# Install uvg266 with Homebrew

Open-source VVC/H.266 encoder. Version 0.8.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:uvg266
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install uvg266
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:uvg266
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.8.1
- **Source summary:** Open-source VVC/H.266 encoder
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ultravideo/uvg266>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ultravideo/uvg266>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- uvg266 (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.8.1
## Project history and usage

uvg266 is Ultra Video Group's open-source VVC/H.266 encoder. It is based on the group's earlier Kvazaar HEVC/H.265 encoder and is positioned as an actively improving research and practical encoder for the VVC standard.

### Project history

Ultra Video Group says uvg266 development began in 2018 by converting Kvazaar's CABAC and intra prediction work toward VVC. Early support covered planar, DC, and 33 angular modes before expanding to the full set of 65 VVC intra modes.

The GitHub project describes uvg266 as an open-source VVC encoder licensed under the 3-clause BSD license and based on Kvazaar. The project notes that speed and rate-distortion quality were still expected to improve, which fits its role as a specialized codec implementation rather than a finished consumer transcoder.

### Adoption history

Adoption is narrow and codec-specialist oriented. The Homebrew formula gives macOS users a simple install path, but the official material mostly presents uvg266 as part of Ultra Video Group's family of open-source video coding research tools rather than as a general desktop media application.

### How it is used

uvg266 is used from the command line to encode raw video input into VVC/H.266 output and to test encoder options, presets, and coding tools. Ultra Video Group also lists uvg266 among the encoders supported by uvgVenctester, its encoder performance-testing toolkit.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, uvg266 is interesting because it packages a current-generation video codec encoder behind a normal CLI formula. That makes experimental VVC encoding easier to install for codec testing, comparison runs, and research workflows on macOS.

### Timeline

- 2018: Ultra Video Group says uvg266 development started from Kvazaar-to-VVC conversion work.
- 2022: The public GitHub project and Ultra Video Group pages describe uvg266 as an open-source VVC encoder based on Kvazaar.
- 2024: GitHub releases list v0.8.1 as a July 2024 release.

### Related projects

- Kvazaar is Ultra Video Group's earlier HEVC/H.265 encoder and the codebase from which uvg266 was derived.
- uvgVenctester is Ultra Video Group's encoder testing toolkit and lists uvg266 among supported VVC encoders.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/ultravideo/uvg266 - Official repository README describes uvg266 as an open-source VVC encoder under BSD-3-Clause and based on Kvazaar.>
- <https://ultravideo.fi/kvazaar.html - Ultra Video Group describes Kvazaar as its HEVC encoder developed since 2012.>
- <https://ultravideo.fi/uvg266.html - Ultra Video Group describes uvg266, its Kvazaar base, and the 2018 start of development.>
- <https://ultravideo.fi/venctester.html - Ultra Video Group lists uvg266 among encoders supported by uvgVenctester.>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/uvg266.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/uvg266.yml)


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