From: Karsten Suehring [suehring@hhi.de]
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 5:09 AM
To: Gary Sullivan
Cc: itu-adv-video@standard.pictel.com
Subject: Re: [VCEG] FW: Release of reference software TML 8.4

Dear Experts,

sorry for my late reply. I was busy with our exhibits at the IFA.
As requested I provide a list of changes since version TML 8.0
(with updated information from Peter List)

Best regards,
Karsten

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Changes for Version 8.4 relative to Version 8.0

* Datapartitioning according to VCEG-M52 supported (TO)

* Output in InterimFileFormat supported (TO)

* Bugfixes for SliceMode 2 (fixed Bytes/MB) (TO)
  - adaptions for RLC of SkipMBs 

* Changed initialisation values for CABAC contexts (TO)

* PictureHeader and SliceHeader at the beginning of every slice (TO)

* RunLength and constrained intra prediction (RS)

* Implementation of delta-QP (IL)

* loopfilter simplification including a macroblock-based approach (PL)

* Removal of RD Quant (IL)

* Chroma coefficient removal (IL)

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People:
KS      Karsten Sühring         suehring@hhi.de

DM      Detlev Marpe            marpe@hhi.de
GB      Gabi Blättermann        blaetter@hhi.de
HS      Heiko Schwarz           hschwarz@hhi.de
IL      Inge Lille-Langoy       Inge.Lille-Langoy@telenor.com
PL      Peter List              Peter.List@t-systems.de
RS      Rickard Sjöberg         Rickard.Sjoberg@era.ericsson.se
SW      Stephan Wenger          stewe@cs.tu-berlin.de
TO      Tobias Oelbaum          oelbaum@hhi.de
TW      Thomas Wiegand          wiegand@hhi.de
TWe     Thomas Wedi             wedi@tnt.uni-hannover.de
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Gary Sullivan wrote:
> 
> ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) [Q.6/SG16]
> Email from "Gary Sullivan" <garysull@microsoft.com>:
> 
> Experts,
> 
> I have been told that Karsten Suehring of HHI (suehring@hhi.de)
> will take over the H.26L software coordination effort from
> Thomas Wiegand.  I welcome Karsten to this valuable role.
> 
> To commemorate the occasion, Karsten has provided a new version
> of the TML software.  It is available in
> http://standard.pictel.com/video-site/h26L
> with the filename tml84.zip.  It is to be called TML 8.4.
> 
> The file CHANGES.TXT in that distribution details what has
> changed since version 6.1.
> 
> In addition, I request that Karsten tell us something about
> what changes were made since version 8.0, since that is the
> version most people are working with now.
> 
> I also provide the following information to Karsten for
> inclusion in the next version of CHANGES.TXT:
> Stephan Wenger's email address: stewe@cs.tu-berlin.de
> Thomas Wedi's email address: wedi@tnt.uni-hannover.de
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Gary Sullivan
> 
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