| 2022-06-17 v1.12.0 "Torrent Duck" |
| This release adds optimizations for Loongarch, adds support for vp8 in the |
| real-time rate control library, upgrades GoogleTest to v1.11.0, updates |
| libwebm to libwebm-1.0.0.28-20-g206d268, and includes numerous bug fixes. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI compatible with the previous release. |
| |
| vp8 support in the real-time rate control library. |
| New codec control VP8E_SET_RTC_EXTERNAL_RATECTRL is added. |
| |
| Configure support for darwin21 is added. |
| |
| GoogleTest is upgraded to v1.11.0. |
| |
| libwebm is updated to libwebm-1.0.0.28-20-g206d268. |
| |
| Allow SimpleEncode environment to take target level as input to match |
| the level conformance in vp9. |
| |
| - Enhancement: |
| Numerous improvements on checking memory allocations. |
| Optimizations for Loongarch. |
| Code clean-up. |
| |
| - Bug fixes: |
| Fix to a crash related to {vp8/vp9}_set_roi_map. |
| Fix to compiling failure with -Wformat-nonliteral. |
| Fix to integer overflow with vp9 with high resolution content. |
| Fix to AddNoiseTest failure with ARMv7. |
| Fix to libvpx Null-dereference READ in vp8. |
| |
| 2021-09-27 v1.11.0 "Smew Duck" |
| This maintenance release adds support for VBR mode in VP9 rate control |
| interface, new codec controls to get quantization parameters and loop filter |
| levels, and includes several improvements to NEON and numerous bug fixes. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release. |
| New codec control is added to get quantization parameters and loop filter |
| levels. |
| |
| VBR mode is supported in VP9 rate control library. |
| |
| - Enhancement: |
| Numerous improvements for Neon optimizations. |
| Code clean-up and refactoring. |
| Calculation of rd multiplier is changed with BDRATE gains. |
| |
| - Bug fixes: |
| Fix to overflow on duration. |
| Fix to several instances of -Wunused-but-set-variable. |
| Fix to avoid chroma resampling for 420mpeg2 input. |
| Fix to overflow in calc_iframe_target_size. |
| Fix to disallow skipping transform and quantization. |
| Fix some -Wsign-compare warnings in simple_encode. |
| Fix input file path in simple_encode_test. |
| Fix valid range for under/over_shoot pct. |
| |
| 2021-03-09 v1.10.0 "Ruddy Duck" |
| This maintenance release adds support for darwin20 and new codec controls, as |
| well as numerous bug fixes. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release. |
| New codec control is added to disable loopfilter for VP9. |
| |
| New encoder control is added to disable feature to increase Q on overshoot |
| detection for CBR. |
| |
| Configure support for darwin20 is added. |
| |
| New codec control is added for VP9 rate control. The control ID of this |
| interface is VP9E_SET_EXTERNAL_RATE_CONTROL. To make VP9 use a customized |
| external rate control model, users will have to implement each callback |
| function in vpx_rc_funcs_t and register them using libvpx API |
| vpx_codec_control_() with the control ID. |
| |
| - Enhancement: |
| Use -std=gnu++11 instead of -std=c++11 for c++ files. |
| |
| - Bug fixes: |
| Override assembler with --as option of configure for MSVS. |
| Fix several compilation issues with gcc 4.8.5. |
| Fix to resetting rate control for temporal layers. |
| Fix to the rate control stats of SVC example encoder when number of spatial |
| layers is 1. |
| Fix to reusing motion vectors from the base spatial layer in SVC. |
| 2 pass related flags removed from SVC example encoder. |
| |
| 2020-07-29 v1.9.0 "Quacking Duck" |
| This release adds support for NV12, a separate library for rate control, as |
| well as incremental improvements. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI compatible with the previous release. |
| NV12 support is added to this release. |
| A new interface is added for VP9 rate control. The new library libvp9rc.a |
| must be linked by applications. |
| Googletest is updated to v1.10.0. |
| simple_encode.cc is compiled into a new library libsimple_encode.a with |
| CONFIG_RATE_CTRL. |
| |
| - Enhancement: |
| Various changes to improve VP9 SVC, rate control, quality and speed to real |
| time encoding. |
| |
| - Bug fixes: |
| Fix key frame update refresh simulcast flexible svc. |
| Fix to disable_16x16part speed feature for real time encoding. |
| Fix some signed integer overflows for VP9 rate control. |
| Fix initialization of delta_q_uv. |
| Fix condition in regulate_q for cyclic refresh. |
| Various fixes to dynamic resizing for VP9 SVC. |
| |
| 2019-12-09 v1.8.2 "Pekin Duck" |
| This release collects incremental improvements to many aspects of the library. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI compatible with the previous release. |
| ARCH_* defines have been removed in favor of VPX_ARCH_*. |
| |
| 2019-07-15 v1.8.1 "Orpington Duck" |
| This release collects incremental improvements to many aspects of the library. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release. |
| VP8E_SET_CPUUSED now accepts values up to 9 for vp9. |
| VPX_CTRL_VP9E_SET_MAX_INTER_BITRATE_PCT had a spelling fix (was VP8E). |
| The --sdk-path option has been removed. If you were using it to build for |
| Android please read build/make/Android.mk for alternatives. |
| All PPC optimizations have been disabled: |
| https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1522. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| Various changes to improve encoder rate control, quality and speed |
| for practically every use case. |
| |
| - Bug fixes: |
| vp9-rtc: Fix color artifacts for speed >= 8. |
| |
| 2019-01-31 v1.8.0 "Northern Shoveler Duck" |
| This release focused on encoding performance for realtime and VOD use cases. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI incompatible with the previous release. This adds and |
| improves several vp9 controls. Most are related to SVC: |
| VP9E_SET_SVC_FRAME_DROP_LAYER: |
| - Frame dropping in SVC. |
| VP9E_SET_SVC_INTER_LAYER_PRED: |
| - Inter-layer prediction in SVC. |
| VP9E_SET_SVC_GF_TEMPORAL_REF: |
| - Enable long term temporal reference in SVC. |
| VP9E_SET_SVC_REF_FRAME_CONFIG/VP9E_GET_SVC_REF_FRAME_CONFIG: |
| - Extend and improve this control for better flexibility in setting SVC |
| pattern dynamically. |
| VP9E_SET_POSTENCODE_DROP: |
| - Allow for post-encode frame dropping (applies to non-SVC too). |
| VP9E_SET_SVC_SPATIAL_LAYER_SYNC: |
| - Enable spatial layer sync frames. |
| VP9E_SET_SVC_LAYER_ID: |
| - Extend api to specify temporal id for each spatial layers. |
| VP9E_SET_ROI_MAP: |
| - Extend Region of Interest functionality to VP9. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| 2 pass vp9 encoding has improved substantially. When using --auto-alt-ref=6, |
| we see approximately 8% for VBR and 10% for CQ. When using --auto-alt-ref=1, |
| the gains are approximately 4% for VBR and 5% for CQ. |
| |
| For real-time encoding, speed 7 has improved by ~5-10%. Encodes targeted at |
| screen sharing have improved when the content changes significantly (slide |
| sharing) or scrolls. There is a new speed 9 setting for mobile devices which |
| is about 10-20% faster than speed 8. |
| |
| - Bug fixes: |
| VP9 denoiser issue. |
| VP9 partition issue for 1080p. |
| VP9 rate control improvments. |
| Postprocessing Multi Frame Quality Enhancement (MFQE) issue. |
| VP8 multithread decoder issues. |
| A variety of fuzzing issues. |
| |
| 2018-01-04 v1.7.0 "Mandarin Duck" |
| This release focused on high bit depth performance (10/12 bit) and vp9 |
| encoding improvements. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI incompatible due to new vp9 encoder features. |
| |
| Frame parallel decoding for vp9 has been removed. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| vp9 encoding supports additional threads with --row-mt. This can be greater |
| than the number of tiles. |
| |
| Two new vp9 encoder options have been added: |
| --corpus-complexity |
| --tune-content=film |
| |
| Additional tooling for respecting the vp9 "level" profiles has been added. |
| |
| - Bug fixes: |
| A variety of fuzzing issues. |
| vp8 threading fix for ARM. |
| Codec control VP9_SET_SKIP_LOOP_FILTER fixed. |
| Reject invalid multi resolution configurations. |
| |
| 2017-01-09 v1.6.1 "Long Tailed Duck" |
| This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and |
| decoding processes. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI compatible with 1.6.0. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| Faster VP9 encoding and decoding. |
| High bit depth builds now provide similar speed for 8 bit encode and decode |
| for x86 targets. Other platforms and higher bit depth improvements are in |
| progress. |
| |
| - Bug Fixes: |
| A variety of fuzzing issues. |
| |
| 2016-07-20 v1.6.0 "Khaki Campbell Duck" |
| This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and |
| decoding processes. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI incompatible with 1.5.0 due to a new 'color_range' enum |
| in vpx_image and some minor changes to the VP8_COMP structure. |
| |
| The default key frame interval for VP9 has changed from 128 to 9999. |
| |
| - Enhancement: |
| A core focus has been performance for low end Intel processors. SSSE3 |
| instructions such as 'pshufb' have been avoided and instructions have been |
| reordered to better accommodate the more constrained pipelines. |
| |
| As a result, devices based on Celeron processors have seen substantial |
| decoding improvements. From Indian Runner Duck to Javan Whistling Duck, |
| decoding speed improved between 10 and 30%. Between Javan Whistling Duck |
| and Khaki Campbell Duck, it improved another 10 to 15%. |
| |
| While Celeron benefited most, Core-i5 also improved 5% and 10% between the |
| respective releases. |
| |
| Realtime performance for WebRTC for both speed and quality has received a |
| lot of attention. |
| |
| - Bug Fixes: |
| A number of fuzzing issues, found variously by Mozilla, Chromium and others, |
| have been fixed and we strongly recommend updating. |
| |
| 2015-11-09 v1.5.0 "Javan Whistling Duck" |
| This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and |
| decoding processes. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI incompatible with 1.4.0. It drops deprecated VP8 |
| controls and adds a variety of VP9 controls for testing. |
| |
| The vpxenc utility now prefers VP9 by default. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| Faster VP9 encoding and decoding |
| Smaller library size by combining functions used by VP8 and VP9 |
| |
| - Bug Fixes: |
| A variety of fuzzing issues |
| |
| 2015-04-03 v1.4.0 "Indian Runner Duck" |
| This release includes significant improvements to the VP9 codec. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI incompatible with 1.3.0. It drops the compatibility |
| layer, requiring VPX_IMG_FMT_* instead of IMG_FMT_*, and adds several codec |
| controls for VP9. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| Faster VP9 encoding and decoding |
| Multithreaded VP9 decoding (tile and frame-based) |
| Multithreaded VP9 encoding - on by default |
| YUV 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 support in VP9 |
| 10 and 12bit support in VP9 |
| 64bit ARM support by replacing ARM assembly with intrinsics |
| |
| - Bug Fixes: |
| Fixes a VP9 bitstream issue in Profile 1. This only affected non-YUV 4:2:0 |
| files. |
| |
| - Known Issues: |
| Frame Parallel decoding fails for segmented and non-420 files. |
| |
| 2013-11-15 v1.3.0 "Forest" |
| This release introduces the VP9 codec in a backward-compatible way. |
| All existing users of VP8 can continue to use the library without |
| modification. However, some VP8 options do not map to VP9 in the same manner. |
| |
| The VP9 encoder in this release is not feature complete. Users interested in |
| the encoder are advised to use the git master branch and discuss issues on |
| libvpx mailing lists. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI and API compatible with Duclair (v1.0.0). Users |
| of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this document |
| for that release. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| Get rid of bashisms in the main build scripts |
| Added usage info on command line options |
| Add lossless compression mode |
| Dll build of libvpx |
| Add additional Mac OS X targets: 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 (darwin11-13) |
| Add option to disable documentation |
| configure: add --enable-external-build support |
| make: support V=1 as short form of verbose=yes |
| configure: support mingw-w64 |
| configure: support hardfloat armv7 CHOSTS |
| configure: add support for android x86 |
| Add estimated completion time to vpxenc |
| Don't exit on decode errors in vpxenc |
| vpxenc: support scaling prior to encoding |
| vpxdec: support scaling output |
| vpxenc: improve progress indicators with --skip |
| msvs: Don't link to winmm.lib |
| Add a new script for producing vcxproj files |
| Produce Visual Studio 10 and 11 project files |
| Produce Windows Phone project files |
| msvs-build: use msbuild for vs >= 2005 |
| configure: default configure log to config.log |
| Add encoding option --static-thresh |
| |
| - Speed: |
| Miscellaneous speed optimizations for VP8 and VP9. |
| |
| - Quality: |
| In general, quality is consistent with the Eider release. |
| |
| - Bug Fixes: |
| This release represents approximately a year of engineering effort, |
| and contains multiple bug fixes. Please refer to git history for details. |
| |
| |
| 2012-12-21 v1.2.0 |
| This release acts as a checkpoint for a large amount of internal refactoring |
| and testing. It also contains a number of small bugfixes, so all users are |
| encouraged to upgrade. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI and API compatible with Duclair (v1.0.0). Users |
| of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this |
| document for that release. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| VP8 optimizations for MIPS dspr2 |
| vpxenc: add -quiet option |
| |
| - Speed: |
| Encoder and decoder speed is consistent with the Eider release. |
| |
| - Quality: |
| In general, quality is consistent with the Eider release. |
| |
| Minor tweaks to ARNR filtering |
| Minor improvements to real time encoding with multiple temporal layers |
| |
| - Bug Fixes: |
| Fixes multithreaded encoder race condition in loopfilter |
| Fixes multi-resolution threaded encoding |
| Fix potential encoder dead-lock after picture resize |
| |
| |
| 2012-05-09 v1.1.0 "Eider" |
| This introduces a number of enhancements, mostly focused on real-time |
| encoding. In addition, it fixes a decoder bug (first introduced in |
| Duclair) so all users of that release are encouraged to upgrade. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI and API compatible with Duclair (v1.0.0). Users |
| of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this |
| document for that release. |
| |
| This release introduces a new temporal denoiser, controlled by the |
| VP8E_SET_NOISE_SENSITIVITY control. The temporal denoiser does not |
| currently take a strength parameter, so the control is effectively |
| a boolean - zero (off) or non-zero (on). For compatibility with |
| existing applications, the values accepted are the same as those |
| for the spatial denoiser (0-6). The temporal denoiser is enabled |
| by default, and the older spatial denoiser may be restored by |
| configuring with --disable-temporal-denoising. The temporal denoiser |
| is more computationally intensive than the spatial one. |
| |
| This release removes support for a legacy, decode only API that was |
| supported, but deprecated, at the initial release of libvpx |
| (v0.9.0). This is not expected to have any impact. If you are |
| impacted, you can apply a reversion to commit 2bf8fb58 locally. |
| Please update to the latest libvpx API if you are affected. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| Adds a motion compensated temporal denoiser to the encoder, which |
| gives higher quality than the older spatial denoiser. (See above |
| for notes on upgrading). |
| |
| In addition, support for new compilers and platforms were added, |
| including: |
| improved support for XCode |
| Android x86 NDK build |
| OS/2 support |
| SunCC support |
| |
| Changing resolution with vpx_codec_enc_config_set() is now |
| supported. Previously, reinitializing the codec was required to |
| change the input resolution. |
| |
| The vpxenc application has initial support for producing multiple |
| encodes from the same input in one call. Resizing is not yet |
| supported, but varying other codec parameters is. Use -- to |
| delineate output streams. Options persist from one stream to the |
| next. |
| |
| Also, the vpxenc application will now use a keyframe interval of |
| 5 seconds by default. Use the --kf-max-dist option to override. |
| |
| - Speed: |
| Decoder performance improved 2.5% versus Duclair. Encoder speed is |
| consistent with Duclair for most material. Two pass encoding of |
| slideshow-like material will see significant improvements. |
| |
| Large realtime encoding speed gains at a small quality expense are |
| possible by configuring the on-the-fly bitpacking experiment with |
| --enable-onthefly-bitpacking. Realtime encoder can be up to 13% |
| faster (ARM) depending on the number of threads and bitrate |
| settings. This technique sees constant gain over the 5-16 speed |
| range. For VC style input the loss seen is up to 0.2dB. See commit |
| 52cf4dca for further details. |
| |
| - Quality: |
| On the whole, quality is consistent with the Duclair release. Some |
| tweaks: |
| |
| Reduced blockiness in easy sections by applying a penalty to |
| intra modes. |
| |
| Improved quality of static sections (like slideshows) with |
| two pass encoding. |
| |
| Improved keyframe sizing with multiple temporal layers |
| |
| - Bug Fixes: |
| Corrected alt-ref contribution to frame rate for visible updates |
| to the alt-ref buffer. This affected applications making manual |
| usage of the frame reference flags, or temporal layers. |
| |
| Additional constraints were added to disable multi-frame quality |
| enhancement (MFQE) in sections of the frame where there is motion. |
| (#392) |
| |
| Fixed corruption issues when vpx_codec_enc_config_set() was called |
| with spatial resampling enabled. |
| |
| Fixed a decoder error introduced in Duclair where the segmentation |
| map was not being reinitialized on keyframes (#378) |
| |
| |
| 2012-01-27 v1.0.0 "Duclair" |
| Our fourth named release, focused on performance and features related to |
| real-time encoding. It also fixes a decoder crash bug introduced in |
| v0.9.7, so all users of that release are encouraged to upgrade. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is ABI incompatible with prior releases of libvpx, so the |
| "major" version number has been bumped to 1. You must recompile your |
| applications against the latest version of the libvpx headers. The |
| API remains compatible, and this should not require code changes in most |
| applications. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| This release introduces several substantial new features to the encoder, |
| of particular interest to real time streaming applications. |
| |
| Temporal scalability allows the encoder to produce a stream that can |
| be decimated to different frame rates, with independent rate targeting |
| for each substream. |
| |
| Multiframe quality enhancement postprocessing can make visual quality |
| more consistent in the presence of frames that are substantially |
| different quality than the surrounding frames, as in the temporal |
| scalability case and in some forced keyframe scenarios. |
| |
| Multiple-resolution encoding support allows the encoding of the |
| same content at different resolutions faster than encoding them |
| separately. |
| |
| - Speed: |
| Optimization targets for this release included the decoder and the real- |
| time modes of the encoder. Decoder speed on x86 has improved 10.5% with |
| this release. Encoder improvements followed a curve where speeds 1-3 |
| improved 4.0%-1.5%, speeds 4-8 improved <1%, and speeds 9-16 improved |
| 1.5% to 10.5%, respectively. "Best" mode speed is consistent with the |
| Cayuga release. |
| |
| - Quality: |
| Encoder quality in the single stream case is consistent with the Cayuga |
| release. |
| |
| - Bug Fixes: |
| This release fixes an OOB read decoder crash bug present in v0.9.7 |
| related to the clamping of motion vectors in SPLITMV blocks. This |
| behavior could be triggered by corrupt input or by starting |
| decoding from a P-frame. |
| |
| |
| 2011-08-15 v0.9.7-p1 "Cayuga" patch 1 |
| This is an incremental bugfix release against Cayuga. All users of that |
| release are strongly encouraged to upgrade. |
| |
| - Fix potential OOB reads (cdae03a) |
| |
| An unbounded out of bounds read was discovered when the |
| decoder was requested to perform error concealment (new in |
| Cayuga) given a frame with corrupt partition sizes. |
| |
| A bounded out of bounds read was discovered affecting all |
| versions of libvpx. Given an multipartition input frame that |
| is truncated between the mode/mv partition and the first |
| residiual paritition (in the block of partition offsets), up |
| to 3 extra bytes could have been read from the source buffer. |
| The code will not take any action regardless of the contents |
| of these undefined bytes, as the truncated buffer is detected |
| immediately following the read based on the calculated |
| starting position of the coefficient partition. |
| |
| - Fix potential error concealment crash when the very first frame |
| is missing or corrupt (a609be5) |
| |
| - Fix significant artifacts in error concealment (a4c2211, 99d870a) |
| |
| - Revert 1-pass CBR rate control changes (e961317) |
| Further testing showed this change produced undesirable visual |
| artifacts, rolling back for now. |
| |
| |
| 2011-08-02 v0.9.7 "Cayuga" |
| Our third named release, focused on a faster, higher quality, encoder. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is backwards compatible with Aylesbury (v0.9.5) and |
| Bali (v0.9.6). Users of older releases should refer to the Upgrading |
| notes in this document for that release. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| Stereo 3D format support for vpxenc |
| Runtime detection of available processor cores. |
| Allow specifying --end-usage by enum name |
| vpxdec: test for frame corruption |
| vpxenc: add quantizer histogram display |
| vpxenc: add rate histogram display |
| Set VPX_FRAME_IS_DROPPABLE |
| update configure for ios sdk 4.3 |
| Avoid text relocations in ARM vp8 decoder |
| Generate a vpx.pc file for pkg-config. |
| New ways of passing encoded data between encoder and decoder. |
| |
| - Speed: |
| This release includes across-the-board speed improvements to the |
| encoder. On x86, these measure at approximately 11.5% in Best mode, |
| 21.5% in Good mode (speed 0), and 22.5% in Realtime mode (speed 6). |
| On ARM Cortex A9 with Neon extensions, real-time encoding of video |
| telephony content is 35% faster than Bali on single core and 48% |
| faster on multi-core. On the NVidia Tegra2 platform, real time |
| encoding is 40% faster than Bali. |
| |
| Decoder speed was not a priority for this release, but improved |
| approximately 8.4% on x86. |
| |
| Reduce motion vector search on alt-ref frame. |
| Encoder loopfilter running in its own thread |
| Reworked loopfilter to precalculate more parameters |
| SSE2/SSSE3 optimizations for build_predictors_mbuv{,_s}(). |
| Make hor UV predict ~2x faster (73 vs 132 cycles) using SSSE3. |
| Removed redundant checks |
| Reduced structure sizes |
| utilize preload in ARMv6 MC/LPF/Copy routines |
| ARM optimized quantization, dfct, variance, subtract |
| Increase chrow row alignment to 16 bytes. |
| disable trellis optimization for first pass |
| Write SSSE3 sub-pixel filter function |
| Improve SSE2 half-pixel filter funtions |
| Add vp8_sub_pixel_variance16x8_ssse3 function |
| Reduce unnecessary distortion computation |
| Use diamond search to replace full search |
| Preload reference area in sub-pixel motion search (real-time mode) |
| |
| - Quality: |
| This release focused primarily on one-pass use cases, including |
| video conferencing. Low latency data rate control was significantly |
| improved, improving streamability over bandwidth constrained links. |
| Added support for error concealment, allowing frames to maintain |
| visual quality in the presence of substantial packet loss. |
| |
| Add rc_max_intra_bitrate_pct control |
| Limit size of initial keyframe in one-pass. |
| Improve framerate adaptation |
| Improved 1-pass CBR rate control |
| Improved KF insertion after fades to still. |
| Improved key frame detection. |
| Improved activity masking (lower PSNR impact for same SSIM boost) |
| Improved interaction between GF and ARFs |
| Adding error-concealment to the decoder. |
| Adding support for independent partitions |
| Adjusted rate-distortion constants |
| |
| |
| - Bug Fixes: |
| Removed firstpass motion map |
| Fix parallel make install |
| Fix multithreaded encoding for 1 MB wide frame |
| Fixed iwalsh_neon build problems with RVDS4.1 |
| Fix semaphore emulation, spin-wait intrinsics on Windows |
| Fix build with xcode4 and simplify GLOBAL. |
| Mark ARM asm objects as allowing a non-executable stack. |
| Fix vpxenc encoding incorrect webm file header on big endian |
| |
| |
| 2011-03-07 v0.9.6 "Bali" |
| Our second named release, focused on a faster, higher quality, encoder. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release is backwards compatible with Aylesbury (v0.9.5). Users |
| of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this |
| document for that release. |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| vpxenc --psnr shows a summary when encode completes |
| --tune=ssim option to enable activity masking |
| improved postproc visualizations for development |
| updated support for Apple iOS to SDK 4.2 |
| query decoder to determine which reference frames were updated |
| implemented error tracking in the decoder |
| fix pipe support on windows |
| |
| - Speed: |
| Primary focus was on good quality mode, speed 0. Average improvement |
| on x86 about 40%, up to 100% on user-generated content at that speed. |
| Best quality mode speed improved 35%, and realtime speed 10-20%. This |
| release also saw significant improvement in realtime encoding speed |
| on ARM platforms. |
| |
| Improved encoder threading |
| Dont pick encoder filter level when loopfilter is disabled. |
| Avoid double copying of key frames into alt and golden buffer |
| FDCT optimizations. |
| x86 sse2 temporal filter |
| SSSE3 version of fast quantizer |
| vp8_rd_pick_best_mbsegmentation code restructure |
| Adjusted breakout RD for SPLITMV |
| Changed segmentation check order |
| Improved rd_pick_intra4x4block |
| Adds armv6 optimized variance calculation |
| ARMv6 optimized sad16x16 |
| ARMv6 optimized half pixel variance calculations |
| Full search SAD function optimization in SSE4.1 |
| Improve MV prediction accuracy to achieve performance gain |
| Improve MV prediction in vp8_pick_inter_mode() for speed>3 |
| |
| - Quality: |
| Best quality mode improved PSNR 6.3%, and SSIM 6.1%. This release |
| also includes support for "activity masking," which greatly improves |
| SSIM at the expense of PSNR. For now, this feature is available with |
| the --tune=ssim option. Further experimentation in this area |
| is ongoing. This release also introduces a new rate control mode |
| called "CQ," which changes the allocation of bits within a clip to |
| the sections where they will have the most visual impact. |
| |
| Tuning for the more exact quantizer. |
| Relax rate control for last few frames |
| CQ Mode |
| Limit key frame quantizer for forced key frames. |
| KF/GF Pulsing |
| Add simple version of activity masking. |
| make rdmult adaptive for intra in quantizer RDO |
| cap the best quantizer for 2nd order DC |
| change the threshold of DC check for encode breakout |
| |
| - Bug Fixes: |
| Fix crash on Sparc Solaris. |
| Fix counter of fixed keyframe distance |
| ARNR filter pointer update bug fix |
| Fixed use of motion percentage in KF/GF group calc |
| Changed condition for using RD in Intra Mode |
| Fix encoder real-time only configuration. |
| Fix ARM encoder crash with multiple token partitions |
| Fixed bug first cluster timecode of webm file is wrong. |
| Fixed various encoder bugs with odd-sized images |
| vp8e_get_preview fixed when spatial resampling enabled |
| quantizer: fix assertion in fast quantizer path |
| Allocate source buffers to be multiples of 16 |
| Fix for manual Golden frame frequency |
| Fix drastic undershoot in long form content |
| |
| |
| 2010-10-28 v0.9.5 "Aylesbury" |
| Our first named release, focused on a faster decoder, and a better encoder. |
| |
| - Upgrading: |
| This release incorporates backwards-incompatible changes to the |
| ivfenc and ivfdec tools. These tools are now called vpxenc and vpxdec. |
| |
| vpxdec |
| * the -q (quiet) option has been removed, and replaced with |
| -v (verbose). the output is quiet by default. Use -v to see |
| the version number of the binary. |
| |
| * The default behavior is now to write output to a single file |
| instead of individual frames. The -y option has been removed. |
| Y4M output is the default. |
| |
| * For raw I420/YV12 output instead of Y4M, the --i420 or --yv12 |
| options must be specified. |
| |
| $ ivfdec -o OUTPUT INPUT |
| $ vpxdec --i420 -o OUTPUT INPUT |
| |
| * If an output file is not specified, the default is to write |
| Y4M to stdout. This makes piping more natural. |
| |
| $ ivfdec -y -o - INPUT | ... |
| $ vpxdec INPUT | ... |
| |
| * The output file has additional flexibility for formatting the |
| filename. It supports escape characters for constructing a |
| filename from the width, height, and sequence number. This |
| replaces the -p option. To get the equivalent: |
| |
| $ ivfdec -p frame INPUT |
| $ vpxdec --i420 -o frame-%wx%h-%4.i420 INPUT |
| |
| vpxenc |
| * The output file must be specified with -o, rather than as the |
| last argument. |
| |
| $ ivfenc <options> INPUT OUTPUT |
| $ vpxenc <options> -o OUTPUT INPUT |
| |
| * The output defaults to webm. To get IVF output, use the --ivf |
| option. |
| |
| $ ivfenc <options> INPUT OUTPUT.ivf |
| $ vpxenc <options> -o OUTPUT.ivf --ivf INPUT |
| |
| |
| - Enhancements: |
| ivfenc and ivfdec have been renamed to vpxenc, vpxdec. |
| vpxdec supports .webm input |
| vpxdec writes .y4m by default |
| vpxenc writes .webm output by default |
| vpxenc --psnr now shows the average/overall PSNR at the end |
| ARM platforms now support runtime cpu detection |
| vpxdec visualizations added for motion vectors, block modes, references |
| vpxdec now silent by default |
| vpxdec --progress shows frame-by-frame timing information |
| vpxenc supports the distinction between --fps and --timebase |
| NASM is now a supported assembler |
| configure: enable PIC for shared libs by default |
| configure: add --enable-small |
| configure: support for ppc32-linux-gcc |
| configure: support for sparc-solaris-gcc |
| |
| - Bugs: |
| Improve handling of invalid frames |
| Fix valgrind errors in the NEON loop filters. |
| Fix loopfilter delta zero transitions |
| Fix valgrind errors in vp8_sixtap_predict8x4_armv6(). |
| Build fixes for darwin-icc |
| |
| - Speed: |
| 20-40% (average 28%) improvement in libvpx decoder speed, |
| including: |
| Rewrite vp8_short_walsh4x4_sse2() |
| Optimizations on the loopfilters. |
| Miscellaneous improvements for Atom |
| Add 4-tap version of 2nd-pass ARMv6 MC filter. |
| Improved multithread utilization |
| Better instruction choices on x86 |
| reorder data to use wider instructions |
| Update NEON wide idcts |
| Make block access to frame buffer sequential |
| Improved subset block search |
| Bilinear subpixel optimizations for ssse3. |
| Decrease memory footprint |
| |
| Encoder speed improvements (percentage gain not measured): |
| Skip unnecessary search of identical frames |
| Add SSE2 subtract functions |
| Improve bounds checking in vp8_diamond_search_sadx4() |
| Added vp8_fast_quantize_b_sse2 |
| |
| - Quality: |
| Over 7% overall PSNR improvement (6.3% SSIM) in "best" quality |
| encoding mode, and up to 60% improvement on very noisy, still |
| or slow moving source video |
| |
| Motion compensated temporal filter for Alt-Ref Noise Reduction |
| Improved use of trellis quantization on 2nd order Y blocks |
| Tune effect of motion on KF/GF boost in two pass |
| Allow coefficient optimization for good quality speed 0. |
| Improved control of active min quantizer for two pass. |
| Enable ARFs for non-lagged compress |
| |
| 2010-09-02 v0.9.2 |
| - Enhancements: |
| Disable frame dropping by default |
| Improved multithreaded performance |
| Improved Force Key Frame Behaviour |
| Increased rate control buffer level precision |
| Fix bug in 1st pass motion compensation |
| ivfenc: correct fixed kf interval, --disable-kf |
| - Speed: |
| Changed above and left context data layout |
| Rework idct calling structure. |
| Removed unnecessary MB_MODE_INFO copies |
| x86: SSSE3 sixtap prediction |
| Reworked IDCT to include reconstruction (add) step |
| Swap alt/gold/new/last frame buffer ptrs instead of copying. |
| Improve SSE2 loopfilter functions |
| Change bitreader to use a larger window. |
| Avoid loopfilter reinitialization when possible |
| - Quality: |
| Normalize quantizer's zero bin and rounding factors |
| Add trellis quantization. |
| Make the quantizer exact. |
| Updates to ARNR filtering algorithm |
| Fix breakout thresh computation for golden & AltRef frames |
| Redo the forward 4x4 dct |
| Improve the accuracy of forward walsh-hadamard transform |
| Further adjustment of RD behaviour with Q and Zbin. |
| - Build System: |
| Allow linking of libs built with MinGW to MSVC |
| Fix target auto-detection on mingw32 |
| Allow --cpu= to work for x86. |
| configure: pass original arguments through to make dist |
| Fix builds without runtime CPU detection |
| msvs: fix install of codec sources |
| msvs: Change devenv.com command line for better msys support |
| msvs: Add vs9 targets. |
| Add x86_64-linux-icc target |
| - Bugs: |
| Potential crashes on older MinGW builds |
| Fix two-pass framrate for Y4M input. |
| Fixed simple loop filter, other crashes on ARM v6 |
| arm: fix missing dependency with --enable-shared |
| configure: support directories containing .o |
| Replace pinsrw (SSE) with MMX instructions |
| apple: include proper mach primatives |
| Fixed rate control bug with long key frame interval. |
| Fix DSO link errors on x86-64 when not using a version script |
| Fixed buffer selection for UV in AltRef filtering |
| |
| |
| 2010-06-17 v0.9.1 |
| - Enhancements: |
| * ivfenc/ivfdec now support YUV4MPEG2 input and pipe I/O |
| * Speed optimizations |
| - Bugfixes: |
| * Rate control |
| * Prevent out-of-bounds accesses on invalid data |
| - Build system updates: |
| * Detect toolchain to be used automatically for native builds |
| * Support building shared libraries |
| * Better autotools emulation (--prefix, --libdir, DESTDIR) |
| - Updated LICENSE |
| * http://webmproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/changes-to-webm-open-source-license.html |
| |
| |
| 2010-05-18 v0.9.0 |
| - Initial open source release. Welcome to WebM and VP8! |
| |