[x265] [ANN] x265 2.1 released

[Pradeep Ramachandran]

Missed out one encoder enhancement in the release notes.

x265 now supports inserting non-IDR I-frames at scenecuts and when running
with settings for fixed-GOP (min-keyint = max-keyint)

Pradeep.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Pradeep Ramachandran <
pradeep at multicorewareinc.com> wrote:

> 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
> ================
>
> Encoder enhancements
> ----------------------------------
> 1. Support for qg-size of 8
> 2. Experimental support for slice-parallelism.
>
> API changes
> -------------------
> 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
> --------------
> 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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