[XviD-devel] Changes in Source <-> Xvid 1.0

[Edouard Gomez]

I think you minimize too much  the matrix quant problem. I showed how it
can  impact both  image quality  and the  stream syntax.  It's  not only
theory, it happened  to me using transcode, it happened  to a doom9 user
too.

I  started this  huge task  some time  ago and  gave up  because  of the
amazing amount  of changes it represented  (at that time  i just unified
the de/quant API).

But this change is required *before*  1.0. And trust me, it's not fun to
replace all that  functions (touching more than 25  files).  It's a TODO
item that has always been there. I picked it up again this week, because
as you see it's one of the last items left in this TODO list[1].

As a last humor word for the evening...

Can you imagine announcing XviD 1.0 that way ?
"We are proud to release XviD 1.0"

Personal answer:
I can't.  Because i would not be  proud at all to  release software with
known majors flaws.

[1] as the IRC channel's topic says:
Contributions are welcome, TODO list on the CVS

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Edouard Gomez