[MPlayer-DOCS] [homepage]: r2694 - trunk/src/news.src.en

[diego]

Author: diego
Date: Mon Oct 23 01:08:22 2006
New Revision: 2694

Modified:
   trunk/src/news.src.en

Log:
MPlayer 1.0rc1


Modified: trunk/src/news.src.en
==============================================================================
--- trunk/src/news.src.en	(original)
+++ trunk/src/news.src.en	Mon Oct 23 01:08:22 2006
@@ -8,6 +8,180 @@
 <div class="newsentry">
 
 <h2>
+	<a name="mplayer10rc1">2006.10.22, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.0rc1 released</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by the release team</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+We wish to thank the Google Summer of Code project for sponsoring the
+FFmpeg project. Thanks to the SoC program for 2006, the FFmpeg project
+was able to get help from students to implement more native codecs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The highlights of this release are native VC-1/WMV3, On2 VP5 and VP62
+(used in some Flash video files) decoding, which works even on
+non-Intel platforms and SSA/ASS/color subtitles.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Furthermore we can now run natively on Intel Macs (you just have to
+pass --disable-loader --disable-mp3lib to configure), -endpos was
+finally added to MPlayer and the Windows GUI has seen a number of
+improvements.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Vorbis decoding has seen a big speedup, as has H.264. The
+optimizations to H.264 are still ongoing, but the difference should
+already be noticeable.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+And last not least many bugs were found and fixed since pre8.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer 1.0rc1 will no longer load a file-specific configure file
+located in the same directory as the file you're playing, because of
+potential security concerns (thanks to Rudolf Polzer for pointing this
+out); if you want to restore the old behavior add -use-filedir-conf.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If you already have the binary codec package from pre8 you don't need
+to redownload it: The new 20061022 packages do not contain any new
+codecs, they just miss some that now work natively.
+</p>
+
+<h3>MPlayer 1.0rc1: <i>"Codename intentionally left blank"</i></h3>
+
+<h4>DOCS:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>German documentation translation finished</li>
+	<li>Russian documentation translation synced and almost finished</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Drivers:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>IVTV hardware MPEG audio/video decoder output</li>
+	<li>ALSA audio output: AC3 passthrough now works even when the device
+	name of the digital output port has been set by the user</li>
+	<li>bicubic OpenGL scaling works with ATI cards</li>
+	<li>md5sum switched to the libavutil MD5 implementation</li>
+	<li>support for libcaca 1.0 via compatibility layer</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Decoders:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>liba52 updated to 0.7.4 (slightly faster)</li>
+	<li>SSE optimizations for mp3lib</li>
+	<li>removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Demuxers:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>audio stream switching in MPEG-TS/PS, Matroska and
+	streams supported by libavformat</li>
+	<li>audio stream switching between streams with different codecs</li>
+	<li>libavformat demuxer now honors -alang</li>
+	<li>chapter seeking in Matroska files</li>
+	<li>fixed seeking to absolute and percent position for libavformat demuxer</li>
+	<li>NUT demuxer using libnut</li>
+	<li>Matroska SimpleBlock support</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Inputs:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>split of stream layer from libmpdemux to new stream library</li>
+	<li>PVR input for hardware MPEG encoder based cards, such as Hauppauge
+	WinTV PVR-150/250/350/500 AKA IVTV but also pvrusb2 and cx88
+	(requires Linux >= 2.6.18 kernel, featuring native V4L2 MPEG API)</li>
+	<li>native RTSP input (handles MPEG-TS over RTP) for generic RTSP servers</li>
+	<li>support for seeking to chapters in dvd:// and dvdnav:// streams</li>
+	<li>radio support (radio://)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>FFmpeg/libavcodec:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder</li>
+	<li>Vorbis decoding speedup, now default Vorbis decoder</li>
+	<li>VMware Video decoder</li>
+	<li>On2 VP50 and VP62 decoder</li>
+	<li>lossless audio decoders: WavPack, TTA, Shorten</li>
+	<li>CAVS decoder</li>
+	<li>GXF muxer/demuxer</li>
+	<li>MXF demuxer</li>
+	<li>much improved FLAC encoder</li>
+	<li>more H.264 decoding speed improvements, plus support for -lavdopts fast</li>
+	<li>Theora decoder fixes</li>
+	<li>preliminary Vorbis encoder</li>
+	<li>MTV demuxer</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>GUI:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Windows version added</li>
+	<li>drag-and-drop ignored last file</li>
+	<li>save and load cache setting correctly</li>
+	<li>working audio stream selection for Ogg and Matroska files</li>
+	<li>executable names like gmplayer_old etc. will now start GUI as well</li>
+	<li>-gui/-nogui options</li>
+	<li>xinerama fixes, now behaves similar to MPlayer without GUI</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Filters:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>MMX-optimizations for -vf yadif</li>
+	<li>MMX-optimizations for -vf zrmjpeg</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>MEncoder:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>support of x264 encoding via libavcodec</li>
+	<li>rewrite -x264encopts option parser to use the 264 option parser;
+	likely breaks 3rd party tools as the syntax of some options has changed</li>
+	<li>removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Ports:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>partial Intel Mac support, --disable-loader --disable-mp3lib is needed</li>
+	<li>OpenGL can now create windows > screen size under Windows</li>
+	<li>allow filenames starting with \\ for remote paths on Windows</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Others:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>SSA/ASS subtitle renderer</li>
+	<li>-endpos option for MPlayer</li>
+	<li>-correct-pts option</li>
+	<li>UTF-8 used for OSD and subtitles, some bitmap fonts will no longer
+	work correctly and -subcp must be set for all non-UTF-8 subtitles</li>
+	<li>more audio-truncation fixes</li>
+	<li>libavutil mandatory for MPlayer compilation</li>
+	<li>more intuitive -edlout behaviour</li>
+	<li>-nortc is now default since -rtc has disadvantages with recent kernels</li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
 	<a name="translators">2006.09.5, Tuesday :: A Call for Translators</a>
 	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
 </h2>