Dirac Beta version (0.10.0) released
[Posted June 10, 2008 by cook]
| From: |
| Anuradha Suraparaju <anuradha-AT-rd.bbc.co.uk> |
| To: |
| lwn-AT-lwn.net |
| Subject: |
| Dirac Beta version (0.10.0) released |
| Date: |
| Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:56:24 +1000 |
| Message-ID: |
| <1213008984.7687.1.camel@hobbes.rd.bbc.co.uk> |
| Cc: |
| zooko-AT-zooko.com |
This a beta release complying with the latest Dirac Specification
2.2.0.
- Added support for Ultra High Definition video formats.
- Improved compression efficiency in both constant quality and constant
bit-rate modes.
- Fixed major bugs that caused the encoder to crash or the decoder to
go into a permanent loop.
- Dirac support is now directly available in FFmpeg via the external
Dirac and/or Schroedinger libraries. Hence there is no FFMpeg patch
in this release.
- Released new patches for MPlayer to enable Dirac playback.
- DirectShow Filter released to be able to play back Dirac v2.2.0
files
- Modified Programmer's guide to reflect changes to the API.
- Bugs fixed: 1944681, 1906788, 1893223, 1874587
