vvenc-1.7.0

Over v1.7.0-rc1

• Setting default ticks per second to 27000000
• Using MCTF to collect statistics for QPA, even if not applied

Over v1.6.1

• Added support for ARM through SIMDe
• Allowing adaptive intra period (content adaptive placement of random access points)
• Ported block importance mapping from VTM
  • around 1% gain for faster
  • around 2% BD-rate gain for other presets
• Added noise based QP clipping to RC
• Improved SCC detector to ignore black borders
• Added possibility of logo overlay
• Bugfixes and cleanups
• Speedups: ~20% for faster, ~5% for other presets

vvenc-1.7.0-rc1

• Added support for ARM through SIMDe
• Allowing adaptive intra period (content adaptive placement of random access points)
• Ported block importance mapping from VTM
  • around 1% gain for faster
  • around 2% BD-rate gain for other presets
• Added noise based QP clipping to RC
• Improved SCC detector to ignore black borders
• Added possibility of logo overlay
• Bugfixes and cleanups
• Speedups: ~20% for faster, ~5% for other presets

vvenc-1.6.1

Bugfix release:

• Bugfix for rate control at low rates
• Bugfix to multi-threaded encoding with tiles
• Added auto-logic for correct tickspersec setting
• Made apputils an internal header only lib, fixing linking problems
• Speedup non-linear ALF (-4% runtime for slower)
• Optimized non-RD-optimized quantization
• Various cleanups and fixes

vvenc-1.6.0

• Speedups
  • 15%+ for faster, fast, medium and slower
  • 5%+ for slow
• Minor efficiency improvements
• Major RC stability improvements, especially for 1pRC and high rates
• Various cleanups and improvements

vvenc-1.6.0-rc1

• Speedups
  • 15%+ for faster, fast, medium and slower
  • 5%+ for slow
• Minor efficiency improvements
• Major RC stability improvements, especially for 1pRC and high rates
• Various cleanups and improvements

vvenc-1.5.0

Retagged with proper version set in CMakeLists.txt

vs v1.5.0-rc1:

• Fixed library 1st-pass flush behavior

vs v1.4.0:

• Allowing arbitrary intra period (independent of GOP size)
• Speedups
  • 10%+ and 1.3 BDR gain for fast/er
  • ~10% for medium
  • ~7% for slow/er
• Improvements on rate-control stability
• Added a low-decoding-energy configuration
• Minor improvements and cleanups

vvenc-1.5.0-rc1

• Allowing arbitrary intra period (independent of GOP size)
• Speedups
  • 10%+ and 1.3 BDR gain for fast/er
  • 10% for medium
  • ~7% for slow/er
• Improvements on rate-control stability
• Added a low-decoding-energy configuration
• Minor improvements and cleanups

vvenc-1.4.0

Over 1.3.1:

• changed license to unmodified Clear BSD
• explicitly added the authors as copyright holders
• removed legacy 1-pass RC, now only allowing lookahead-based 1pRC
• implemented GOP-based scene-cut detection allowing to insert I-frames instead of TL-0 B-frames
• added header reading functionality
• allowed specifying of bitrate using common suffixes (Mbps, M, Kbps, K, and bps)
• integrated Y4M input support
• various fixes and improvements

Over 1.4.0-rc1:

• fixed TreatAsSubPic

vvenc-1.4.0-rc1

• changed license to unmodified Clear BSD
• explicitly added the authors as copyright holders
• removed legacy 1-pass RC- now only allowing lookahead-based 1pRC
• implemented GOP-based scene-cut detection allowing to insert I-frames instead of TL-0 B-frames
• added header reading functionality
• allowed specifying of bitrate using common suffixes (Mbps, M, Kbps, K, and bps)
• integrated Y4M input support
• various fixes and improvements

vvenc-1.3.1

Retagging 1.3.1 with correct version (otherwise equal to 7c9c994)

• fixes #121 (qpa+tiles)
• fixes #118
• improved and aligned output
• subpicture support