[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: homepage/src news.src.en,1.137,1.138

Diego Biurrun CVS syncmail at mplayerhq.hu
Thu Jul 15 02:33:06 CEST 2004


CVS change done by Diego Biurrun CVS

Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage/src
In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv19885/src

Modified Files:
	news.src.en 
Log Message:
1.0pre release notes


Index: news.src.en
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/homepage/src/news.src.en,v
retrieving revision 1.137
retrieving revision 1.138
diff -u -r1.137 -r1.138
--- news.src.en	15 Jul 2004 00:32:07 -0000	1.137
+++ news.src.en	15 Jul 2004 00:33:03 -0000	1.138
@@ -8,6 +8,243 @@
 <div class="newsentry">
 
 <h2>
+	<a name="mplayer10pre5">2004.07.15, Wednesday :: MPlayer 1.0pre5 released</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by the release team</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Once again after a long delay we are proud and happy to present you our latest
+release. Tons of new features and bug fixes were included, many during a big
+hacking session at LinuxTag 2004. The pending patch queue has been greatly
+reduced and as usual we expect to make the next release in a more timely
+fashion ;-)
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Since you already know about the <a href="#name_change">name change</a> the
+most important change is the security relevant string handling code audit.
+Read the details in the <a href="#vuln04">relevant advisory</a>.
+If you haven't upgraded to a CVS snapshot already, upgrade to pre5 now.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Highlights of this release include improved Mac OS X and Windows support,
+improved seeking in Real files, better MEncoder documentation with an
+updated DVD ripping guide, streaming related bug fixes, fullscreen bug fixes,
+a new unified ao_alsa ALSA audio output driver to replace ao_alsa9 and
+ao_alsa1x, a JACK audio output driver and new icons for the GUI and menus.
+Of course we also did the usual stuff like support for more codecs, new video
+filters and bug fixes all over the place.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The codec packages have been updated and they now sport version numbers so you
+can easily tell whether you have the latest one or not. Grab them if you are
+interested in complete codec support.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Have fun...
+</p>
+
+
+<h3>MPlayer 1.0pre5: <i>"LinuxTag release"</i></h3>
+
+<h4>Name</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>It's &quot;MPlayer - The Movie Player&quot; instead of
+		&quot;MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux&quot; now.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Security</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>complete review of string operations, buffer overflows fixed</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>DOCS</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>small additions, corrections, updates all over the place</li>
+	<li>audio output driver section added to the man page</li>
+	<li>several bug fixes and improvements in the MEncoder documentation</li>
+	<li>DVD ripping guide extended and improved</li>
+	<li>AUTHORS file massively extended</li>
+	<li>German man page partially updated</li>
+	<li>Hungarian XML documentation translation started</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Ports</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>encrypted DVD playback on Windows fixed (again)</li>
+	<li>Cygwin and MinGW now accept the same -dvd-device syntax</li>
+	<li>LIVE.COM now works under MinGW</li>
+	<li>foundations for MinGW crosscompilation</li>
+	<li>disabled SSE on MinGW as it caused crashes</li>
+	<li>AC3 passthrough for ao_win32</li>
+	<li>improved vo_quartz (YUV, multiple screens support)</li>
+	<li>vo_quartz made default on Mac OS X</li>
+	<li>ao_macosx fixed and made default again on Mac OS X</li>
+	<li>RealVideo binary codecs support on Mac OS X (still buggy)</li>
+	<li>bigendian fixes in vf.c, vo_tga</li>
+	<li>OpenBSD portability fixes</li>
+	<li>OpenBSD/VAX support</li>
+	<li>AMD64 support</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Drivers</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>support for more Radeons (9800 XT among them) in VIDIX</li>
+	<li>Radeon related bug fixes in VIDIX</li>
+	<li>vo_gl2 now supports GUI, fix for flickering borders in fullscreen</li>
+	<li>support 24 and 32 bit PCM files, bigendian fixes</li>
+	<li>ao_sdl now converts unsupported formats instead of quitting</li>
+	<li>ENCA support</li>
+	<li>merged ao_alsa9 and ao_alsa1x drivers into ao_alsa</li>
+	<li>NeoMagic TV-out support through VESA</li>
+	<li>JACK audio output driver</li>
+	<li>vo_sdl fixes (wrong flags and screensaver disabling)</li>
+	<li>vo_directx fixes</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Decoders</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>MSZH/ZLIB, FLI, QTRLE, RoQ video and RoQ audio support moved to FFmpeg</li>
+	<li>FFmpeg Cinepak and CYUV decoders preferred</li>
+	<li>audio format 0xff support (is AAC)</li>
+	<li>"raw" audio in MOV supported</li>
+	<li>Indeo audio (iac25) support via binary codec</li>
+	<li>upgrade libfaad2 to the FAAD 2.0 release</li>
+	<li>MPEG2 chroma422/444 support</li>
+	<li>Winnov WINX and WNV1 support via binary codec</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Demuxers</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Ogg subtitle handling and other bug fixes</li>
+	<li>Matroska improvements</li>
+	<li>support seeking in Real files without -idx</li>
+	<li>support seeking in Real files without index with -forceidx</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Streaming</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>ASF, MMST streaming fixes</li>
+	<li>URL escaping fixed</li>
+	<li>NSA (Nullsoft audio) streaming support</li>
+	<li>embedded RAM playlist support</li>
+	<li>multibyte URL support</li>
+	<li>rtp:// now supported even with LIVE.COM compiled in</li>
+	<li>miscellaneous bug fixes</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Filters</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>vf_softskip: frame skipping filter for MEncoder</li>
+	<li>vf_harddup: frame duplication filter for MEncoder</li>
+	<li>vf_pullup minor fixes and improvements</li>
+	<li>AltiVec-optimized YUV to RGB converter</li>
+	<li>vf_spp memory corruption fix on reallocation</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>FFmpeg/libavcodec</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>MPEG2 encoding with 8, 9, 10, 11 bit intra DC precision</li>
+	<li>DC clipping fix, intra_dc_precision > 0 support</li>
+	<li>Cinepak fixes and palette support</li>
+	<li>support skipping of MB rows during decoding</li>
+	<li>Vorbis in NUT fixed</li>
+	<li>NUT updated to latest specification</li>
+	<li>segfault and artifact fixes in SVQ3 decoder</li>
+	<li>motion estimation code: overflow and chroma fixes</li>
+	<li>change qscale -> lambda for the motion estimation</li>
+	<li>noise preserving sum of squares comparison function in ME code</li>
+	<li>fixed memory overwrite in truemotion decoder</li>
+	<li>clip input motion vectors, better error tolerance on bad vectors</li>
+	<li>FLAC decoder cleanup (partial demuxer/decoder separation)</li>
+	<li>memalign hack for SSE/SSE2 on that alternative OS :)</li>
+	<li>lots of AltiVec optimizations</li>
+	<li>qscale + qprd fix</li>
+	<li>QTrle4 support</li>
+	<li>H.261 decoder</li>
+	<li>coefficient saturation fix in H.263</li>
+	<li>H.263 MCBPC fix</li>
+	<li>per line lowpass filter in MMX and faster C lowpass filter</li>
+	<li>SVQ1 encoder</li>
+	<li>as usual, lots of bug fixes and optimizations</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Others</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>fullscreen fixes for many window managers</li>
+	<li>fix crash on original Pentiums and older</li>
+	<li>dvd://start-end support</li>
+	<li>netstream (mpst://) support fixed</li>
+	<li>support comments in plaintext playlists</li>
+	<li>loader/ dependency removed</li>
+	<li>keepaspect option extended to all video output drivers</li>
+	<li>WMA to Ogg conversion and simple subtitle editing script added to TOOLS</li>
+	<li>support for more lame options</li>
+	<li>new set of GUI icons</li>
+	<li>memory conserving implementation of GUI potmeters</li>
+	<li>X11 code reindented</li>
+	<li>further gcc 3.4 support fixes</li>
+	<li>mixer API written for changing volume through libaf</li>
+	<li>-rtc-device option for specifying the RTC device</li>
+	<li>desktop/menu icon added</li>
+	<li>miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups</li>
+	<li>multi-threaded encoding with lavc</li>
+	<li>fixed a bug with Real files introduced in pre4</li>
+	<li>-use-stdin renamed to -noconsolecontrols</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer 1.0pre5 can be downloaded from the following locations:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Hungary 1
+		<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="http://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Hungary 2
+		<a href="http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="ftp://ftp2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>USA 1
+		<a href="http://ftp3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="ftp://ftp3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>USA 2
+		<a href="http://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="ftp://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Switzerland
+		<a href="http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+	<li>Australia
+		<a href="ftp://ftp6.mplayerhq.hu/pub/mplayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Bulgaria
+		<a href="ftp://ftp8.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Finland
+		<a href="http://www7.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+MD5SUM: <b>fbe6919eb025526e8ed129cd61a49969</b>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
 	<a name="mplayer093">2004.07.09, Wednesday :: MPlayer 0.93 released</a>
 	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
 </h2>




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