[MPlayer-announce] MPlayer 1.0rc1 released

[Roberto Togni]

We wish to thank the Google Summer of Code project for sponsoring the
FFmpeg project. Thanks to the SoC program for 2006, the FFmpeg project
was able to get help from students to implement more native codecs.

The highlights of this release are native VC-1/WMV3, On2 VP5 and VP62
(used in some Flash video files) decoding, which works even on
non-Intel platforms and SSA/ASS/color subtitles.

Furthermore we can now run natively on Intel Macs (you just have to
pass --disable-loader --disable-mp3lib to configure), -endpos was
finally added to MPlayer and the Windows GUI has seen a number of
improvements.

Vorbis decoding has seen a big speedup, as has H.264. The optimizations
to H.264 are still ongoing, but the difference should already be
noticeable.

And last not least many bugs were found and fixed since pre8.

MPlayer 1.0rc1 will no longer load a file-specific configure file
located in the same directory as the file you're playing, because of
potential security concerns (thanks to Rudolf Polzer for pointing this
out); if you want to restore the old behavior add -use-filedir-conf.

If you already have the binary codec package from pre8 you don't need
to redownload it: The new 20061022 packages do not contain any new
codecs, they just miss some that now work natively.


MPlayer 1.0rc1: "Codename intentionally left blank" Oct 22, 2006

DOCS:

    * German documentation translation finished
    * Russian documentation translation synced and almost finished

Drivers:

    * IVTV hardware MPEG audio/video decoder output
    * ALSA audio output: AC3 passthrough now works even when the device
      name of the digital output port has been set by the user
    * bicubic OpenGL scaling works with ATI cards
    * md5sum switched to the libavutil MD5 implementation
    * support for libcaca 1.0 via compatibility layer

Decoders:

    * liba52 updated to 0.7.4 (slightly faster)
    * SSE optimizations for mp3lib
    * removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries

Demuxers:

    * audio stream switching in MPEG-TS/PS, Matroska and streams
      supported by libavformat
    * audio stream switching between streams with different codecs
    * libavformat demuxer now honors -alang
    * chapter seeking in Matroska files
    * fixed seeking to absolute and percent position for libavformat
      demuxer
    * NUT demuxer using libnut
    * Matroska SimpleBlock support

Inputs:

    * split of stream layer from libmpdemux to new stream library
    * PVR input for hardware MPEG encoder based cards, such as
      Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150/250/350/500 AKA IVTV but also pvrusb2 and
      cx88 (requires Linux >= 2.6.18 kernel, featuring native V4L2 MPEG
      API)
    * native RTSP input (handles MPEG-TS over RTP) for generic RTSP
      servers
    * support for seeking to chapters in dvd:// and dvdnav:// streams
    * radio support (radio://)

FFmpeg/libavcodec:

    * VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
    * Vorbis decoding speedup, now default Vorbis decoder
    * VMware Video decoder
    * On2 VP50 and VP62 decoder
    * lossless audio decoders: WavPack, TTA, Shorten
    * CAVS decoder
    * GXF muxer/demuxer
    * MXF demuxer
    * much improved FLAC encoder
    * more H.264 decoding speed improvements, plus support for
      -lavdopts fast
    * Theora decoder fixes
    * preliminary Vorbis encoder
    * MTV demuxer

GUI:

    * Windows version added
    * drag-and-drop ignored last file
    * save and load cache setting correctly
    * working audio stream selection for Ogg and Matroska files
    * executable names like gmplayer_old etc. will now start GUI as well
    * -gui/-nogui options
    * xinerama fixes, now behaves similar to MPlayer without GUI

Filters:

    * MMX-optimizations for -vf yadif
    * MMX-optimizations for -vf zrmjpeg

MEncoder:

    * support of x264 encoding via libavcodec
    * rewrite -x264encopts option parser to use the 264 option parser;
      likely breaks 3rd party tools as the syntax of some options has
      changed
    * removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries

Ports:

    * partial Intel Mac support, --disable-loader --disable-mp3lib is
      needed
    * OpenGL can now create windows > screen size under Windows
    * allow filenames starting with \\ for remote paths on Windows

Others:

    * SSA/ASS subtitle renderer
    * -endpos option for MPlayer
    * -correct-pts option
    * UTF-8 used for OSD and subtitles, some bitmap fonts will no
      longer work correctly and -subcp must be set for all non-UTF-8
      subtitles
    * more audio-truncation fixes
    * libavutil mandatory for MPlayer compilation
    * more intuitive -edlout behaviour
    * -nortc is now default since -rtc has disadvantages with recent
      kernels


MPlayer 1.0rc1 can be downloaded from the following locations. Please
be kind to our server and use one of our many mirrors.

    * Switzerland
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2

    * Hungary
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2

    * USA
http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2

    * Serbia
http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2

    * Korea
http://www5.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2

    * Sweden
http://www6.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp6.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2

    * Germany
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/multimedia/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2

    * USA 2
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~drf8f/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2


MPlayer 1.0rc1 is also available on BitTorrent.

    * BitTorrent torrent
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/torrents/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2.torrent

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