[theora] Fwd: [theora-dev] libtheora 1.1 (Thusnelda) stable release

[John Ferlito]

Howdy,

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 06:59:21PM +1000, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> > We are pleased to announce a new stable release of libtheora, the
> > Xiph.org Foundation's reference implementation of the royalty-free
> > Theora video format. This new release, version 1.1, codenamed
> > Thusnelda, incorporates all of the recent encoder improvements we have
> > been making over the past year, though some of the code had its
> > genesis all the way
> 
> Are there changes from beta3 to this stable release? I created a
> front-end for FFMPEG2THEORA which uses the new features (specifically
> the two-pass encoding), but since the Linux distributions will need some
> months before including Thusnelda in them, I was considering releasing
> it with the statically-linked executable version.

Debian is going to have the new version of theora in unstable this
weekend. (Since I'll be doing it) and should make it's way to testing
about 2 weeks after that.

I'll also see if I can convince the appropriate Ubuntu contact to pull
it in as well.

Cheers,
John

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