Background Info

ITTF
ISO/IEC Information Technology Task Force
Two-pass MPEG2 variable bit-rate encoding
A must-read two-pass encoding doc
CiteSeer.IST
Computer and Information Science Papers CiteSeer Publications Research Index

Related Projects

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Very popular movie player project. Released under GPL.
Xine
Multimedia library and player. Released under GPL.
GStreamer
Multimedia Framework for Linux. Released under LGPL.
Transcode
A set of encoding utilities, e.g. useful for capturing. Released under GPL.
MPEG4IP
Tools for streaming audio and video. Released under numerous licenses.

Developer Downloads

Xvid 1.1.3 final source code
Xvid daily snapshot

Codec Voting
What should be the focus of future development? Rate-control - by implementing higher-quality multi-pass coding General encoder speed-up More 64-bit architecture optimizations Multi-threading/Dual-core optimizations Subjective/perceived quality enhancements Encoder decisions - by doing even more R-D optimizations

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