XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec, so designed to compress/decompress digital video.

XviD is a open source project, which is developed and maintained by a handful of skilled and interested engineers from all over the world.

This release is the long awaited 1.1.0. It is mostly API compatible with the previous stable release as we dropped support for reduced resolution coding. If your application didnt use that feature then the upgrade is totally compatible.

Whats New in This Release:

xvidcore:

· Improved Low bitrate quality.
· Improved VBV support
· Rate-Distortion mode decision for bvops
· New postprocessing functions, brightness and deringing
· New PowerPC port by Christoph Naegeli
· Brand new amd64 Linux 64bit port by Andre Werthmann
· Various decoder and encoder speedups
· A few bugs squashed

VFW frontend

· Mingw/CygWin support
· Various small improvements
· A few bugs squashed

DShow frontend

· Mingw/CygWin support
· Support for brightness control
· Various small improvements
· A few bugs squashed

Whats New in This Release:

· This release fixes a potential vulnerability in mbcoding.c as reported in the Secunia advisory SA25711.