Weekly pre-release

New Features:

• Fast 8bit codepath
• Shell auto-completion support
• Add a --skip option

Bugfixes:

• Depend on a y4m version that properly supports odd-dimensioned content
• Fix and enable directional intra prediction modes

API Changes:

• Add an explicit thread field in the Configuration to manage the threadpool using the API
• Cap the default threadpool to 4 maximum threads
• Default the tuning to psy
• Remove the explicit lookahead logic from the API

Weekly pre-release

Features:

• speed 0 is now up to 3x faster with no quality loss due to new early-exit implementation
• support for writing keyframe locations to a file for chunked encoders
• initial threading support (motion estimation only)
• tweaked quantizer modulation for better quality
• one-pass rate control
• 10% faster at speeds 3 and above due to addition of diamond me
• preparations for fast 8-bit mode

Fixes:

• bugfixes for HDR and colorspace obus (#977)

Weekly pre-release

• Workaround #987 pending a proper fix
• Further quality tuning

Weekly pre-release

• New Features
  • HDR metadata support (HDR10 aka SMPTE-2086 aka CEA-861.3)
• Improvements
  • Psychovisual tuning (please tell us on #933 if it works for your use-cases)
• Bugfixes:
  • #890 Infinite loop on clips shorter than 10 frames
• New defaults:
  • Low latency OFF
  • Psychovisual ON

Weekly pre-release

First pre-release to help with the packaging effort (see #886)