The release tar-ball can be downloaded from
http://diracvideo.org/download/dirac-research/
OR
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dirac/
Dirac Compression System
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Dirac is a video compression system that provides general-purpose video compression and decompression tools comparable with state-of-the-art systems. Dirac is a format and compression technology, not a specific codec. The most important part of the Dirac project is the specification which can be found at
http://diracvideo.org/specifications.
Dirac Project
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The initial implementation of Dirac at resulted in a research implementation which is referred to as the Dirac codebase. It is now called dirac-research. It is a reference implementation and also a codebase for future algorithmic developments. Dirac 1.0.0 is the release of this codebase.
Dirac website
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Information about Dirac and the associated projects can be found at
http://diracvideo.org
What's new in this release
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Several alpha and beta releases have preceded this release. The changes in 1.0.0 release are:
- Compliance with Dirac Bytestream specification 2.2.2
- Adaptive GOP structure
- Improved motion estimation.
- Improved pre-filtering.
- Major code refactor of encoder classes.
- Added conversion utility for horizontal 3/4 filtering.
- DirectShow Filter released to be able to play back Dirac v2.2.2 files raw bytestreams and Dirac wrapped in AVI in Windows Media Player.
Dirac content creation and playback
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Information on the end-user applications that support Dirac can be found at
http://diracvideo.org/wiki/index.php...rt_Dirac_video