2021-09-27 v1.11.0 "Smew Duck"
This maintenance release adds support for VBR mode in VP9 rate control
interface, new codec controls to get quantization parameters and loop filter
levels, and includes several improvements to NEON and numerous bug fixes.
- Upgrading:
New codec control is added to get quantization parameters and loop filter
levels.
VBR mode is supported in VP9 rate control library.
- Enhancement:
Numerous improvements for Neon optimizations.
Code clean-up and refactoring.
Calculation of rd multiplier is changed with BDRATE gains.
- Bug fixes:
Fix to overflow on duration.
Fix to several instances of -Wunused-but-set-variable.
Fix to avoid chroma resampling for 420mpeg2 input.
Fix to overflow in calc_iframe_target_size.
Fix to disallow skipping transform and quantization.
Fix some -Wsign-compare warnings in simple_encode.
Fix input file path in simple_encode_test.
Fix valid range for under/over_shoot pct.
All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
The following distfiles could not be fetched (for legal reasons?):
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Release v1.10.0 Ruddy Duck
2021-03-09 v1.10.0 "Ruddy Duck"
This maintenance release adds support for darwin20 and new codec controls, as
well as numerous bug fixes.
- Upgrading:
New codec control is added to disable loopfilter for VP9.
New encoder control is added to disable feature to increase Q on overshoot
detection for CBR.
Configure support for darwin20 is added.
New codec control is added for VP9 rate control. The control ID of this
interface is VP9E_SET_EXTERNAL_RATE_CONTROL. To make VP9 use a customized
external rate control model, users will have to implement each callback
function in vpx_rc_funcs_t and register them using libvpx API
vpx_codec_control_() with the control ID.
- Enhancement:
Use -std=gnu++11 instead of -std=c++11 for c++ files.
- Bug fixes:
Override assembler with --as option of configure for MSVS.
Fix several compilation issues with gcc 4.8.5.
Fix to resetting rate control for temporal layers.
Fix to the rate control stats of SVC example encoder when number of spatial
layers is 1.
Fix to reusing motion vectors from the base spatial layer in SVC.
2 pass related flags removed from SVC example encoder.
2020-07-29 v1.9.0 "Quacking Duck"
This release adds support for NV12, a separate library for rate control, as
well as incremental improvements.
- Upgrading:
NV12 support is added to this release.
A new interface is added for VP9 rate control. The new library libvp9rc.a
must be linked by applications.
Googletest is updated to v1.10.0.
simple_encode.cc is compiled into a new library libsimple_encode.a with
CONFIG_RATE_CTRL.
- Enhancement:
Various changes to improve VP9 SVC, rate control, quality and speed to real
time encoding.
- Bug fixes:
Fix key frame update refresh simulcast flexible svc.
Fix to disable_16x16part speed feature for real time encoding.
Fix some signed integer overflows for VP9 rate control.
Fix initialization of delta_q_uv.
Fix condition in regulate_q for cyclic refresh.
Various fixes to dynamic resizing for VP9 SVC.
v1.8.2 "Pekin Duck"
This release collects incremental improvements to many aspects of the library.
- Upgrading:
ARCH_* defines have been removed in favor of VPX_ARCH_*.
v1.8.1 "Orpington Duck"
This release collects incremental improvements to many aspects of the library.
- Upgrading:
VP8E_SET_CPUUSED now accepts values up to 9 for vp9.
VPX_CTRL_VP9E_SET_MAX_INTER_BITRATE_PCT had a spelling fix (was VP8E).
The --sdk-path option has been removed. If you were using it to build for
Android please read build/make/Android.mk for alternatives.
All PPC optimizations have been disabled:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1522.
- Enhancements:
Various changes to improve encoder rate control, quality and speed
for practically every use case.
- Bug fixes:
vp9-rtc: Fix color artifacts for speed >= 8.
v1.8.0 "Northern Shoveler Duck"
This release focused on encoding performance for realtime and VOD use cases.
- Upgrading:
This adds and improves several vp9 controls. Most are related to SVC:
VP9E_SET_SVC_FRAME_DROP_LAYER:
- Frame dropping in SVC.
VP9E_SET_SVC_INTER_LAYER_PRED:
- Inter-layer prediction in SVC.
VP9E_SET_SVC_GF_TEMPORAL_REF:
- Enable long term temporal reference in SVC.
VP9E_SET_SVC_REF_FRAME_CONFIG/VP9E_GET_SVC_REF_FRAME_CONFIG:
- Extend and improve this control for better flexibility in setting SVC
pattern dynamically.
VP9E_SET_POSTENCODE_DROP:
- Allow for post-encode frame dropping (applies to non-SVC too).
VP9E_SET_SVC_SPATIAL_LAYER_SYNC:
- Enable spatial layer sync frames.
VP9E_SET_SVC_LAYER_ID:
- Extend api to specify temporal id for each spatial layers.
VP9E_SET_ROI_MAP:
- Extend Region of Interest functionality to VP9.
- Enhancements:
2 pass vp9 encoding has improved substantially. When using --auto-alt-ref=6,
we see approximately 8% for VBR and 10% for CQ. When using --auto-alt-ref=1,
the gains are approximately 4% for VBR and 5% for CQ.
For real-time encoding, speed 7 has improved by ~5-10%. Encodes targeted at
screen sharing have improved when the content changes significantly (slide
sharing) or scrolls. There is a new speed 9 setting for mobile devices which
is about 10-20% faster than speed 8.
- Bug fixes:
VP9 denoiser issue.
VP9 partition issue for 1080p.
VP9 rate control improvments.
Postprocessing Multi Frame Quality Enhancement (MFQE) issue.
VP8 multithread decoder issues.
A variety of fuzzing issues.
mode only, now. Set the target to generic-gnu for powerpc based ports on NetBSD
to allow libvpx to build and run, though without any targetted optimization.
Resolves build issue on NetBSD/macppc which failed at configure stage otherwise.
TenFourFox has patches to add support for Altivec acceleration, which could be
used to add support back again locally.
https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox/tree/master/media/libvpx
2017-01-04 v1.7.0 "Mandarin Duck"
This release focused on high bit depth performance (10/12 bit) and vp9
encoding improvements.
- Upgrading:
This release is ABI incompatible due to new vp9 encoder features.
Frame parallel decoding for vp9 has been removed.
- Enhancements:
vp9 encoding supports additional threads with --row-mt. This can be greater
than the number of tiles.
Two new vp9 encoder options have been added:
--corpus-complexity
--tune-content=film
Additional tooling for respecting the vp9 "level" profiles has been added.
- Bug fixes:
A variety of fuzzing issues.
vp8 threading fix for ARM.
Codec control VP9_SET_SKIP_LOOP_FILTER fixed.
Reject invalid multi resolution configurations.
2017-01-09 v1.6.1 "Long Tailed Duck"
This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and
decoding processes.
- Upgrading:
This release is ABI compatible with 1.6.0.
- Enhancements:
Faster VP9 encoding and decoding.
High bit depth builds now provide similar speed for 8 bit encode and decode
for x86 targets. Other platforms and higher bit depth improvements are in
progress.
- Bug Fixes:
A variety of fuzzing issues.
Changelog:
2016-07-20 v1.6.0 "Khaki Campbell Duck"
This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and
decoding processes.
- Upgrading:
This release is ABI incompatible with 1.5.0 due to a new 'color_range' enum
in vpx_image and some minor changes to the VP8_COMP structure.
The default key frame interval for VP9 has changed from 128 to 9999.
- Enhancement:
A core focus has been performance for low end Intel processors. SSSE3
instructions such as 'pshufb' have been avoided and instructions have been
reordered to better accommodate the more constrained pipelines.
As a result, devices based on Celeron processors have seen substantial
decoding improvements. From Indian Runner Duck to Javan Whistling Duck,
decoding speed improved between 10 and 30%. Between Javan Whistling Duck
and Khaki Campbell Duck, it improved another 10 to 15%.
While Celeron benefited most, Core-i5 also improved 5% and 10% between the
respective releases.
Realtime performance for WebRTC for both speed and quality has received a
lot of attention.
- Bug Fixes:
A number of fuzzing issues, found variously by Mozilla, Chromium and others,
have been fixed and we strongly recommend updating.
The find-prefix infrastructure was required in a pkgviews world where
packages installed from pkgsrc could have different installation
prefixes, and this was a way for a dependency prefix to be determined.
Now that pkgviews has been removed there is no longer any need for the
overhead of this infrastructure. Instead we use BUILDLINK_PREFIX.pkg
for dependencies pulled in via buildlink, or LOCALBASE/PREFIX where the
dependency is coming from pkgsrc.
Provides a reasonable performance win due to the reduction of `pkg_info
-qp` calls, some of which were redundant anyway as they were duplicating
the same information provided by BUILDLINK_PREFIX.pkg.
* Fix HOMEPAGE
Changelog:
2015-11-09 v1.5.0 "Javan Whistling Duck"
This release improves upon the VP9 encoder and speeds up the encoding and
decoding processes.
- Upgrading:
This release is ABI incompatible with 1.4.0. It drops deprecated VP8
controls and adds a variety of VP9 controls for testing.
The vpxenc utility now prefers VP9 by default.
- Enhancements:
Faster VP9 encoding and decoding
Smaller library size by combining functions used by VP8 and VP9
- Bug Fixes:
A variety of fuzzing issues
Changelog:
2015-04-03 v1.4.0 "Indian Runner Duck"
This release includes significant improvements to the VP9 codec.
- Upgrading:
This release is ABI incompatible with 1.3.0. It drops the compatibility
layer, requiring VPX_IMG_FMT_* instead of IMG_FMT_*, and adds several codec
controls for VP9.
- Enhancements:
Faster VP9 encoding and decoding
Multithreaded VP9 decoding (tile and frame-based)
Multithreaded VP9 encoding - on by default
YUV 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 support in VP9
10 and 12bit support in VP9
64bit ARM support by replacing ARM assembly with intrinsics
- Bug Fixes:
Fixes a VP9 bitstream issue in Profile 1. This only affected non-YUV 4:2:0
files.
- Known Issues:
Frame Parallel decoding fails for segmented and non-420 files.
is specific to the verion of Clang (3.5 and newer) and not the platform.
This package now builds under Mac OS X Yosemite with the latest version
of Xcode tools.
