[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: homepage/src news.src.en,1.170,1.171

[Diego Biurrun CVS]

CVS change done by Diego Biurrun CVS

Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage/src
In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv27087/src

Modified Files:
	news.src.en 
Log Message:
MPlayer 1.0pre6 unleashed upon the world...


Index: news.src.en
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage/src/news.src.en,v
retrieving revision 1.170
retrieving revision 1.171
diff -u -r1.170 -r1.171
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 <div class="newsentry">
 
 <h2>
+	<a name="mplayer10pre6">2004.12.23, Thursday :: MPlayer 1.0pre6 released</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by the release team</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+It's been five months since our last release and boy, does it show. This is
+the longest changelog ever, we've been hitting the keyboards hard. So we've
+decided to put this out at last and bestow an X-mas present upon the world.
+Since X-mas is tomorrow this means you'll have to wait one day to compile this.
+Opening presents before their time is out of the question! And no peeking,
+keep those tarballs compressed! If you send in bug reports or a comment
+prematurely we'll know you've been a nasty kid and unpacked your present
+early. And you know what happens to nasty kids...
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The most important changes are support for a seemingly infinite number of
+new codecs and important fixes for some of the old ones. The experimental
+wavelet-based snow video codec by Michael Niedermayer deserves a special
+mention. It is very promising, maybe this is what the future of video
+encoding looks like. We also added support for encoding to H.264 with
+x264 and to MP2 through toolame.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Apart from that the unbelievable has happened and all the myriad of available
+options are finally documented. If you cannot find it in the documentation it
+simply does not exist, so RTFM! If you have a slow machine you should check
+out low resolution decoding with libavcodec (<code>-vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts
+lowres=0-3</code>). With some luck you should be able to play DVDs and MPEG-4
+movies. Mac OS X has had some nice improvements with VCD and Real/Helix codec
+(get new codec packages) support among others. On Windows there is a shiny
+new DirectSound audio output and support for the <code>-wid</code> option
+should allow building browser plugins. If you use the polypaudio sound server
+there is now an audio output module for you. The remaining old audio plugins
+have been converted to audio filters so expect audio plugins to disappear
+in the next release.  Already gone are the old alsa9 and alsa1x audio
+output drivers, use alsa instead.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As usual there were too many bug fixes to mention. They are all over the place,
+so MPlayer should run smoother and more stable than ever.  A notable one is that
+length and position are now displayed for MOV files as well and that MPlayer's
+output is slowly becoming less verbose.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The changelog is relative to MPlayer 1.0pre5try2, so all recent security
+fixes are included.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Merry X-mas...
+</p>
+
+
+<h3>MPlayer 1.0pre6: <i>"X-mas present"</i></h3>
+
+<h4>DOCS</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>finally all options are documented</li>
+	<li>man page completely reviewed for spelling, wording and clarity</li>
+	<li>all audio output driver suboptions documented</li>
+	<li>all video output driver suboptions documented</li>
+	<li>audio filters section added to the man page</li>
+	<li>XviD documentation completed</li>
+	<li>French man page in sync again</li>
+	<li>German man page updated</li>
+	<li>new Czech (complete) and Swedish man page translations</li>
+	<li>fixes and updates in various places</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Ports</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>full x86_64 support</li>
+	<li>-rootwin, -panscan support in the quartz video output driver</li>
+	<li>key repetition and aspect fixed in the quartz video output driver</li>
+	<li>&quot;Movie&quot; menu for quartz video output driver with zoom options & preset</li>
+	<li>fs_res quartz video output driver suboption chooses fullscreen resolution</li>
+	<li>VCD support for Darwin (Mac OS X)</li>
+	<li>Mac OS X Finder startup argument support</li>
+	<li>fix for stdin input and slave mode on MinGW</li>
+	<li>support for -rootwin, -colorkey, -wid in the DirectX video output driver</li>
+	<li>improved monitor selection in the DirectX video output driver</li>
+	<li>new DirectSound audio output driver</li>
+	<li>mouse support in Windows</li>
+	<li>support for ZetaOS (mostly working)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Drivers</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>fixes in the VESA and GGI video output drivers</li>
+	<li>-jpeg removed in favor of -vo jpeg suboptions</li>
+	<li>jpeg video output driver now supports output to multiple directories</li>
+	<li>improvements for the Blinkenlights video output driver ;-)</li>
+	<li>OpenGL video output driver colorformat fixes (with manyfmts suboption)</li>
+	<li>aspect, panscan, hardware OSD support in the OpenGL video output driver</li>
+	<li>new pnm and md5sum video output drivers, replacing pgm and md5</li>
+	<li>yuv4mpeg video output now has a file= suboption, can be used with
+		-fixed-vo to concatenate files having same width, height and fps</li>
+	<li>JACK audio output driver updated to bio2jack API changes</li>
+	<li>alsa9 and alsa1x replaced by alsa audio output driver</li>
+	<li>ALSA audio output driver always uses specified device, even for hwac3</li>
+	<li>support for mixer channel selection in the ALSA audio output driver</li>
+	<li>audio output driver for the polypaudio sound server</li>
+	<li>VIDIX Cyberblade TV-out fixed</li>
+	<li>VIDIX I420 support for Cyberblade and mga</li>
+	<li>VIDIX Radeon support on big-endian systems, other Radeon fixes</li>
+	<li>VIDIX Radeon R200 QM (Radeon 9100) support</li>
+	<li>CLE266 VIDIX driver</li>
+	<li>experimental SAVAGE VIDIX driver</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Decoders</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>&quot;experimental&quot; support for 20 and 24 bit LPCM (DVD-Audio)</li>
+	<li>libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.0b</li>
+	<li>libfaad2 updated to 2.1beta CVS snapshot</li>
+	<li>DTS decoding via libavcodec</li>
+	<li>Windows Media Audio 9 Voice support via binary DLL</li>
+	<li>Windows Media Video 9 Advanced support via binary DLL</li>
+	<li>Windows Media Screen Codec 2 support via binary DLL</li>
+	<li>Windows Media Image Codec support via binary DLL</li>
+	<li>Windows Media Image 2 Codec support via binary DLL</li>
+	<li>VDOWave video support via binary DLL</li>
+	<li>Miro VideoXL video support via libavcodec</li>
+	<li>Creative ADPCM audio support via libavcodec or binary DLL</li>
+	<li>IBM Ultimotion video support via libavcodec</li>
+	<li>Micronas Speech codec support via binary DLL</li>
+	<li>H.261 video codec support via libavcodec</li>
+	<li>TechSmith Camtasia video codec support via libavcodec</li>
+	<li>sonic audio codec support via libavcodec</li>
+	<li>snow video codec support via libavcodec</li>
+	<li>QuickDraw video support via libavcodec</li>
+	<li>Cinepak, CYUV and RoQ audio/video moved to FFmpeg</li>
+	<li>Vianet Lsvx video support via binary DLL</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Demuxers</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>fix -nosound and -novideo for NSV</li>
+	<li>subtitle switching and language code displaying for Matroska</li>
+	<li>support for the .vp5 file format (AVI variant)</li>
+	<li>seeking in audio-only ASF files fixed</li>
+	<li>improved MP3 detection</li>
+	<li>support for AVC in .mp4 files</li>
+	<li>support for raw H.261 files via libavformat</li>
+	<li>improved seeking precision in MPEG files</li>
+	<li>better subtitle language code handling for MKV files</li>
+	<li>support DVHS files and H.264 over MPEG-TS</li>
+	<li>display length and position (in the seekbar) for MOV files</li>
+	<li>raw video in MOV files playback improved</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Streaming</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>-cache-min and -cache-prefill options added</li>
+	<li>compilation fix for newer LIVE.COM versions</li>
+	<li>make ASF without ECC work</li>
+	<li>support for MMS on non-standard port</li>
+	<li>EOF detected in Real RTSP streams</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>FFmpeg/libavcodec</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>reduced resolution decoding with the lowres option</li>
+	<li>new experimental wavelet-based snow video codec</li>
+	<li>new sonic audio codec</li>
+	<li>TechSmith Camtasia video decoder</li>
+	<li>IBM Ultimotion video decoder</li>
+	<li>QuickDraw video decoder</li>
+	<li>Creative ADPCM decoder</li>
+	<li>Miro VideoXL decoder</li>
+	<li>Sierra online audio files demuxer and decoder</li>
+	<li>QPEG video decoder</li>
+	<li>Electronic Arts Game Multimedia format demuxer</li>
+	<li>H.261 fixes, H.261 encoder</li>
+	<li>fix VIS accelerated code</li>
+	<li>DTS support via libdts</li>
+	<li>many DV fixes, seek in raw DV files</li>
+	<li>support AAC in MOV files</li>
+	<li>RV10, RV20 fixes</li>
+	<li>RV20 encoding</li>
+	<li>AVI demuxer cleanup, palette change support</li>
+	<li>iTunes metadata support</li>
+	<li>HuffYUV fixes (endianness, RGB32 predictor, median encoding, interlacing)</li>
+	<li>ffvhuff (enhanced HuffYUV codec)</li>
+	<li>SSE optimizations for 4x4 compare function</li>
+	<li>epzs motion search enhancements</li>
+	<li>quad tree based motion compensation</li>
+	<li>MPEG-4 qpel MMX2/3DNow! optimizations</li>
+	<li>H.264: lot of fixes and MMX2/3DNow! optimizations</li>
+	<li>AVC1 (H.264 without sync word in .mp4 files) support</li>
+	<li>H.264 qpel motion compensation</li>
+	<li>Indeo3 grayscale decoding</li>
+	<li>preliminary Truemotion 24 bit decoder</li>
+	<li>avizlib encoder fixed</li>
+	<li>trellis quantization support in H.263</li>
+	<li>DCT optimizations</li>
+	<li>AltiVec support on AmigaOS4</li>
+	<li>adapt MMX/MMX2/SSE/3DNow! optimizations to work on x86_64</li>
+	<li>seeking fixes</li>
+	<li>better and faster audio resampler</li>
+	<li>New dc1394 grabbing interface</li>
+	<li>preliminary decoding support for H.264 with CABAC and B-frames</li>
+	<li>dvr-ms suport in ASF demuxer</li>
+	<li>NSV demuxer</li>
+	<li>DVD compatible MPEG muxer</li>
+	<li>MJPEG-B fixes</li>
+	<li>range coder (arithmetic entropy coder) used by snow and ffv1</li>
+	<li>ffv1 enhancements: signed golomb, range codes</li>
+	<li>multi slice support for main profile H.264 streams</li>
+	<li>as usual, lots of bug fixes and optimizations</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Filters</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>software volume control when no hardware support available, can be
+		controlled with the -softvol and -softvol-max parameters</li>
+	<li>high-quality audio resampling with -af lavcresample</li>
+	<li>cropdetect rounding parameter</li>
+	<li>MPlayer -af help</li>
+	<li>missing audio plugins (extrastereo, volnorm) converted to audio filters</li>
+	<li>sine sweep generator audio filter</li>
+	<li>hrtf audio filter to convert multichannel audio to 2 channel output
+		for headphones, preserving the spatiality of the sound</li>
+	<li>big-endian fixes in rgb2rgb converter</li>
+	<li>yuv2rgb Altivec optimization fixes</li>
+	<li>support for LADSPA plugins</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>GUI</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>unified audio options dialog, also for ALSA</li>
+	<li>redrawing limited, decreases CPU usage in audio-only case</li>
+	<li>icons for the context menu</li>
+	<li>doublesize bug fixed</li>
+	<li>slowdown after opening the preferences panel bug fixed</li>
+	<li>remaining messages moved to help file for translation</li>
+	<li>slowdown after using the preferences panel fixed</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Encoding</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>x264 encoder support</li>
+	<li>support for MP2 encoding with libtoolame</li>
+	<li>libavcodec &quot;turbo mode&quot; to speed up 2-pass encoding</li>
+	<li>support for 3-pass encode for libavcodec and x264</li>
+	<li>XviD encoder and decoder modules updated to API-4.1 (XviD-1.1.x)</li>
+	<li>flush remaining frames at end of encoding process</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Others</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>-loop and -shuffle now work together</li>
+	<li>better EDL support</li>
+	<li>some --disable configure options finally work (mp3lib, liba52, libmpeg2)</li>
+	<li>framestepping</li>
+	<li>change playback speed during playback</li>
+	<li>some crashes with binary codecs fixed</li>
+	<li>subtitle alignment support for SAMI files</li>
+	<li>also support Windows path separator '\'</li>
+	<li>FriBiDi fixes for comma handling in Hebrew subtitles</li>
+	<li>-crash-debug option to attach gdb automatically after crashes</li>
+	<li>gcc 4 compilation fixes</li>
+	<li>compilation fixes for many files in the TOOLS directory</li>
+	<li>infamous &quot;stuck mouse button&quot; bug fixed, new -key-fifo-size option</li>
+	<li>reduced verbosity of MPlayer's output somewhat</li>
+	<li>-identify now prints some information about available languages</li>
+	<li>double buffering (-double) is now default</li>
+	<li>many memleaks fixed</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer 1.0pre6 can be downloaded from the following locations. Please be kind
+to our server and use one of our many mirrors.
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Hungary 1
+		<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="http://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Hungary 2
+		<a href="http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="ftp://ftp2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Switzerland
+		<a href="http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+	<li>USA
+		<a href="http://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="ftp://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Australia
+		<a href="ftp://ftp6.mplayerhq.hu/pub/mplayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Bulgaria
+		<a href="ftp://ftp8.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+MD5SUM: <b>4a628f87a7070e10ffea04a1598979a9</b>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
 	<a name="br-linux.orgAward2004">2004.12.22, Wednesday :: Brazilian Free Community Award 2004</a>
 	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
 </h2>