XviD is een open source MPEG4-codec en wordt gebruikt om filmbestanden te encoden. De nieuwste versie is genummerd als 1.0.0 beta2 en heeft als codename Ciao meegekregen. De volgende release notes zijn beschikbaar:
Changes since 1.0.0 beta1 (Aloha):Next beta releases will focus on tuning for better quality and/or speed. Though we don't know of any standard compliance problem at the moment, continue using beta releases with care.[break]De downloads staan op deze pagina klaar om geleeched en gecompileerd te worden
- xvidcore:
- MPEG4 compliance is back (beta1 was missing the VOS header)
- matrix quantization is finally thread safe
- improved vop type decision
- 2pass2 plugin: min key interval was a misleading name. It's been renamed to kfthreshold. And as the kfthresholding behavior was a bit too aggressive, it's been disabled until we decide how it should behave w/o hurting quality
- single plugin: fixed quant capping
- interlacing artefacts fixed.
- VFW fontend:
- some misuses of xvidcore were fixed
- min key frame widget renamed and moved to the 2pass panel
- Debian package:
- small errors in the control file reported and fixed by Nicolas Boos
- Active Items to work on:
- update vfw & dshow decoder frontends
- GUI isn't perfect for vfw and dshow still links against xvid.dll which doesn't export internal functions anymore because of the license change.
- decide on vfw & dshow linking policy. presently we statically link, however this increases the size of zips/packages where both vfw & dshow are included.
- update/fix CBR plugin
- misses target bitrate, bitrate burst in static motion/high motion transitions
- bug hunting (ed.gomez/syskin)
- xvidcore is still a place where bugs feel confortable
- docbook writing (every developer should contribute)
- New API has to be documented.
- two pass code should not introduce quality regressions (every tester)
- first feedback proved kfthresholding was hurting quality, a decision on its behavior has to be settled.
- YV12/I420/USER clarification
- item submited by Ivan Kalvachev
Planes are swaped - MMX MPEG4 quantization is unprecise. This is probably an inherent problem in some MMX opcode precision.
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