In the rev. 18, early skip decision, which is turned on with '-1 FEN' option, is not working. It slows down the encoder significantly in inter-slices.

It basically due to the omission of skip-mode when MRG is turned on, however, even when MRG is turned off, early skip decision is not working due to small bug in the code introduced in rev. 18.

Attached patch enables early skip decision when MRG is turned off.

Workspace for Visual Studio 6.0 does not match the correct building rules

Horizontal tab in cfg files cannot be properly handled, which may result in that tools cannot be enabled/disabled by settings in cfg files. A possible solution may be the following revision in char* TAppOption::chomp( char *str )

const char cTab = 9; the char for tab

while( *str == whitespace

*str == cTab )

str++;

char *end = str+strlen(str)-1;

while( *end == whitespace

*end == cTab )

end--;