Dirac Changelog
What's new in Dirac 1.0.2
Feb 12, 2009- Improved compression performance for small picture sizes.
- Improved compression performance at low bit-rates.
- Included macros to check the API version.
- Improved motion estimation.
- New 422 420 conversion utilities for interlaced video.
- New functionality added to encoder API. The programmer's guide has been modified accordingly.
- Fixed bugs in handling DC subband.
- DirectShow filter released to be able to play back Dirac raw bytestreams or Dirac muxed in AVI in Windows Media Player and MPlayer Classic.
- Released the source and win32 binary of ffmpeg2dirac, a utility that can transcode any multimedia format that can be decoded by FFmpeg into Dirac video and Vorbis audio (if audio exists) muxed in Ogg.
- Note that new patches for MPlayer and FFmpeg will no longer be released because Dirac support via Dirac and Schroedinger libraries is available in FFmpeg.
New in Dirac 1.0.0 (Sep 17, 2008)
- Encoder classes have been refactored to make coding processes more clear.
- Minor bugs have been fixed.
- Compression efficiency is improved.
- A DirectShow filter to play back Dirac files in Windows Media Player has been released.
- Support for Dirac encoding, decoding, and muxing via Dirac libraries and Schroedinger libraries is now available in FFmpeg and MPlayer.