-2010-09-02 v0.9.5 "Aylesbury"
+NOTE FOR NEXT RELEASE: PLEASE DOCUMENT API CHANGE TO NOISE SENSITIVITY FEATURE
+AND WARN PEOPLE THAT FOR NOW IT'S EITHER ON OR OFF
+
+2012-01-27 v1.0.0 "Duclair"
+ Our fourth named release, focused on performance and features related to
+ real-time encoding. It also fixes a decoder crash bug introduced in
+ v0.9.7, so all users of that release are encouraged to upgrade.
+
+ - Upgrading:
+ This release is ABI incompatible with prior releases of libvpx, so the
+ "major" version number has been bumped to 1. You must recompile your
+ applications against the latest version of the libvpx headers. The
+ API remains compatible, and this should not require code changes in most
+ applications.
+
+ - Enhancements:
+ This release introduces several substantial new features to the encoder,
+ of particular interest to real time streaming applications.
+
+ Temporal scalability allows the encoder to produce a stream that can
+ be decimated to different frame rates, with independent rate targetting
+ for each substream.
+
+ Multiframe quality enhancement postprocessing can make visual quality
+ more consistent in the presence of frames that are substantially
+ different quality than the surrounding frames, as in the temporal
+ scalability case and in some forced keyframe scenarios.
+
+ Multiple-resolution encoding support allows the encoding of the
+ same content at different resolutions faster than encoding them
+ separately.
+
+ - Speed:
+ Optimization targets for this release included the decoder and the real-
+ time modes of the encoder. Decoder speed on x86 has improved 10.5% with
+ this release. Encoder improvements followed a curve where speeds 1-3
+ improved 4.0%-1.5%, speeds 4-8 improved <1%, and speeds 9-16 improved
+ 1.5% to 10.5%, respectively. "Best" mode speed is consistent with the
+ Cayuga release.
+
+ - Quality:
+ Encoder quality in the single stream case is consistent with the Cayuga
+ release.
+
+ - Bug Fixes:
+ This release fixes an OOB read decoder crash bug present in v0.9.7
+ related to the clamping of motion vectors in SPLITMV blocks. This
+ behavior could be triggered by corrupt input or by starting
+ decoding from a P-frame.
+
+
+2011-08-15 v0.9.7-p1 "Cayuga" patch 1
+ This is an incremental bugfix release against Cayuga. All users of that
+ release are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
+
+ - Fix potential OOB reads (cdae03a)
+
+ An unbounded out of bounds read was discovered when the
+ decoder was requested to perform error concealment (new in
+ Cayuga) given a frame with corrupt partition sizes.
+
+ A bounded out of bounds read was discovered affecting all
+ versions of libvpx. Given an multipartition input frame that
+ is truncated between the mode/mv partition and the first
+ residiual paritition (in the block of partition offsets), up
+ to 3 extra bytes could have been read from the source buffer.
+ The code will not take any action regardless of the contents
+ of these undefined bytes, as the truncated buffer is detected
+ immediately following the read based on the calculated
+ starting position of the coefficient partition.
+
+ - Fix potential error concealment crash when the very first frame
+ is missing or corrupt (a609be5)
+
+ - Fix significant artifacts in error concealment (a4c2211, 99d870a)
+
+ - Revert 1-pass CBR rate control changes (e961317)
+ Further testing showed this change produced undesirable visual
+ artifacts, rolling back for now.
+
+
+2011-08-02 v0.9.7 "Cayuga"
+ Our third named release, focused on a faster, higher quality, encoder.
+
+ - Upgrading:
+ This release is backwards compatible with Aylesbury (v0.9.5) and
+ Bali (v0.9.6). Users of older releases should refer to the Upgrading
+ notes in this document for that release.
+
+ - Enhancements:
+ Stereo 3D format support for vpxenc
+ Runtime detection of available processor cores.
+ Allow specifying --end-usage by enum name
+ vpxdec: test for frame corruption
+ vpxenc: add quantizer histogram display
+ vpxenc: add rate histogram display
+ Set VPX_FRAME_IS_DROPPABLE
+ update configure for ios sdk 4.3
+ Avoid text relocations in ARM vp8 decoder
+ Generate a vpx.pc file for pkg-config.
+ New ways of passing encoded data between encoder and decoder.
+
+ - Speed:
+ This release includes across-the-board speed improvements to the
+ encoder. On x86, these measure at approximately 11.5% in Best mode,
+ 21.5% in Good mode (speed 0), and 22.5% in Realtime mode (speed 6).
+ On ARM Cortex A9 with Neon extensions, real-time encoding of video
+ telephony content is 35% faster than Bali on single core and 48%
+ faster on multi-core. On the NVidia Tegra2 platform, real time
+ encoding is 40% faster than Bali.
+
+ Decoder speed was not a priority for this release, but improved
+ approximately 8.4% on x86.
+
+ Reduce motion vector search on alt-ref frame.
+ Encoder loopfilter running in its own thread
+ Reworked loopfilter to precalculate more parameters
+ SSE2/SSSE3 optimizations for build_predictors_mbuv{,_s}().
+ Make hor UV predict ~2x faster (73 vs 132 cycles) using SSSE3.
+ Removed redundant checks
+ Reduced structure sizes
+ utilize preload in ARMv6 MC/LPF/Copy routines
+ ARM optimized quantization, dfct, variance, subtract
+ Increase chrow row alignment to 16 bytes.
+ disable trellis optimization for first pass
+ Write SSSE3 sub-pixel filter function
+ Improve SSE2 half-pixel filter funtions
+ Add vp8_sub_pixel_variance16x8_ssse3 function
+ Reduce unnecessary distortion computation
+ Use diamond search to replace full search
+ Preload reference area in sub-pixel motion search (real-time mode)
+
+ - Quality:
+ This release focused primarily on one-pass use cases, including
+ video conferencing. Low latency data rate control was significantly
+ improved, improving streamability over bandwidth constrained links.
+ Added support for error concealment, allowing frames to maintain
+ visual quality in the presence of substantial packet loss.
+
+ Add rc_max_intra_bitrate_pct control
+ Limit size of initial keyframe in one-pass.
+ Improve framerate adaptation
+ Improved 1-pass CBR rate control
+ Improved KF insertion after fades to still.
+ Improved key frame detection.
+ Improved activity masking (lower PSNR impact for same SSIM boost)
+ Improved interaction between GF and ARFs
+ Adding error-concealment to the decoder.
+ Adding support for independent partitions
+ Adjusted rate-distortion constants
+
+
+ - Bug Fixes:
+ Removed firstpass motion map
+ Fix parallel make install
+ Fix multithreaded encoding for 1 MB wide frame
+ Fixed iwalsh_neon build problems with RVDS4.1
+ Fix semaphore emulation, spin-wait intrinsics on Windows
+ Fix build with xcode4 and simplify GLOBAL.
+ Mark ARM asm objects as allowing a non-executable stack.
+ Fix vpxenc encoding incorrect webm file header on big endian
+
+
+2011-03-07 v0.9.6 "Bali"
+ Our second named release, focused on a faster, higher quality, encoder.
+
+ - Upgrading:
+ This release is backwards compatible with Aylesbury (v0.9.5). Users
+ of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this
+ document for that release.
+
+ - Enhancements:
+ vpxenc --psnr shows a summary when encode completes
+ --tune=ssim option to enable activity masking
+ improved postproc visualizations for development
+ updated support for Apple iOS to SDK 4.2
+ query decoder to determine which reference frames were updated
+ implemented error tracking in the decoder
+ fix pipe support on windows
+
+ - Speed:
+ Primary focus was on good quality mode, speed 0. Average improvement
+ on x86 about 40%, up to 100% on user-generated content at that speed.
+ Best quality mode speed improved 35%, and realtime speed 10-20%. This
+ release also saw significant improvement in realtime encoding speed
+ on ARM platforms.
+
+ Improved encoder threading
+ Dont pick encoder filter level when loopfilter is disabled.
+ Avoid double copying of key frames into alt and golden buffer
+ FDCT optimizations.
+ x86 sse2 temporal filter
+ SSSE3 version of fast quantizer
+ vp8_rd_pick_best_mbsegmentation code restructure
+ Adjusted breakout RD for SPLITMV
+ Changed segmentation check order
+ Improved rd_pick_intra4x4block
+ Adds armv6 optimized variance calculation
+ ARMv6 optimized sad16x16
+ ARMv6 optimized half pixel variance calculations
+ Full search SAD function optimization in SSE4.1
+ Improve MV prediction accuracy to achieve performance gain
+ Improve MV prediction in vp8_pick_inter_mode() for speed>3
+
+ - Quality:
+ Best quality mode improved PSNR 6.3%, and SSIM 6.1%. This release
+ also includes support for "activity masking," which greatly improves
+ SSIM at the expense of PSNR. For now, this feature is available with
+ the --tune=ssim option. Further experimentation in this area
+ is ongoing. This release also introduces a new rate control mode
+ called "CQ," which changes the allocation of bits within a clip to
+ the sections where they will have the most visual impact.
+
+ Tuning for the more exact quantizer.
+ Relax rate control for last few frames
+ CQ Mode
+ Limit key frame quantizer for forced key frames.
+ KF/GF Pulsing
+ Add simple version of activity masking.
+ make rdmult adaptive for intra in quantizer RDO
+ cap the best quantizer for 2nd order DC
+ change the threshold of DC check for encode breakout
+
+ - Bug Fixes:
+ Fix crash on Sparc Solaris.
+ Fix counter of fixed keyframe distance
+ ARNR filter pointer update bug fix
+ Fixed use of motion percentage in KF/GF group calc
+ Changed condition for using RD in Intra Mode
+ Fix encoder real-time only configuration.
+ Fix ARM encoder crash with multiple token partitions
+ Fixed bug first cluster timecode of webm file is wrong.
+ Fixed various encoder bugs with odd-sized images
+ vp8e_get_preview fixed when spatial resampling enabled
+ quantizer: fix assertion in fast quantizer path
+ Allocate source buffers to be multiples of 16
+ Fix for manual Golden frame frequency
+ Fix drastic undershoot in long form content
+
+
+2010-10-28 v0.9.5 "Aylesbury"
Our first named release, focused on a faster decoder, and a better encoder.
- Upgrading:
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