[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: homepage/src news-archive.src.es,1.14,1.15
Diego Biurrun CVS
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<h1>Archivo de noticias</h1>
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</div>
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="mplayer_vs_debian">MPlayer vs Debian? - 2003.01.27.</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>We've started a thread on the
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/">debian-devel</a> mailing list,
+trying to get an answer on why <a href="http://xinehq.de">xine</a> is allowed
+to include libavcodec in Debian, and why <b>MPlayer</b> isn't. Also, why
+does <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/">debian-legal</a> think
+they know what is GPL and what is not better than MPlayer and XAnim
+authors.</p>
+
+<p>This discussion (on both lists mentioned above) is a must-read.</p>
+
+<p>The thread begins <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/01/msg01676.html">here</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90rc3">MPlayer v0.90rc3 is out - 2003.01.19.</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>Here is it: the result of 3 weeks of heavy bug-hunting (and cola-drinking:)), code cleanup and docs updating!</p>
+
+<p>Let's see the longest ChangeLog:</p>
+
+<p><b>MPlayer v0.90rc3 "BugfixCounter"</b></p>
+
+DOCS:
+<ul>
+ <li>english man page & HTML docs updates
+ <li>audio filter documentation
+ <li>help_diff.sh doesn't depend on BASH any more
+ <li>Hungarian, French, Italian, German, Polish(?) docs synced
+</ul>
+
+Important fixes:
+<ul>
+ <li>X11 fullscreen switching (yes, again...) rewritten, some x11 code cleanup
+ <li>Voxware and Quicktime DLLs finally work (was broken in some contexts)
+ <li>VIDIX Radeon support cleanup, should really solve the pink screen bugs
+ <li>Cygwin: -vo directx crashes and garbled picture with some files fixed
+ <li>OGM/Ogg seeking (broken frames) fixed, subtitle fixes, XCD support
+ <li>libaf: big (audio filter layer) updates, floating point support, speedup
+ <li>ffwma2 fixed (better error resilience)
+ <li>SPU queueing - fixes missing or early disappearing DVD subtitles
+ <li>the mysterious DVD audio delay (150-300ms) fixed
+ <li>extension-based fileformat detection fixed the .mp3 vs. mpeg-ps conflict
+ <li>cache2 keeps buffer for non-seekable media, fixes quicktime streaming
+</ul>
+
+Fixes:
+<ul>
+ <li>mp3lib CPU detection part cleanup, 'decwin' linker problem fixed
+ <li>various cddb:// fixes, support of netbsd-1.6
+ <li>libmpdvdkit2: Fix DVD authentication on Solaris 9
+ <li>libmpdvdkit2: libdvdcss upgraded to 1.2.4 (keeping the key cache patch)
+ <li>libmpdvdkit2: fixed decryption from multiple VOB files (hdd or darwin)
+ <li>-ao arts, -ao oss: Fix 8-bit sound support
+ <li>-vop expand + ffmpeg codecs conflicts solved, some other -vop bugs fixed
+ <li>-ac ffmp2 with MPEG files (sig11) fixed
+ <li>QT Qclp audio codec initialization fixed
+ <li>mplayer exit codes cleanup (0 for quit/eof, 1 for error)
+ <li>-ao win32 sync problems solved, -autosync 100 is still recommended
+ <li>-vo gif89a uninit sig11 fixed
+ <li>the usual compiler warning fixes :)
+ <li>use -pphelp instead of -vop pp=help
+ <li>various bigendian fixes
+ <li>16bpp packed yuv fixes in crop, mirror, rotate filters
+ <li>some -fixed-vo and vo_preinit fixes, -vo sdl,xmga,mga should work...
+ <li>various Solaris compatibility fixes (should work out of the box)
+ <li>mms:// port fixes, tries 1755 if 80 failed
+ <li>libavcodec: various ME fixes, B frames fixes, WMV2 slice decoding fixes
+ <li>-ao alsa9 audio-file playback high cpu usage fixed
+ <li>libaf updates, 2-pass initialization to get better filter path
+ <li>better detection of playlists, support for [Reference]-style format
+ <li>handle quicktime reference media files as playlist
+ <li>cddb:// & cdda:// cdrom device name fixes on linux and *BSD
+</ul>
+
+Features:
+<ul>
+ <li>-ao esd: new EsounD audio driver
+ <li>-vo dxr3: new NORM option
+ <li>XAnim & RealPlayer binary Codecs working on PPC
+ <li>Radeon 9000 support in VIDIX, colorkey restoring for all Radeons
+ <li>Initial PPC (Big-Endian) support in VIDIX Rage128 driver
+ <li>PNM:// streaming support (ported from xine)
+ <li>Muxer layer: mencoder can now write MPEG-PS format, too (EXPERIMENTAL!)
+ <li>libavcodec: wmv2 decoder (buggy/untested)
+ <li>DVB "HEAD" (aka. NEWSTRUCT) drivers support
+ <li>Subtitles background bounding-box support (optional grey-level & opacity)
+ <li>libaf: 3 new filters: panning, compressor/limiter and a noise gate
+ <li>per-mediafile config file support (for file-specific options)
+ <li>iconv (codepage conversion) support for OGM (Ogg) subtitles
+ <li>v4l: user friendly channel tuning
+ <li>Freetype & old-style RAW font support usable (compilable) at the same time
+ <li>vo_directfb2, vo_dfbmga: DirectFB 0.9.16 support
+ <li>libavcodec: motion estimation pre pass, qpel encoding, trellis quantization
+ <li>libavcodec, liba52, mp3lib: Altivec optimizations
+ <li>keep window's aspect ratio at resizing (x11, xv), requires WM support
+ <li>-geometry option, also accepts X11 syntax
+ <li>real .bin+.cue (S)VCD images support (-vcd 2 -cuefile xxx.cue)
+ <li>postprocess: YUV 411/422/444 support, stride fixes
+ <li>jumping of overlapping subs fixed, sorting is automatical, iconv fixes
+ <li>mpeg2 telecine detection and automatic inverse telecine (mplayer only)
+</ul>
+
+Gui:
+<ul>
+ <li>correct GTK widget destroy event handler
+ <li>fullscreen switching fixed (sync with x11_common)
+ <li>fix gtk submenu
+ <li>new font render engine
+ <li>added persistant history patch
+ <li>SDL Audio configure window
+ <li>add overlapping to preferences
+ <li>add play bar for subwindow
+ <li>add vertical potmeter for skin
+ <li>fixed 'single pixel bug'
+ <li>fixed some possible crashes
+</ul>
+
+Leech from
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary 1
+ <a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90rc3.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+ <a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90rc3.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="statistics">Some statistics - 2003.01.01.</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>The people visited
+<a href="http://mplayer.lgb.hu/index-en.html">my presentation</a> at the
+<a href="http://konf2002.lme.linux.hu">Hungarian GNU/Linux Conference</a>
+already know an earlier version of this graph.
+It shows the number of the WEB (FTP was not counted) downloads of release
+tarballs, and the other curve shows the number of lines added to
+(or changed) the code in CVS, summarized per month.</p>
+<p>
+<a href="../design4/images/stats2001-2002.png"><img src="../design4/images/stats2001-2002m.png" alt="statistics" width="340" height="192"></a>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90rc2">MPlayer v0.90rc2 is out - 2002.12.24.</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+<p>
+Another Xmas, another MPlayer release... enjoy rc2.</p>
+
+<p>I'm (A'rpi) <b><a href="../design4/images/cola.jpg">prepared</a></b>
+for the final commits for the final 0.90 - get ready!</p>
+
+<p>Let's see the ChangeLog now:</p>
+
+<p><b>MPlayer v0.90rc2: "Xmas 2002 Edition"</b></p>
+
+General:
+<ul>
+ <li>DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt and tech/directfb.txt</li>
+ <li>Some DOCS corrections/updates/sync/html fixes</li>
+ <li>GUI: fixed three submenu bugs and several other problems</li>
+ <li>more compiler warning fixes</li>
+ <li>NetBSD: cpu sse/sse2 detection & VCD reading fixes</li>
+ <li>fixed possible v4l capturing crash</li>
+ <li>Merged the EDL 0.5 patch - using & creating Edit-Lists (runtime cut&skip)</li>
+ <li>Subtitle lines alignment changeable: top/bottom/middle (key 'i')</li>
+ <li>-slang support for VOBsub files</li>
+</ul>
+
+VO:
+<ul>
+ <li>X11 fullscreen switching code changed again (esp. for gnome2/kde3.1)</li>
+ <li>VIDIX: svgalib kernelhelper support (as libdha alternative)</li>
+ <li>VIDIX driver for trident cyberblade card</li>
+ <li>VIDIX: 8 pixel shift & pink window bugs fixed in the RADEON driver</li>
+ <li>New, rewritten version of vo_svga (vidix support etc) and vo_gif89</li>
+ <li>yuv4mpeg vs. framedrop/frameskip fixed</li>
+</ul>
+
+Codecs:
+<ul>
+ <li>libavcodec: fixed possible 20% speedloss bug</li>
+ <li>support for the experimental (and buggy) dev-api-3 XViD CVS branch</li>
+ <li>fallback to built-in codecs.conf if no compatible external file found</li>
+ <li>experimental Sorenson 1/3 encoding (using quicktime DLLs)
+ (only to AVI, and these files can only be played with MPlayer!
+ It's needless to mail us about when will be MOV encoding too, as neither
+ we know:)</li>
+ <li>More accurate video bitrate calculation for AVI files</li>
+ <li>Presets support for libmp3lame encoding</li>
+ <li>CDDA seeking fixed</li>
+ <li>Win32/RealPlayer codecs DLL & 64bit Alpha Linux RealPlayer codecs support</li>
+ <li>XMMS Input plugins (demuxer & codec) support</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+Leech from
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary 1
+ <a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90rc2.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+ <a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90rc2.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90rc1">MPlayer v0.90rc1 is out - 2002.12.07.</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>We've began preparations for the <i>real</i> release: this pre-release is
+the RC1. There are quite some features about it which make it the player
+supporting <b><i>all modern codecs</i></b> of the world today. <b>No other
+player can boast with support for all of RealAudio/Video 9, Windows Media
+Audio/Video 9, Quicktime Sorenson 3, QDesign Music Audio.</b> This is a peak improvement, and
+I'm not talking PR now. I'm watching TV with MPlayer even now. I could
+do so even on my EGA or Hercules display. Quite touching isn't it.</p>
+
+<p><b>al3x</b> has started a weekly "forum" for MPlayer: the
+<i>MPlayer Weekly News</i>. Its issues can be
+<a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/mwn/">downloaded</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Let's quote the ChangeLog.</p>
+
+<p><b>MPlayer v0.90rc1: "CodecCounter"</b></p>
+
+Docs:
+<ul>
+ <li>new French translation</li>
+ <li>Irix section</li>
+ <li>various updates (both English & Hungarian)</li>
+</ul>
+
+Codecs:
+<ul>
+ <li>New codec pack download page (there are several packs for various IFs)</li>
+ <li>Win32/Quicktime codec plugin DLL support -> SVQ3 + QDMC/QDM2/Qclp !!!</li>
+ <li>Win32/DMO codec DLL interface support -> Windows Media Audio/Video 9 !!!</li>
+ <li>MJPEG 2000 support (using Morgan & Imagepower VfW DLLs)</li>
+ <li>libavcodec: optimized HuffYUV en/decoder, with experimental YV12 support</li>
+ <li>libavcodec: mjpeg-b support (need more samples)</li>
+ <li>more xvidencopts</li>
+ <li>VorbisGain tag support, tremor (fast vorbis decoder lib) support</li>
+ <li>BIG libavcodec messups & codmetics & cleanups & API changes & fixes</li>
+ <li>dynamic plugin support for libmpcodecs (for future binary codec releases)</li>
+</ul>
+
+GUI:
+<ul>
+ <li>general code cleanup, more robust gtk code</li>
+ <li>preferences: Screensaver, Autosync settings</li>
+ <li>cache=4 fixed (caused jerky/lagging/slow playback with gmplayer)</li>
+</ul>
+
+Others:
+<ul>
+ <li>new config/cmdline parser code (optional)</li>
+ <li>OSD menu system (preferences, shell, file selector etc)</li>
+ <li>libaf: runtime cpudetection, volume, equalizer, better format conversion</li>
+ <li>subtitle overlapping can be disabled, added subtitle sorting</li>
+ <li>subtitle dump to JACOsub and SAMI formats</li>
+ <li>displays URLs from 'Reference Media' type .mov files, dump generic data</li>
+ <li>get position/length function in demuxers - for slavemode & -indentify</li>
+ <li>-ao alsa9 surround fixes, 8-bit PCM fixed</li>
+ <li>-vo dfbmga: -dr support, fixed OSD flickering</li>
+ <li>-stop-xscreensaver fixed, support for KDE screensaver too</li>
+ <li>More compiler warning fixes</li>
+ <li>Altivec (G4) support</li>
+</ul>
+
+Leech from
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary 1
+ <a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90rc1.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+ <a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90rc1.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="windows_media_9">WMV9/WMA9 is also supported now - 2002.12.04.</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>Yes, now even MPlayer can play Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9) and WMA9
+ files. Get the CVS and fire it. I'm going to sleep.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="sorenson">Sorenson playback complete - 2002.11.19.</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>A'rpi and Al3x marvelously hacked the built-in Win32 loader to load
+the QuickTime codecs (Sorenson 3, QDesign Music Audio). You don't need the
+libwine hack, mentioned in the previous news entry. Just follow the
+<a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/~alex/codecs/qt-howto.txt">New QT Howto</a>,
+download the codecs and start MPlayer.</p>
+<p>Now the only remaining important codecs are WMV9 and WMA9. Guess what,
+the avifile project already got them working :) If you didn't know:
+those codecs use Micro$oft's new API: DMO (its predecessor was DirectShow).
+The funny thing is that these codecs are still "Release Candidate" according
+to Micro$oft :))</p>
+<p>Please be patient until we finish porting the DMO interface from avifile.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="qt_codecs">How To Enable QuickTime Codecs In MPlayer - 2002.11.19.</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>A'rpi whipped up a small text which describes how to use closed-source
+QuickTime codecs (Sorenson, QDesign Audio, etc) in MPlayer. The process
+is a bit difficult, but currently the only solution. Be patient, we are
+working on a better implementation.</p>
+
+<p>It is important to emphasize the fact that although this method includes
+usage of the windows emulator <b>Wine</b>, this is NOT just like using
+the QuickTime Player. Wine is only used for the decoder, thus from MPlayer's
+viewpoint it looks just like any other codec: you can use xmga, aalib, vidix,
+whatever to display the movie. And, you can even encode it with for example
+DivX, with MEncoder.</p>
+
+<p>The instructions can be found in <a href="../../DOCS/tech/qt-libwine-howto.txt">DOCS/tech/qt-libwine-howto.txt</a>.
+Good luck!</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="osd_menu">Introducing MPlayer OSD Menu - 2002.11.19.</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p><b>Alban Bedel</b> has commited his first complete OSD Menu support. It
+is just awesome :) You can adjust most of the playing options runtime, with
+your selected font, displayed right on the used video output. There is a
+file browser, help text displayer, preferences, but the most
+unbelievable feature is the Console: basically it's like a terminal emulator,
+running in MPlayer :) Check the following screenshot, I executed
+some Unix commands :)</p>
+
+<p><a href="../images/shot25.jpg"><img src="../images/shot25s.jpg" alt="OSD menu" width="200" height="150"></a><br>
+Click on the picture to zoom</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="svq3_qdm2">MPlayer plays Sorenson SVQ3 + QDM2 MOVs! - 2002.11.11.</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>Oops... We did it again :) So you can play your favourite brand-new
+quicktime movie trailers with mplayer! Oops... you cannot yet... at least the
+code is working, and was uploaded to CVS, but it needs some hacking to get it
+work... (not so bad, you need some DLLs from QT5 player and sdk, and libwine
+from wine-20020310 and some config.h editing) - okay, we'll work on getting
+this more user-friendly... :) so be patient, it'll be available in next
+(pre)release for sure!</p>
+
+<p><a href="../design4/images/svq3_shot2.jpg"><img src="../design4/images/svq3_shot2s.jpg" alt="SVQ3" width="256" height="192"><br>
+Click on the image for a larger version!</a></p>
+
+<p>Until then here is a screenshot, playing 2 well-known qt videos, the
+original sorenson 3 codec demo file and the 'Ellen Feiss about Windows'
+MOVs.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90pre10">MPlayer 0.90-pre10 "BirthdayCounter" released - 2002.11.11</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer is 2 years old today! It's worth to check
+<a href="http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.01.tar.gz">MPlayer v0.01</a>,
+it has evolved a lot since then :)
+Anyway, this prerelease has both major bugfixes and new features, just like
+pre9 had...
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The long CHANGELOG:
+</p>
+
+Docs:
+<ul>
+ <li>dvd auth, vcd sections extended (DOCS/cd-dvd.html)</li>
+ <li>unified *BSD sections, extended cygwin</li>
+</ul>
+
+Fixes:
+<ul>
+ <li>LIRC error message (Error while reading cmd fd X : Success) fixed</li>
+ <li>playback of some (streamed?) divx files fixed, starting with non-I frames.</li>
+ <li>-vo png fixed (removed builtin YV12 support, removed OSD)</li>
+ <li>some .mp3 playback/seek segfaults fixed</li>
+ <li>vidix mach64 colorkey on PPC fixed</li>
+ <li>-ao sdl now handles "featureless" soundcards</li>
+ <li>-vo zr fixes</li>
+ <li>fixed sig11 if vo init failed</li>
+ <li>various dxr2 and dxr3 fixes</li>
+ <li>v4l buffering fixed</li>
+ <li>fixed multiple reads caused by byteswapping macro (mjpeg.c, mach64_vid.c)</li>
+ <li>cleanup of postprocessing code - now it's threadsafe and can be shared</li>
+ <li>ported to GNU/Hurd</li>
+ <li>cleanup of AVI pts (timestamp) handling - no more BPS hack in mplayer.c</li>
+ <li>small cleanup of A-V sync code - using relative timers instead of absolute</li>
+ <li>GUI code cleanup, obsolete files/dirs removed</li>
+ <li>various small bugfixes, endianess fixes</li>
+ <li>mencoder: -pass option removed, use -divx4opts pass=N / -lavcopts vpass=N</li>
+ <li>mencoder: "ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion `q>0.0' failed" fixed!</li>
+ <li>mencoder: -ovc xvid fixes, cleanup, enhancements</li>
+ <li>screensaver/dpms re-enabling fixed</li>
+ <li>realvideo demuxer fixes - asf-style stream detection method</li>
+</ul>
+
+Features:
+<ul>
+ <li>-ao win32 (for windows port)</li>
+ <li>libavcodec: native WMA v1/v2 (aka. DivX audio) decoder</li>
+ <li>hw-accelerated video eq for -vo x11 and gl2, using DirectColor colormap</li>
+ <li>overlapping subtitles support, jacosub (*.js) format support</li>
+ <li>-vo dxr3 got a new syncengine, ':sync', also added native overlay support,
+ activate with ':overlay', read the manual for more info on how to set up</li>
+ <li>QDMC/QDM2/MACE audio codec support, using quicktime 5 win32 DLLs (libwine!)</li>
+ <li>libavcodec: various MJPEG decoding fixes - now it decodes all sample files!</li>
+ <li>mencvcd updates, sox/toolame support etc</li>
+ <li>-vo dfbmga - play video on Matrox G400's second head using directfb 0.9.14</li>
+ <li>RealAudio ATRC (sony atrac3) audio support (using binary plugin)</li>
+</ul>
+
+Filters:
+<ul>
+ <li>-af/-af-adv options cleanup</li>
+ <li>now auto-inserting -vop lavc for mpeg-only vo's</li>
+ <li>video filter API documented :)</li>
+ <li>better deblocking filter (-vop pp), pp/npp syntax changed!</li>
+ <li>-vop 2xsai - 2x scaler for drawn images (low color cartoon anims)</li>
+ <li>-vop unsharp - an sharp/blur filter, nice, but very slow</li>
+ <li>-vop il - (de)interleave fields</li>
+ <li>-vop swapuv - guess what :)</li>
+ <li>-vop boxblur - box blur...</li>
+ <li>-vop perspective</li>
+ <li>-vop sab</li>
+ <li>-vop smartblur</li>
+</ul>
+
+Leech from
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary 1
+ <a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre10.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+ <a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre10.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+now! :)
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="ffwma">Opensource WMA v1, v2 (Windows Media Audio) decoder in ffmpeg - 2002.10.29</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>The well-known <a href="http://ffmpeg.org">ffmpeg</a> project
+has made its new WMA decoder available. WMA is an audio codec from Micro$oft,
+which tries to compete MP3 (however, just try to encode the sound of the
+rain:). Just to remind you: ffmpeg already can decode the WMV7
+video codec from M$ (amongst <b>all</b> other MPEG4 variants).</p>
+<p>This new decoder's speed is the same as of M$'s decoder, but it's yet to be
+optimized.</p>
+<p>This decoder finally enables you to decode these audio streams on non-x86
+platforms.</p>
+<p><b>MPlayer</b> is the first player to support this feature.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="xbplayer3">End (?) of XBox Media Player debacle - 2002.10.29</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>After some mails (the thread could be followed on the <i>mplayer-users</i>
+mailing list), XBPlayer developers opened their Media Player's source:
+it is available by CVS on <a href="http://xbplayer.sf.net">http://xbplayer.sf.net</a>.</p>
+<p>Their reasoning: the Win32 version that is/was available for download at
+<a href="http://xboxmediaplayer.de">http://xboxmediaplayer.de</a> was an
+older version which didn't contain ffmpeg or xvid, and has non-GPL license,
+equipped with a DivX3 decoder which was 20-30% faster (!) than ffmpeg. Well
+that's what they say. Unfortunately, the source of that version was lost
+(??!!).</p>
+<p>They also insist on us providing an apology. For what? They nuked any
+topic on their forum which was discussing GPL. The homepage did not
+contain enough information about licenses - only the success story of
+porting ffmpeg and xvid..</p>
+<p>And the "losing" of the old source.. Either way, let's hope they are
+more tolerant to (L)GPL licenses now.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90pre9">MPlayer 0.90-pre9 released - 2002.10.24</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Hey. Here is pre9 and we're still not "stable" enough...
+This prerelease has both major bugfixes and new features :)
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The (longest ever) CHANGELOG:
+</p>
+
+Docs:
+<ul>
+ <li>man page rewritten again :)))</li>
+ <li>man page updated to latest options, including lavc options</li>
+ <li>Chinese docs translation added</li>
+ <li>Hungarian translation is (was? :)) up-to-date again</li>
+</ul>
+
+Cleanup:
+<ul>
+ <li>divx4_vbr.c is now really GPL - with the permission of the DivX.com guys!</li>
+ <li>cyuv decoder restructuring, now supports planar YUV formats, too</li>
+ <li>removed obsolete variables, like has_audio, has_video, allow_dshow, fifo</li>
+ <li>help_mp-XX.h files moved to help/ subdirectory, removed obsolete entries</li>
+ <li>the obsolete 0x1ff eof hack removed from mpeg-es demuxer and decoders</li>
+ <li>stheaders.h cleanup, removed unneeded wine includes from mplayer core</li>
+ <li>tons of compiler warning fixes, including some 10l ones</li>
+ <li>mga/xmga vo shared code, vesa and svga drivers cleanup</li>
+ <li>major vo drivers are now -fixed-vo compliant: x11, xv, xvidix, xmga, gl2</li>
+ <li>cleanup of libmpdemux option handling - now it's mplayer-independent again</li>
+ <li>removed fork() from LIRC input module</li>
+ <li>libfame removed from main tree/release - libavcodec is faster, better etc.</li>
+</ul>
+
+Fixes:
+<ul>
+ <li>Some fullscreen switching fixes, including Metacity vs KDE 3.1</li>
+ <li>Many GUI bug fixes</li>
+ <li>-vo DGA fixes, cleanup</li>
+ <li>-dvdkey sig11 fixed</li>
+ <li>k6-3's 3dnowex vs mmxext sigill fixed in mp3lib</li>
+ <li>-vo gif89, jpeg U-V swapping fixed</li>
+ <li>RTC setup fixes, more verbose messages, hints</li>
+ <li>mencoder: demuxer/codec uninit order fixed (solves some sig11)</li>
+ <li>various v4l and ALSA capturing fixes</li>
+ <li>demux_mov: fixed crash with MPEG4 on SPARC, decoding on big endian</li>
+ <li>various NAS ao fixes</li>
+ <li>libvo: optional stride support for packed YUV / RGB formats</li>
+ <li>mencoder: set keyframe flag on audio packets, fixes Windows seeking problems</li>
+ <li>loader: fixed 2 10l bugs, ATI VCR2 DLL now working. using new style CS code.</li>
+ <li>demux_avi: always use block counter, even if dwSampleSize!=0, fixes some files</li>
+ <li>SPU decoder (DVD/VOB subs): fixed 2 major bugs causing lost subtitles</li>
+ <li>various memory leak fixes (valgrind rulez :)</li>
+ <li>fixed RealAudio SIPR(O) codec (the wrapper didn't find the dspr.so.6)</li>
+ <li>mms:// audio (radio) streaming fixed</li>
+ <li>DVB: -vop lavc=bitrate is working again</li>
+ <li>various big endian fixes</li>
+</ul>
+
+Features:
+<ul>
+ <li>new audio filter layer (libaf) - automatic samplerate conversion</li>
+ <li>experimental -vo directx driver for cygwin build</li>
+ <li>unrarlib included for rar'ed VOBsubs</li>
+ <li>native xvid encoding (-ovc xvid) interface for mencoder</li>
+ <li>new softeq filter with gamma support: -vop eq2</li>
+ <li>-ao/-vo accepts list of drivers and can fall back to one, just like -ac/-vc</li>
+ <li>audio/video codec selection (-ac/-afm) rewritten, now uses codec/fm list</li>
+ <li>get_delay() smoothing (-autosync) - should help buggy sound drivers</li>
+ <li>smb:// URL support (disabled by default, ./configure part not yet done!)</li>
+ <li>support for 1/4/8bpp raw video (requires -vop palette / -vop 1bpp)</li>
+ <li>support for quicktime alaw/agsm audio codecs, 3IV2, 3VID video codecs</li>
+ <li>swscale can now output to YUY2 format, upscaled (default) or unscaled (-sws 0)</li>
+ <li>Vidix with LinuxPPC support (mach64 is confirmed to work)</li>
+ <li>GUI: cache, autoq settings, start in fullscreen, toggle button in menu</li>
+ <li>New video filter to overlay images over video: -vop bmovl</li>
+</ul>
+
+Libavcodec:
+<ul>
+ <li>RV10 codec cleanup (2nd level demuxer moved to demuxer layer)</li>
+ <li>MPEG4 interlaced DCT _en_coding support</li>
+ <li>luma masking support (encoding)</li>
+ <li>runtime selectable IDCT algo</li>
+ <li>faster MPEG1/2 decoder</li>
+ <li>DV decoding (both PAL and NTSC)</li>
+ <li>MPEG1 2-pass encoding support</li>
+ <li>better/cleaner error resilience (done in a 2nd pass after decoding)</li>
+ <li>h263/MPEG4 out of order slice decoding</li>
+ <li>-lavdopts bug= reworked, now uses flags, autodetects most of them</li>
+ <li>complete MPEG4 GMC decoding support</li>
+</ul>
+
+Leech from
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary 1
+ <a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre9.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+ <a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre9.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+now! :)
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="xbplayer2">X-Box media player issue #2 - 2002.10.11</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>The XBMP developers issued an article telling they didn't make
+official releases, therefore they are not obliged to release source code.
+So I guess they can say: "Oh, you have an XBMP binary? It must have been
+leaked, we are soo sorry."</p>
+<p>That's a lie. Seeing <a href="http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/newweb/download_files.htm">their download area</a>,
+there is a Win32 binary (amongst many else), obviously with GPL license.
+Please send the source to gabucino at mplayerhq.hu, which you are obliged
+to do.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="xbplayer1">X-Box media player infringing GPL - 2002.10.04</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>Some win32 guys made a <a href="http://xboxmediaplayer.de">media player</a>
+for Micro$oft's well-known "console", the X-box. Unfortunately they used
+FFMPEG and XVID sources in their closed-source product, and failed to make
+their sources - and changes to the used GPL codebase - available either in
+public, or by request - as the GPL license forces them to do so. They can't
+be contacted because they don't publish their E-Mail addresses due to an
+expectable threat from M$, or whatever their reasons are.</p>
+
+<p>This violates GPL.</p>
+
+<p>As we currently cannot move against them (not that we want to do so, in the
+first place), we can only warn the open-source community to</p>
+
+<p class="center"><b>STAY AWAY FROM THIS PIECE OF PIRATED SOFTWARE!</b></p>
+
+<p>It's a pity that so much people don't give a shit about the tireless
+work of FFMPEG/XVID creators.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90pre8">MPlayer 0.90-pre8 released - 2002.09.18</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Hmm. It seems that pre7 was the most buggier pre-release ever...
+So time to release a bugfix/hotfix one now.</p>
+
+<p>
+CHANGELOG:
+</p>
+
+Docs:
+
+<ul>
+ <li>manpage has been rewritten, now has better indenting, and convertable to
+ html</li>
+ <li>AUTHORS, MAINTAINERS converted back to separate text files, and updated.</li>
+ <li>ChangeLog file is included again (was removed after 0.18)</li>
+ <li>some new tech docs on libmpcodecs, updates/fixes in others, manpage-howto</li>
+ <li>more updates in translation files (help_mp-XX.h)</li>
+ <li>removed obsolete/unused entries from help_mp-en.h</li>
+</ul>
+
+Cleanup:
+
+<ul>
+ <li>XAnim interface merged & fixed, now uses mpi and supports direct
+ rendering</li>
+ <li>cleanup of libmpdemux stream layer, especially of TV and MF parts</li>
+ <li>some more unused files removed: vo_fsdga, vo_odivx, vd_rle, timer.c,
+ ttf_load</li>
+</ul>
+
+Fixes:
+
+<ul>
+ <li>the http:// infinite memleak bug has been fixed, some WMS9 mms:// fixes</li>
+ <li>various sparc/sun, hpux and netbsd/openbsd portability fixes</li>
+ <li>-vop palette fixes, CRAM and QPEG colors are OK now</li>
+ <li>demuxer fixed for >2GB nuppelvideo files</li>
+ <li>mencoder: -ss fixed for 3-pass encoding</li>
+ <li>gui.conf locale bug fixed (again... hope this time it's ok)</li>
+ <li>X11 fullscreen switching fixed, when d_width == screenwidth</li>
+ <li>MOV files edit-list handling fixed - solved 'short read' issue</li>
+</ul>
+
+Features:
+
+<ul>
+ <li>new demuxer for .PVA files (fileformat of TV/DVB apps on win32)</li>
+ <li>-mf now supports TGA (24/32bpp uncomp/rle) images</li>
+ <li>libavcodec: support for interlaced mpeg-4 _de_coding</li>
+ <li>libavcodec: aspect ratio encoding support (mpeg4, mjpeg, h263?)</li>
+ <li>win32 DLL loader merged/synced with avifile CVS</li>
+</ul>
+
+Leech from
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary 1
+ <a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre8.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+ <a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre8.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+now!
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90pre7">MPlayer 0.90-pre7 released - 2002.09.05</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Hmm. Yet another month and we're at pre7... instead of the 0.90 stable...
+People just cannot insist commiting fixes and features :)</p>
+
+cleanup:
+<ul>
+ <li>libvo2, old input code & sis_vid removed, other code cleanups</li>
+ <li>tons of compiler warning fixes, some configure/makefile improvements</li>
+ <li>more messages are translated, many translations updated</li>
+ <li>docs review continued, html cleanups</li>
+ <li>option -vfm/-afm now uses names instead of numbers, driver IDs removed</li>
+</ul>
+
+code:
+<ul>
+ <li>vfw/vfwex cleanup, support for runtime csp queries, 8bpp support</li>
+ <li>new native mszh/zlib codec</li>
+ <li>libavcodec: 2-pass control code rewritten, now everything customizable</li>
+ <li>libavcodec: mpeg4/xvid en/decoding support improved, rv10 decoding fixes</li>
+ <li>various realvideo demuxer and video codec fixes, sipr audio support</li>
+ <li>new video filters: soft eq (brightness), halfpack (deinterlacer), film noise</li>
+ <li>.ogm subtitles support</li>
+ <li>optional freetype 2.1+ support for runtime-scalable .ttf font rendering</li>
+ <li>various networking and mms:// fixes, live.com support improved</li>
+ <li>various v4l video capturing and audio capturing fixes, audio input layer</li>
+ <li>libmpdvdkit2 - based on libdvdcss 1.2.2 + libdvdread 0.9.3 + key cache</li>
+ <li>alsa: iec958-init completely rewritten - better SP/DIF AC3 support</li>
+</ul>
+
+gui:
+<ul>
+ <li>gui.conf locale bug fixed (hopefully)</li>
+ <li>gui preferences menu extended, runtime subtitle loading support</li>
+ <li>gui: drag'n'drop support</li>
+</ul>
+
+Leech from
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary 1
+ <a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre7.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+ <a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre7.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+now!
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="xvid">XVID open source MPEG-4 codec stolen! - 2002.08.24</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p><b>XVID</b> is a leading open source MPEG-4 video codec, covered by
+the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). At the beginning of July 2002,
+XVID learned that their codec was entirely stolen by <b>Sigma Designs</b>
+(the manufacturer of DXR3/H+ hardware MPEG2 decoder cards), and is
+distributed with the name <i>REALmagic MPEG-4 Video Codec</i>, under
+Sigma Designs' own license (not GPL).</p>
+
+<p>The XVID people immediately contacted Sigma Designs, who confirmed the
+violation, and promised to remove all violating code. On August 9th,
+Sigma released version 1.1 of "their" codec, which turned out to be
+still containing XVID, but it was disguised by programming and
+compiling tricks. As Sigma didn't show any sign of cooperation since,
+the XVID project leaders decided to close the project, until the
+matter is settled. Or forever...</p>
+
+<p>This is a brief snippet of the story available at <a href="http://www.xvid.org">
+www.xvid.org</a>. Please take the time and read it!</p>
+
+<p>I think the Sigma guys are lamers, they didn't notice that icc (Intel's C
+compiler) inserts the source's filenames and the used compiler options
+into the binary, thus it was easy to spot.</p>
+
+The reasons we support XVID in this peril:
+<ul>
+ <li>MPlayer team and XVID have always been loosely cooperating.</li>
+ <li>MPlayer also has been stolen and renamed some time ago, with no
+ credits given to us (WarpVision for OS/2...)</li>
+ <li>we want XVID to live and evolve: it is one of the two open source
+ MPEG-4 video codecs, not some toy for a firm.</li>
+ <li>we are curious of the outcome. If XVID wins, the GPL license
+ has bright future. If it fails despite the simplicity of the
+ situation, it's destinied to die..
+ Let's see if RMS can do useful things after hammering Linux and
+ BitKeeper relationship.</li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="mplayer256">MPlayer in 256 bytes - 2002.08.09</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<a href="../design4/images/flag2k2.jpg"><img src="../design4/images/flag2k2-small.jpg" alt="Flag 2002 party" width="241" height="133"></a>
+<p>
+ The great <a href="http://flag2002.demoscene.hu">Flag 2002 party</a> was
+ held in Budapest, Hungary on July 12-14th with some MPlayer team members
+ present, including A'rpi, Pontscho and me (Gabucino). Don't be alarmed, I
+ won't write a party report, but only put a note about a 256 byte compo
+ entry that A'rpi coded just for fun:
+ <a href="../design4/mply2002.zip">MPlayer256</a>. It does OSD and noise filter in
+ only 256 bytes :) Unfortunately it didn't get a single vote :)
+</p>
+<p>Also, big thanx to the organizers for a great party!</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90pre6">MPlayer 0.90-pre6 released - 2002.08.06</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Hmm. After about 2 months of "testing" pre6 is out... It should be named v1.00
+rather than v0.90-pre6, due to the many new features and major bugfixes - but it's pre6 now.<br>
+The <i>crippled</i> list of changes:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>WMV1, Sorenson v1 (SVQ1) and RealPlayer 8.0 (RV20/30, Cook) codecs support</li>
+ <li>libavcodec M1 direct rendering, IPB support with Xv</li>
+ <li>libavcodec improvements, bugfixes - both the encoder & decoder sides</li>
+ <li>Raw DV demuxer, libdv-based DV audio/video decoder</li>
+ <li>Various MOV/MP4, RM and ASF/WMV demuxer bugfixes, improvements</li>
+ <li>Detection of AVI files which needs <code>-ni</code> option, workaround for some Nandub bugs</li>
+ <li>Support for live.com RTP/RTSP streaming libraries</li>
+ <li>Support to rip DVD subs in VOBsub format, bugfixes of mpsub/srt converter</li>
+ <li>Closed Captioning (ascii subs on RC1 DVDs) support</li>
+ <li>Massive directfb updates</li>
+ <li>Vidix fixes/updates, including fixes of all known radeon bugs</li>
+ <li>dithered 1/4/8 bpp support with -vo svga (EGA rulez:))</li>
+ <li>AO: alsa9 fixes/improvements, native ARTS driver</li>
+ <li>various endianess and 64-bit fixes, including mencoder and -ao pcm</li>
+ <li>tons of small compatibility/portability fixes, better cygwin, darwin support</li>
+ <li>GUI fixes, new features - playlist, audio/video equalizer, preferences</li>
+ <li>Skins: fixed many small glitches, few new skins</li>
+ <li>'mencvcd' script - helps creating VCD/SVCD with mencoder</li>
+ <li>html DOCS updates, manpage & README restructured (again :))</li>
+</ul>
+
+Leech from
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary
+ <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre6.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+ <li>Hungary
+ <a href="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre6.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+now! :)
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Just about recent changes - 2002.06.27
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><b>Sorenson v1 (SVQ1) support</b> - based on
+ <a href="http://xinehq.de">Xine</a>'s Sorenson v1 (SVQ1) decoder, we
+ implemented it in <b>MPlayer</b>.
+ It uses libavcodec's MMX/3DNow!/etc optimized functions, while Xine's version is plain C.
+ So ours should be faster.<br>
+ <b>NOTE: Sorenson v3 (SVQ3) still can't be decoded, either with MPlayer or
+ Xine! Same for QDM audio :(</b>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>EGA support</b> - EGA (Enhanced Graphics Adapter) is an old graphics
+ card, the predecessor of VGA. It does 16 colors in maximum 640x350
+ resolution, and became very popular many years ago - many old games support
+ only EGA, not VGA.<br>
+ Recently <b>Michael Niedermayer</b> added 4bpp (16 colors) converter
+ in <b>MPlayer</b>, enabling us to use SVGAlib's EGA driver.
+ <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#svgalib">See the
+ documentation for more information!</a><br>
+ <br>
+ <p class="center"><a href="../design4/images/EGA-01.jpg"><img src="../design4/images/EGA-01s.jpg" alt="EGA" width="224" height="157"></a><br>
+ <b>Matrox G400 on TV</b> versus <b>EGA card 320x200x16 on CGA monitor</b><br>
+ (<a href="../design4/images/EGA-02.jpg">click here for darker version (better
+ colours</a>)<br>
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>RealPlayer codecs loading support</b> - i.e.: now RealVideo G2/8.0/RealOne
+ (RV20, RV30) and RealAudio (Cook, Sipro) is playable with
+ <b>MPlayer</b>! Credits go to <b>Florian Schneider</b>. I guess this
+ is the first time someone found out how to use RealPlayer's binary codec plugins.
+ <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/formats.html#realmedia">See the
+ documentation for more information!</a>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+You will have to use the CVS version! <b>Current snapshot can be
+downloaded from these locations:</b>
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary
+ <a href="http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+ <li>Hungary
+ <a href="ftp://ftp2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="donations">Donations page created - 2002.06.12</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>I've put a donations page up, in case someone would need only this
+to start donating... Click here ->
+<a href="donations.html">DONATIONS PAGE</a></p>
+
+<p>Please think about donating. MPlayer is a non-profit program, and we
+don't ask for too expensive things.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90pre5">MPlayer 0.90pre5 released - 2002.06.08</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>Here comes a brand new pre-release of <b>MPlayer 0.90</b>: pre5.
+Below you can find a short list of changes, compared to the pre4
+version.</p>
+
+<p>
+<b>Documentation changes:</b></p>
+<ul>
+ <li>lot of fixes, updates, cleanups</li>
+ <li>new README containing quick install guide</li>
+ <li>tech level docs on libavcodec encoding options</li>
+ <li>HTML doc is now IE 6.0.2600 compatible! :)))</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><b>Code changes:</b></p>
+<ul>
+ <li>subreader (ASCII subtitle file parser) fixes</li>
+ <li>spudec (VOBsub) cleanup/fixes, a new (faster, better) scaler, bbox
+ support</li>
+ <li>mmst:// streaming support</li>
+ <li>.ogm (OGG) audio/video stream selection</li>
+ <li>native Micro$oft MPEG4v1 (MPG4) codec, error concealement for all
+ MPEG4s</li>
+ <li>various libavcodec encoding improvements</li>
+ <li>MPEG1 && -vo x11 crash fixed when movie's height%16!=0</li>
+ <li>raw (uncompressed) video fixed (avi & mov)</li>
+ <li>flickering/blocking fixed for old vfw codecs (indeo3, cinepak etc)</li>
+ <li>introduced codecs.conf versioning to avoid problems caused by too old
+ conf</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><b>Display:</b></p>
+<ul>
+ <li>some more X11 cleanup, icewm fullscreen fixes, <code>-vo gl/gl2</code>
+ fixed</li>
+ <li>xscreensaver disabling support (optional, disabled by default)</li>
+ <li><b>pan&scan</b> support in <i>xv, xmga, xvidix</i></li>
+ <li>Xv YV12 stride problems fixed when width%8!=0</li>
+ <li>vidix r128/radeon driver synced with <b>mplayerxp</b>, various xvidix
+ fixes</li>
+ <li>DVB A/V sync fixes, <b>libfame</b> updated to 0.9.0</li>
+ <li><b>native <code>-ao arts</code> driver</b>, AC3 passthrough support for
+ <code>-ao alsa9</code>, <code>-ao nas</code> fixed</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><b>Miscellaneous fixes:</b></p>
+<ul>
+ <li>GUI: VCD and URL support, some bugs fixed</li>
+ <li>some cleanup of messages (less debug stuff) printed by MPlayer</li>
+ <li>gcc 3.1 support</li>
+ <li>various portability fixes (cygwin, darwin, 64bit sparc/alpha)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><b>Download:</b></p>
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary
+ <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre5.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+ <li>Hungary
+ <a href="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre5.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="parhelia">Matrox's new card: Parhelia - 2002.06.04</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>The well-known video card maker <a href="http://www.matrox.com">Matrox</a>
+has released its new card continuing the <i>Gxx</i> series: <b>Parhelia</b>.
+Unfortunately <code>mga_vid</code> won't support it, unless someone
+sends us some of this baby. We mailed Matrox some weeks ago, but - sadly -
+haven't received any answer.</p>
+<p>Donations are welcome.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90pre4">MPlayer 0.90pre4 released - 2002.05.13</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>I can't think of any introduction text. So: the new pre-release 0.90-pre4 of
+the <a href="http://freshmeat.net/stats/#popularity">most popular</a>
+movie player is out. List of main changes:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>X11 fullscreen toggle fixes with various windowmanagers, multifile playback</li>
+<li>DXR2 support</li>
+<li>Output into animated GIF</li>
+<li>"cropdetect" video filter to autodetect needed size to crop</li>
+<li>libavcodec marked as default encoder for MEncoder</li>
+<li>manpage rewrite</li>
+<li>lot of other fixes</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Download:</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary
+ <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre4.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+ <li>Hungary
+ <a href="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre4.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90pre3">MPlayer 0.90pre3 released - 2002.05.03</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>This prerelease contains some serious bugfixes, and no big new features.
+We promised various big things in pre2 announcement, but they are delayed to
+pre4 now, as we want to release these fixes ASAP. The most important fixes were:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>3DNow optimization of AC3 4ch downmix fixed, optims re-enabled</li>
+<li>DGA error/fail after 1 second of playing fixed</li>
+<li>big A-V desync for some AVI files fixed</li>
+<li>image distortions when seeking in some MPEG files fixed</li>
+<li>libmpdvdkit + gcc 3.x issue solved (our CFLAGS triggered a gcc3 bug...)</li>
+<li>GUI aspect ratio and fullscreen switch fixes, cleanups</li>
+<li>low FPS .wmv playback fixed</li>
+<li>MACOS-X (Darwin) port?</li>
+<li>buggy v4l audio grabbing disabled, we cannot fix, but patches are welcomed!</li>
+<li>various mjpeg improvements in libavcodec</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>You can download it from the following places:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Hungary
+ <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre3.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+ <li>Hungary
+ <a href="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre3.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>And please check the
+<a href="http://freshmeat.net/stats">Freshmeat popularity statistics</a>,
+it has Linux kernel on <b>100%</b>, second place is <b>MPlayer</b> with
+<b>94.61%</b> and increasing. The third is cdrecord with <b>47.41%</b> :)</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90pre2">MPlayer 0.90pre2 released - 2002.04.30</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>This is the second pre-release intended for public testing. We'd like to make
+a totally bugfree 0.90 later, so please try this out and report problems!
+We've got many bugreports since 0.90-pre1, most of these have been fixed.
+</p>
+
+<p>Known problems, with top priority on our TODO (scheduled for pre3):</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>keeping/altering width/height and aspect by filters</li>
+ <li>check uploaded files (ftp incoming) and fix bugs if needed</li>
+ <li>cleanup warning/debug messages printed by mplayer</li>
+ <li>fix mencoder windows compatibility (ac3 and cbr mp3 sound)</li>
+ <li>make DOCS up-to-date</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>List of changes, without being complete :</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>hwac3 fixes (try AFMT_AC3 first), bigendian fixes for PCM audio</li>
+<li>2-pass encoding with libavcodec (-lavcopts vpass=x), B frames support</li>
+<li>faster .ogg seeking (use -forceidx for slow but accurate one)</li>
+<li>audio-only with gui fixed</li>
+<li>-rootwin fixed for x11,xv,xmga,xvidix</li>
+<li>aspect ratio fix for ffmpeg12</li>
+<li>mpeg-es detection fixed</li>
+<li>runtime cpudetect disabled by default</li>
+<li>support for many new win32 codecs, including mss1, tm20, ucod, truespeech</li>
+<li>divx audio dll sig11 with glibc 2.1.(2|3) fixed</li>
+<li>includes libmpdvdkit - patched kit of dvd libraries (enabled for linux+freebsd)</li>
+<li>manpages updated</li>
+<li>'f' (fullscreen switch) fixed for some WMs, still has problems</li>
+<li>various freebsd and openbsd portability patches</li>
+<li>options -xy,-zoom,-flip usable with mencoder too, -xy keeps aspect</li>
+<li>-vop lavc, using new fast best libavcodec for realtime mpeg1 transcoding</li>
+<li>fixed gtk gui crash with --disable-mencoder</li>
+<li>no more black VOBsub subtitles :)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Everyone is welcome to test, and don't forget to REPORT BUGS! You can
+download <b>MPlayer 0.90pre2</b>
+<a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre2.tar.bz2">here</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.90pre1">MPlayer 0.90pre1 released - 2002.04.21</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>This is a pre-release intended for public testing. We'd like to make
+a totally bugfree 0.90 later, so please try this out and report problems!</p>
+
+<p>List of enhancements, without being complete:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><b>100% GPL</b> - yeah, so what?</li>
+ <li><b>runtime CPU detection code</b> - any x86 MPlayer binary can run on
+ "any" other x86 CPU</li>
+ <li><b>video filter layer</b> - with numerous plugins (crop, expand, etc,
+ see the documentation)</li>
+ <li><b>ability to view or encode DVD/VOBsub and/or text subtitles into the output
+ AVI</b></li>
+ <li><b>prelimenary dvdnav support (experimental)</b></li>
+ <li><b>Direct Rendering</b> - can't be used with libavcodec yet, sorry</li>
+ <li><b>ability to display subtitles under the image, on black bands</b></li>
+ <li><b>FFmpeg (included) now supports decoding MPEG4v2 (MP42) and DivX 5.0 files too</b></li>
+ <li><b>greatly enhanced MPEG4 encoder</b> - in libavcodec. It's
+ not always as good as DivX4, but is twice as fast - so it's very
+ useful on realtime encoding. And generally also.</li>
+ <li><b>audio-only (wav/mp3/wma/ogg) file playback (console only)</b></li>
+ <li><b>playing/encoding audio from separate wav/mp3 file</b></li>
+ <li><b>support for more fileformats, including the new and very popular .ogg</b></li>
+ <li><b>multiple files playback from console, including various playlist formats</b></li>
+ <li><b>and of course, faster than ever... :)</b></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Everyone is welcome to test, and don't forget to REPORT BUGS! You can
+download <b>MPlayer 0.90pre1</b>
+<a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre1.tar.bz2">here</a>.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="mplayerxp">MPlayerXP - 2002.03.18</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>
+As some of you may have already noticed, there is a new project on
+Sourceforge, called <a href="http://mplayerxp.sf.net">MPlayerXP</a>.
+This project has been started by Nick Kurshev - the author of Vidix, and
+origin of numerous MPlayer optimizations.</p>
+
+<p>He forked because we didn't accept his patch: it brings unneeded threads
+into <b>MPlayer</b> - threadlessness is the main feature of MPlayer, compared
+to other Linux players like Xine and avifile. Nick writes his method gains
+300% speed.. This is not true. His method gains not speed but smoothness -
+if you have a movie that runs slow with <b>MPlayer</b>, MPlayerXP
+<b>will not</b> help you. It helps only in <b>some rare</b> files on about
+~400Mhz Intel speed category systems, but it won't be faster decode (total
+decoding time will be the same).</p>
+
+<p>But you are free to try it! If you (don't) find that new core better than
+the normal one, mail Nick a full report. We don't support MPlayerXP..</p>
+
+<p>[ this is Nick's
+<a href="http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2002-March/006230.html">original
+mail</a>, it's became a nice thread since ]</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Plus - 2002.03.16
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>Whoops, left out the most important:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><b>DivX5</b> - <b>MPlayer</b> supports it in two ways: by using
+ the official libdivxdecore.so binary library available at
+ <a href="http://avifile.sf.net">avifile.sf.net</a>, or by using the
+ well-known <b>libavcodec</b>. The latter is the recommended for its
+ speed, simplicity and stability ! Neither of them supports encoding
+ currently.</li>
+ <li><b>XViD</b> - supported. See the
+ <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html#xvid">documentation</a>.</li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ MPlayer new release coming soon - 2002.03.16
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+We'll soon make a release again. The runtime CPU detection code seems to be
+working perfect, so time to be <b>GPL</b>. Until then, let's see some new
+features :
+</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><b>beta DIRECT RENDERING</b> - it's a process where the codec decodes
+ directly into the video memory, and only transfering changed sections of
+ the image, resulting in great performance gain. Unfortunately the codec
+ has to support this method, and libavcodec currently does not. Other codecs
+ like DivX4, DivX DirectShow do support this method, but libavcodec is still
+ faster than they are. So :<br>
+ <b>Codecs with support</b> : DivX4, and most of the Windows codecs<br>
+ <b>Video outputs with support</b> : xv, mga, xmga, vidix, directfb<br></li>
+ <li><b>playing or encoding audio from separate file</b> - use the
+ <code>-audiofile</code> option. See the manpage of course.</li>
+ <li><b>new audio plugins</b> - such as extrastereo, volume normalizer,
+ software mixer, etc.
+ <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/audio.html">Documentation</a>.</li>
+ <li><b>mach64_vid</b> - new Vidix driver for cards with Mach64 chipset
+ (Rage XL/Mobility, Xpert98).</li>
+ <li><b>TV audio encoding support on BSD</b> - but still not on Linux :(</li>
+ <li><b>subtitle placement under movie</b> - ONLY on SDL video output</li>
+ <li><b>audio files support</b> - yes, <b>MPlayer</b> can play MP3, WMA, etc
+ files. This implies playing audio-only ASF's from the net. Note that this
+ feature is not prioritized too high, which in this case means that
+ sometimes MP3 files will get detected as MPG, and won't be played
+ correctly. This is because <b>MPlayer</b> is still a movie, and not a media
+ player, and it's not easy to distinguish between an MP3 and an MPG.</li>
+ <li><b>(M)JPEG decoding with libjpeg</b></li>
+ <li><b>enhanced DXR3 and DVB support with <code>libfame</code></b> - libfame is
+ a very fast MPEG1 encoder, perfectly fit to the task of encoding DivXes
+ runtime to MPEG1.</li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ About latest development - 2002.03.04
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>Here comes a little review of latest works in CVS:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><b>Hardware equalizing</b> - we could scratch the this most-wanted
+ feature from out TODO list, as it is available now. Using the
+ <code>xv</code> video output driver now you are able to set
+ contrast/brightness/saturation from hardware. Previously you could do it
+ only in software, and only with the DirectShow DivX codec. The usage is
+ the same, use 1-8 keys - they are explained in the manpage.</li>
+ <li><b>New input system</b> - this system is able to bind every
+ <b>MPlayer</b> function to a given key/mouse/joystick, easily configurable
+ from a config file. See the <code>input.conf</code> example file in the
+ <code>main/etc</code> directory.</li>
+ <li><b>Playtree</b> - <b>MPlayer</b>'s command line interface changed a
+ little bit, now when playing multiple files the order of options DOES
+ matter. The first options you specify are considered to be default, unless
+ options written AFTER filenames override them. You can find an explanation
+ of this method in the
+ <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/usage.html">documentation</a>.</li>
+ <li><b>New fileformats</b> - <b>MPlayer</b> now has demuxers for
+ <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/formats.html#film">FILM</a> (used on
+ Sega Saturn CD games),
+ <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/formats.html#roq">RoQ</a> (used in ID
+ Software games like Quake3 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein) file formats.
+ Work has begun on Playstation video files.</li>
+ <li><b>Enhanced software scaler</b> - software scaler is used in
+ <b>MEncoder</b> when resizing, and in <b>MPlayer</b> when the videocard
+ doesn't have XVideo support. Until now it could work only with codecs
+ capable of YV12 output (libmpeg2, libavcodec). Now it can use others too
+ (Windows DLLs).</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+And let's see some <b>MEncoder</b>-specific enhancements :<br><br>
+<b>o Multiple input files encoding support</b> - no, this is not about
+audio from separate file. This is for creating DivX4/MJPEG/etc files from a
+series of JPEG or PNG files. Note that <b>MEncoder</b> is also capable of
+creating MPNG files! :) (and <b>MPlayer</b> is capable of playing them)
+See the <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.html">new section</a>
+in <b>MEncoder</b> documentation.<br><br>
+<b>o Encoding only given time interval</b> - it sez it all. See the
+<b>MEncoder</b> manpage for the options.<br><br>
+<b>o XViD encoding support</b> - XViD is an enhanced opensource version of
+the old OpenDivX codec, a DivX4-beater wannabe, developed at
+<a href="http://www.videocoding.de">http://www.videocoding.de</a>. Currently it's not
+intended for users.<br>
+</p>
+
+<p>There will be some other new features announced here shortly..</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="joebarr2">Another joe barr article - 2002.01.28</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>Yes, Linuxworld hasn't fired this guy yet. This time he examined Xine.. I do
+not (?:) intend to go ranting about the article, as it does not directly
+concern <b>MPlayer</b>. Instead, I'd like to point out on some things :</p>
+
+<p>In the beginning of the article Joe baby quickly proclaims that his standard
+./configure; make; make install procedure worked just fine, and got
+"video that rivaled anything he's ever seen". Later in the article he
+adds that he had to visit and download "a number of related sites and projects"
+so he could fill in Xine's missing parts. The interesting part is that he
+had to do the same to <b>MPlayer</b>, and he became angry about it.</p>
+
+<p>Another interesting part is when he "was impressed by the level of detail
+and information provided by the (configure) scripts". Well you know how
+a standard ./configure script's output looks like :</p>
+
+<p>
+<code> checking whether the C compiler works... yes</code>
+</p>
+
+<p>I'm impressed by the "level of detail". BTW, that script runs for
+5 times more time than ours.. Well, it simply rocks.</p>
+
+<p>Let's continue reading this fabulous article:
+Joe quickly froze Xine by changing to an other skin than the default. I
+expected he'd go furious but, no, instead he advises us to "keep
+in mind this is beta software".. He didn't say this when testing
+<b>MPlayer</b>, yet he used Xine 0.9.7, and he <b>MPlayer</b>'s development CVS
+version.. He must have forgot it, doesn't matter. But he doesn't know that Xine
+is planning to release 1.0 very soon...</p>
+
+<p>Next advantage of Xine is "you can set just about anything". Let's
+see what is <i>anything</i> : from paths to device names to the "demuxer
+selection strategy" . Now, THAT's what I call variety ;)) But seriously,
+<b>MPlayer</b> is MUCH more customizable than Xine. If you don't believe it,
+you've never seen <b>MPlayer</b>, or never cared to read the documentation.
+So what do we have in the end? Joe Man is FUD'ing again.. This guy is
+impressive :) If I knew english as much as he does, I too would be able to
+manipulate the masses this easy :)</p>
+
+<p>Then he plays a DVD. Lucky for him, because Xine couldn't play any of mine,
+only when I downloaded DVDnav, and recompiled Xine for it :) But please
+disregard this paragraph, it's only my lameness. Or maybe it's his 1Ghz Athlon,
+and my 500Mhz K6/2 - which plays DVDs with almost no (!) framedrops (with
+mga_vid, which Xine doesn't have.. So Xine is unable to use my Matrox's
+TVout too..)</p>
+
+<p>He also visits <b>#xine</b>, where he gets some hints.. Maybe configure;
+make; make install and Xine documentation wasn't enough? I never saw him
+on <b>#MPlayer</b> or on our mailing lists... Yet, according to him, our
+documentation is the biggest pile of shit :) Yare-yare, I must be
+crafting conspiration theories :)</p>
+
+<p>So, these are my (Gabucino) comments on Mr. Barr's article.. My intention
+was to let the community see the other side of Barr's fuckings. My intention
+was NOT to disrespect <a href="http://xinehq.de">Xine</a> (I think
+it has nice GUI widgets) or Guenter Barsch, if he feels I did so, I
+apologize.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="mga_vid_freebsd">Vidix's mga_vid tested on FreeBSD - 2002.01.26</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>...and it works! So currently <b>MPlayer</b> is the <b>FASTEST</b>
+movie player on FreeBSD, with Matrox G400 cards ! (G200 currently doesn't
+work with Vidix)
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="vidix">Introducing <b>VIDIX</b> technology - 2002.01.16</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>
+<b>VIDIX</b> is an interface for the sole purpose of <b>direct access to
+videocards' framebuffers, DGA and BES</b>.
+</p>
+<p>
+I don't have to introduce <b>mga_vid</b> to Matrox users, they already
+know the mighty speed and quality increase compared to the standard
+Xv driver in X11, not to mention the hardware accelerated TV out.
+</p>
+<p>
+I also don't have to talk about <b>radeon_vid</b> which was first to
+produce TV output on Linux for ATI Radeons, and at the same time having
+the speed of mga_vid.
+</p>
+<p>
+But I <b>DO</b> have to talk about the fact that VIDIX provides an interface
+for all these drivers. I mentioned that it also provides direct hardware
+access. And what does a standard interface for hardware access mean?
+It means that now it's very easy to write <b>*_vid</b> drivers for
+virtually <b>EVERY</b> videocard.<br>
+<br>
+For those which don't have XVideo support in X11.<br>
+<br>
+For NVidia users who have to mess with buggy drivers and
+incompatibilities. We already started writing <b>nvidia_vid</b> !
+</p>
+<p>
+And this is absolutely not the whole story. I think you may be
+interested for VIDIX and its drivers (mga_vid, radeon_vid, nvidia_vid) are
+<b>PLATFORM AND OS INDEPENDENT !</b><br>
+Ability to use for example mga_vid on <b>BSD</b>. On <b>Windows</b>. On......
+</p>
+<p>
+<a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#vidix">Read about
+it.</a>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="unapplied_patches">New section: Unapplied patches - 2002.01.15</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>
+I've just created a new section for patches that didn't make it to CVS,
+but may be interesting for some people. See the download page.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="mirror">MPlayer site mirrored - 2002.01.15</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+
+<p>
+We've set up a mirror for the entire site (except the CVS). It can be reached
+at <a href="http://www2.mplayerhq.hu">http://www2.mplayerhq.hu</a> and
+<a href="ftp://ftp2.mplayerhq.hu">ftp://ftp2.mplayerhq.hu</a>.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.60">MPlayer 0.60 RELEASED ! - 2002.01.02</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>3 months have passed since 0.50, and we are pleased to announce that 0.60
+is finally <b>RELEASED !</b> While
+<a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.60.tar.bz2">downloading</a>, check
+out the "short" <i>What's New</i> list:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>brand new kick-penguin-ass homepage design by chass (this is his opinion:)</li>
+ <li>new fileformats :
+ <b><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/formats.html#mov">Quicktime MOV</a></b>,
+ <b><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/formats.html#vivo">VIVO v1/v2</a></b>
+ <b><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/formats.html#fli">Autodesk FLI/FLC</a></b>,
+ <b><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/formats.html#realmedia">RealMedia</a></b>,
+ <b><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/formats.html#nuppelvideo">NuppelVideo</a></b>
+ <b><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/formats.html#yuv4mpeg">yuv4mpeg</a></b>,
+ <b><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/formats.html#yuv4mpeg">yuv4mpeg2</a></b>.</li>
+ <li>NEW native codecs :
+ <b><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html#avicodecs">CRAM (MS Video 1)</a></b>,
+ <b><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html#avicodecs">cvid (Cinepak)</a></b>,
+ <b><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/formats.html#fli">FLI</a></b>,
+ <b>generic ADPCM (and IMA) decoder</b>,
+ <b>g723</b>,
+ <b><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html#xanim">XAnim codecs support</a></b>.</li>
+ <li>build fixes</li>
+ <li><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/dvd.html"><b>DVD</b> subtitles support</a></li>
+ <li>new DVD options for subtitle/audio language selection : -alang, -slang</li>
+ <li>playing in root window : -rootwin option</li>
+ <li>postprocessing options syntax changes : -pp -npp</li>
+ <li>make install now copies codecs.conf (delete the old one in your home dir)</li>
+ <li><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/tv-input.html">grabbing from TV</a> through v4l</li>
+ <li><a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html">mencoder</a> - program for encoding video+audio (divx+mp3 and many others!)</li>
+ <li>new configure script - better autodetect, cleaner messages.</li>
+ <li>partial support for hardware MPEG decoders (<a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#dxr3">DXR3</a> and Siemens <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#dvb">DVB</a>)</li>
+ <li>input cache - to make network/DVD playback smoother</li>
+ <li>software YV12 scaling, aspect ratio fixes</li>
+ <li><b>GUI</b> fixes (it's still experimental :) and <a href="dload.html">new skins</a></li>
+ <li>lots of <b>MMX/SSE/3DNow!</b> optimizations over the whole code!</li>
+ <li>audio filter plugins (<a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/audio.html#surround-decode">surround</a>, <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html#swac3">5.1</a>, <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/audio.html#updn-sampling">up/downsample</a>, etc)</li>
+ <li>C++ DirectShow code converted to C - no C++ compiler is required anymore</li>
+ <li>new, nicer postprocess code - deinterlace filter too</li>
+ <li>AC3 decoding is now handled with <b>liba52</b> - Surround, 5.1, etc..</li>
+ <li>... and <b><i>countless</i></b> other new features, fixes, changes !</li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ 2001.12.01 :: December News
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p><sigh> It's hard to start a news entry.<br>
+Should I write some lame
+jokes of mine? I think it's not the reason people read <b>MPlayer</b> news.
+And they DO read. In July, we had 23487 hits. In September, it was 49947.
+And now in November, it's <b>90601</b> ! Nice growth, I can say. <b>MPlayer</b>'s
+features also grew the same way, so it's nearly time for a new release :
+0.50 has grown very old, buggy and featureless (compared to the code in CVS
+now).</p>
+
+<p><b>MPlayer team is looking for sponsors !</b> If you can and want to
+sponsor the Team's development either with (primarily) hardware or money,
+or just think that you can enhance the code, <b>contact us!</b>
+Thank you.</p>
+
+<p>So, back to the new release : we're not sure about the version name, but it
+won't be 1.0 . As of now, it seems 1.0 will be fully GPL, and will include
+powerful CPU detection code to allow binary distribution. Be aware that this is
+like fortune tellings, so no warranties.</p>
+
+<p>Apart from this, the main enhancement that will take place after this
+release, will be the <b>completion of libvo2</b> and this time we'll
+really do it. It means</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><b>direct rendering</b> (resulting in much faster image display, thus even smaller CPU requirement)</li>
+ <li>free (and MMX/3DNow accelerated) conversion between RGB and YUV colorspaces (so you can use ANY codecs with ANY video output drivers)</li>
+ <li>100% complete support of <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#dvb">DVB</a>
+ and <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#dxr3">DXR3</a> cards</li>
+ <li>support of DVD and VOBsub subtitles</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>and many many other interesting stuff.</p>
+
+<p>And now, something not-so-completely different : new features in current <b>CVS</b>.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>grabbing from V4L-compatible TV tuner cards - viewing and even encoding,
+ of course! This is relatively new code, and has no audio support yet.</li>
+ <li>Autodesk FLI/FLC Animation support - hmhm, very serious :)</li>
+ <li>native <b>Microsoft Video1</b> decoder - it's a very old format, but
+ it was easy to add a decoder, so one less Win32 codec to be used.</li>
+ <li>YV12 scaling with <b>MEncoder</b> - you can up/downscale the encoded
+ movie's size, if the source movie can be decoded in YV12 format (MPEG1/2,
+ DivX, but not with Win32 codecs!)</li>
+ <li>new <code>configure</code> script - nicer, better structured, featureful,
+ more informative.</li>
+ <li>probably a lot of other things I can't remember now. Gonna take a nap.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>If you feel the urge to try these, hurry and <a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2">download</a> !
+Also, be sure to read the <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/index.html">documentation</a>
+about new features, and anyways. Enjoy!
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ 2001.11.24 :: Enough of this already!
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by A'rpi</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>Hi,</p>
+
+<p>Ok. I see you still don't understand what happened and why were we so upset.
+So, let me explain:</p>
+
+<p><b><i>The FACTS:</i></b><br>
+A russian "coder" has "ported" <b>MPlayer</b> (actually removed/disabled half of the
+code and added audio/video support using someone else's code, so actually
+hacked together 3 opensource projects at most ugliest way) to OS/2. It is not
+problem, it is even somehow good, but we would like more if he send patches for
+<b>MPlayer</b> instead of fork'ing development.</p>
+
+<p><b><i>The PROBLEM:</i></b><br>
+He provided this stuff for download at os2.ru page. He provided no sources at
+all. He provided it as <b style="text-decoration:underline">HIS OWN PRODUCT UNDER HIS NAME</b> and he even not
+mentioned the <b>MPlayer</b> or ffmpeg or os/2 ao/vo lib authors nor any of these
+project names. We can call it only 'code stealing'. Tell me if you disagree,
+and please explain why.</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Our REACTION:</i></b><br>
+<p>As soon as we got informed about this, we sent some mails to their mailing list.
+The mails didn't arrived in few hours. We thought the list is moderated and
+they ignored them or the maillist simply does not exists/work.
+We sent mail to the website admins, asking them to provide us direct email
+contact of the "author", and remove the download link until he fixes credits.
+They didn't replied.
+Next day we were more upset and Gabucino put out that well-known NEWS entry.
+I've seen it and said "it's ok", I didn't think of such reaction.
+(yes, it was a bit(?) rude, but is code stealing a good thing???)</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Their REACTION:</i></b><br>
+They immediately came out from the darkness, and started to flame us at every
+forums because of that news entry. Nothing about the code stealing. Just
+flamed us. Later they started to say: it is not <b>MPlayer</b> port, just 2 libs of
+<b>MPlayer</b> were used and it's a totally different project contributed by
+russian coders. They also mentioned that A-V sync code is not from <b>MPlayer</b>,
+it's their own new code.</p>
+
+<p><b><i>My REACTION:</i></b><br>
+I told them that:
+- our primary problem is the missing credits. the missing source is just
+secondary, and legal problem.
+- i asked them <b style="text-decoration:underline">AGAIN</b> to fix their page and show info about <b>MPlayer</b>
+relations and other stuff used in that.</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Their REACTION:</i></b><br>
+flame again about NEWS. Nothing about our "wishes".
+they started to send russian language mails for us and to their list.
+flame started on mplayer-users list and slashdot too.</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Their REACTION Next day (friday afternoon):</i></b><br>
+they finally released the sources, and afaik (i couldn't check as it was
+OS/2 installer EXE) they fixed documentation of the project.
+there is a simple <b style="text-decoration:underline">link</b> to <b>MPlayer</b> site now, not mentioning how wvision
+based on <b>MPlayer</b> or related to it. bad, but it's ok for <b style="text-decoration:underline">me</b>, i doubt they
+will ever do more. also note that distributing <b>MPlayer</b> code in binary form
+is still prohibited...</p>
+
+<p><b><i>Our REACTION:</i></b><br>
+as soon as we downloaded the source, we started to check what did he
+really do. he did what we thought before. ported <b>MPlayer</b> by
+removing/disabling half of code and hacking in os/2 audio/video out.
+he even keept my own A-V sync code from <b>MPlayer</b> (compare wvision.cpp to
+<b>MPlayer</b>.c) while stating everywhere that it's their code. he used the core
+of <b>MPlayer</b>, so it's much more than "just 2 libs from <b>MPlayer</b>".</p>
+
+<p><b><i>OS2.ru guys:</i></b><br>
+- <span style="text-decoration:underline">clean up credits/copyright stuff on the homepage, add which code is
+"borrowed" from which project</span>. (<b>ASAP</b>)<br>
+- send patches for <b>MPlayer</b>... (only if you want to cooperate)</p>
+
+
+<p><b><i>A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team</i></b></p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ 2001.11.16 :: Word of warning
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>If <b>MPlayer CVS</b> doesn't compile for you nowadays (you get error
+messages with <code>quant_store_mpeg2</code> or so), please do a fresh
+checkout and try again. A slight inconsistency in the CVS backup caused these
+errors.</p>
+<p>Also, <b>MPlayer</b> now compiles on <b>QNX</b> too. Note that it isn't
+ready for true usage yet, as the only video output working right now is the <code>X11</code>
+one, and as you know QNX has a very slow X emulation. Check the
+<a href="screen.html">screenshots</a> (they also have CPU utilization percentage).
+If you have interest or experience in porting further, do so.</p>
+<p>And here's the link for the recent <a href="http://portal.fsn.hu/article.php?sid=363&mode=thread&order=0">interview with <b>A'rpi</b></a>
+(in hungarian!).</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ 2001.11.13 :: removed
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>This news entry contained some misinformations about GCC 2.96 and has been
+removed upon RedHat's request.
+</p>
+<p>Updated version is <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/users-vs-dev.html">here</a>.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ 2001.11.06 :: Few words about GPL
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+This (joke) news entry about Arpi vs GPL was removed for it caused
+misunderstanding.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ 2001.11.04 :: Press release
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Here I am to keep you informed again, for you ppl who don't download CVS
+snapshots or use CVS to keep track of <b>MPlayer</b> development progress.
+Obviously, you're mistaken. :) Other UNIX/Linux projects maybe don't even
+compile when downloaded from CVS. <b>MPlayer</b> always does. But whatever.<br>
+So, let's see the improvements:
+</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><b>VIVO parser</b> - have you EVER thought this would happen? Well it did
+ now. As of writing this news entry, audio isn't played, but I bet it will
+ tomorrow. Well, no seeking yet, but what about the day after tomorrow? :)
+ Keep checking the documentation for new stuff!</li>
+ <li><b>DXR3 support</b> - shortly after DVB cards' support, DXR3 has
+ arrived too! DVB and DXR3 are hardware MPEG decoder cards, and with
+ <b>MPlayer</b> you can watch MPEG1/2/4 on them! Check the documentation about
+ <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#dvb">DVB</a> and
+ <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/video.html#dxr3">DXR3</a> cards !</li>
+ <li><b>Cache layer</b> - cache in <b>MPlayer</b> ! This separate
+ process caches the input data (useful for example for network, slow
+ CD drives, etc), then feeds it to the main process. Add the proper
+ line (see the manpage) to your config file TODAY!</li>
+ <li><b>ENCODING!</b> - Yeah. Feeling horny now, don't you? :) You will.
+ Just try it. No, you don't need avifile or other bulky utils. Just
+ type <code>make mencoder</code> and (as usually) read the
+ <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html">documentation</a>.
+ <b>Convert</b> your DVD/AVI/VOB/ASF/WMV/VIV/MOV to DivX4+VBR MP3 .
+ You still have doubts? Throw them away.</li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="xanim">XAnim codecs support</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+<b>MPlayer</b> now can use XAnim codecs (even <b>3ivx</b>!) for video decoding !
+The documentation is already updated, check the new <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html#xanim">XAnim codecs section</a> for
+installation/usage instructions !<br>
+<br>
+<b>ATTENTION: </b> using some XAnim codecs with other software than XAnim is <b>ILLEGAL</b>!<br>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="win32">MPlayer compiled on win32</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+<b>Atmosfear</b> successfully compiled MPlayer on windows (on XP, but runs even
+on W95) It really rocks..
+It needs SDL for video+audio output. Currently lacks Win32 codecs support,
+but features MPEG1, MPEG2, DivX/OpenDivX/DivX4 (ffmpeg/libavcodec) and MP2, MP3, AC3 support.
+Check the <a href="screen.html">screenshots</a> ! The binary is yet unreleased.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ 2001.10.08 :: MPlayer 0.50 released
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Just go and download.<br>
+New after 0.50-pre3: mostly build fixes for non-linux systems, docs updates.<br>
+<br>
+Note: mov "support" disabled, if you want to play with it, then use CVS.
+(mov support is far from being finished. no seeking and only cvid video and
+raw audio are supported - so it's very useless)<br>
+<br>
+Also, we moved the mplayer-users mailing list to our new server. If
+you weren't automatically resubscribed, you can do it
+<a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users">here</a>.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.50pre3">MPlayer 0.50pre3 released</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Just a few changes, hot-fixes:
+</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>gcc 3.0/3.0.1 compilation fixes (should work on redhat/mdk too)</li>
+ <li>win32 DLL loader code synced/updated with avifile CVS</li>
+ <li><a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/divx.dll">divx4windows DLL</a>
+support on x86 systems (with postprocessing!)</li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.50pre2">2001.10.03 :: MPlayer 0.50pre2 released</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>Just a few changes, hot-fixes:</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>compilation fixes (gcc 3, etc)</li>
+ <li>GUI fixes (mainly fullscreen fix for mwm and such stuff)</li>
+ <li>aspect ratio stuff (try -aspect x or -aspect x:y to override autodetected
+ aspect ratio. examples: -aspect 2.24 or -aspect 16:9)</li>
+ <li>more translated help/messages files (cz de dk en hu nl no pl)</li>
+ <li>some warnings fixed and some cleanup around dec_* - win32 interface</li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.50pre1">MPlayer 0.50pre1 released</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted by Gabucino</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta Gui version, bugs fixed, new vo
+and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including opensource divx codec and
+much more. <a href="dload.html">Try it!</a>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Attack on USA
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.09.11</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Dear ppl,<br>
+<br>
+We, <b>MPlayer</b> developers, condemn those that are involved in the creation
+of this senseless massacre, and would like to express our sincerest condolences
+to the relatives of all who died due to these terrosist attacks.<br>
+We hope that the masterminds of this attack will be apprehended and punished
+appropriately.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ As a sidenote..
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.09.01</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Two more <b>skins</b> are available. I won't announce it anymore, so check
+the <a href="dload.html">download section</a> for updates.<br>
+About the GUI? Well, it's now nearly ready to be released. Just be a little
+more patient... Oh, and there are screenshots of the skins, just click
+on their names.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="ogg_vorbis">Ogg Vorbis support</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.09.01</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+<b>Atmosfear</b> has commited support for the <b>Ogg Vorbis</b> audio format.
+You'll need <i>libvorbis</i> from <a href="http://www.vorbis.com/download_unix.psp">http://www.vorbis.com/download_unix.psp</a> .
+Don't forget to update your <b>codecs.conf</b> !
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="skins">Skins available</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.08.30</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Although the <b>GUI</b> is not yet fully merged/complete/working, I made a
+<b><a href="dload.html">Skin download section</a></b> in the Downloads page.
+Currently there are only 2 skins, a default, and a skin made by me (it's
+a conversion of a WinAMP/xmms skin of Rei Ayanami:). BTW it's really easy to
+develop a skin, just download a skin and read the <b>./skin</b> file inside it.
+Self-explanatory.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Letter of the Year
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.08.29</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>(whether this letter is real or not, it's ROTFL...)</p>
+<p>LS,</p>
+
+<p>can you help me ?</p>
+
+<p>I want to start up my mplayer version <b style="text-decoration:underline">6.4 (I use NT)</b> in full-screenmode(alt
+enter) is it possible ?<br>
+And : when my avi is finished I would like that my mplayer automatically
+closes (alt F4) ist it possible ?</p>
+
+<p>Thank you very much for your attention !</p>
+
+<p>Pim van As.</p>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>_______________________________________________<br>
+Mplayer-users mailing list<br>
+Mplayer-users at lists.sourceforge.net<br>
+http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-users
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ mediaLib support in ffmpeg
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.08.29</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+<a href="mailto:jk at tools.dejk@tools.de">Juergen Keil</a> added support of <b>SUN</b>'s
+<a href="http://www.sun.com/processors/vis/mlib.html">mediaLib</a> into ffmpeg (libavcodec,
+to be exact). And thus <b>MPlayer</b> (since we use libavcodec to play <b>DivX</b>
+on SPARC platforms, see the <a href="../../DOCS/HTML/en/index.html">documentation</a>).<br>
+It does about at least 50-70% speedup on <b>UltraSPARC</b> CPUs (they support the <b>VIS</b>
+instruction set). Grab the <a href="http://MPlayerHQ.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2">cvs
+snapshot</a>. Now <b>VIS</b> is supported in the following parts of <b>MPlayer</b>:
+libmpeg2, libvo, libavcodec.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="dvd_playback">FINALLY Real DVD playback</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.08</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+As <b>MPlayer</b> now uses <b>libdvdread</b> (which relies on <b>libcss</b>),
+now we have nearly <b>full DVD playback ability</b>. Plus some more additional
+features:
+</p>
+<ul>
+ <li>some pre-beta nationalization support
+ <li>HTMLized documentation, splitted to sections
+ <li>lot of bugfixing
+ <li><b>(NEW) AAlib driver</b> : it's now independent of SDL, and has some nice
+ features like SUB/OSD support.
+ <li><b>DivX</b> DirectShow codecs's brightness, contrast, etc settings can be set
+ <b>easily</b> runtime, and not with sucky sliders, but on the keyboard!
+ <li><i>dynamic</i> setting of DivX postprocessing quality, depending on
+ available CPU time ! (-autoq option)
+ <li><b>GUI</b> integration is only a matter of days..
+ <li>updated FAQ section on the homepage
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+Grab the <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2">current cvs snapshot</a> (0.18-pre* are obsoleted and removed), and <i><b>enter
+the world of Linux Multimedia !</b></i>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="wmv8">WMV8 support</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.08.15</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Yeah. Update from cvs if you wish. Hmm what other news.. ffmpeg is even more
+faster, DivX4 is even more buggier. Update update update!
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ So you thought you knew everything about DivX..?
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.07.24</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+..didn't you? Well, you were wrong. <b>MPlayer</b> now includes four (actually
+three) methods to play <b>DivX</b> movies. You can choose between:<br>
+</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><b>compatibility</b> - the ordinary method, use Win32 DLLs. Soon nobody
+ will need these antiques, because ffmpeg's (see next) compatibility problems
+ are 99% resolved!</li>
+ <li><b>portability</b> - the <b>opensource</b> DivX codec from <a href="http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net">ffmpeg</a>.
+ Now included, and working real great! Developing & optimizing with an astonishing speed!
+ <b>MPlayer</b> now compiles and plays <b>DivX</b>es on non-x86 platforms like
+ <i>Sparc Solaris, iPaq/StrongARM</i>!!</li>
+ <li><b>speed</b> - <a href="http://www.projectmayo.com">ProjectMayo</a>'s new DivX4 codec.
+ It doesn't only contains <b>OpenDivX</b>, but <b>DivX</b>
+ itself! Since it's an older project than ffmpeg, it has already reached a
+ bit higher level of optimization.. Don't throw that 386 out yet. ;)
+ It has only one disadvantage: it's <b>NOT</b> opensource!! Yet. Also,
+ <b>MPlayer</b> uses a feature that doesn't exist in other players using
+ this codec (neither Linux nor Windoze) : the support for YV12 pixel format
+ enables the usage of <b>MUCH</b> less bus/memory bandwith, leading to
+ <b>HUGE</b> speed boost! See the short benchmark below:</li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+For a big (resolution 528x368), and high bitrate (262 kbyte/s) DivX,<br>
+and a small (resolution 320x240), and low bitrate (65 kbyte/s) DivX :
+</p>
+<table class="border_table">
+<tr><th colspan=2>HI-RES</th><th colspan=2>LO-RES</th></tr>
+<tr><td>Win32 DShow DLL</td><td>100%</td><td>Win32 DShow DLL</td><td>100%</td></tr>
+<tr><td>ffmpeg</td><td>105%</td><td>ffmpeg</td><td>107%</td></tr>
+<tr><td>DivX4 (standard)</td><td>112%</td><td>DivX4 (standard)</td><td>110%</td></tr>
+<tr><td>DivX4 (YV12)</td><td>140%</td><td>DivX4 (YV12)</td><td>130%</td></tr>
+</table>
+<p>
+What. You aren't <a href="dload.html">downloading</a> yet??
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Nowdays' enhancements
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.06.30</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Another boring weekend, another news entry.. ;) Keeping our habit, we delayed
+the release again. For the impatient, there is a <b>0.18preX</b> prerelease available in
+the <a href="dload.html">download</a> section. Let's see some new features:
+</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><b>mp3lib</b> even more optimized to <b>3DNow!/MMX</b> - about 20% growth of
+ performance on CPUs that support either of these instructions. According to
+ <a href="mailto:nickols_k at mail.ru">Nick Kurshev</a> now we outperform <a href="http://www.mpg123.de">mpg123</a>
+ in speed. Not bad, eh?<br>
+ <li><b><a href="http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net">ffmpeg</a></b> has a <b>DivX en/decoder</b>
+ in C ! I don't know too much about it, but seems it's time for non-x86 users to cheer up, since <b>MPlayer</b> will
+ incorporate this feature (libavcodec) ! I don't think this will make it into
+ the 0.18 release, though.
+ <li>Support for MPEG-TS (transport streams) - this is not ready yet, but <b>A'rpi</b>
+ is working on it
+ <li>The <a href="http://www.ggi-project.org">GGI</a> driver is in. It has
+ never worked for me, anyways :)
+ <li>MPlayer got an ICCCM patch.. This is some standard for communication
+ between programs and window managers (or so). Unfortunately some windowmanager
+ is always broken :(( First it was <b>icewm</b>, then <b>WindowMaker</b>, and now it's <b>KDE</b>.
+ I (we) don't like KDE so I'm pleased :)
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="gui_preview">GUI preview screenshots available</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.06.19</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+<b>Pontscho</b>'s GUI has made another step towards being ready. Although the
+GUI code itself isn't fully perfect, nor publicly available (so don't ask for it), I've
+made 2 <a href="screen.html">screenshots</a> and put them up. It'll be merged with the main MPlayer
+<b>SOON</b>, have fun until then.<br>
+<b>SKIN MAKERS</b> are very welcome! Don't hesitate to write us!
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Some stuff
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.06.16</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Hmm, let's see some info.. First, about the native <b>AAlib</b> driver. Its
+development is going slow, seems to be due to some problems IRL. It will be
+definitively released soon (hmm, but that's what we always say, isn't it?).
+Second, as you may have noticed, the release should've been released already.
+Well, it isn't. Good explanation? Oh well. The codebase is still in the
+killing bugs phase (not if there are any..), also some new features like
+<i>-benchmark</i>, <i>-frames</i> (play only <b>n</b> frames, then quit)
+have been implemented. The third thing that comes into my mind right now,
+is the <a href="http://www.ggi-project.org"><b>GGI project</b></a>. It seems
+that some of our developers have became inspired by it, and a <b>vo_ggi</b>
+driver is coming right away. Hope it'll be usable.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Code frozen!
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.06.09</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+As of today evening, MPlayer code is frozen. The release will take place
+about monday-tuesday midnight (GMT+2).<br>
+</p>
+<p>
+<b>Sourceforge</b> is back to normal (?) again.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Recent changes in MPlayer
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.06.06</span>
+</h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><b>Introduced libao2</b> - audio output system<br>
+ it's very similar to libvo, but it's for audio.
+ you can select audio out driver with the -ao switch, and
+ list available drivers with -ao help
+ currently available:
+ null - not working, don't use (use -nosound)<br>
+ oss - OSS ioctl-based code ("new audio code") it should solve AUDIO_RESET problems too.<br>
+ alsa - ALSA 0.5 (maybe 0.9 too?) native driver<br>
+ sdl - SDL audio (use -sdla switch to select SDL driver)<br>
+ <i>NOTE</i>: SDL supports esd and arts, so you with esd problems
+ should try it (maybe SDL upgrade & recompile requires)
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>ASF seeking fixed</b><br>
+ Find keyframe and A-V is ok after seek too.
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>New option</b> to force audio playback samplerate: <i>-srate</i><br>
+ You can play videos at double speed using -srate 96000 :)
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>Framedropping</b> implemented for MPEG files as well.
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>X11 driver</b> works on remote display (without SHM)
+ </li>
+
+ <li><b>A-V sync for AVI</b> files has been fixed (both -bps and -nobps)
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+Any much much more! Check out from <a href="dload.html">CVS</a> !
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ SourceForge is dying !
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.06.06</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+<b>SourceForge</b> services run on their slow backup system for 2 weeks,
+so there are no crontab jobs (no automatic daily snapshots
+and homepage updates). Mailing lists are
+<b>extremly</b> slooooow and mails arrive in different order than
+sent so for example the cvslog lists is totally unusable.
+So, please be patient, and <i>don't disturb</i>(?) us with these.
+We hope that SF will recover (but I fear for they
+will never recover, two weeks on backup sys is too long...)
+or we can finally set up our new server in <b>Hungary</b>.
+</p>
+<p>A'rpi</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ FreeBSD and Solaris support !
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.06.06</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Yes, some people (namely : <a href="mailto:jk at tools.de">Jürgen Keil</a> and <a href="mailto:marcus at idonex.se">Marcus Comstedt</a>)
+made it. MPlayer now compiles and works on <b>Solaris 8</b>, of course only on x86
+machines, not Sparc (that would be hopeless, sorry). It even has VCD and DVD
+support, however the whole support is to be considered <b>experimental</b>.
+The <b>FreeBSD</b> support is done by <a href="mailto:vkushnir at Alfacom.net">Vladimir Kushnir</a>.
+Update from <a href="dload.html">CVS</a>, or download a snapshot.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ PROJECT mpg12play-portable STARTED!
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.05.15</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Many people asked about portability. <a href="mailto:gz at lysator.liu.se">Gernot Ziegler</a>
+went so far that he tried to port mpg12play sources to IRIX operating systems.
+Now this project goes serious... The goal is to produce a portable MPEG1/MPEG2
+player.<br>
+<br>
+From <b>A'rpi</b> :<br>
+<br>
+The project has been started...<br>
+<br>
+1. I've removed all win32/avi stuff from mpg12play (MPlayer-0.09 version)
+and imported to the CVS with module name <b>mpg12play</b>.
+It still has some x86 code, but most places it's disabled. remaining code
+must be #ifdefed (do not remove!) to get it compile on non-x86 arch.<br>
+<br>
+2. Created a mailing list called <a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-mpg12play">mplayer-mpg12play</a> (yes, silly name,
+but SF doesn't allow other than mplayer-*)
+Please subscribe to the list, if you are interested, and aren't
+already subscribed by me!
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.17a">MPlayer 0.17a is out...</a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.04.27</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Hehh, we were so obsessed with our own deadline that just after <b><i>IdegCounter</i></b>
+was officially released, we noticed many things were missing, etc. Even
+its version number was 0.11-pre :)<br>
+<a href="dload.html">Download</a> the real thing.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ <a name="0.17">MPlayer 0.17 <b>"The IdegCounter"</b> is <b><i>RELEASED !!!</i></b></a>
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.04.27</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+After many months of daily 24 hours blood-sweating development, <b><i>MPlayer
+0.17</i></b> is here to kick some butt! Actually the version number should
+be much higher (in the view of the Hell-A-Lot-Of functions inside), but we're
+veeeery humble. That's why we don't say: <i>"This is the best player available
+for Linux, go download download download it NOW!"</i> So, we don't say it.
+Instead we'd like to thank for all our sponsors, namely: ... , ... and ... .
+Thanks for all the money ($0). Don't forget it's <b>NEVER</b> late
+to send (m)any!!!
+</p>
+<p>
+Well, enough of crap talk. The Facts:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>DVD support
+ <li>VCD support
+ <li>OSD (On Screen Display) support
+ <li>Subtitles support
+ <li><b><i>DivX</i></b>/AVI/ASF/MPEG1/MPEG2 support
+ <li>Around 15 video outputs supported
+ <li>Remote control support
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+And <b>lots lots lots lots lots</b> of <a href="info.html">more</a>!
+Head to the <a href="dload.html">download</a>
+section!!!
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Tons of bugfixes and new features !
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.04.21</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+This is a summary of some new stuff in <b>MPlayer</b>:
+</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><b>new stream selection code</b> - many people had problems with (mostly
+ ASF) files which contained more than 1-1 audio/video streams, and had to
+ specify them manually. Especially files downloaded with <b>asfrecorder</b>
+ were problematic. These problems are now fixed, <b>MPlayer</b> auto-detects
+ streams.
+ </li>
+ <li><b>pre-devel-alpha DVD code</b> - now it's possible to play encrypted
+ DVDs, thanx to <b>LGB</b>. <b>MPlayer</b> now uses <i>libcss</i> to decrypt
+ those DVDs. See documentation for usage.
+ </li>
+ <li><b>subtitle code 100%</b> - it's ready, and mostly bugfree. Works in every
+ possible bpp, driver. Now it has a perfected timing code!
+ </li>
+ <li><b>new output drivers</b> - they are <i>SVGAlib</i>, and <i>FBdev</i>.
+ They've been tested, and proven very good!
+ </li>
+ <li><b>faster memcpy() routine</b> - displaying became faster, because the
+ code got <i>MMX/3DNow!/SSE</i> optimized!
+ </li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+<b>The Time of Release is coming in a few days... This is gonna be a
+big shot for real!</b>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ New codecs
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.04.03</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+A lot of improvements have been made to the codec loader, and as a consequence
+many more codecs can be used with <b>MPlayer</b> than previously. A new
+<a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/w32codec.zip">w32codec.zip</a>
+package is downloadable, and it is <b><i>RECOMMENDED</i></b> that you
+download it!
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Subtitles (and OSD) support !
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.03.30</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+I'll lend you some useful info to make it work and hope for the best.<br>
+First, download the <a href="http://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/mp_font1.zip">
+font package</a>.<br>
+Next, unzip it to <b>$HOME/.mplayer/font</b> .<br>
+Get latest CVS, compile it, use either <b>Xv, MGA, X11 (only in 24bpp), or
+fbdev</b> output, specify your sub file with the <b>-sub</b> option, and you're done!<br>
+<br>
+Thanks to <b>Laaz</b> for the SUB reader, <b>A'rpi</b> for the great
+OSD+SUB displayer and <b>Chass</b> for the font(s)!<br>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ DirectShow support !
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.03.21</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+<b>A'rpi</b> has finally added <i>DirectShow</i> support to <b>MPlayer</b>! Now it's
+possible to use postprocessing with <b>DivX</b> movies, of course you'll need
+a very strong CPU! You'll need the file
+<i>divx_c32.ax</i> from either Windows, avifile, or from
+<a href="ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/OLD_stuff/releases/w32codec.zip">here</a>.
+Support for the other codecs is coming very soon!
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ New timer code
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.03.18</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+<b>A'rpi</b> is experimenting with a much smoother timer code, called <b>MPlayerHQ</b>.
+It solved at least some problems with <b>ALSA</b> for me. Please try it and write
+if playing got smoother. Also try the new code snippets in the TOOLS dir,
+and post results to <a href="mailto:picsaba"><b>A'rpi</b></a>.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ CVS mailinglist
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.03.15</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+There's a new list, which announces all changes in the CVS repository.
+<a href="http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog">Subscribe</a> if you want to, but be <b>warned</b>! Its traffic is <b>BIG</b>!
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ OpenDivX 4.0 alpha48
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.03.11</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+The new release of the <a href="http://www.projectmayo.com">OpenDivX</a> codec is now supported. It introduces better
+quality, however the encoding speed is still slooow. Negative: the <i>alpha47</i>
+codec isn't forward compatible, so you'll have to upgrade. (this code is in <b>CVS</b>)
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ New Matrox mailing list
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.03.08</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Since there are a lot of questions/bugs/discussions about the relationship
+between <b>MPlayer</b> and <i>Matrox</i> cards, <b>A'rpi</b> decided to make
+a new mailing list just for this topic. You can
+<a href="http://lists.sf.net/lists/listinfo/mplayer-matrox">subscribe on it</a>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Mailing lists moved
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.03.07</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+The MPlayer-users and MPlayer-announce lists have been moved to <b>Sourceforge</b>.
+Subscription info is updated in the <a href="../design2/about.html#lists">About</a> section.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ DGA driver
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.02.27</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+<b><a href="mailto:acki at acki-netz.de">Andreas Ackermann</a></b> made a DGA
+driver for libvo. And he did a good work... It's about 60-80% faster than the
+X11 driver! Of course if you could do Xv output already, this isn't much of
+an improvement for you..<br>
+Also note that this code is <b>alpha</b>, and - at the time of writing this -
+exists only in CVS.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Moving to SourceForge!
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.02.24</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Yeah, we'll move to <b><i>SourceForge</i></b>.<br>
+I hope you'll like the <b>CVS</b> accessibility.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ Prerelease versions
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.02.23</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+No prerelease versions have came out since Feb 19. <b>THAT'S</b> really
+strange!<br>
+<b>A'rpi</b> must be working all day all night on the
+<b>0.11</b> release and <b>0.12</b> series. :)
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ A'rpi released information on upcoming 0.12 series
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.02.20</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+On the MPlayer mailing list, <b>A'rpi</b> announced the proposed changes in the
+<b>0.12</b> series.<br>
+</p>
+<p>
+The biggest change will be the <i>change from libvo to
+<a href="http://frozenproductions.com"><b>libxmm</b></a></i> . libxmm aka
+<b>XMMP</b> is an abbrevation for "<b>Linux MultiMedia Project</b>", which
+is another multimedia layer for Linux.. However, in the light of its
+<b><i>nasty</i></b> features, no wonder <b>A'rpi</b> chose to use it! I suggest to download, install
+and get familiar with it now, since you'll soon have to do so anyway!<br>
+</p>
+<p>
+Another great stuff is <b><i>ffmpeg</i></b> , so <b>A'rpi</b> thought why
+not include it in <b>MPlayer</b>?<br>
+And so he did. <b>ffmpeg</b> is no less than
+a realtime video/audio encoder for Linux, so prepare your <b>BTTV</b> cards or
+any stuff you wanna record with, since now you'll be able to <i><b>encode
+runtime to <a href="http://www.projectmayo.com">OpenDivX</a></b></i> (or other formats).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The <b>GUI</b> code (by <b>Pontscho</b>) will be imported too, so you can
+finally show your Windows pals who has the better player!!! Actually with
+an encoder! :)<br>
+Anyways, we still need good <b>skins</b>! Graphicians, get a grip on yerself
+and write to <a href="mailto:pontscho at makacs.poliod.hu">Pontscho</a>!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Those of you who missed <b>DivX ;-)</b> quality setting option, be delighted!
+<b><i>DirectShow</i></b> support will be added too! Of course this also
+means <b>VoxWare</b> support (audio codec).<br>
+I wonder who needs <b>.mov</b> support.. That'll be added very soon!
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+ The mailing lists are ready!
+ <br><span class="poster">posted on 2001.02.17</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+In order to lower the load on <b>A'rpi</b> :) the <b><i>MPlayer-users</i></b> mailing list
+was created. Thanks to <b>Dariusz Pietrzak</b> for the hosting!
+</p>
+<p>
+The subscribing process is simple. Click <a href="../design2/about.html#lists">here</a>.
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