[XviD-devel] 0.9.2 released and important fixes for MPEG4 compliance in other branches.

[Edouard Gomez]

First the announce of 0.9.2.

It is available there at the moment and should be uploaded to xvid.org
servers later:
http://ed.gomez.free.fr/xvid-0.9.2/

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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  the VOL 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 Oxff 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 ;-)

You  can download  it  in the  "Download  section" or  use  the cvs  tag
release-0_9_2.

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Then a message about bitstream changes in cvshead and devapi4...

i just  commited the  VOL &  padding fixes so  it's really  important to
upgrade your  libs with  a fresh checkout/update  to obtain  a compliant
bitstream. 

Note that  buggy bitstreams  are likely to  be decoded w/o  much trouble
(otherwise  we would  have known  about the  errors before...)  but it's
still better to have a 100% compliant bitstream. 

So now we end up with:
XviD bitstreams with version 15  are created by cvshead builds.
XviD bitstreams with version 16  are created by devapi4 builds.

-- 
Edouard Gomez