional support is provided by GPAC Licensing.
As an open source multimedia project, GPAC is linked to many existing open source software as well as many multimedia standards. Here are a few links that may be useful.
Projects used in GPAC
- QuickJS: ECMAScript 2020 interpreter
- The FreeType project: font engine and rasterizer supporting TrueType, Type1, …
- SDL: Audio, video and windowing library for fast games and multimedia development
- zlib: “A Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library”
- OpenSSL: A toolkit implementing SSL v2/v3 and TLS protocols
- FFMPEG: multimedia file formats and Audio/Video codecs library
- OpenHEVC: decoding library for HEVC and its layered extensions (Scalable, Multiview, …)
- FAAC/FAAD: MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 AAC codec
- Xiph.org project: OGG file format, Vorbis audio codec and Theora video codec
- The Independent JPEG Group: Free implementation of the JPEG standard
- The PNG project: lossless image compression format
- MAD: MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio decoder
- XviD: MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile video codec
- liba52: a free ATSC A/52 stream decoder
- OpenSVCDecoder: coding framework for Scalable Video Coding extension of H.264/AVC
- OpenJPEG: open-source JPEG 2000 codec
- Platinum: UPnP / DLNA SDK
Multimedia Standards
- MPEG-related standards
- Official MPEG Home Page
- DASH-IF Home Page
- Overview of the MPEG-4 standard (get some rest before reading it, it is quite long)
- 3GPP: 3rd Generation Partnership Project
- Publicly available ISO standards
- Web-related standards
- The W3C SVG Group and the SVG 1.2 Tiny standard
- The W3C SMIL standard
- W3C Home Page
- Web3D Consortium Home Page
- VRML97 Specification
- X3D Specification
- The Audio/Video Transport group of the IETF