Software Update: XviD 0.9.2

Files containing movie images are very large uncompressed, which is why methods have been devised to make these files as small as possible without losing quality of the image. XviD is a codec that handles this perfectly, in addition, the GPL license has been applied, which means that you can use this codec without license costs. Version 0.9.2 was recently released and has the following release notes:

We know you are all waiting for XviD 1.0, but there’s still work on the queue that needs to be done before we can label XviD as a symbolic 1.0 version.

Work on devapi3 and now devapi4 lead to some important bugfixes in the 0.9.x series and we think it’s important to release a last version that definitively closes that branch of development.

This is a bug fix release only:

• Fixed unaligned bitstream read on platforms that don’t support unaligned memory access (among them ARM).
• Fixed build system for Unix platforms, XviD is now built as libxvidcore.so.major.minor where major and minor are the API version. The soname is mapped to libxvidcore.so.major, all releases with the same major API number will be binary compatible. For this release major=2, minor=1. XviD 1.0.x series will use major=4 minor=?.
• Fixed wrong “video_object_type_indication” and possible wrong byte paddings in theVOL header. Note that these bugs do not hurt usual decoders (even reference software did not detect these errors).
• Fixed a bitstream error in VOP ending (4 erroneous 0xff bytes instead of a next_start_code().
• Changed default lignment on 64 bit platform for better performance.
• Added a MacOSX module building process for transcode users.
• Removed SCO Unix System V code from XviD 😉

[break]The following three downloads are available:
xvidcore-0.9.2.tar.gz
xvidcore-0.9.2.tar.bz2
xvidcore-0.9.2.zip