Download Xvid 1.2.0

Xvid is a well-known open source video codec that can store video images in an acceptable file size without sacrificing too much image quality. The developers recently released version 1.2.0 which includes support for the x64 editions of Windows. In addition, there are several improvements such as sse3 and sse4 optimizations and it becomes possible to distribute the encoding of video over multiple threads. The accompanying quick announcement of Xvid 1.2.0 looks like this:

Xvid 1.2.0 released

This release is Xvid 1.2.0 stable release. It is API compatible with the previous 1.1.3 stable release.

Changes since 1.1.3:

xvidcore library:

• Complete AMD64/EM64T 64-bit support
• Added support for WIN64 platform
• Multi-threaded encoding support
• SSE3/SSE4 optimizations
• Faster and more precise mpeg intra quantization
• Fixed bug in packed pixel format colorspace conversion
• Noexec stack security patch
• Fix for bad resync marker length
• Improved decoder robustness for broken streams containing B-frames
• Fix for potential out-of-bound access to MV bits table
• Added SSIM quality-metric plugin

VFW front end:

• WIN64 compatibility
• Added widgets for SSE3/SSE4
• Auto-detection of available processor cores
• Minor GUI cosmetics

DShow front end:

• WIN64 compatibility
• Minor GUI cosmetics