Op de website van de populaire op MPEG4 gebaseerde en- en decoder voor videobestanden DivX, lezen we dat er een nieuwe versie van deze software is uitgekomen. De release heeft als versienummer 5.1.1 meegekregen en bevat een hoop verbeteringen ten opzichte van de vorige versie:
New:Changed:
- Support for generic MP4 FourCC codes which can be enabled/disabled in the DirectShow configuration dialog box.
Fixed:
- Psychovisual modeling disabled by default.
- Cosmetic GUI changes have been made to avoid confusion when using MV reuse and specific performance modes.
- Deinterlacing is back in the Standard codec.
- Added bottom field first encoding.
- Smoother DivX logo fade.
Encoder fixes:
[break]De download voor Windows-systemen staat hier. Wie alleen de codec wil hebben kan hier klikken. Mac- en Linuxgebruikers zullen helaas nog even moeten wachten.
- DivX 5.1.1 encoder is up to 112% faster (standard mode) than 5.1 (up to 30% faster than 5.05).
- Standard mode is 105% faster than 5.1.
- The Quality produced by "Fastest" has been significantly improved.
- Blinking bottom line in "fastest" mode fixed.
- Fixed issues with capture applications.
- Various Cosmetic CLI fixes.
- New CLI option "-tff" for "top field first".
Decoder fixes:
- Resolved a severe performance hit when using the Deringing mode in Postprocessing.
- DirectShow filter property page had a cosmetic issue caused by using large fonts (120dpi).
- Avoids buffer overruns with extremely small picture sizes (less than 80x32).
- Fixed a bug caused by "Auto Post-processing" and SMP/HyperThreading CPUs.
- Issue with n B frames and Deblocking fixed.