Dirac 1.0.0 released.

From: Dirac <diracinfo-AT-rd.bbc.co.uk> To: dirac-announce-AT-lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Dirac 1.0.0 released. Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:54:22 +1000 Message-ID: <1221616462.6098.5.camel@hobbes.rd.bbc.co.uk> Cc: lwn-AT-lwn.net, zooko-AT-zooko.com

Dirac 1.0.0 has been released. The release tarball can be downloaded from http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research or http://sourceforge.net/projects/dirac Dirac Compression System ------------------------- Dirac is a video compression system that provides general-purpose video compression and decompression tools comparable with state-of-the-art systems. Dirac is a format and compression technology, not a specific codec. The most important part of the Dirac project is the specification which can be found at http://diracvideo.org/specifications Dirac Project ------------- The initial implementation of Dirac at resulted in a research implementation which is referred to as the Dirac codebase. It is now called dirac-research. It is a reference implementation and also a codebase for future algorithmic developments. Dirac 1.0.0 is the release of this codebase. Dirac website ------------- Information about Dirac and the associated projects can be found at http://diracvideo.org What's new in this release -------------------------- Several alpha and beta releases have preceded this release. The changes in 1.0.0 release are: - Compliance with Dirac Bytestream specification 2.2.2 - Adaptive GOP structure - Improved motion estimation. - Improved pre-filtering. - Major code refactor of encoder classes. - Added conversion utility for horizontal 3/4 filtering. - DirectShow Filter released to be able to play back Dirac v2.2.2 files raw bytestreams and Dirac wrapped in AVI in Windows Media Player and MPlayer Classic. Dirac website ------------- Information about Dirac and the associated projects can be found at http://diracvideo.org Dirac content creation and playback ----------------------------------- Information on the end-user applications that support Dirac can be found at http://diracvideo.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#End_user_a...