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Theora Alpha 5 released!
« on: September 02, 2005, 04:26:40 PM »

On August 20, but, better late than never in posting this  :wink:

From www.theora.org:
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We're pleased to announce a new release of the libtheora reference implemenation. This is an incremental update over alpha 4, to draw a line under recent work before we start adding optimization work.

There are two important bugfixes as well, so we recommend upgrading to everyone. This release is source and binary compatible with 1.0 alpha 4.

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Changes since the 1.0 alpha 4 release:

    * Fixed bitrate management bugs that caused popping and encode errors.
    * Fixed a crash problem with the theora_state internals not being intialized properly.
    * new theora_granule_shift() utility function
    * dump_video example now makes YUV4MPEG files by default, so the results can be fed back to encoder_example and similar tools. The old behavior is restored with the '-r' switch.
    * ./configure now prints a summary
    * simple unit test of the comment api under 'make check'
    * misc code cleanup, warning and leak fixes


Did you see that? I did... Finally, talk about some optimisations in the codec  :D I have been waiting a while, perhaps there will be an actual release build in the near future too.

Anyways, I don't know if I will start using this build just yet, as the fixes mainly seem to be with the encoder... Definitely I will go get an updated ffmpeg2theora.exe so my files are better converted though.
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