Schroedinger 1.0.9 ================== A new release of Schrödinger is available. Schrödinger (or “schro” for short) is a cross-platform implementation of the Dirac video compression specification as a C library. Many media frameworks such as GStreamer and ffmpeg and applications such as VLC use schro to encode and decode Dirac video.
Information: http://diracvideo.org/ Download: http://diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/schroedinger-1.0.9.tar.gz The Dirac project maintains two encoder implementations: dirac-research, a research encoder, and Schrödinger, which is meant for user applications. As of this release, Schrödinger outperforms dirac-research in most encoding situations, both in terms of encoding speed and visual quality. It's been a long time since the last release, and there have been a *lot* of changes. This is an exciting release: most of the encoding tools in dirac-research have been ported over to Schrödinger, so now schro has the same or better compression efficiency as dirac-research. Second, we've switched over to using Orc instead of liboil for signal processing code. Dirac is a very configurable format, and normally would require thousands of lines of assembly code -- Orc generates this at runtime from simple rules. (Hey, it was easier to write Orc than write all that assembly!) Third, we now have an encoder quality testing system in place to check how well new encoding tools work and to make sure bugs that affect quality are quickly fixed. Roadmap: Only a few people are working on schro, and only part time, so new features will happen only slowly. However, now that merging is done and the release is out, there are several new features that are easy to add that will improve encoder quality. We'd like to get back to more frequent releases, perhaps one a month, introducing a new encoder feature each time. Other News: Portions of the Dirac specification are now standardized as SMPTE VC-2. VC-2 is mostly used in high bit rate applications, such as intermediate formats for editing and storage and a low delay format for studio application. Contributors to this release: Andrea Gabriellini (BBC) Anuradha Suraparaju (BBC) David Schleef (Entropy Wave) Information about Orc: http://code.entropywave.com/projects/orc/ New in 1.0.9 ============ - Orc: Complete conversion to Orc and removal of liboil dependency. - Added a lot of orc code to make things faster. A lot faster. - New motion vector generation, enabled by default. - New CBR rate control, enabled by default. - New scene change detection, enabled by default. - Encoder went through several rounds of tuning, improving quality greatly. - New encoder setting "force-profile". Allows easy access to one of three VC-2 profiles (vc2_low_delay, vc2_simple, vc2_main) for intermediate coding. Default is same as before: long-GOP Dirac. - Improved lossless encoding. Works in concert with force-profile. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Schrodinger-devel mailing list Schrodinger-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/schrodinger-devel
