v2.1.0
Kvazaar 2.1 has been released!
Important update on the license
With this release, the license was changed from LGPL2.1 to 3-Clause BSD, allowing more liberties in using Kvazaar.
Features
- Option to use a custom table for fast bitrate estimation weights (
--fast-coeff-table <file>
) - Tools to create new weight sets for fast bitrate estimation (
--fast-rd-sampling
,--fastrd-accuracy-check
,--fastrd-outdir
), documented inrdcost-weight-tool/README.txt
- Added support for Y4M input in addition to YUV (Autodetected, manually enable using
--input-file-format=y4m
) - Allow writing out block statistics for debugging (
--stats-file-prefix
)
Optimizations
- New AVX2 implementations for interpolation filters
Fixes
- DTS offset was incorrect at the beginning of the sequence when using GOP (7918628
) - Added VPS information about reordering and buffering, fixes VLC playback (b68625b)
- Removed pthread_exit() on mingw to fix media-autobuild suite (9a65617)
- Renamed truncate function to not overlap with POSIX one, fixed FreeBSD build (1fa69c7)