Software-update: XviD 0.9.2

Bestanden met filmbeelden zijn ongecomprimeerd ontzettend groot, vandaar dat men methoden heeft bedacht om deze bestanden zo klein mogelijk te maken zonder dat je kwaliteits verlies aan het beeld zal zien. XviD is een codec die hier perfect mee omgaat, daarnaast heeft men de GPL licentie toegepast waardoor men deze codec zonder licentie kosten mag gebruiken. Versie 0.9.2 is onlangs uitgebracht en heeft de volgende release notes meegekregen:

We know you are all waiting for XviD 1.0, but there's still work on the queue that needs to be done before we can lable XviD as a symbolic 1.0 version.

Work on devapi3 and now devapi4 lead to some important bugfixes in the 0.9.x series and we think it's important to release a last version that definitevely closes that branch of development.

This is a bugfix release only:

• Fixed unaligned bitstream read on platforms that don't support unaligned memory access (among them ARM).
• Fixed build system for Unix platforms, XviD is now built as libxvidcore.so.major.minor where major and minor are the API version. The soname is mapped to libxvidcore.so.major, all releases with the same major API number will be binary compatible. For this release major=2, minor=1. XviD 1.0.x series will use major=4 minor=?.
• Fixed wrong "video_object_type_indication" and possible wrong byte paddings in theVOL header. Note that these bugs do not hurt usual decoders (even reference software did not detect these errors).
• Fixed a bitstream error in VOP ending (4 erroneous 0xff bytes instead of a next_start_code().
• Changed default lignment on 64 bit platform for better perfomance.
• Added a MacOSX module building process for transcode users.
• Removed SCO Unix System V code from XviD ;-)

[break]De volgende drie downloads zijn beschikbaar:
xvidcore-0.9.2.tar.gz
xvidcore-0.9.2.tar.bz2
xvidcore-0.9.2.zip