Julien of Touslesdrivers.com send words that the second beta of DivX 4.0 is out.

So whatīs new in DivX 4.0 Beta 2? Well, itīs completely re-written to improve performance and visual quality. The code base is different from all earlier versions, including the open-source OpenDivX codec.

Bugs Fixed in DivX 4.0 Beta 2

- DivX DirectShow filter was not working on Windows NT 4.0
- Encoding was broken at very high bitrates. You would receive a scrambled picture if you tried to encode either in quality-based VBR at quality level >=95% or in two-pass VBR at bitrates roughly higher than 1500-2000 kbps
- Decoder was crashing in some cases on Pentium II/Celeron machines (a few SSE instructions were accidentally put into MMX YUV->RGB conversion routines)
- Decoder was crashing with postprocessing level 6 or 7 and 16*N < height <= 16*N+8
- Fixed one obscure DivX 3.x decoder incompatibility issue
- DivX decoder filter was crashing when used by BSPlayer
- There was a parameter in encoder settings called "crispness" in configuration dialog and "frame dropping" in help file. It caused a lot of confusion
- The help file section on postprocessing contained two similar paragraphs, written slightly differently
- The Codecīs "About" dialog box showed an unreadable character after the word "DivX." On machines with Russian installed, it is a "™" sign, but many machines donīt have Russian fonts :-)
- Added brightness, contrast and saturation sliders
-Encoder now stores its settings in the registry

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