Dear all, after almost one-and-a-half-year, the drums thrill again, and as the music plays, we hear the orcs coming in at the horizon. Oh, wait, eh, that's another game.
!!! mjpegtools-1.8.0 is released !!! Mjpegtools 1.8.0 brings you your favourite video/DVD processing tools, which can be used for tons of purposes, such as digitizing your VHS collection, creating and transcoding DVDs, doing advanced video filtering on already-digitized videos (think denoising, unsharping, deinterlacing, telekine, scaling, etc.), and many, many more things. Mjpegtools is a complete suite of tools for you to capture, edit, process, filter and play your media as you wish. To download mjpegtools, you can go to our SourceForge project page (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mjpeg/), where you'll find tarballs, source/binary RPMs (for Fedora Core 4) and all our online documentation, discussion fora and so on. Here's a random list of changes that you'll find compared to the previous release (1.6.2): - changes in YUV4MPEG2 API to offer support for multiple colorspaces (particularly useful for DV video), so that multiple planar YUV formats (also monochrome or alpha) are supported. - most filtering tools have been adapted to support multiple YUV formats, so that you will not lose quality/precision in conversion steps. - Many new or dramatically improved filters including (but not limited to): *) yuvdenoise (denoising filter) *) yuvdeinterlace (intelligent deinterlacing program) *) y4munsharp (unsharp mask image sharpening program) - Improvements in the IDCT/DCT routines in the MPEG-1/-2 encoder (much more exact now and not subject to overflow/truncation on the IA32 arch). - MANY new utilties for importing/exporting data: *) New and improved PGM/PNM conversion programs for dealing with PPM data. *) Utilities to convert raw (headerless) YUV data to and from YUV4MPEG2 format. Useful when interfacing with other program suites. *) Program (yuyvtoy4m) to convert 4:2:2 data from digital cameras into YUV4MPEG2 format for use with mjpegtools. *) y4mstabilizer for stabilizing images with unsteady camera work - Improvements and fixes in 'mplex' for handling PCM audio (LPCM audio actually works now ;)) - DPME (Dual Prime Motion Estimation) in the encoder (mpeg2enc) is fully functional (it was present but buggy/artifacted in the earlier releases) - Rate control in the encoder improved considerably. - Much better Quicktime file handling (via libquicktime) especially the audio tracks. - Besides the always-excellent x86 support, we now have full support for AMD64 (including MMX/SSE/etc. optimizations) and for PPC (e.g. Linux or OS/X), and win32 support is also available (via Cygwin/Mingw). Currently, there's one known bug: the MPEG encoder will not always work correctly when used in multi-threading mode, and therefore the use of the -M option with a number different than zero is not recommended. This is not a large problem, since nowadays, filters take far more CPU than the actual MPEG encoding, and the kernel will take care of separating the different filtering processes over your multiple CPUs (if you have any). There may be more bugs, even after this long time of testing. Therefore, if you see any, please report it to the mailinglist / developers so we can fix them ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). As a final note, I'd like to drop a small personal message. I've lead the release management of mjpegtools for several years, and because of changes in personal life (start of a PhD program in Manhattan, limited time, new social life, etc.), I've decided to step down as release manager. Steven, who has been very active in pretty much all areas of mjpegtools, has accepted the honour of being our new release manager. Steven, thanks and good luck! Also a big thanks to all contributors to this release, mjpegtools would not exist without you! Enjoy! Ronald (on behalf of the whole mjpegtools developer team) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
