https://github.com/IENT/YUView

The Free and Open Source Cross Platform YUV Viewer with an advanced analytics toolset
https://github.com/IENT/YUView

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The Free and Open Source Cross Platform YUV Viewer with an advanced analytics toolset

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/IENT/YUView
• Owner: IENT
• License: other
• Created: 2015-03-09T10:49:01.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: develop
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-06T16:17:45.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-13T08:38:39.106Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: analysis, ffmpeg, h265, hevc, player, raw-video, video, video-coding, video-player, yuv, yuv-player
• Language: C++
• Homepage: http://ient.github.io/YUView
• Size: 64.4 MB
• Stars: 2,005
• Watchers: 67
• Forks: 387
• Open Issues: 72
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.GPL3
  • Citation: CITATION.cff

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README

        
# YUView 

YUView is a QT based, cross-platform YUV player with an advanced analytic toolset.

## Build Status

![CI build](https://github.com/IENT/YUView/workflows/CI%20build/badge.svg?branch=develop)

## Description

At its core, YUView is a YUV player and analysis tool. However, it can do so much more:

* simple navigation/zooming in the video

* support for a wide variety of YUV formats using various subsamplings and bit depts

* support for raw RGB files, image files and image sequences

* direct decoding of raw h.265/HEVC bitstreams with visualization of internals like prediction modes and motion vectors and many more

* interface with visualization for the reference software decoders HM and JEM

* support for opening almost any file using FFmpeg

* image comparison using side-by-side and comparison view

* calculation and display of differences (in YUV or RGB colorspace)

* save and load playlists

* overlay the video with statistics data

* ... and many more

Further details of the features can be found either [here](http://ient.github.io/YUView) or 

in the [wiki](https://github.com/IENT/YUView/wiki).

Screenshot of YUView:

![YUView Main Window](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IENT/YUView/gh-pages/images/Overview.png)

## Download

You can download precompiled binaries for Windows and MAC from the [release site](https://github.com/IENT/YUView/releases) which are all compiled on Github Actions. On the release page you can find:

 - Windows installer

 - Windows zip

 - Mac OS Application

 - Linux Appimage

On MacOS, just extract the zip file to your Application folder and remove it from quarantine:

> xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/YUView.app

If you have Ubuntu 22.04 or newer, you can get YUView from the official repo: `sudo apt install yuview`. For other Linux based platforms we are also on [flathub](https://flathub.org/apps/details/de.rwth_aachen.ient.YUView). More information on YUView on Linux can be found in out wiki page ["YUView on Linux"](https://github.com/IENT/YUView/wiki/YUView-on-Linux). 

If none of these apply to you, you can easily [build YUView yourself](https://github.com/IENT/YUView/wiki/Compile-YUView).

## Building

Compiling YUView from source is easy! We use qmake for the project so on all supported platforms you just have to install qt and run `qmake` and `make` to build YUView. There are no further dependent libraries. Alternatively, you can use the QTCreator if you prefer a GUI. More help on building YUView can be found in the [wiki](https://github.com/IENT/YUView/wiki/Compile-YUView).