HAP Codec Support

[laserpilot]

Requesting support for the HAP Video codec - https://github.com/Vidvox/hap

I think adding support for the HAP codec would be an incredible thing to add to VLC. It is widely used in the live entertainment industry on a wide variety of apps and media players but doesn't have a lot of support outside of those. There is currently no native player of hap - it's easy to encode from After Effects and other software, but harder to get something to view the video after it's encoded and VLC would be great for this.

HAP is super fast for playback due to its GPU decoding, has high quality images and even supports alpha channels - and is also one of the only currently available video formats that can play files larger than 8K resolution. It's also open source and cross platform.

Vidvox ( www.vidvox.net ), the creators, are super great people and I'm sure they would be willing to help out in any way they could to make this happen.

Thank you!

[attackrelease]

HAP has already become the default codec for interactive media projects. Unfortunately, it is often inconvenient to share HAP files with others since there is no native player available. VLC users will benefit from the added support as higher resolution video files continue to be adopted ... allowing the ever powerful GPU to handle the decode even let's machines with weaker CPUs to smoothly playback multiple high resolution videos.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hap is supported in VLC 3.

[wide]

Hi, the HAP Q codec, is still not supported in 3.0.6.

> VLC could not decode the format "HapM" (No description for this codec)

[unidan]

Hi, can you upload a sample somewhere ?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

We only got HapY and Hap1 and Hap5.

See
https://github.com/Vidvox/hap/blob/master/documentation/HapVideoDRAFT.md#names-and-identifiers