Libvpx 1.7.0 Released With AVX Optimizations & More

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Libvpx 1.7.0 Released With AVX Optimizations & More

Google's WebM folks quietly released libvpx 1.7.0 earlier this week as the latest version of their VP8/VP9 encoder/decoder library...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=libvpx-1.7-Released-VP8-VP9

[miskol]

And some benchmark ?? 1.6.1 vs 1.7.0 ??

[Mr. Octus]

I second the benchmarks, especially encoding with before/after with new --row-mt option if possible

Also the changelog, seems they didn't push it to the github mirror?

https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libvpx/+/v1.7.0

2017-01-04 v1.7.0 "Mandarin Duck"
  This release focused on high bit depth performance (10/12 bit) and vp9
  encoding improvements.

  - Upgrading:
    This release is ABI incompatible due to new vp9 encoder features.

    Frame parallel decoding for vp9 has been removed.

  - Enhancements:
    vp9 encoding supports additional threads with --row-mt. This can be greater
    than the number of tiles.

    Two new vp9 encoder options have been added:
      --corpus-complexity
      --tune-content=film

    Additional tooling for respecting the vp9 "level" profiles has been added.

  - Bug fixes:
    A variety of fuzzing issues.
    vp8 threading fix for ARM.
    Codec control VP9_SET_SKIP_LOOP_FILTER fixed.
    Reject invalid multi resolution configurations.

[darkbasic]

I second the benchmarks, especially encoding with before/after with new --row-mt option if possible

I completely agree!

[pat36]

I would also like to see some benchmarks!