Fellow Theora users, For long you have waited for the stable release of the official implementation of everyone's favorite video format. Well, this is its Release Candidate, and you are hereby invited to play around with it as much as you want. Here's what's new since beta3: - Merge x86 assembly for forward DCT from Thusnelda branch. - Update 32 bit MMX with loop filter fix. - Check for an uninitialized state before dereferencing in propagating decode calls. - Remove all TH_DEBUG statements. - Rename the bitpacker source files imported from libogg to avoid confusing simple build systems using both libraries. - Add VS2008 project files. - Add explicit casts as a work-around for Solaris's cc ignoring the signedness of bitfield types. - Set quantization parameters to default values when an empty buffer is passed with TH_ENCCTL_SET_QUANT_PARAMS. - Split encoder and decoder tests depending on configure settings. - Return lstylex.sty to the distribution. - Disable inline assembly on gcc versions prior to 3.1. - Remove extern references for OC_*_QUANT_MIN. - Make various data tables static const so they can be read-only. - cpuid assembly fix for MSVC. - Remove ENCCTL codes from the old encoder API. - Implement TH_ENCCTL_SET_KEYFRAME_FREQUENCY_FORCE ctl in encoder. And here's what you should especially test: - Build and run on SELinux systems - Build and run on Solaris - Build documentation - Encode complex movies to check if new feature TH_ENCCTL_SET_KEYFRAME_FREQUENCY_FORCE isn't causing problems Your help testing those items is much appreciated. Finally, here's the source packages: - Bzip2, http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0RC1.tar.bz2 - Zip, http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0RC1.zip -Ivo
Ah, and a follow up: the plan is to release 1.0 final in the next week if no problems are detected. Also, for those wondering, the famous Thusnelda branch, which will improve Theora's encoder quality even further, will become Theora 1.1 according to discussions in the past Theora Roadmap Meeting. Thank you for your attention. Now test, test, test. -Ivo
currently the pkg-config files list: Version: 1.0RC1 this is not considered to be higher than Version: 1.0beta1 would be wise to use version numbers that work with other system trying to sort by versions numbers. doing some testing it seams that Version: 1.0rc1 would work. j
How much time is left for the release of Theora 1.0 final?> > Many thanks to Ivo for providing the final work to get the RC out. > 1.0 in a week! Then... the Second Coming (aka Thusnelda)! > > Monty_________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx
On 10/19/08, Luis Gonzalez <ghempresa at hotmail.com> wrote:> How much time is left for the release of Theora 1.0 final?The only issue standing is the pkg-config naming. If we get that properly fixed it will be out sooner than you expect. -Ivo