My XVid binaries

[Nic]

Hi, I know I shouldn't really post the binaries but:

http://xvidbinary.20megsfree.com/

I set the codec to use the XVID decoder rather than the DIVX DShow decoder & Ive fixed the bug in the CVS that causes loading/saving the stats problematic (as an open dialog box would open rather than a save)

Hope this helps testing & evaluation of the codec. (sorry for all those cr*p banners from the poor hosting)

Cheers,
-Nic

ps
If Doom9 or anyone is really against the posting of links to the binaries I will take them down (as well as the actual files).

[aleksander]

It doesn't work. I cannot download.
I get the following message:

Forbidden
Remote Host: [213.25.33.98]

You do not have permission to access http://xvidbinary.20megsfree.com/XVID.ZIP
Data files must be stored on the same site they are linked from.

Thank you for using default.partner


Did you take it down already????
I want to download them since this open/close stats file bug is making me crazy....
take care
aleksander

[Nic]

Im on it, they should be there, it seems like a cr*p host but I cant get access to my normal dumping ground, hold tight. Ill get back in just a sec.

-Nic

[Nic]

Try here:

http://xvid.stormpages.com/

This one is picky too, but it should be better (remember to left click no right click to download)

Cheers,
-Nic

[Nic]

Would people prefer I reset it back to using the DivX Decoder? Rather than the new XVID one?

-Nic

[Teegedeck]

...why don't you just include TWO .inf-files; one that install the DShow and one that doesn't?

[Teegedeck]

...and don't forget to include an uninstall.bat, too, for those that change their minds... ;)

[Nic]

I didn't realise the xvid decoder also accepted DivX fourcc as well as having such a high merit.

However, I think that the xvid filter only accepts the XVID mediatype. So it wont play divx files, I could change this but things could get confusing because then it would be used for both xvid & divx.

So I'd rather have one or the other, then again people can always set the fourcc of the AVI files with AviC.

plus, the inf file that comes with xvid doesnt install the filter, so I dont want to change too many things.

-Nic

[Doom9]

isibar explicitly told me not to use the xvid ds filter for my comparisions.. it's not ready yet.. hence I would suggest you default to the divx fourcc

[Nic]

Thank you for the info, ill change it back to using the DivX fourcc.

Cheers,
-Nic

ps
Now changed back! :)

[Koepi]

I can only agree - the xvid DS filter (for playback) is unusable as it hasn't any controls for brightness/contrast/saturation/... - it's not using overlay as my NVIDIA drivers don't allow me to adjust those values as well on xvid playback... so all the playbacks via that filter are way too dark for me :)

I hope this helps.

Btw., thanks for the binary, helps me not to get into the trouble of compiling it myself ;)

Regards,
Koepi

[Teegedeck]

@Nic: thanks for compiling the sources! Perhaps you should include a message on your site that download will only work with IE. (Yes, there are people actually using OPERA! ;))

[Koepi]

@Tee:

Make it "Download NOT working with opera"!
I use mozilla (most recent nightly builds) and it worked like charme. If you want to, i can test lynx, links and wget as well, but I don't think it's necessary!

Btw., is this browser-thingy not a little Off-Topic? ;)

Regards,
Koepi

[Teegedeck]

@Koepi: BTW, nice to see you here! When I look at the topic 'My XviD binaries', I think that my posting wasn't too off-topic. But I'll try to adhere to forum rules a bit more, now.

Hope you stick around.

[Nic]

Latest version compiled:

http://xvidbinary.20megsfree.com/

or

http://www.stormpages.com/xvid/

Cheers,
-Nic

[MaTTeR]

@Nic

Thanks so much for the binaries. I just installed your latest 01-28 build but the about box in the config window is showing 01-27. Anyone else see this?

[Nic]

When I state the date, that is the date on which I got the source from the CVS and compiled it. Which was this morning (28/01) at about 9:00am GMT :)

Ill update it frequently... :)

Cheers,
-Nic

[Koepi]

Hi again,

I tried using the 1 pass CBR mode - but it doesn't start encoding. The best result until now I got was a division by zero error (the build from yesterday didn't even react to anything, made vdub crash... i had to use the task manager to kill the process...).

Any ideas where this comes from?

And btw., if the XviD developers are around here as well: I posted a new topic on the powercoding.de general devel forum about some (de)interlacing involving something fancy like fake-re-encoding ;-) You may want to look at it
SCNR *hide* :)


Regards,
Koepi

[Teegedeck]

Hello Koepi,

sorry, never ever tried CBR... -h could perhaps help, but won't be online for some hours. I guess you'd better try it over at Isibaar's place...

[EDIT:] ...that's what he told me anyway :)

Till then

Tee

[-h]

I tried using the 1 pass CBR mode - but it doesn't start encoding. The best result until now I got was a division by zero error (the build from yesterday didn't even react to anything, made vdub crash... i had to use the task manager to kill the process...).

Something has.. gone wrong. Looks like a core issue too..

And btw., if the XviD developers are around here as well: I posted a new topic on the powercoding.de general devel forum about some (de)interlacing involving something fancy like fake-re-encoding ;-) You may want to look at it
SCNR *hide* :)

Couldn't find the web page?

-h

[Koepi]

Sorry, my fault, I didn't think before writing. Mixed up something I read in some threads here before with the thing I was actually doing - i meant videocoding.de of course.

Regards,
Koepi

[-h]

Oops.. dead CBR seems to be my fault ;)

I won't have CVS access for 10 hours or so however.

-h

[-h]

@Koepi - can you try CBR encoding with lumi masking disabled? There seems to be an issue with the new lumi masking code, and CBR mode.

Edit: scratch that, I have to change something in the CVS to allow CBR encodes. Lumi masking issue is still there though.

-h

[Koepi]

You're right, reproducable here. Without luma masquerading it works! :-)

Thanks for the hint :)

Regards,
Koepi

[Nic]

Latest build 30/01/02 is now at:

Main:
www.freewebz.com/xvid

Mirror:
xvid.stormpages.com

Cheers,
-Nic

ps
(http://xvidbinary.20megsfree.com/ -> Not updating any more!, will be closed)

[Nic]

The reason the about box reads: 27/01/02 is because the code uses __TIMESTAMP__ inside config.c, which writes the time for when config.c was last changed, not the last compilation. Ill recommend to videocoding.de that they change this to __TIME__ or similar.

-Nic

[MaTTeR]

Originally posted by Nic
....Ill recommend to videocoding.de that they change this to __TIME__ or similar.

-Nic

Thx Nic. This would be most helpful. I sometimes lose track of which build I installed last;)

[wing1]

-> Koepi

how did you get cbr to work. I've tried both with/without lumina masking option, and both crashed immediately with vdub1.48 on win2K o/s using AthalonXP 1900+. xvid produces great quality if you use 1-pass quality encoding but the bitrate climbs over 300Kbps, while the quantizer 1-pass method drops the bitrate way under 90Kbps and it produces way too much block noise.

-> nic
thanks for sharing the binaries :)
btw..the new 1/30/02 binaries does play back divx4.12 movies without 4.12codec installed.

[Nic]

Cheers for the heads up, ill look into both those points & get the next CVS version soon (which will hopefully get these things fixed (or maybe ill get chance to address them this weekend)

-Nic

[Koepi]

Wing1, did you try to disable mmx optimization as well on the advanced tab? IIRC that was another option next to disabling luma masking making 1 pass CBR work again...

I hope this helps,

Regards,
Koepi

[-h]

CBR encoding without lumi masking should be working with the current CVS, with or without MMX/MMX_EXT optimizations. If it doesn't... then yuck.

I'm not sure if Isibaar is onto it yet, so I can play this weekend.

-h

[Nic]

It works without Lumi on mine (Celeron 1000)

-Nic

[Nic]

Latest build 01/02/02 is now at:

Main:
www.freewebz.com/xvid

Mirror:
xvid.stormpages.com

This version may well work with MPEG2AVI.

Cheers,
-Nic

[-h]

Before the latest CVS update, MPEG2AVI was crashing for me when attempting a 2-pass encode in YUV colorspaces. It didn't crash for any other codecs, like DivX4, but the output avi was corrupt.

After the last change, MPEG2AVI no longer crashes when XviD attempts 2-pass mode. But the avis were still all corrupt :)

I assume that, if it worked for people with DivX4, it'll now work with XviD too.

I have no idea what I did to corrupt so many avis (raw frames, huffyuv, divx 3.11, divx 4, indeo, mpeg2avi corrupted them all on my computer).

-h

[Nic]

Just in case anyone thought I was slacking :) The reason I haven't put the latest build up is because I have heard that it is having quite big problems with Pink & Green blocks.

As soon as this is resolved Ill put up the latest version,
Cheers,
-Nic

[-h]

Blah I've been too busy to do much of anything lately. Weird block issue seems to be the new 3DNow! interpolation code (just disable 3DNow! optimizations in the CPU config - the only change is that you'll go back to using MMX interpolation). Haven't been able to test to make sure though, not sure if CBR is still broken either.

-h

[Nic]

Busy? Tell me about it :)

Latest build 06/02/02 is now at:

Main:
www.freewebz.com/xvid

Mirror:
xvid.stormpages.com

Changes:
This version has a bug in the 3DNow! interpolation code, so if your using AMD turn 3dNow
optimisation off.

If using the MPEG quantizer then change fourcc to XVID so that the XVID decoder is used,
This is because of a bug in the DivX decoding code.

Cheers,
-Nic

[rui]

Originally posted by Nic

Latest build 06/02/02

Changes:
This version has a bug in the 3DNow! interpolation code, so if your using AMD turn 3dNow
optimisation off.

If using the MPEG quantizer then change fourcc to XVID so that the XVID decoder is used,
This is because of a bug in the DivX decoding code.


I have an AMD XP. In comparison with the 2/02/02 build, will i get any speed gain, since i am turning 3dnow optimization off and going back to mmx, like -h said above?
If no, i think i will wait for the next one ;)

[Nic]

Probably your best bet, hopefully this will be resolved soon :)

-Nic

[easyfab]

With my athlon I encode with 3dnow! on .
In DivX decoder, there are the problems you said but when i've changed to XVID decoder (fourcc to XVID ) there aren't any problems ?
Is the Xvid encoder the problem or the Divx decoder Which not support the new version of the codec ?

[Nic]

The problem with the 3DNow code has now been solved. Ill compile a new version & put it up tommorrow morning (then ill post here)

As with the decoders, the DivX decoder has problems decoding files that were encoded using the MPEG quantizer (rather than the h.263 one). The problem with decoding the MPEG quantizer is a problem with DivX compatability (not xvid).

-Nic

[rui]

Originally posted by Nic
The problem with the 3DNow code has now been solved. Ill compile a new version & put it up tommorrow morning (then ill post here)
-Nic

These are really GREAT news :)
I will be looking forward for tomorrow's build :cool:

[Nic]

Latest build 07/02/02 is now at:

Main:
www.freewebz.com/xvid

Mirror:
xvid.stormpages.com

Changes:
Fixes the AMD 3DNow! Interpolation bugs, i.e. Not so many Pink Blocks

Cheers,
-Nic

[-h]

Sounds like the 3DNow! issues have only been 'partly' resolved.

-h

[rui]

These are not so great news :)

[-h]

New bugs are always good news! It shows you that the developers haven't given up yet.

.. and that they still hate testing :)

-h

[ChristianHJW]

:lol: ...

[MoonWalker]

How do u change the fourcc? With the prog that Doom9 has??

Thanks,
MoonWalker

[Nic]

Its mentioned in the readme.txt

the program is called AviC (you may have to goto the main software page)

it does the job very nicely.... :)

-Nic

[wing1]

down load the new build and did noticed a few pinkish/purplish area during play back( using DivX4.12 decoder ). These area only show up on a few frames after scene changes especially in the high contrasted area. I used H263 quantizer with motion estimation set at 5, while encoding with 1-pass CBR mode @ 1600kpbs. Did noticed a slightly sharper video with this version. I also had 3D-Now and 3D-Now2 options turned on for CPU optimization setting. I will turn it off and re-encode to see if the pinkish/purplish will go away.