Dirac 1.0.2 released

Dirac 1.0.2 has been released. The release tarball can be downloaded
from http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research or 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dirac

This a a minor release complying with the latest Dirac Bytestream
Specification 2.2.3. Changes in this release include 
 
-Improved compression performance for small picture sizes and at low 
 bit-rates. 
-Included macros to check the API version. 
-Improved motion estimation. 
-New 422 <-> 420 conversion utilities for interlaced video. 
-Fixed bugs in handling DC subband. 

The following utilities have also been released.

-Updated version of the DirectShow filter to be able to play back Dirac 
 raw bytestreams or Dirac muxed in AVI in Windows Media Player and 
 MPlayer Classic. The filter installer can be downloaded from the Dirac 
 project page on Sourceforge or from 
 http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/directshow

-The source and win32 binary of  ffmpeg2dirac, a utility that 
 can transcode any  multimedia format that can be decoded by FFmpeg     
 into Dirac video and Vorbis audio (if audio exists) muxed in Ogg. The 
 source and the win32 binary can be downloaded from the Dirac project 
 page on Sourceforge or from
 http://diracvideo.org/download/ffmpeg2dirac
 
Note that new patches for MPlayer and FFmpeg  
will no longer be released because Dirac support  
via Dirac and Schroedinger libraries is available  
in FFmpeg. 
 
Latest information on Dirac and associated projects can be found at  
http://diracvideo.org