xiph/rav1e v0.3.0

v0.3.0: FOSDEM Edition

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Improvements

• Faster and better Speed 10
• Smaller binaries (Around 3MB stripped on x86_64/Linux)
• Faster build times (About 14% faster build time)
• Multi-threaded deblocking filter
• Additional x86_64 SIMD code
• More auto-vectorizable codepaths and bounds check elisions
• ⅙ less memory allocations
• Improvements on the intra-modes pruning logic in the RDO
• More float to fixed-point conversions
• Make an early-exit condition in RDO faster
• Simplify logic in Counter/Recorder store method
• Support wasm32-wasi as build target
• 1-2% overall quality improvement (at speed level 2)

New tools

• Intra edge filter
• Switch frame support (use -S, --switch-frame-interval <SWITCH_FRAME_INTERVAL> to enable it from the CLI)
• Fine directional intra prediction
• Still Picture support with reduced still picture header (AVIF)

Changes

• Upstream nasm-rs 0.1.7 can be used to build rav1e.
• The C header produced is now C++-compatible

Fixes

#1930
#2055

Known issues

#2104