[MPlayer-DOCS] [homepage]: r3043 - trunk/src/news.src.en

Mon Oct 8 01:09:43 CEST 2007

Author: diego
Date: Mon Oct  8 01:09:41 2007
New Revision: 3043

Log:
MPlayer 1.0rc2
Thanks go to Compn for providing the initial release note draft.


Modified:
   trunk/src/news.src.en

Modified: trunk/src/news.src.en
==============================================================================

--- trunk/src/news.src.en	(original)
+++ trunk/src/news.src.en	Mon Oct  8 01:09:41 2007
@@ -9,6 +9,283 @@
 <div class="newsentry">
 
 <h2>
+	<a name="mplayer10rc2">2007-10-07, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.0rc2 released</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by the release team</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+It's been a while, but we are still around and have decided that it's time
+to funnel our steady stream of daily changes into a release again.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+One main source of improvements has, as always, been FFmpeg, which added
+support for several new video and audio codecs along with speedups and
+massive code cleanups.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer now supports Real RTSP authentication and the
+<a href="http://live.polito.it/">libnemesi</a> streaming library as an
+alternative to live555. Also, many QuickTime over RTSP streams can now
+be played. There have been various improvements to TV streaming, Intel
+Mac support should be complete.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Support for VC-1 in MPEG-TS and MPEG-PS will make many HDTV streams work.
+Blu-ray or HD-DVD playback is not possible yet, but MPlayer can play the
+EVO files after they have been decrypted.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer now assumes square pixels as found on LCD panels. If the video on your
+monitor appears squished or stretched please use '-monitoraspect 4:3' to get
+back the previous behavior.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It is no longer necessary to patch the sources to get AMR audio support.
+Instead, download
+<a href="http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr">AMR libraries for Linux</a>
+and install them as described on that page.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Note that this release will not compile on current (as of this writing) Cygwin
+versions due to a missing llrint implementation in Cygwin. You will have to wait
+for the next gcc upgrade in Cygwin or patch either Cygwin or MPlayer locally.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There is no need to download binary codec packages if you already have an
+older version.
+</p>
+
+<h3>MPlayer 1.0rc2: <i>"AreWeThereYet?"</i></h3>
+
+<h4>DOCS:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>console messages and XML documentation converted to UTF-8</li>
+	<li>Russian documentation translation finished</li>
+	<li>Russian man page translation finished</li>
+	<li>Chinese man page translation finished</li>
+	<li>Chinese documentation translation started</li>
+	<li>Documented get/set/step properties in DOCS/tech/slave.txt</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Decoders:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Intel Music Coder audio decoding via lavc</li>
+	<li>Monkey Audio audio decoding via lavc</li>
+	<li>Fraps v2/v4 video decoding via lavc</li>
+	<li>Video game codecs: 4XM audio, Electronic Arts ADPCM audio, Delphine
+	CIN audio and video, Interplay DPCM audio, Sierra VMD video, Tiertex
+	SEQ video, Westwood IMA ADPCM audio, XAN wc3 video, Id CIN video,
+	Interplay video, XAN ADPCM audio, Westwood SND1 audio, Feeble Files DXA
+	video, THP audio and video, Renderware TeXture Dictionary video,
+	Bethesda Software VID video via lavc</li>
+	<li>video game codecs: XAN wc4 video via binary DLL</li>
+	<li>libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.1</li>
+	<li>fixed resolution switching with libmpeg2</li>
+	<li>handle resolution switching for Real codecs</li>
+	<li>FFmpeg video decoder can now handle aspect ratio changes</li>
+	<li>AMR now handled via libamr wrapper (http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr)</li>
+	<li>SIMD optimizations for mp3lib under AMD64</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Demuxers:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Implemented switch_video and switch_program consistently with
+	switch_audio (default keys are "_" and TAB, respectively). For the time
+	being program switching is only available in TS streams handled by
+	demux_ts.c (not libavformat), while video switching is also handled by
+	demux_lavf.c and demux_avi.c.</li>
+	<li>audio and video switching for the AVI demuxer (video switching
+	untested)</li>
+	<li>GIF demuxer improvements, should work with all GIFs now</li>
+	<li>support for VC-1 in MPEG-TS and MPEG-PS files (BD,HD)-DVD</li>
+	<li>support for EVO demuxing</li>
+	<li>support -noidx with libavformat demuxer</li>
+	<li>support for channel navigation with PVR input</li>
+	<li>text subtitles should now work with libavformat demuxer</li>
+	<li>cleaned up TiVo demuxer</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Streaming:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>authentication for Real RTSP streams</li>
+	<li>near-precise seeking in dvd:// and dvdnav:// (dvdnav:// requires
+	libdvdnav from mphq)</li>
+	<li>speed selection when playing dvd:// streams, to make drive quieter</li>
+	<li>support SVQ3 and H.264 in X-QT over RTSP, now RTSP Apple keynotes
+	work (live555)</li>
+	<li>SMIL playlist over Real RTSP</li>
+	<li>support H.263-2000 over RTSP (live555)</li>
+	<li>fix AAC-LATM over RTSP (live555)</li>
+	<li>support AMR over RTSP (live555)</li>
+	<li>support H.264 over RTSP (live555)</li>
+	<li>"device" and "adevice" suboptions now work for the *BSD BT848 TV
+	driver</li>
+	<li>dvdnav:// now depends on MPlayer's fork of libdvdnav</li>
+	<li>teletext support for tv:// (v4l and v4l2 only)</li>
+	<li>radio support for *BSD BT848</li>
+	<li>channel scanner for tv://</li>
+	<li>fine tuning for tv://</li>
+	<li>driver autodetection for tv://</li>
+	<li>libnemesi RTSP/RTP support</li>
+	<li>EOF detection for RTSP (live555)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>FFmpeg/libavcodec:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Intel Music coder audio decoder</li>
+	<li>Fraps v2/v4 video decoder</li>
+	<li>H.264 decoding speedup</li>
+	<li>Slice-based parallel H.264 decoding (-lavdopts fast:threads=N)</li>
+	<li>native NUT demuxer updated to spec</li>
+	<li>native NUT muxer</li>
+	<li>NUT muxing and demuxing support via libnut</li>
+	<li>WMA encoder</li>
+	<li>fix MJPEG-B on big-endian systems</li>
+	<li>lowres support for some H.264 files</li>
+	<li>DTS/DCA audio decoder</li>
+	<li>Atrac 3 audio decoder</li>
+	<li>MPEG-1/2 speedups</li>
+	<li>RoQ muxer, video and audio encoder</li>
+	<li>QTRLE encoder</li>
+	<li>AC-3 decoder</li>
+	<li>Matroska muxer</li>
+	<li>Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder</li>
+	<li>Flac encoder and decoder speedups</li>
+	<li>AMV demuxer and audio/video decoder</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>libmpeg2:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>iWMMXt-accelerated DCT and motion compensation for ARM processors</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Filters:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>obsolete fame filter removed</li>
+	<li>vf_geq speed-ups</li>
+	<li>vf_yadif green frame fixed</li>
+	<li>fix af_pan when switching audio streams</li>
+	<li>add audio left/right balance feature to af_pan</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>MEncoder:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>write to output streams (currently only file:// and smb://)</li>
+	<li>support -ffourcc with -of lavf</li>
+	<li>removed B-frame warning message</li>
+	<li>fixed bugs that would corrupt headers in the video stream when
+	using telecining and not patch the TFF flag correctly</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Ports:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Complete Intel Mac support</li>
+	<li>Hitachi SuperH (SH3) support</li>
+	<li>Blackfin optimizations</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Drivers:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>ALSA audio output now sets the non-audio bit for AC3 passthrough
+	even if the user-specified default device name tries to clear it</li>
+	<li>fixed internal VIDIX in Solaris/x86, also auto-enabled</li>
+	<li>rework of internal VIDIX, now a fully static library with builtin
+	drivers</li>
+	<li>updated VIDIX ATI drivers</li>
+	<li>Sun XVR-100 video output driver</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Others:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>monitorpixelaspect=1 is now default. Set monitoraspect=4/3 to get
+	the old behavior (if you have non-square pixels).</li>
+	<li>libdvdcss updated to Subversion HEAD, now same as upstream version</li>
+	<li>libmpdvdkit split into libdvdread and libdvdcss</li>
+	<li>obsolete Xvid 3 support removed</li>
+	<li>long-deprecated -vop option removed</li>
+	<li>video stream switching</li>
+	<li>dvdnav:// honor -alang and -slang</li>
+	<li>support for doubleclick as input event</li>
+	<li>-really-quiet works as expected now</li>
+	<li>select libavformat demuxer (-lavfdopts format=)</li>
+	<li>internal minilzo removed in favor of FFmpeg implementation,
+	use liblzo2 for encoding</li>
+	<li>change GUI dependency from libpng to libavcodec</li>
+	<li>ability to change subtitle size during playback</li>
+	<li>ability to turn loop on/off during playback</li>
+	<li>Apple Remote support</li>
+	<li>libdvdread updated to 0.9.7</li>
+	<li>many compiler warning fixes</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer 1.0rc2 can be downloaded from the following locations. Please be kind
+to our server and use one of our many mirrors.
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Switzerland
+		<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Hungary
+		<a href="http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="ftp://ftp2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>USA
+		<a href="http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+	<li>USA
+		<a href="http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="ftp://ftp4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Korea
+		<a href="http://www5.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="ftp://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>France
+		<a href="ftp://ftp6.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Germany
+		<a href="http://www7.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="ftp://ftp7.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+	<li>Germany
+		<a href="ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/multimedia/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer 1.0rc2 is also available on BitTorrent.
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>BitTorrent coming soon
+		<!--<a href="http://natsuki.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/torrents/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2.torrent">torrent</a>--></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+MD5SUM:  <b>7e27e535c2d267637df34898f1b91707</b><br>
+SHA1SUM: <b>e9b496f3527c552004ec6d01d6b43f196b43ce2d</b>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
 	<a name="vuln15">2007-06-05, Tuesday :: stack overflow in stream_cddb.c</a>
 	<br><span class="poster">posted by Roberto</span>
 </h2>

