Dear experts,

I have uploaded a new release of the JM reference software to my web site at:

http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/download/

This is mostly a bug fix release. Unfortunately some bugs were also found in the normative decoding process:

- temporal direct/AFF/multiple slices was broken since JM 17.0
- several issues for 4:4:4 coding were fixed (mostly related to separate_colour_plane_flag being equal to one )

Please find a high level change log at the end of this mail. For a list of fixed bugs from the bug tracker see:

https://ipbt.hhi.fraunhofer.de/mantis/changelog_page.php

I have seen some notes from people using old Visual Studio work space versions. Unfortunately I won't be able to support anything older that VC9 (Visual Studio 2008) in the future. Please contact me if you want to contribute updated VC7.1 or VC8 work spaces before the next release.

Best regards,
Karsten

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Changes in Version JM 18.1 (since JM 18.0)
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- encoder/decoder: Direct Mode updates (YHe/KS)
- encoder/decoder: MVC (Stereo High Profile) Interlace Bug fixes (PeP/YHe)
- encoder: Coding structure updates and bug fixes (AL/AT)
- encoder: On the Fly Interpolation for ME/MC (JlT/AL/AT)
- encoder/decoder: Architecture and various software cleanups and naming conventions
  (KS/AT)
- encoder/decoder: DPB code updates (AT/PeP)
- decoder: Predictive High 444 bug fixes (KS/AT/JjC/JGG)