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      1 2017-01-09 v1.6.1 "Long Tailed Duck"
      2   This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and
      3   decoding processes.
      4 
      5   - Upgrading:
      6     This release is ABI compatible with 1.6.0.
      7 
      8   - Enhancements:
      9     Faster VP9 encoding and decoding.
     10     High bit depth builds now provide similar speed for 8 bit encode and decode
     11     for x86 targets. Other platforms and higher bit depth improvements are in
     12     progress.
     13 
     14   - Bug Fixes:
     15     A variety of fuzzing issues.
     16 
     17 2016-07-20 v1.6.0 "Khaki Campbell Duck"
     18   This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and
     19   decoding processes.
     20 
     21   - Upgrading:
     22     This release is ABI incompatible with 1.5.0 due to a new 'color_range' enum
     23     in vpx_image and some minor changes to the VP8_COMP structure.
     24 
     25     The default key frame interval for VP9 has changed from 128 to 9999.
     26 
     27   - Enhancement:
     28     A core focus has been performance for low end Intel processors. SSSE3
     29     instructions such as 'pshufb' have been avoided and instructions have been
     30     reordered to better accommodate the more constrained pipelines.
     31 
     32     As a result, devices based on Celeron processors have seen substantial
     33     decoding improvements. From Indian Runner Duck to Javan Whistling Duck,
     34     decoding speed improved between 10 and 30%. Between Javan Whistling Duck
     35     and Khaki Campbell Duck, it improved another 10 to 15%.
     36 
     37     While Celeron benefited most, Core-i5 also improved 5% and 10% between the
     38     respective releases.
     39 
     40     Realtime performance for WebRTC for both speed and quality has received a
     41     lot of attention.
     42 
     43   - Bug Fixes:
     44     A number of fuzzing issues, found variously by Mozilla, Chromium and others,
     45     have been fixed and we strongly recommend updating.
     46 
     47 2015-11-09 v1.5.0 "Javan Whistling Duck"
     48   This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and
     49   decoding processes.
     50 
     51   - Upgrading:
     52     This release is ABI incompatible with 1.4.0. It drops deprecated VP8
     53     controls and adds a variety of VP9 controls for testing.
     54 
     55     The vpxenc utility now prefers VP9 by default.
     56 
     57   - Enhancements:
     58     Faster VP9 encoding and decoding
     59     Smaller library size by combining functions used by VP8 and VP9
     60 
     61   - Bug Fixes:
     62     A variety of fuzzing issues
     63 
     64 2015-04-03 v1.4.0 "Indian Runner Duck"
     65   This release includes significant improvements to the VP9 codec.
     66 
     67   - Upgrading:
     68     This release is ABI incompatible with 1.3.0. It drops the compatibility
     69     layer, requiring VPX_IMG_FMT_* instead of IMG_FMT_*, and adds several codec
     70     controls for VP9.
     71 
     72   - Enhancements:
     73     Faster VP9 encoding and decoding
     74     Multithreaded VP9 decoding (tile and frame-based)
     75     Multithreaded VP9 encoding - on by default
     76     YUV 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 support in VP9
     77     10 and 12bit support in VP9
     78     64bit ARM support by replacing ARM assembly with intrinsics
     79 
     80   - Bug Fixes:
     81     Fixes a VP9 bitstream issue in Profile 1. This only affected non-YUV 4:2:0
     82     files.
     83 
     84   - Known Issues:
     85     Frame Parallel decoding fails for segmented and non-420 files.
     86 
     87 2013-11-15 v1.3.0 "Forest"
     88   This release introduces the VP9 codec in a backward-compatible way.
     89   All existing users of VP8 can continue to use the library without
     90   modification. However, some VP8 options do not map to VP9 in the same manner.
     91 
     92   The VP9 encoder in this release is not feature complete. Users interested in
     93   the encoder are advised to use the git master branch and discuss issues on
     94   libvpx mailing lists.
     95 
     96   - Upgrading:
     97     This release is ABI and API compatible with Duclair (v1.0.0). Users
     98     of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this document
     99     for that release.
    100 
    101   - Enhancements:
    102       Get rid of bashisms in the main build scripts
    103       Added usage info on command line options
    104       Add lossless compression mode
    105       Dll build of libvpx
    106       Add additional Mac OS X targets: 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 (darwin11-13)
    107       Add option to disable documentation
    108       configure: add --enable-external-build support
    109       make: support V=1 as short form of verbose=yes
    110       configure: support mingw-w64
    111       configure: support hardfloat armv7 CHOSTS
    112       configure: add support for android x86
    113       Add estimated completion time to vpxenc
    114       Don't exit on decode errors in vpxenc
    115       vpxenc: support scaling prior to encoding
    116       vpxdec: support scaling output
    117       vpxenc: improve progress indicators with --skip
    118       msvs: Don't link to winmm.lib
    119       Add a new script for producing vcxproj files
    120       Produce Visual Studio 10 and 11 project files
    121       Produce Windows Phone project files
    122       msvs-build: use msbuild for vs >= 2005
    123       configure: default configure log to config.log
    124       Add encoding option --static-thresh
    125 
    126   - Speed:
    127       Miscellaneous speed optimizations for VP8 and VP9.
    128 
    129   - Quality:
    130       In general, quality is consistent with the Eider release.
    131 
    132   - Bug Fixes:
    133       This release represents approximately a year of engineering effort,
    134       and contains multiple bug fixes. Please refer to git history for details.
    135 
    136 
    137 2012-12-21 v1.2.0
    138   This release acts as a checkpoint for a large amount of internal refactoring
    139   and testing. It also contains a number of small bugfixes, so all users are
    140   encouraged to upgrade.
    141 
    142   - Upgrading:
    143     This release is ABI and API compatible with Duclair (v1.0.0). Users
    144     of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this
    145     document for that release.
    146 
    147   - Enhancements:
    148       VP8 optimizations for MIPS dspr2
    149       vpxenc: add -quiet option
    150 
    151   - Speed:
    152       Encoder and decoder speed is consistent with the Eider release.
    153 
    154   - Quality:
    155       In general, quality is consistent with the Eider release.
    156 
    157       Minor tweaks to ARNR filtering
    158       Minor improvements to real time encoding with multiple temporal layers
    159 
    160   - Bug Fixes:
    161       Fixes multithreaded encoder race condition in loopfilter
    162       Fixes multi-resolution threaded encoding
    163       Fix potential encoder dead-lock after picture resize
    164 
    165 
    166 2012-05-09 v1.1.0 "Eider"
    167   This introduces a number of enhancements, mostly focused on real-time
    168   encoding. In addition, it fixes a decoder bug (first introduced in
    169   Duclair) so all users of that release are encouraged to upgrade.
    170 
    171   - Upgrading:
    172     This release is ABI and API compatible with Duclair (v1.0.0). Users
    173     of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this
    174     document for that release.
    175 
    176     This release introduces a new temporal denoiser, controlled by the
    177     VP8E_SET_NOISE_SENSITIVITY control. The temporal denoiser does not
    178     currently take a strength parameter, so the control is effectively
    179     a boolean - zero (off) or non-zero (on). For compatibility with
    180     existing applications, the values accepted are the same as those
    181     for the spatial denoiser (0-6). The temporal denoiser is enabled
    182     by default, and the older spatial denoiser may be restored by
    183     configuring with --disable-temporal-denoising. The temporal denoiser
    184     is more computationally intensive than the spatial one.
    185 
    186     This release removes support for a legacy, decode only API that was
    187     supported, but deprecated, at the initial release of libvpx
    188     (v0.9.0). This is not expected to have any impact. If you are
    189     impacted, you can apply a reversion to commit 2bf8fb58 locally.
    190     Please update to the latest libvpx API if you are affected.
    191 
    192   - Enhancements:
    193       Adds a motion compensated temporal denoiser to the encoder, which
    194       gives higher quality than the older spatial denoiser. (See above
    195       for notes on upgrading).
    196 
    197       In addition, support for new compilers and platforms were added,
    198       including:
    199         improved support for XCode
    200         Android x86 NDK build
    201         OS/2 support
    202         SunCC support
    203 
    204       Changing resolution with vpx_codec_enc_config_set() is now
    205       supported. Previously, reinitializing the codec was required to
    206       change the input resolution.
    207 
    208       The vpxenc application has initial support for producing multiple
    209       encodes from the same input in one call. Resizing is not yet
    210       supported, but varying other codec parameters is. Use -- to
    211       delineate output streams. Options persist from one stream to the
    212       next.
    213 
    214       Also, the vpxenc application will now use a keyframe interval of
    215       5 seconds by default. Use the --kf-max-dist option to override.
    216 
    217   - Speed:
    218       Decoder performance improved 2.5% versus Duclair. Encoder speed is
    219       consistent with Duclair for most material. Two pass encoding of
    220       slideshow-like material will see significant improvements.
    221 
    222       Large realtime encoding speed gains at a small quality expense are
    223       possible by configuring the on-the-fly bitpacking experiment with
    224       --enable-onthefly-bitpacking. Realtime encoder can be up to 13%
    225       faster (ARM) depending on the number of threads and bitrate
    226       settings. This technique sees constant gain over the 5-16 speed
    227       range. For VC style input the loss seen is up to 0.2dB. See commit
    228       52cf4dca for further details.
    229 
    230   - Quality:
    231       On the whole, quality is consistent with the Duclair release. Some
    232       tweaks:
    233 
    234         Reduced blockiness in easy sections by applying a penalty to
    235         intra modes.
    236 
    237         Improved quality of static sections (like slideshows) with
    238         two pass encoding.
    239 
    240         Improved keyframe sizing with multiple temporal layers
    241 
    242   - Bug Fixes:
    243       Corrected alt-ref contribution to frame rate for visible updates
    244       to the alt-ref buffer. This affected applications making manual
    245       usage of the frame reference flags, or temporal layers.
    246 
    247       Additional constraints were added to disable multi-frame quality
    248       enhancement (MFQE) in sections of the frame where there is motion.
    249       (#392)
    250 
    251       Fixed corruption issues when vpx_codec_enc_config_set() was called
    252       with spatial resampling enabled.
    253 
    254       Fixed a decoder error introduced in Duclair where the segmentation
    255       map was not being reinitialized on keyframes (#378)
    256 
    257 
    258 2012-01-27 v1.0.0 "Duclair"
    259   Our fourth named release, focused on performance and features related to
    260   real-time encoding. It also fixes a decoder crash bug introduced in
    261   v0.9.7, so all users of that release are encouraged to upgrade.
    262 
    263   - Upgrading:
    264       This release is ABI incompatible with prior releases of libvpx, so the
    265       "major" version number has been bumped to 1. You must recompile your
    266       applications against the latest version of the libvpx headers. The
    267       API remains compatible, and this should not require code changes in most
    268       applications.
    269 
    270   - Enhancements:
    271       This release introduces several substantial new features to the encoder,
    272       of particular interest to real time streaming applications.
    273 
    274       Temporal scalability allows the encoder to produce a stream that can
    275       be decimated to different frame rates, with independent rate targetting
    276       for each substream.
    277 
    278       Multiframe quality enhancement postprocessing can make visual quality
    279       more consistent in the presence of frames that are substantially
    280       different quality than the surrounding frames, as in the temporal
    281       scalability case and in some forced keyframe scenarios.
    282 
    283       Multiple-resolution encoding support allows the encoding of the
    284       same content at different resolutions faster than encoding them
    285       separately.
    286 
    287   - Speed:
    288       Optimization targets for this release included the decoder and the real-
    289       time modes of the encoder. Decoder speed on x86 has improved 10.5% with
    290       this release. Encoder improvements followed a curve where speeds 1-3
    291       improved 4.0%-1.5%, speeds 4-8 improved <1%, and speeds 9-16 improved
    292       1.5% to 10.5%, respectively. "Best" mode speed is consistent with the
    293       Cayuga release.
    294 
    295   - Quality:
    296       Encoder quality in the single stream case is consistent with the Cayuga
    297       release.
    298 
    299   - Bug Fixes:
    300       This release fixes an OOB read decoder crash bug present in v0.9.7
    301       related to the clamping of motion vectors in SPLITMV blocks. This
    302       behavior could be triggered by corrupt input or by starting
    303       decoding from a P-frame.
    304 
    305 
    306 2011-08-15 v0.9.7-p1 "Cayuga" patch 1
    307   This is an incremental bugfix release against Cayuga. All users of that
    308   release are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
    309 
    310     - Fix potential OOB reads (cdae03a)
    311 
    312           An unbounded out of bounds read was discovered when the
    313           decoder was requested to perform error concealment (new in
    314           Cayuga) given a frame with corrupt partition sizes.
    315 
    316           A bounded out of bounds read was discovered affecting all
    317           versions of libvpx. Given an multipartition input frame that
    318           is truncated between the mode/mv partition and the first
    319           residiual paritition (in the block of partition offsets), up
    320           to 3 extra bytes could have been read from the source buffer.
    321           The code will not take any action regardless of the contents
    322           of these undefined bytes, as the truncated buffer is detected
    323           immediately following the read based on the calculated
    324           starting position of the coefficient partition.
    325 
    326     - Fix potential error concealment crash when the very first frame
    327       is missing or corrupt (a609be5)
    328 
    329     - Fix significant artifacts in error concealment (a4c2211, 99d870a)
    330 
    331     - Revert 1-pass CBR rate control changes (e961317)
    332       Further testing showed this change produced undesirable visual
    333       artifacts, rolling back for now.
    334 
    335 
    336 2011-08-02 v0.9.7 "Cayuga"
    337   Our third named release, focused on a faster, higher quality, encoder.
    338 
    339   - Upgrading:
    340     This release is backwards compatible with Aylesbury (v0.9.5) and
    341     Bali (v0.9.6). Users of older releases should refer to the Upgrading
    342     notes in this document for that release.
    343 
    344   - Enhancements:
    345           Stereo 3D format support for vpxenc
    346           Runtime detection of available processor cores.
    347           Allow specifying --end-usage by enum name
    348           vpxdec: test for frame corruption
    349           vpxenc: add quantizer histogram display
    350           vpxenc: add rate histogram display
    351           Set VPX_FRAME_IS_DROPPABLE
    352           update configure for ios sdk 4.3
    353           Avoid text relocations in ARM vp8 decoder
    354           Generate a vpx.pc file for pkg-config.
    355           New ways of passing encoded data between encoder and decoder.
    356 
    357   - Speed:
    358       This release includes across-the-board speed improvements to the
    359       encoder. On x86, these measure at approximately 11.5% in Best mode,
    360       21.5% in Good mode (speed 0), and 22.5% in Realtime mode (speed 6).
    361       On ARM Cortex A9 with Neon extensions, real-time encoding of video
    362       telephony content is 35% faster than Bali on single core and 48%
    363       faster on multi-core. On the NVidia Tegra2 platform, real time
    364       encoding is 40% faster than Bali.
    365 
    366       Decoder speed was not a priority for this release, but improved
    367       approximately 8.4% on x86.
    368 
    369           Reduce motion vector search on alt-ref frame.
    370           Encoder loopfilter running in its own thread
    371           Reworked loopfilter to precalculate more parameters
    372           SSE2/SSSE3 optimizations for build_predictors_mbuv{,_s}().
    373           Make hor UV predict ~2x faster (73 vs 132 cycles) using SSSE3.
    374           Removed redundant checks
    375           Reduced structure sizes
    376           utilize preload in ARMv6 MC/LPF/Copy routines
    377           ARM optimized quantization, dfct, variance, subtract
    378           Increase chrow row alignment to 16 bytes.
    379           disable trellis optimization for first pass
    380           Write SSSE3 sub-pixel filter function
    381           Improve SSE2 half-pixel filter funtions
    382           Add vp8_sub_pixel_variance16x8_ssse3 function
    383           Reduce unnecessary distortion computation
    384           Use diamond search to replace full search
    385           Preload reference area in sub-pixel motion search (real-time mode)
    386 
    387   - Quality:
    388       This release focused primarily on one-pass use cases, including
    389       video conferencing. Low latency data rate control was significantly
    390       improved, improving streamability over bandwidth constrained links.
    391       Added support for error concealment, allowing frames to maintain
    392       visual quality in the presence of substantial packet loss.
    393 
    394           Add rc_max_intra_bitrate_pct control
    395           Limit size of initial keyframe in one-pass.
    396           Improve framerate adaptation
    397           Improved 1-pass CBR rate control
    398           Improved KF insertion after fades to still.
    399           Improved key frame detection.
    400           Improved activity masking (lower PSNR impact for same SSIM boost)
    401           Improved interaction between GF and ARFs
    402           Adding error-concealment to the decoder.
    403           Adding support for independent partitions
    404           Adjusted rate-distortion constants
    405 
    406 
    407   - Bug Fixes:
    408           Removed firstpass motion map
    409           Fix parallel make install
    410           Fix multithreaded encoding for 1 MB wide frame
    411           Fixed iwalsh_neon build problems with RVDS4.1
    412           Fix semaphore emulation, spin-wait intrinsics on Windows
    413           Fix build with xcode4 and simplify GLOBAL.
    414           Mark ARM asm objects as allowing a non-executable stack.
    415           Fix vpxenc encoding incorrect webm file header on big endian
    416 
    417 
    418 2011-03-07 v0.9.6 "Bali"
    419   Our second named release, focused on a faster, higher quality, encoder.
    420 
    421   - Upgrading:
    422     This release is backwards compatible with Aylesbury (v0.9.5). Users
    423     of older releases should refer to the Upgrading notes in this
    424     document for that release.
    425 
    426   - Enhancements:
    427       vpxenc --psnr shows a summary when encode completes
    428       --tune=ssim option to enable activity masking
    429       improved postproc visualizations for development
    430       updated support for Apple iOS to SDK 4.2
    431       query decoder to determine which reference frames were updated
    432       implemented error tracking in the decoder
    433       fix pipe support on windows
    434 
    435   - Speed:
    436       Primary focus was on good quality mode, speed 0. Average improvement
    437       on x86 about 40%, up to 100% on user-generated content at that speed.
    438       Best quality mode speed improved 35%, and realtime speed 10-20%. This
    439       release also saw significant improvement in realtime encoding speed
    440       on ARM platforms.
    441 
    442         Improved encoder threading
    443         Dont pick encoder filter level when loopfilter is disabled.
    444         Avoid double copying of key frames into alt and golden buffer
    445         FDCT optimizations.
    446         x86 sse2 temporal filter
    447         SSSE3 version of fast quantizer
    448         vp8_rd_pick_best_mbsegmentation code restructure
    449         Adjusted breakout RD for SPLITMV
    450         Changed segmentation check order
    451         Improved rd_pick_intra4x4block
    452         Adds armv6 optimized variance calculation
    453         ARMv6 optimized sad16x16
    454         ARMv6 optimized half pixel variance calculations
    455         Full search SAD function optimization in SSE4.1
    456         Improve MV prediction accuracy to achieve performance gain
    457         Improve MV prediction in vp8_pick_inter_mode() for speed>3
    458 
    459   - Quality:
    460       Best quality mode improved PSNR 6.3%, and SSIM 6.1%. This release
    461       also includes support for "activity masking," which greatly improves
    462       SSIM at the expense of PSNR. For now, this feature is available with
    463       the --tune=ssim option. Further experimentation in this area
    464       is ongoing. This release also introduces a new rate control mode
    465       called "CQ," which changes the allocation of bits within a clip to
    466       the sections where they will have the most visual impact.
    467 
    468         Tuning for the more exact quantizer.
    469         Relax rate control for last few frames
    470         CQ Mode
    471         Limit key frame quantizer for forced key frames.
    472         KF/GF Pulsing
    473         Add simple version of activity masking.
    474         make rdmult adaptive for intra in quantizer RDO
    475         cap the best quantizer for 2nd order DC
    476         change the threshold of DC check for encode breakout
    477 
    478   - Bug Fixes:
    479       Fix crash on Sparc Solaris.
    480       Fix counter of fixed keyframe distance
    481       ARNR filter pointer update bug fix
    482       Fixed use of motion percentage in KF/GF group calc
    483       Changed condition for using RD in Intra Mode
    484       Fix encoder real-time only configuration.
    485       Fix ARM encoder crash with multiple token partitions
    486       Fixed bug first cluster timecode of webm file is wrong.
    487       Fixed various encoder bugs with odd-sized images
    488       vp8e_get_preview fixed when spatial resampling enabled
    489       quantizer: fix assertion in fast quantizer path
    490       Allocate source buffers to be multiples of 16
    491       Fix for manual Golden frame frequency
    492       Fix drastic undershoot in long form content
    493 
    494 
    495 2010-10-28 v0.9.5 "Aylesbury"
    496   Our first named release, focused on a faster decoder, and a better encoder.
    497 
    498   - Upgrading:
    499     This release incorporates backwards-incompatible changes to the
    500     ivfenc and ivfdec tools. These tools are now called vpxenc and vpxdec.
    501 
    502     vpxdec
    503       * the -q (quiet) option has been removed, and replaced with
    504         -v (verbose). the output is quiet by default. Use -v to see
    505         the version number of the binary.
    506 
    507       * The default behavior is now to write output to a single file
    508         instead of individual frames. The -y option has been removed.
    509         Y4M output is the default.
    510 
    511       * For raw I420/YV12 output instead of Y4M, the --i420 or --yv12
    512         options must be specified.
    513 
    514           $ ivfdec -o OUTPUT INPUT
    515           $ vpxdec --i420 -o OUTPUT INPUT
    516 
    517       * If an output file is not specified, the default is to write
    518         Y4M to stdout. This makes piping more natural.
    519 
    520           $ ivfdec -y -o - INPUT | ...
    521           $ vpxdec INPUT | ...
    522 
    523       * The output file has additional flexibility for formatting the
    524         filename. It supports escape characters for constructing a
    525         filename from the width, height, and sequence number. This
    526         replaces the -p option. To get the equivalent:
    527 
    528           $ ivfdec -p frame INPUT
    529           $ vpxdec --i420 -o frame-%wx%h-%4.i420 INPUT
    530 
    531     vpxenc
    532       * The output file must be specified with -o, rather than as the
    533         last argument.
    534 
    535           $ ivfenc <options> INPUT OUTPUT
    536           $ vpxenc <options> -o OUTPUT INPUT
    537 
    538       * The output defaults to webm. To get IVF output, use the --ivf
    539         option.
    540 
    541           $ ivfenc <options> INPUT OUTPUT.ivf
    542           $ vpxenc <options> -o OUTPUT.ivf --ivf INPUT
    543 
    544 
    545   - Enhancements:
    546       ivfenc and ivfdec have been renamed to vpxenc, vpxdec.
    547       vpxdec supports .webm input
    548       vpxdec writes .y4m by default
    549       vpxenc writes .webm output by default
    550       vpxenc --psnr now shows the average/overall PSNR at the end
    551       ARM platforms now support runtime cpu detection
    552       vpxdec visualizations added for motion vectors, block modes, references
    553       vpxdec now silent by default
    554       vpxdec --progress shows frame-by-frame timing information
    555       vpxenc supports the distinction between --fps and --timebase
    556       NASM is now a supported assembler
    557       configure: enable PIC for shared libs by default
    558       configure: add --enable-small
    559       configure: support for ppc32-linux-gcc
    560       configure: support for sparc-solaris-gcc
    561 
    562   - Bugs:
    563       Improve handling of invalid frames
    564       Fix valgrind errors in the NEON loop filters.
    565       Fix loopfilter delta zero transitions
    566       Fix valgrind errors in vp8_sixtap_predict8x4_armv6().
    567       Build fixes for darwin-icc
    568 
    569   - Speed:
    570       20-40% (average 28%) improvement in libvpx decoder speed,
    571       including:
    572         Rewrite vp8_short_walsh4x4_sse2()
    573         Optimizations on the loopfilters.
    574         Miscellaneous improvements for Atom
    575         Add 4-tap version of 2nd-pass ARMv6 MC filter.
    576         Improved multithread utilization
    577         Better instruction choices on x86
    578         reorder data to use wider instructions
    579         Update NEON wide idcts
    580         Make block access to frame buffer sequential
    581         Improved subset block search
    582         Bilinear subpixel optimizations for ssse3.
    583         Decrease memory footprint
    584 
    585       Encoder speed improvements (percentage gain not measured):
    586         Skip unnecessary search of identical frames
    587         Add SSE2 subtract functions
    588         Improve bounds checking in vp8_diamond_search_sadx4()
    589         Added vp8_fast_quantize_b_sse2
    590 
    591   - Quality:
    592       Over 7% overall PSNR improvement (6.3% SSIM) in "best" quality
    593       encoding mode, and up to 60% improvement on very noisy, still
    594       or slow moving source video
    595 
    596         Motion compensated temporal filter for Alt-Ref Noise Reduction
    597         Improved use of trellis quantization on 2nd order Y blocks
    598         Tune effect of motion on KF/GF boost in two pass
    599         Allow coefficient optimization for good quality speed 0.
    600         Improved control of active min quantizer for two pass.
    601         Enable ARFs for non-lagged compress
    602 
    603 2010-09-02 v0.9.2
    604   - Enhancements:
    605       Disable frame dropping by default
    606       Improved multithreaded performance
    607       Improved Force Key Frame Behaviour
    608       Increased rate control buffer level precision
    609       Fix bug in 1st pass motion compensation
    610       ivfenc: correct fixed kf interval, --disable-kf
    611   - Speed:
    612       Changed above and left context data layout
    613       Rework idct calling structure.
    614       Removed unnecessary MB_MODE_INFO copies
    615       x86: SSSE3 sixtap prediction
    616       Reworked IDCT to include reconstruction (add) step
    617       Swap alt/gold/new/last frame buffer ptrs instead of copying.
    618       Improve SSE2 loopfilter functions
    619       Change bitreader to use a larger window.
    620       Avoid loopfilter reinitialization when possible
    621   - Quality:
    622       Normalize quantizer's zero bin and rounding factors
    623       Add trellis quantization.
    624       Make the quantizer exact.
    625       Updates to ARNR filtering algorithm
    626       Fix breakout thresh computation for golden & AltRef frames
    627       Redo the forward 4x4 dct
    628       Improve the accuracy of forward walsh-hadamard transform
    629       Further adjustment of RD behaviour with Q and Zbin.
    630   - Build System:
    631       Allow linking of libs built with MinGW to MSVC
    632       Fix target auto-detection on mingw32
    633       Allow --cpu= to work for x86.
    634       configure: pass original arguments through to make dist
    635       Fix builds without runtime CPU detection
    636       msvs: fix install of codec sources
    637       msvs: Change devenv.com command line for better msys support
    638       msvs: Add vs9 targets.
    639       Add x86_64-linux-icc target
    640   - Bugs:
    641       Potential crashes on older MinGW builds
    642       Fix two-pass framrate for Y4M input.
    643       Fixed simple loop filter, other crashes on ARM v6
    644       arm: fix missing dependency with --enable-shared
    645       configure: support directories containing .o
    646       Replace pinsrw (SSE) with MMX instructions
    647       apple: include proper mach primatives
    648       Fixed rate control bug with long key frame interval.
    649       Fix DSO link errors on x86-64 when not using a version script
    650       Fixed buffer selection for UV in AltRef filtering
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    653 2010-06-17 v0.9.1
    654   - Enhancements:
    655       * ivfenc/ivfdec now support YUV4MPEG2 input and pipe I/O
    656       * Speed optimizations
    657   - Bugfixes:
    658       * Rate control
    659       * Prevent out-of-bounds accesses on invalid data
    660   - Build system updates:
    661       * Detect toolchain to be used automatically for native builds
    662       * Support building shared libraries
    663       * Better autotools emulation (--prefix, --libdir, DESTDIR)
    664   - Updated LICENSE
    665       * http://webmproject.blogspot.com/2010/06/changes-to-webm-open-source-license.html
    666 
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    668 2010-05-18 v0.9.0
    669   - Initial open source release. Welcome to WebM and VP8!
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