[MPlayer-announce] MPlayer 1.0rc4 released

Sun Jan 30 20:59:52 CET 2011

Yes, we can!

MPlayer 1.0rc4 continues the tradition of long overdue, but better late
than never releases. It has been tested thoroughly to work with the
FFmpeg 0.6 branch. It will be useful to distros and other users relying
on FFmpeg 0.6. To get the latest and greatest in features and bug fixes,
Subversion HEAD should be a better fit.

1.0rc4 once again adds a slew of new binary codecs and leverages all the
stuff added to FFmpeg. Notable additions are VP8 decoding, H.264 bug
fixes and speedups, unencrypted Blu-ray support. Network streams can now
be played through FFmpeg, there has been quite a bit of subtitle work
and Ogg and Matroska demuxer defaults were switched to libavformat. The
window position is now decided by the window manager.

Our constant efforts to clean up the codebase continue as usual. A ton
of compiler warnings disappeared and there have been refactorings all
around. External library copies have been synchronized with
upstream. The internal liba52 copy is gone and it is now possible to
build against external libmpeg2 and libmpg123.

MPlayer 1.0rc4: "Yes we can"

  GUI: Changes towards removing the GUI
  * The GUI will no longer display any error or warning messages.
  * Special GUI slave commands (gui_*) were removed, along with
    the related key bindings.

  Decoders:
  * YUY2 Lossless Codec (YLC0) via binary DLL
  * Truemotion RT codec (TR20) via binary DLL
  * Nogantech Codec (NTN1 and NTN2) via binary DLL
  * add new FourCCs (m1v1, yuvs, VYUY, Y42B, V422, YUNV, UYNV, UYNY, uyv1,
    2Vu1, P422, HDYC, IJLV, MVJP)
    TwoCCs (0xA106, 0x6c75, 0xAAC0, 0x55005354)
    to existing decoders
  * AMR now handled via OpenCORE decoder
  * updated Windows Media Screen Codec (MSS1, MSS2) via binary DLL
  * CoreAVC H.264 decoder via binary DLL (Windows only)
  * Kega Game video codec (KGV1) via binary DLL
  * SoftLab-NSK Forward MPEG-2 I-frames (SLIF) via binary DLL
  * JPEG 2000 support via OpenJPEG
  * internal liba52 copy removed
  * CineForm HD (CFHD) via binary DLL
  * VP8 en-/decoding through libvpx wrapper and native decoder in FFmpeg
  * support for external libmpeg2 added
  * hardware MPEG decoder priority lowered
  * external libmpg123 support

  Demuxers:
  * Mostly fixed timing issues with some H.264 (PAFF) samples
  * Matroska and Ogg demuxers switched to use libavformat by default.
    Report issues and use -demuxer ogg and -demuxer mkv to work around them.
  * support for TrueHD in Blu-ray streams in libmpdemux
  * more Blu-ray codec support with lavf
  * fix length in ASF/WMV files
  * support ISDB-Tb DVB streams

  Filters:
  * remove vf_yuy2, functionality is replaced by -vf format=yuv2
  * remove vf_rgb2bgr, functionality is replaced by sws and vf_format

  Streaming:
  * Support for unencrypted Blu-ray playback through libbluray.
    Use it through: mplayer br:////path/to/disc

  Drivers:
  * -vo yuv4mpeg:interlaced no longer does its own interlaced RGB->YUV
    conversion. Use -vf scale=::1 to keep the same behavior and report
    if there are any issues with that.
  * X11: Window manager chooses Window position by default.
    Add geometry=50%:50% to your configuration to get the old behavior.
  * -vo md5sum md5 calculation changed so output matches FFmpeg's -f framemd5
  * Support for more formats in OpenGL video output drivers (different YUV
    subsampling, 16 bit per component)
  * Selectable YUV to RGB conversion standard for -vo gl
    (-vo gl:colorspace=...:levelconv=...)
  * -vo gl now tries to use yuv=2 by default if possible
  * -vo gl:stereo=... for experimental stereo (3D) support
  * -vo matrixview finally added
  * add OS/2 KAI audio driver (-ao kai)

  Other:
  * -nosub option for disabling auto-selected subtitles
  * support for displaying subs in the terminal (FIXME)
  * support for subtitles with audio-only files
  * support for right-to-left languages with embedded subtitles
  * support for UTF-16 encoded external subtitles
  * support for 8 channel audio
  * sync dvd:// and dvdnav:// features
  * support for MPEG-4 ASP in VDPAU video output (non-B-frame only)
  * support for live and non-live DVB teletext with demuxer lavf
  * -name, -title and -use-filename-title options for MPlayer
  * support for stream handling via FFmpeg, in particular RTMP and RTSP
    (use e.g. ffmpeg://http://example.com/test)
  * experimental support for external libass, configure with
    --disable-ass-internal
  * better support for 16-bit-per-component formats and formats
    with alpha channel
  * better out-of-the-box support for compiling for ARM, IA64,
    MinGW32 and MinGW-w64, MinGW has ASLR enabled with recent
    enough binutils
  * libdvdcss synced with upstream Subversion snapshot

  MEncoder:
  * add -tsprog for demuxer lavf

MPlayer 1.0rc4 can be downloaded from the following locations. Please
be kind to our server and use one of our many mirrors.

MD5SUM: f3abf9b59d0ac4fb2b63bc6bc33b8d02
SHA1SUM: 9f904ac332c93dadb061fe183c975b6518fbbc88

      * Switzerland
  http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2
  ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2

      * Hungary
  http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2
  ftp://ftp2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2

      * USA
  http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2

      * USA
  http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2
  ftp://ftp4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2

      * Korea
  http://www5.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2
  ftp://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2

      * France
  ftp://ftp6.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2

      * Germany
  http://www7.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2
  ftp://ftp7.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2

      * Germany
  ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/multimedia/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc4.tar.bz2