XviD is a video codec just like DivX. Most new movies and videos are being encoded with XviD. The XviD Codec is needed to play movies encoded by XviD. XviD is better than DivX.
Features: I, P Frame encoding, PMVFast and EPZS with diamond and square pattern motion estimation, inter4v mode, fullpixell and halfpixel, precision, both MPEG4 and H263 quantizations, custom quant matrices, Adaptive quantization / Luminance masking.
[B]What"s New in This Release:[/B]
- Large filesizes now work correctly in 2pass.
· - Fixed possible out-of-bound-reads in 2pass.
· - Bframe decoding fix - sometimes bframes were referencing wrong future macroblocks.
· - Checking "use keyframe" in a zone now only makes the zone starting frame a keyframe.
· - Internal pixel aspect ratio fixes - added display aspect ratio (for anamorphic encoding).
· Currently you"ll need mplayer, vlcplayer (or 3ivx/Nero DShow filters) for correct playback.
· - Colour space fixes.
· - Directshow updates: brightness slider, postprocessing, output colour space choosable.
· - Some more sse2 optimization for P4s.
· - 2pass ratecontrol overhauled, including fast first pass.
· - User selectable turbo mode. *silent update: 17:15h MET, 26.12.2003: updated dshow decoder*