Ut Video Codec Suite 7.1.1 readme (English)

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Ut Video Codec Suite
Copyright © 2008-2010 UMEZAWA Takeshi

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Overview

Ut Video Codec Suite is a lossless video codec for Windows, which is implemented as a VCM codec (also called "VfW codec").

Environment

Minimum requirement (x86)

OS

Windows XP or later

CPU

i686-compatible CPU with SSE2 support
(e.g. Pentium 4 or later)

Minimum requirement (x64)

OS

Windows Vista (x64) or later

CPU

CPU with AMD64 or Intel 64 (formerly EM64T) support

List of FourCC

• Currentry supported input formats and supported output formats are same.
• RGB formats are assumed full-range (R,G,B=0-255 for 8bit). YUV formats are assumed limited (Y=16-235, U,V=16-240 for 8bit).
• Bold are "native" (no colorspace conversion occurs) formats. It is recommended to input/output with that formats.
• ^* marks are the output formats with top priority. When decode without specifing output format, these format is used.
• Formats written in brackets are equivalent format with preceding format. For example, YUY2, YUYV and YUNV are equivalent.

About Donations

Ut Video Codec Suite is a free software. Donations to support development are always welcome. For more information, visit "About Donations" page.

Version history

Version 7.1.1

Others

• Register DLL file with full path name.

Version 7.1.0

Performance Improvements

• Fix significant performance decrease in Athlon/Phenom-series processors.

Version 7.0.4

Others

• Changed the way to register codecs again.

Version 7.0.3

Others

• Changed the way to register codecs.

Version 7.0.2

Others

• x86 version installer is now unable to be installed to x64 Windows.
• Modified some text.

Version 7.0.1

Bug fixes

• x64 version installer does not register DLLs properly on some OS environment.

Others

• Shorten display names of codecs.

Version 7.0.0

New features

• Add x64 version. Both x64 version DLL and x86 version DLL are included in x64 version installer.

Others

• DLLs are now installed under System32/SysWOW64 directory instead of Program Files directory.

Version 6.1.0

New features

• common: Add option to set frame divide count to # of logical processors.

Version 6.0.2

Others

• Fix packaging.

Version 6.0.1

Others

• DLL is now statically-linked instead of dynamically-linked.

Version 6.0.0

New features

• common: Add support for interlace video.

Bug fixes

• ULY0: Codec may crash if video's height is greater than its width.

Version 5.3.1

Bug fixes

• ULY0: fixed frame dividing method.

Version 5.3.0

New features

• ULY0: Add support for YUY2 input when encoding. (but low speed)
• ULY0: Add support for YUY2 output when decoding. (but low speed)

version 5.2.3

Bug fixes

• common: rarely outputs broken frame when encoding.

Version 5.2.2

Others

• Fix packaging.

Version 5.2.1

Others

• Fix packaging.

Version 5.2.0

New features

• ULY2: Add support for RGB32 input when encoding.
• ULY0: Add support for RGB32 input when encoding. (but low speed)
• ULY0: Add support for RGB32 output when decoding. (but low speed)

Version 5.1.2

Others

• Fix packaging.

version 5.1.1

Bug fixes

• ULY0: Size (number of bytes) of image may not be set correctly when decoding. This bug exists only in ULY0.

Version 5.1.0

New features

• ULY0: Add support for RGB24 input when encoding. (but low speed)
• ULY0: Add support for RGB24 output when decoding. (but low speed)

Version 5.0.0

New features

• Add codec for YUV420 (FOURCC: ULY0).

Others

• Switch default prediction mode to "Predict left".
• ULY2: Width now must be multiple of two.

Version 4.1.0

Performance Improvements

• common: Speed up encoding just a little.
• common: Speed up decoding just a little.

Version 4.0.2

Others

• ULRG: For the safety, set 255 to the field that might be interpreted as alpha channel when decoding.
• Common: Set input effective bit count to output biBitCount field when encoding.

Version 4.0.1

Others

• Fix packaging.

Version 4.0.0

New features

• Add codec for RGBA (FOURCC: ULRA).

Version 3.8.0

New features

• common: Add "Predict left" intra-frame prediction method. According to my measurement, compared to existing implementation ("Predict median"), approximately same encoding speed, 10% lower compresstion ratio (10% larger file size) and 50% faster decoding speed (30%+ shorter decoding time).

Version 3.7.0

Performance Improvements

• common: Speed up decoding. 9% if Core 2.
• ULY2: Speed up encoding from RGB24. 9% if Core 2.

Version 3.6.0

Performance Improvements

• ULY2: Speed up encoding from RGB24. 42% if Core 2.

Version 3.5.0

New features

• ULY2: Add support for RGB32 output when decoding. Assembly language version is also available.

Bug fix

• ULY2: When encoding from RGB24, trash appears on right edge if width is not multiple of four.

Version 3.4.0

New features

• ULY2: Add support for RGB24 input when encoding. (but low speed)

Bug fixes

• ULY2: Output vertically flipped frames on some environment when decoding to RGB32, because of ignorance of sign of biHeight.

Version 3.3.1

Bug fixes

• Common: Encoder crashes with some video editing and/or capture software.

Others

• Changed title string of configuration dialog.
• Add version string to "About" dialog.

Version 3.3.0

Performance Improvements

• Common: Speed up decoding. 20% if Core 2.
• Common: Speed up encoding. 8% if Core 2.
• ULY2: Speed up decoding to RGB32. 47% if Core 2, including preceding common speedup.

Bug fixes

• Common: Do not output error though starting encoding/decoding with format that cannot be processed.

Version 3.2.0

New features

• ULY2: Add support for RGB32 output when decoding. (but low speed)

Bug fixes

• ULRG: fixed frame dividing method. Due to this fix, ULRG lost compatibility if frame divide count is not 1.

Version 3.1.0

New features

• ULY2: Add support for YUYV, YUNV, UYVY, UYNV, YVYU and VYUY.
• ULRG: Add support for RGB32.

Buf fixes

• ULRG: WMP crashes for ULRG-encoded files.

Version 3.0.0

• Add codec for RGB (FOURCC: ULRG).

Version 2.2.0

• Replaced many routines with assembly language version.

Version 2.1.0

• Add support for multithreading.

Version 2.0.0

• Process frames after divided into bands.

Version 1.1.3

First public release