XviD 1.1.2 review

XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec, so designed to compress/decompress digital video. XviD is a open source project, whic

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 722K Developer: XviD Team

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XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec, so designed to compress/decompress digital video.

XviD is a open source project, which is developed and maintained by a handful of skilled and interested engineers from all over the world.

This release is the long awaited 1.1.0. It is mostly API compatible with the previous stable release as we dropped support for reduced resolution coding. If your application didn't use that feature then the upgrade is totally compatible.

What's New in This Release:
xvidcore:

Improved Low bitrate quality.
Improved VBV support
Rate-Distortion mode decision for bvops
New postprocessing functions, brightness and deringing
New PowerPC port by Christoph Naegeli
Brand new amd64 Linux 64bit port by Andre Werthmann
Various decoder and encoder speedups
A few bugs squashed

VFW frontend

Mingw/CygWin support
Various small improvements
A few bugs squashed

DShow frontend

Mingw/CygWin support
Support for brightness control
Various small improvements
A few bugs squashed

What's New in This Release:
A bug with frame-drop in combination with packed B-frames was fixed.
Non-aligned bitstream buffers were fixed.
Several fixes for IA64, for potential crashes on EM64T, and for a segfault in the VFW frontend were made.