Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:34:40 +0530
x265 version 2.3 has been released. This release contains new algorithms
that improveto visual quality, encoding efficiency, and performance.
The latest version can be downloaded from here
https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads/x265_2.3.tar.gz (MD5
sum = 18716a7e0c6f6ebd2a1035b82cec30de). Full documentation is available at
http://x265.readthedocs.io/en/stable/.
Release Notes for 2.3
Encoder enhancements
- New SSIM-based RD-cost computation for improved visual quality, and
efficiency; use –ssim-rd to exercise. - Multi-pass encoding can now share analysis information from prior passes
(in addition to rate-control information) to improve performance and
quality of subsequent passes; to your multi-pass command-lines that use the
–pass option, add –multi-pass-opt-distortion to share distortion
information, and –multi-pass-opt-analysis to share other analysis
information. - A dedicated thread pool for lookahead can now be specified with
–lookahead-threads. - –dynamic-rd dynamically increase analysis in areas where the bitrate is
being capped by VBV; works for both CRF and ABR encodes with VBV settings. - The number of bits used to signal the delta-QP can be optimized with the
–opt-cu-delta-qp option; found to be useful in some scenarios for lower
bitrate targets. - Experimental feature option:–aq-motion adds new QP offsets based on
relative motion of a block with respect to the movement of the frame.
API changes
- Reconfigure API now supports signalling new scaling lists.
- x265 application’s csv functionality now reports time (in milliseconds)
taken to encode each frame. - –strict-cbr enables stricter bitrate adherence by adding filler bits
when achieved bitrate is lower than the target; earlier, it was only
reacting when the achieved rate was higher. - –hdr can be used to ensure that max-cll and max-fall values are always
signaled (even if 0,0).
Bug fixes
- Fixed incorrect HW thread counting on MacOS platform.
- Fixed scaling lists support for 4:4:4 videos.
- Inconsistent output fix for –opt-qp-pss by removing last slice’s QP
from cost calculation. - VTune profiling (enabled using ENABLE_VTUNE CMake option) now also works
with 2017 VTune builds.
Happy compressing!
Pradeep.
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