Hello, today I have the great pleasure of announcing Theora 1.0 beta1. http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0beta1.tar.gz libtheora 1.0beta1 (2007 September 22) - Granulepos scheme modified to match other codecs. This bumps the bitstream revision to 3.2.1. Bitstreams marked 3.2.0 are handled correctly by this decoder. Older decoders will show a one frame sync error in the less noticable direction. It also includes the changes done for alpha8, which was short lived and is only interesting for historical reasons: libtheora 1.0alpha8 (2007 September 18) - Switch to new spec compliant decoder from theora-exp branch. Written by Dr. Timothy Terriberry. - Add support to the encoder for using quantization settings provided by the application. - more assembly optimizations We don't recommend deploying alpha8 as there were some issues with library versioning. Items left for a 1.0 release that isn't labeled beta are more complete documentation and project files for more development environments. Maik Merten
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 19:50 +0200, Maik Merten wrote:> today I have the great pleasure of announcing Theora 1.0 beta1.And I have the great pleasure of running it. I tried it as a drop-in replacement for the system-provided library on my Mandriva Linux system. With no recompilation of mplayer, just using the existing binary and the new library I've noticed a very interesting difference. It plays fast enough for real-time on an AMD Duron 850! This is video material encoded 720 by 576 25 fps with default options on ffmpeg2theora. The output would not play on the Duron 850 before and now it's fine. This is a most excellent result! Well done to everyone for their hard work on this release. Jim. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/attachments/20070923/aaa91e1a/attachment.pgp