libtheora 1.0alpha6 release

[PatchWorKs]

Changes since the 1.0 alpha 5 release:

* Merge theora-mmx simd acceleration (x86_32 and x86_64)
* Major RTP payload specification update
* Minor format specification updates
* Fix some spurious calls to free() instead of _ogg_free()
* Fix invalid array indexing in PixelLineSearch()
* Improve robustness against invalid input
* General warning cleanup
* The offset_y member now means what every application thought it meant (offset from the top). This will mean some old files (those with a non-centered image created with a buggy encoder) will display differently.

Official website (http://www.theora.org/)

[hellfred]

theora.org is not reachable at the moment. (403 Forbidden)
But one can get the source from xiph.org (http://www.xiph.org/downloads/).
Nice Interface to browse xiphs svn repositories (http://trac.xiph.org/browser/trunk/theora?rev=11481&order=date&desc=1).
Source as small archive tar.bz2 (1.5MB) (http://trac.xiph.org/browser/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha6.tar.bz2?rev=11474&format=raw).

Hellfred

[videomixer9]

Except for needing no license it seems to me like noone got any interest in theora really. Well no wonder as it is unlike vorbis not some new standard for quality ... all theora did for xiph is ruining it's name for quality.

The site works fine for me btw.

[thoralf]

Except for needing no license it seems to me like noone got any interest in theora really.

well, the "need no license" is quite important for streaming video - theora is the only viable solution available in open source world atm. I'm kind of glad about the mmx merge - this should at least make the encoder noticeably faster.

with kind regards,
thoralf.