Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 17:33:54 -0700
x265 version 2.4 has been released. This release incorporates support for
the new HDR10+ standard, and revised lambda tables for main, main10, and
main12 profiles that significantly improve visual quality!
Version 2.4 can now be downloaded from here
https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/downloads/x265_2.4.tar.gz(md5:
ab0986aa5c4465b874de94095b0d0cae). Full documentation is available at
http://x265.readthedocs.io/en/stable/.
Release Notes for Version 2.4
Release date - 22nd April, 2017.
Encoder enhancements
- HDR10+ supported. Dynamic metadata may be either supplied as a bitstream
via the userSEI field of x265_picture, or as a json file that can be parsed
by x265 and inserted into the bitstream; use –dhdr10-info to specify json
file name, and –dhdr10-opt to enable optimization of inserting tone-map
information only at IDR frames, or when the tone map information changes. - Lambda tables for 8, 10, and 12-bit encoding revised, resulting in
significant enhancement to subjective visual quality. - Enhanced HDR10 encoding with HDR-specific QP optimizations for chroma,
and luma planes of WCG content enabled; use –hdr-opt to activate. - Ability to accept analysis information from other previous encodes (that
may or may not be x265), and selectively reuse and refine analysis for
encoding subsequent passes enabled with the –refine-level option. - Slow and veryslow presets receive a 20% speed boost at iso-quality by
enabling the –limit-tu option. - The bitrate target for x265 can now be dynamically reconfigured via the
reconfigure API. - Performance optimized SAO algorithm introduced via the –limit-sao
option; seeing 10% speed benefits at faster presets.
API changes
- x265_reconfigure API now also accepts rate-control parameters for
dynamic reconfiguration. - Several additions to data fields in x265_analysis to support
–refine-level: see x265.h for more details.
Bug fixes
- Avoid negative offsets in x265 lambda2 table with SAO enabled.
- Fix mingw32 build error.
- Seek now enabled for pipe input, in addition to file-based input
- Fix issue of statically linking core-utils not working in linux.
- Fix visual artifacts with –multi-pass-opt-distortion with VBV.
- Fix bufferFill stats reported in csv.