Software update: XviD 0.9.0

The ISO MPEG-4 compliant open-source video codec XviD has recently arrived at version 0.9.0† According to the programmers, this is the best MPEG-4 video codec currently available. We found the following description in the release notes:

We are proud to announce immediate availability of XviD’s first public libxvidcore release. This 0.9.0 version includes support for all these features:

• I, P Frame encoding.
• PMVFast and EPZS with diamond and square pattern motion estimation.
• inter4v mode.
• full pixel and half pixel precision.
• both MPEG4 and H263 quantizations.
• custom quant matrices.
• Adaptive quantization / Luminance masking.

[break]To get it, use the links below:
XviD core library (bz2)
XviD core library (gzip)
XviD core library (zip)