[x264-devel] x264 Development Newsletter: Vol. 39

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

This is the thirty-ninth x264 development newsletter. This is a
regular email containing updates on fixes and improvements in the most
recent x264 push, along with updates on what's coming next.  Previous
versions can be found in the mailing list archives.

Fixes:

Remove misaligned SSE support; could cause problems if exception masks
were messed with by libraries and is obsoleted by AVX.

Fix AVX2 detection if "limit CPUID" is enabled in the BIOS.

Fix cases where intra refresh could predict from disallowed pixels.

x86inc: support "x64"-marked Windows 64-bit machines.

Improvements:

Support cygwin 64-bit.

x86: faster SAD_X3/SAD_X4

Transparent hugepage support and optimization on Linux.

AVC-Intra encoding support.

Windows Unicode (UTF-16) support.

Jason Garrett-Glaser

The x264 Team