[x265] [ANN] x265 2.1 released

[Pradeep Ramachandran]

x265 version 2.1 has been released. This release contains experimental
support for slice-parallelism, enhancements to the API to support
user-defined SEI messages, and other bug fixes.

Full documentation is available at http://x265.readthedocs.org/en/stable/

Release Notes for 2.1
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Encoder enhancements
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1. Support for qg-size of 8
2. Experimental support for slice-parallelism.

API changes
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1. Encode user-define SEI messages passed in through x265_picture object.
2. Disable SEI and VUI messages from the bitstream
3. Specify qpmin and qpmax
4. Control number of bits to encode POC.

Bug fixes
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1. QP fluctuation fix for first B-frame in mini-GOP for 2-pass encoding
with tune-grain.
2. Assembly fix for crashes in 32-bit from dct_sse4.
3. Threadpool creation fix in windows platform.

Thanks,
Pradeep.
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