There was a nice surprise among recent BeBits updates: Oliver Tappe has released an updated version of the mail client BEAM. The list of changes contains mainly bug fixes along with a few new features – if the length of the list is any indication, Oliver has done a large amount of work on BEAM recently.

Right above BEAM in the “New Software” list there is another unexpected treat: an update the the 3ivx video codec. Most significantly, the update contains specific support for Haiku and experimental support for decoding AAC audio (the BeOS version of 3ivx previously didn’t come with an audio decoder). While 3ivx files aren’t very common, the 3ivx decoder can also be used to decode other types of mp4 video (DivX, Xvid, etc). And if WikiPedia is to be believed, this makes 3ivx Technologies Ltd. the first commercial vendor to support Haiku.

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