[MPlayer-DOCS] [homepage]: r3017 - in trunk: design7/src/selector src/news-archive.src.en src/news.src.en

[diego]

Author: diego
Date: Wed Sep 12 11:26:51 2007
New Revision: 3017

Log:
Move news from before rc1 to the archive.


Modified:
   trunk/design7/src/selector
   trunk/src/news-archive.src.en
   trunk/src/news.src.en

Modified: trunk/design7/src/selector
==============================================================================
--- trunk/design7/src/selector	(original)
+++ trunk/design7/src/selector	Wed Sep 12 11:26:51 2007
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@
 			<img src="../images/LQ-2006MCA-video-s.png" alt="2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award" width="29" height="29"></a>
 		<a href="news.html#HUPAward2006">
 			<img src="../images/hup2006-s.png" alt="HUP Readers' Choice Award 2006" width="29" height="29"></a>
-		<a href="news.html#LqAward2005">
+		<a href="news-archive.html#LqAward2005">
 			<img src="../images/LQ-2005MCA-video-s.png" alt="2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award" width="29" height="29"></a>
-		<a href="news.html#HUPAward2005">
+		<a href="news-archive.html#HUPAward2005">
 			<img src="../images/hup2005-s.png" alt="HUP Readers' Choice Award 2005" width="29" height="29"></a>
-		<a href="news.html#TUXAward2005">
+		<a href="news-archive.html#TUXAward2005">
 			<img src="../images/tux-readerschoice-winner-s.png" alt="TUX 2005 Readers' Choice Award" width="29" height="29"></a>
 		<a href="news-archive.html#LqAward2004">
 			<img src="../images/LQ-2004MCA-video-s.png" alt="2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award" width="27" height="29"></a>

Modified: trunk/src/news-archive.src.en
==============================================================================
--- trunk/src/news-archive.src.en	(original)
+++ trunk/src/news-archive.src.en	Wed Sep 12 11:26:51 2007
@@ -5,6 +5,1092 @@
 
 <h1>News Archive</h1>
 
+
+<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>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer and its documentation are available in many
+languages. Unfortunately not all translations are in good
+conditions. Many are outdated and incomplete. Therefore we need
+<b>your help</b> to get them back on track. Becoming a translator
+takes very little and is a great way to contribute or start
+contributing to free software. Without any sort of coding skills a
+small effort on your part can make a difference.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If you check out our <a href="info.html#docs">documentation page</a>
+you will see which translations are incomplete, outdated, in need of
+a helping hand or all of the above.
+So if you want to help us out with translations, read the
+<a href="../../DOCS/tech/translations.txt">translation HOWTO</a>
+and join the
+<a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-docs">MPlayer-DOCS</a>
+and
+<a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-translations">MPlayer-translations</a>
+mailing lists.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Apart from the documentation another part of translating MPlayer are
+the console and GUI messages. We have them in Bulgarian, Czech,
+German, Danish, Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese,
+Korean, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese,
+Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukranian, traditional
+Chinese and simplified Chinese. Most of these are also outdated and
+badly in need of updating.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="windows_gui">2006-09-11, Monday :: Windows GUI</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Experimental builds of the new Windows GUI can be found on the
+<a href="dload.html">download</a> page.
+Enjoy and tell your Windows-using friends about it.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="mplayer10pre8">2006-06-11, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.0pre8 released</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by the release team</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+It's been more than one year since our last release and yes,
+we are still alive!
+Like always, the length of the ChangeLog clearly shows we have been lazy
+to release but not lazy to code.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+First off, we have uncovered some new security bugs in the AVI, Real and
+MOV code so we urge you to upgrade in any case.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Given how old pre7 is by now, it's strongly recommended to upgrade.
+We also recommend users to test and use the Subversion version when
+possible in order to both benefit from latest development, and
+report/fix bugs.
+Contrary to running a development kernel, it won't eat your data or
+make your cat pregnant, but it will help us improve the overall quality
+of MPlayer.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Among the many features that have been added, it should be noted that
+libavformat now supports a greater variety of files.
+If you have a hard time playing some files, please try demuxing with
+libavformat (<code>-demuxer lavf</code>).
+MEncoder can also take advantage of libavformat, in order to, for
+example, create Flash videos.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There have also been many enhancements to the H.264 decoder to
+make it a lot faster and more error-resilient.
+More audio and video codecs are supported.
+Audio/Video synchronisation has been further improved, especially on
+Real streams and Vorbis.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+And that's not it yet! We have some more tricks for you up our sleeves
+for upcoming versions of MPlayer: experimental
+<a href="http://dcxx.fw.hu/">DVDnav</a> (DVD menus) support
+and an experimental graphical user interface for our Windows port.
+Please join in the testing effort so that these features don't remain
+experimental ;-).
+</p>
+
+<h3>MPlayer 1.0pre8: <i>"NeuTeam strikes back"</i></h3>
+
+
+<h4>Security:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>support for compilation with non-executable stack</li>
+	<li>fix the major issues caught by Coverity's static analysis runs</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Documentation:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>environment variables documentation started</li>
+	<li>interactive control fully documented</li>
+	<li>improved encoding guide</li>
+	<li>new technical encoding guide in DOCS/tech/encoding-guide.txt which is to be merged into the existing guide</li>
+	<li>encoding tips for x264 and XviD</li>
+	<li>how to set up MEncoder for x264 support</li>
+	<li>new advanced audio usage guide with surround sound instructions</li>
+	<li>Hungarian XML documentation translation finished</li>
+	<li>Czech documentation translation finished</li>
+	<li>French MPlayer documentation synced</li>
+	<li>German man page synced</li>
+	<li>Hungarian man page synced</li>
+	<li>Italian man page synced</li>
+	<li>Chinese console messages synced</li>
+	<li>misc improvements all over the place</li>
+	<li>AIX port documentation added</li>
+	<li>all XviD options documented</li>
+	<li>CONFIGURATION FILES section added to the man page</li>
+	<li>Doxygen comments added to configuration parser and OpenGL video out driver</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4> Drivers:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>JACK audio output rewritten without bio2jack</li>
+	<li>OpenAL audio output - unfinished, can only do mono output</li>
+	<li>OpenGL video output modules support -geometry and -wid options</li>
+	<li>for -vo gl manyfmts is now default (since it is a lot faster), use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if it does not work for you</li>
+	<li>streaming textures for -vo gl, much faster if supported (use -dr)</li>
+	<li>hardware YUV to RGB conversion for -vo gl and -vo gl2, see yuv suboption</li>
+	<li>support for custom fragment programs for -vo gl (see TOOLS/*.fp)</li>
+	<li>support for bicubic hardware scaling in -vo gl, see lscale suboption</li>
+	<li>use libvbe from vesautils as VESA video driver</li>
+	<li>several fixes for the GGI video output driver</li>
+	<li>fall back on next video output driver if vo_3dfx failed to initialize</li>
+	<li>improved XvMC library detection (disabled by default)</li>
+	<li>DPI (Print-Resolution) and Pixel-Aspect support in vo_jpeg</li>
+	<li>ALSA audio output: several small fixes and improvements</li>
+	<li>removed experimental mmap suboption from the ALSA driver</li>
+	<li>YUY2 and back end scaling for S3 Virge chips on fbdev (-vo s3fb)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Decoders:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Indeo2 (RT21) support via lavc</li>
+	<li>Fraps video decoder via binary DLL</li>
+	<li>support for 8-bit PNGs with palette</li>
+	<li>support for dmb1 MJPEG files with ffmjpeg</li>
+	<li>support for musepack audio (WARNING: when seeking you might get ear- and speaker-breaking noises). If you hear clipping, use -af volume.</li>
+	<li>experimental speex support via libspeex</li>
+	<li>On2 VP7 video decoder via binary DLL</li>
+	<li>Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) support via lavc</li>
+	<li>support FLX and DTA extensions for flic files</li>
+	<li>QDM2 audio decoding via lavc</li>
+	<li>cook audio decoding via lavc</li>
+	<li>TrueSpeech audio decoding via lavc</li>
+	<li>CamStudio video decoder via lavc</li>
+	<li>hwmpa pass-through MPEG audio codec</li>
+	<li>tremor updated to libogg 1.1.2</li>
+	<li>PNG decoding via libavcodec</li>
+	<li>removed native RealAudio codecs (ported to lavc)</li>
+	<li>Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder via lavc and binary DLL</li>
+	<li>support for QuickTime in24/in32/fl32 PCM audio</li>
+	<li>internal libfaad updated to CVS 20040915+MPlayer patches</li>
+	<li>RTJpeg decoder from lavc is preferred</li>
+	<li>bug fix for lavc WMA v2 decoder, now all files should be playable</li>
+	<li>-vc mpeg12 resizes the window when aspect ratio changes</li>
+	<li>Smacker audio and video decoding via lavc</li>
+	<li>Windows Media VC1 video decoder via binary DLL</li>
+	<li>Flash Screen video decoder via lavc</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Demuxers:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>simultaneous audio capture/playback (-tv immediatemode=0) fixed in v4l2</li>
+	<li>PVR support</li>
+	<li>AAC ADTS demuxer</li>
+	<li>libdvdread updated to v0.9.4</li>
+	<li>support for some more MythTV NUV files</li>
+	<li>modularization of demuxer code</li>
+	<li>MPEG in GXF container support with extension-based detection</li>
+	<li>faster MPEG and much faster GXF demuxing</li>
+	<li>more user-friendly demuxer forcing</li>
+	<li>MPEG Layer 1 and 2 demuxing fixed</li>
+	<li>properly pass Vorbis extradata from Matroska container</li>
+	<li>DVR format support</li>
+	<li>H.264 ES high profile support</li>
+	<li>TV channel cycling</li>
+	<li>DVD subtitle and audio stream mappings fixed</li>
+	<li>fixed RealAudio demuxing, now all files should have correct A/V sync</li>
+	<li>partial support for QuickTime sound atom version 2</li>
+	<li>improved handling of text subs in Matroska files</li>
+	<li>DVD subtitles disabled by default</li>
+	<li>support sipr codec in old RealAudio files</li>
+	<li>fixed framerate detection of interlaced H.264 in raw/PS/TS streams</li>
+	<li>support for variable framerate Ogg/OGM files</li>
+	<li>made demux_ogg.c work with ffvorbis decoder</li>
+	<li>fixed playback of RealVideo in Matroska files on PPC</li>
+	<li>added support for Vorbis in MOV/MP4</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Streaming:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>fix streaming of RealAudio files over HTTP</li>
+	<li>show SHOUT/Icecast metadata while playing</li>
+	<li>ultravox (unsv://) streaming support</li>
+	<li>stream code ported to new modular API, massive code cleanup</li>
+	<li>bandwidth selection for Real RTSP streams (for faster stream dumps)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>FFmpeg/libavcodec:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Snow bug fixes and speedup on x86, x86-64 and AltiVec</li>
+	<li>MPEG-1/2/4 and H.264 decoder speedup</li>
+	<li>Indeo2 (RT21) video decoder</li>
+	<li>Fraps video decoder (v0 &amp; v1, v2 not yet supported)</li>
+	<li>Vorbis audio decoder</li>
+	<li>RV20 fixes</li>
+	<li>VP3 decoder fixes and speedup</li>
+	<li>countless bug fixes all over the place</li>
+	<li>vstrict=-1 is default, Snow, ffv1 etc. need vstrict=-2</li>
+	<li>skiploopfilter/skipidct/skipframe decoder options for very fast H.264 decoding</li>
+	<li>D-Cinema audio demuxer and decoder support</li>
+	<li>Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) decoder</li>
+	<li>FLX and DTA extensions for flic</li>
+	<li>QDM2 audio decoder</li>
+	<li>cook audio decoder</li>
+	<li>TrueSpeech audio decoder</li>
+	<li>WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly</li>
+	<li>JPEG-LS decoder (unfinished)</li>
+	<li>CamStudio video decoder</li>
+	<li>Theora decoder</li>
+	<li>improved MOV and QuickTime demuxer</li>
+	<li>improved AVI muxer</li>
+	<li>multithreaded decoding</li>
+	<li>bitexact decoding</li>
+	<li>DV50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer</li>
+	<li>true audio (TTA) decoder</li>
+	<li>AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding</li>
+	<li>Creative VOC demuxing</li>
+	<li>Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder</li>
+	<li>KMVC decoder</li>
+	<li>NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTJpeg decoder</li>
+	<li>MP4 and MOV demuxer greatly improved to support all varieties of currently available files</li>
+	<li>AVS demuxer and video decoder</li>
+	<li>American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system</li>
+	<li>Smacker demuxer and decoder</li>
+	<li>Flash screen Video decoder</li>
+	<li>Trellis-optimized ADPCM audio encoder</li>
+	<li>Major improvements to Snow quality and encoding</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>GUI:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>skins now reside in a directory named 'skins', not 'Skin'</li>
+	<li>ported to GTK2</li>
+	<li>long standing upside down vpotmeter bug fixed</li>
+	<li>don't hang on unreadable skin files</li>
+	<li>random fixes and improvements</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Filters:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>much faster version of spp filter (-vf fspp), and pp7 ("fast spp=6")</li>
+	<li>remove_logo filter</li>
+	<li>lavcresample now used by default (-af-adv force=0 gives old behavior)</li>
+	<li>vf_expand and vf_dsize now support aspect and round parameters</li>
+	<li>screenshot filter</li>
+	<li>-af pan command line fix, now outputs the right number of channels and accepts values &lt; 0 or &gt; 1. Channel order had to be changed.</li>
+	<li>-af sinesuppress to remove a sine at a certain frequency</li>
+	<li>negative stride support in swscale</li>
+	<li>big-endian and AltiVec fixes and performance improvements for swscaler, color conversions and post-processing</li>
+	<li>-srate fixed</li>
+	<li>hqdn3d: 2.5x faster temporal-only, 1.6x faster spatial-only</li>
+	<li>new proof-of-concept karaoke (voice removal) filter</li>
+	<li>motion compensating deinterlacer (-vf mcdeint)</li>
+	<li>Yet Another DeInterlacing Filter (-vf yadif)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>MEncoder:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>audio encoding modularized</li>
+	<li>AAC (FAAC) audio encoding</li>
+	<li>border processing adaptive quantization in libavcodec</li>
+	<li>encoding zones, DivX profiles support, luminance masking, multi-threaded encoding for XviD</li>
+	<li>raw audio muxer</li>
+	<li>fixed various bugs in the EDL code</li>
+	<li>x264 "turbo mode" to speed up first pass of multi-pass encoding</li>
+	<li>x264 custom quantization matrices</li>
+	<li>-delay allows real audio delay instead of just a delay in the header</li>
+	<li>search for (deprecated!) frameno.avi is now disabled by default (use -frameno-file frameno.avi to enable)</li>
+	<li>-o is now mandatory. You can add 'o=test.avi' in ~/.mplayer/mencoder to get the old behavior back.</li>
+	<li>In multiple file encoding, either all or no files must have audio. Use -nosound to force.</li>
+	<li>support for VBR MP2 encoding in toolame</li>
+	<li>twolame support</li>
+	<li>libavformat muxers support</li>
+	<li>VBR audio in MPEG support</li>
+	<li>muxer_mpeg: added an experimental film2pal teleciner and fixed previous bugs that could lead to desync and to wrong TFF/RFF flags being set</li>
+	<li>rewritten muxer_mpeg.c: buffering and timing constraints will always be respected, provided that the muxrate is big enough</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Ports:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>improved timer function on Mac OS X</li>
+	<li>New Mac OS X "macosx" video output driver. Supported on OS X 10.4 and 10.3 with QuickTime 7 (requires QuickTime 7 SDK to build on 10.3)</li>
+	<li>Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) fixes</li>
+	<li>macosx audio output driver fixes</li>
+	<li>preliminary support for Intel Macs</li>
+	<li>support for playing DVDs copied to harddisk on Cygwin</li>
+	<li>DragonFly BSD support</li>
+	<li>liba52 ASM optimizations ported to AMD64</li>
+	<li>configure check and compiler optimizations for VIA C3, C3-2 and Pentium-M</li>
+	<li>configure check and compiler optimizations for AMD-64 extended</li>
+	<li>configure can now run with cross compiling, new configure option --enable-cross-compile</li>
+	<li>-(no)border option to get a bordered/borderless window on Windows</li>
+	<li>Experimental AIX support</li>
+	<li>AltiVec support fixes</li>
+	<li>POWER5 support</li>
+	<li>OpenGL output ported to Windows</li>
+	<li>FreeBSD default DVD device added</li>
+	<li>MIPS64 support</li>
+	<li>Darwin portability fixes</li>
+	<li>improved Debian packaging</li>
+	<li>improved Win32 multi-monitor support</li>
+	<li>Sun's mediaLib disabled by default on Solaris (broken and non-optimal)</li>
+	<li>VP6 and WMVA binary codecs should now work also under FreeBSD 6</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>Others:</h4>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Audio/Video synchronisation fixes</li>
+	<li>enabled hinting for TrueType fonts</li>
+	<li>support for file:// syntax</li>
+	<li>-fb option removed, use the device suboption of -vo fbdev/fbdev2 instead</li>
+	<li>full gcc 4 support</li>
+	<li>TOOLS/vobshift.py: vobsub time-adjust tool</li>
+	<li>TOOLS/psnr-video.sh: computes PSNR between two existing video files</li>
+	<li>fixed auto-insertion of lavc encoder (for DXR2/3 and DVB)</li>
+	<li>new option: -idle, to make MPlayer wait for input commands when done playing all files</li>
+	<li>lots of new slave commands (check DOCS/tech/slave.txt)</li>
+	<li>lots of new information provided by the -identify option</li>
+	<li>fixed ugly looking OSD with -vo gl2 and MMX</li>
+	<li>support for OSD localization</li>
+	<li>-rawaudio/-rawvideo requires -demuxer rawaudio/-demuxer rawvideo</li>
+	<li>libdvdcss updated to 1.2.9</li>
+	<li>~/.dvdcss is used instead of ~/.mplayer/DVDKeys for cached CSS keys</li>
+	<li>libcdio support for CD playback</li>
+	<li>new option -msglevel to directly control the verbosity of MPlayer modules</li>
+	<li>-verbose option removed, use -v or "-msglevel all" instead</li>
+	<li>-edl is now per-file in MPlayer</li>
+	<li>new input command prefixes, "pausing_keep" and "pausing_toggle" which alter pausing state immediately after command</li>
+	<li>environment variable MPLAYER_VERBOSE controls verbosity before the command line is parsed</li>
+	<li>environment variable MPLAYER_HOME controls location where configuration files are searched for</li>
+	<li>memleak fixes all over the code</li>
+	<li>TOOLS/aconvert: allows MEncoder to encode from an audio-only file</li>
+	<li>TOOLS/3*m_convert: D-Cinema audio and video conversion program</li>
+	<li>TOOLS/qepdvcd.sh: anything supported to VCD/SVCD PAL/NTSC</li>
+	<li>TOOLS/encode2mpeglight: MPEG format encoding tool using only MEncoder</li>
+	<li>allow multiple -help clauses on the command line</li>
+	<li>console "OSD" for audio-only files</li>
+	<li>show total time when playing audio-only files</li>
+	<li>support for .wpl playlists</li>
+	<li>support for ncurses as termcap library provider</li>
+	<li>parallel make fixed</li>
+	<li>(improved) support for shared libav* libraries</li>
+	<li>playback/encoding profiles support</li>
+	<li>new property API</li>
+	<li>new -monitorpixelaspect option to determine monitor aspect from screen resolution</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer 1.0pre8 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://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer 1.0pre8 is also available on BitTorrent.
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>BitTorrent
+		<a href="../../MPlayer/torrents/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2.torrent">torrent</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+MD5SUM: <b>f82bb2bc51b6cd5e5dd96f88f6f98582</b>
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="subversion">2006-06-06, Monday :: Subversion repository online</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+The CVS to Subversion conversion is finally finished. You can access the
+MPlayer Subversion repository at
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+  svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+or browse it <a href="http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk">online</a>.
+Development will now continue normally with next-generation revision
+control technology.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="mphqdead">2006-05-23, Tuesday :: MPHQ is dead</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Roberto</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Our old server mphq died on Friday afternoon. Probably it won't come back
+online.
+</p>
+<p>
+While many services were already moved to the new server natsuki, CVS
+repositories and mailing lists were still hosted on the old machine.
+</p>
+<p>
+The mail system was set up in no time (thanks to our sysadmin team), and the
+lists are back online since Monday. The CVS server won't be moved: We are
+converting the repositories to Subversion (as already planned), and the
+development will continue using Subversion. But this will take some time.
+FFmpeg will be first (a testing only repository is already available to
+developers), then MPlayer will be converted.
+</p>
+<p>
+The latest MPlayer and FFmpeg CVS
+<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/~rtogni/snapshots/">snapshots</a>
+are available. [snapshots removed, get MPlayer and FFmpeg with Subversion]
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="interview2006">2006-05-04, Thursday :: MPlayer interview</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Alex, Oded and myself were interviewed by cruocitae for
+<a href="http://itreviews.blogspot.com/">http://itreviews.blogspot.com/</a>.
+To get a peek into our minds
+<a href="http://itreviews.blogspot.com/2006/05/mplayer-interview.html">read the interview</a>.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="linuxtag2006">2006-05-01, Monday :: MPlayer at LinuxTag 2006</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p class="left-inset">
+<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">
+<img src="../images/linuxtag.png" alt="LinuxTag logo" width="119" height="80"></a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The multimedia booth at
+<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/en/home/news.html">LinuxTag</a>
+is starting to become an institution. If you decide to come to Wiesbaden
+this year you can meet some members of the MPlayer and
+<a href="http://ffmpeg.org">FFmpeg</a> teams there.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As a special feature this year we will attempt to fix any broken samples you
+deliver to our booth. If you have a problematic file, bring it to us, we will
+categorize it and try to find a fix and/or workaround for your problem.
+We can make no promises about the success, but we will give it our best shot.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="LqAward2005">2006-03-08, Wednesday :: LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p class="left-inset">
+<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/t409049.html">
+<img src="../images/LQ-2005MCA-video.png" alt="2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award" width="120" height="120"></a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The polls have just closed on the annual Members Choice Award by
+<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/">LinuxQuestions.org</a>
+and MPlayer has won in the category
+<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/t409049.html">Video Multimedia Application of the Year</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+568 people (46.94%) voted for MPlayer. The second place went to
+<a href="http://xinehq.de">xine</a> with 365 votes (30.17%) and the
+third place was taken by <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/">VLC</a>
+with 117 (9.67%).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A big thank you to our many fans.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="server_operational">2006-02-27, Monday :: server operational</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+If you can read this, the new server is already serving web pages.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Due to various circumstances it has taken us far longer than expected to
+get the machine set up and transported to its final hosting location.
+Right now it's already serving web pages and FTP as well as experimental
+Subversion repositories. Please bear with us for a little longer until we
+have the mirror network up and running, continue the transition from CVS
+to Subversion and move over the mailing lists.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Again, many thanks to the <a href="donations.html#server">many donors</a>
+that have made this wish a reality.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="vuln13">2006-02-15, Wednesday :: heap overflow in demuxer.h</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Roberto</span>
+</h2>
+
+<h3>Summary</h3>
+
+<p>
+A potential buffer overflow was found in the ASF demuxer, and further analysis
+showed that the bug was in some more generic code in demuxer.h, used to
+create and resize buffers. You can read the original bug report here
+<a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122029">
+media-video/mplayer ASF File Parsing Integer Overflow (CAN-2006-0579)</a>
+on Gentoo Bugzilla.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Severity</h3>
+
+<p>
+High (arbitrary remote code execution under the user ID running the player)
+when streaming an ASF file from a malicious server, medium (local code
+execution under the user ID running the player) if you play a malicious ASF
+file locally.
+At the time the buffer overflow was fixed there was no known exploit.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Solution</h3>
+
+<p>
+A <a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/main/libmpdemux/demuxer.h.diff?r1=1.87&amp;r2=1.88">fix</a>
+for this problem was committed to CVS on Sun Feb 12 09:28:09 2006 UTC, and
+enhanced in versions 1.89 and 1.90.
+Users of affected MPlayer versions should download a
+<a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/demuxer_h_fix_20060212.diff">patch</a>
+for MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 or update to the latest version if they're using CVS.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Please note that we are not releasing an updated tarball with this fix at this
+moment. Since MPlayer 1.0pre7 is very old, we encourage you to upgrade to the
+CVS version.<br>
+If you need to stay with 1.0pre7, get the MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 tarball,
+apply the patch with the fix and recompile MPlayer.<br>
+If you mantain a binary package for MPlayer, please name the updated version
+MPlayer 1.0pre7try3.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Affected versions</h3>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer 1.0pre7, MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 and CVS before Sun Feb 12 09:28:09 2006 UTC.
+Older versions are probably affected, too, but they were not checked.
+</p>
+
+
+<h3>Unaffected versions</h3>
+
+<p>
+CVS HEAD after Sun Feb 12 09:28:09 2006 UTC<br>
+MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 + security patch
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="HUPAward2005">2005-12-23, Friday :: HUP Readers' Choice Award 2005</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p class="left-inset">
+<a href="http://hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=10324">
+<img src="../images/hup2005.png" alt="HUP Readers' Choice Award 2005" width="120" height="120"></a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Over in Hungary MPlayer appears to remain popular and has won the Readers'
+Choice Award of the <a href="http://hup.hu">Hungarian Unix Portal</a> in
+the &quot;favorite video player of the year&quot; category for the third
+time in a row.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer got 539 votes (84%), placing it before VLC 58 (9%) and last year's
+runner-up xine 42 (7%). If you can read Hungarian, check out the
+<a href="http://hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=10324">HUP award page</a>.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="TUXAward2005">2005-09-02, Friday :: TUX 2005 Readers' Choice Award</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p class="left-inset">
+<a href="http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000151">
+<img src="../images/tux-readerschoice-winner.png" alt="TUX 2005 Readers' Choice Award" width="125" height="125"></a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Good news everyone!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It appears that MPlayer is as popular as ever.
+We have just been notified that
+<a href="http://tuxmagazine.com/">TUX magazine</a> has announced
+the winners of its first annual Readers' Choice Award and
+MPlayer has come out on top in the category
+<a href="http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000151">Favorite Media Player</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Thanks for all your support, it's really appreciated!
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="vuln12">2005-08-26, Friday :: heap overflow in ad_pcm.c</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Attila</span>
+</h2>
+<p>
+There is a bug which, depending on configuration, can lead to a heap overflow.
+If and under which circumstances this is exploitable is unclear to us as of
+now. We are aware that at least one person was able to write a working
+exploit on his system using an AVI file with uncompressed PCM audio.
+We have found a file that is supposed to exploit it but could not make it work,
+still we do not want to put you at risk by waiting longer to publish this.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Solution</h3>
+
+<p>
+A <a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/main/libmpcodecs/ad_pcm.c.diff?r1=1.18&amp;r2=1.19">fix</a>
+for this problem was committed to CVS on Thu Aug 25 19:46:20 2005 UTC.
+You can download a patch for MPlayer 1.0pre7
+<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/ad_pcm_fix_20050826.diff">here.</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Adding <code>ac=-pcm,</code> (notice the trailing ',') to your configuration
+file is a quick fix that should keep you safe as long as you don't use the
+<code>-ac</code> option on the command line. It will prevent you from playing
+uncompressed audio, though.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We also prepared a new tarball for the pre7 release with the fix applied.
+Please note that this is not a new MPlayer release, if you want to have all
+the new features introduced after pre7 you should use the CVS version.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Affected versions</h3>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer 1.0pre7 and before<br>
+Up to now the only version where an exploit was demonstrated is
+MPlayer 1.0pre7, but the bug is present in all previous versions.
+</p>
+
+
+<h3>Unaffected versions</h3>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 and after<br>
+CVS HEAD after Thu Aug 25 19:46:20 2005 UTC
+</p>
+
+<p>
+MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 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://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+		<a href="http://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+MD5SUM: <b>aaca4fd327176c1afb463f0f047ef6f4</b>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="server_thanks">2005-08-17, Wednesday :: thanks</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Alex</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Firstly, we would like to thank all donors for the generous contributions
+we have received in the last weeks. We had never dreamed the call for
+donations would be so successful. Now we have ordered a much better
+server than expected, which opens the path for us to offer more and
+better services. We can even afford a backup solution! The server is
+expected to arrive in four weeks, but we will need a few more weeks
+for stress-testing and completing the setup.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The list of donors can be found on the <a href="donations.html">donations</a> page.
+Please <a href="mailto:alex_REMOVE_THE_UNDERSCORES_AND_THE_TEXT_IN_BETWEEN_ at mplayerhq.hu">mail me</a> if you would like to
+have your name removed. Also due to some bank transfer conditions, some names
+are missing or wrongly spelled. Mail if you need correction!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Next updates will contain more in-depth information about the hardware and
+services. To be continued...
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="vesautils">2005-08-16, Tuesday :: vesautils</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Alex</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+I merged the VESA efforts of MPlayer and MPlayerXP. Together with some
+utilities from svgalib and vbetool this forms vesatools. Starting with
+the next MPlayer release, this library will be used for the VESA video
+output. This adds support for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>webpage: <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/vesautils/">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/vesautils/</a></li>
+	<li>ViewVC: <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/vesautils/trunk/">http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/vesautils/trunk/</a></li>
+	<li>mailing list: <a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/vesautils-devel">http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/vesautils-devel</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="server_wanted">2005-08-05, Friday :: new server wanted</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Alex</span>
+</h2>
+
+<h3>What happened?</h3>
+
+<p>
+As you may have noticed, we had a server failure due to an air-conditioning
+breakdown. The server's filesystem got corrupted, affecting our CVS repository.
+This has finally prompted us to look for a different hosting solution and maybe
+refresh the hardware in the process. We have an opportunity to host our server
+at a real hosting company with reliable air conditioning and power supply, but
+they only have space for a 1U rackmount case, while we have a standard tower case.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There are three options:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>Get a new hoster for the old server and replace a few parts or</li>
+	<li>get a new 1U server and place it at the offered place or</li>
+	<li>get a new server and a new hosting provider.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+After reviewing our requirements closely we would much prefer to get a
+new server that will suffice for some years to come. We were offered
+virtual hosting, but we really need a dedicated server. Also note that
+the <a href="http://ffmpeg.org">FFmpeg</a> project is hosted on the same
+server and other projects like <a href="http://xinehq.de/">xine</a>
+rely on us to distribute codec packages for them, so this machine is
+really central for free software multimedia.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We collected some donations at LinuxTag to cover expenses and have
+roughly 70EUR left, but that is barely enough for a single disk.
+Now we are searching for special discounts, monetary donations
+- or better - a complete configuration. Regarding monetary
+donations, we would like to spend the whole sum on the server
+to avoid the problem of having money lying around.
+</p>
+
+<h3>the configuration we are looking for</h3>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>1U case (this is the most important part)</li>
+	<li>dual 1Ghz or single 2GHz CPU</li>
+	<li>1GB RAM</li>
+	<li>2x 200GB HDD in RAID-1, preferably SATA disks</li>
+	<li>Reliable backup solution, we would like to have 3x300GB HDDs
+		for backups to another server.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>How to donate money</h3>
+
+<dl>
+<dt>Paypal</dt>
+<dd>(removed)</dd>
+<dt>European bank account</dt>
+<dd>Account name: Beregszaszi Alex (removed)</dd>
+<dt>US cheques</dt>
+<dd>Richard Felker (removed)</dd>
+<dt>German bank account</dt>
+<dd>Account name: Reimar Döffinger (removed)</dd>
+<dt>Swiss bank account</dt>
+<dd>Account name: Attila Dogan (removed)</dd>
+<dt>French bank account</dt>
+<dd>Account name: MR POIRIER GUILLAUME (removed)</dd>
+<dt>Hungarian bank account</dt>
+<dd>Account name: Beregszaszi Alex (removed)</dd>
+</dl>
+
+<p>
+It is important that you write <strong>MPlayer</strong> into the comment
+field. If you would not like to see your name on the donors
+list add <strong>anonymous</strong>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We will report about financial status in at most a month.
+If you have any questions please contact us via the
+<a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">mplayer-dev-eng mailing list</a>,
+<a href="info.html#irc">IRC</a> or
+<a href="mailto:alex_REMOVE_THE_UNDERSCORES_AND_THE_TEXT_IN_BETWEEN_ at mplayerhq.hu">privately</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h3>2005-08-09 Failure Update</h3>
+
+<p>
+The disk with the ftp downloadable data (releases, codec packages, samples,
+skins, cvs snapshots, ...) failed again on Monday, and it's now offline.
+Please use one of our mirrors to get MPlayer.
+CVS is on a different disk and it's still available.
+Because of this failure online docs are no longer accessible, please refer to
+the documentation included in MPlayer tarball.
+Incoming directory is gone too.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="video_book">2005-07-26, Tuesday :: video book</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p class="left-inset">
+<a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/index.php?26&amp;backPID=15&amp;tt_products=20">
+<img src="../images/videobook_small.png" alt="book cover" width="100" height="141"></a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href="https://opensourcepress.de/">Open Source Press</a> has published an
+<a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/index.php?26&amp;backPID=15&amp;tt_products=20">anthology about video under Linux</a>.
+It gives a good overview of the current state of things in 19 chapters
+that cover the areas video playback, video editing and video streaming,
+with each chapter either covering software you can use to accomplish
+those tasks under Linux or giving an introduction to the many technical
+facets of video. The authors of the chapters are all project members or
+closely related to the projects they write about.
+<a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/148.html">Yours truly</a>
+wrote - surprise - the chapter about MPlayer. The
+<a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/fileadmin/osp/pdf/video_inhalt.pdf">preface and table of contents</a>
+are available online. The book is currently only available in German.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="swpat_directive_rejected">2005-07-11, Monday :: software patent directive rejected</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+With a truly overwhelming majority the EU parliament has
+<a href="http://wiki.ffii.org/Ep050706En">rejected the proposed software patent directive</a>
+last week. This is a great victory for the movement against software
+patents and a relief for free software and all of the software
+industry in Europe and worldwide. It is also a great personal
+satisfaction for myself and other members of the MPlayer team that
+have been actively lobbying against software patents. Rejoice and be
+happy for this was a grand day indeed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Nevertheless all that glistens is not gold and while we have won an
+important battle, this struggle is far from over. There are still
+thousands of software patents that have already been granted in
+Europe. Furthermore efforts to extend patentability towards software
+will now continue on the national level and probably return at the EU
+level in a few years. Thus we have to continue our fight to fend off
+software patents completely and worldwide. For this we need the help
+of all community members. <strong>You</strong> have to keep a watchful
+eye on your political representatives, inform them about the issues at
+stake and make sure they pass sensible legislation.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
+<div class="newsentry">
+
+<h2>
+	<a name="linuxtag2005">2005-06-19, Sunday :: MPlayer at LinuxTag 2005</a>
+	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
+</h2>
+
+<p class="left-inset">
+<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2005/">
+<img src="../images/linuxtag.png" alt="LinuxTag logo" width="119" height="80"></a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It's that time of year again... The MPlayer team will be at the
+<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2005/en/home.html">LinuxTag 2005</a>
+manning the multimedia booth. Roberto Togni, Alexander Strasser, Sascha
+Sommer, Dominik Mierzejewski, Reimar Döffinger, Diego Biurrun, Alex
+Beregszaszi, Luca Barbato will be present most of the time and we will
+be joined by Mike Melanson (<a href="http://ffmpeg.org">FFmpeg</a> /
+<a href="http://xinehq.de">xine</a>) and Måns Rullgård
+(<a href="http://ffmpeg.org">FFmpeg</a> /
+<a href="http://tcvp.sf.net">tcvp</a>).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+LinuxTag takes place in Karlsruhe, Germany from the 22nd to the 25th of
+June. Its motto is &quot;Where .com meets .org.&quot; and it is a mix between a
+trade show and a conference where both companies and free software
+projects are present. Drop by if you wish to talk to us.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Video is one of the focal points of this year's LinuxTag. There will
+be a conference track dedicated to video on
+<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/typo3site/fvp-do.html?&amp;L=1">Thursday</a> and
+<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/typo3site/fvp-fr.html?&amp;L=1">Friday</a>.
+The presentations in the video track are based on an
+<a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/index.php?26&amp;backPID=15&amp;tt_products=20">anthology about video under Linux</a>
+published by <a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/">Open Source Press</a>.
+Diego Biurrun will give a
+<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/typo3site/freecongress-details.html?&amp;L=1&amp;talkid=306">presentation about MPlayer</a>
+on Thursday based on the book chapter he wrote.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+
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-<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>
-
-<p>
-MPlayer and its documentation are available in many
-languages. Unfortunately not all translations are in good
-conditions. Many are outdated and incomplete. Therefore we need
-<b>your help</b> to get them back on track. Becoming a translator
-takes very little and is a great way to contribute or start
-contributing to free software. Without any sort of coding skills a
-small effort on your part can make a difference.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-If you check out our <a href="info.html#docs">documentation page</a>
-you will see which translations are incomplete, outdated, in need of
-a helping hand or all of the above.
-So if you want to help us out with translations, read the
-<a href="../../DOCS/tech/translations.txt">translation HOWTO</a>
-and join the
-<a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-docs">MPlayer-DOCS</a>
-and
-<a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-translations">MPlayer-translations</a>
-mailing lists.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Apart from the documentation another part of translating MPlayer are
-the console and GUI messages. We have them in Bulgarian, Czech,
-German, Danish, Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese,
-Korean, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese,
-Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukranian, traditional
-Chinese and simplified Chinese. Most of these are also outdated and
-badly in need of updating.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="windows_gui">2006-09-11, Monday :: Windows GUI</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-Experimental builds of the new Windows GUI can be found on the
-<a href="dload.html">download</a> page.
-Enjoy and tell your Windows-using friends about it.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="mplayer10pre8">2006-06-11, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.0pre8 released</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by the release team</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-It's been more than one year since our last release and yes,
-we are still alive!
-Like always, the length of the ChangeLog clearly shows we have been lazy
-to release but not lazy to code.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-First off, we have uncovered some new security bugs in the AVI, Real and
-MOV code so we urge you to upgrade in any case.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Given how old pre7 is by now, it's strongly recommended to upgrade.
-We also recommend users to test and use the Subversion version when
-possible in order to both benefit from latest development, and
-report/fix bugs.
-Contrary to running a development kernel, it won't eat your data or
-make your cat pregnant, but it will help us improve the overall quality
-of MPlayer.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Among the many features that have been added, it should be noted that
-libavformat now supports a greater variety of files.
-If you have a hard time playing some files, please try demuxing with
-libavformat (<code>-demuxer lavf</code>).
-MEncoder can also take advantage of libavformat, in order to, for
-example, create Flash videos.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-There have also been many enhancements to the H.264 decoder to
-make it a lot faster and more error-resilient.
-More audio and video codecs are supported.
-Audio/Video synchronisation has been further improved, especially on
-Real streams and Vorbis.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-And that's not it yet! We have some more tricks for you up our sleeves
-for upcoming versions of MPlayer: experimental
-<a href="http://dcxx.fw.hu/">DVDnav</a> (DVD menus) support
-and an experimental graphical user interface for our Windows port.
-Please join in the testing effort so that these features don't remain
-experimental ;-).
-</p>
-
-<h3>MPlayer 1.0pre8: <i>"NeuTeam strikes back"</i></h3>
-
-
-<h4>Security:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>support for compilation with non-executable stack</li>
-	<li>fix the major issues caught by Coverity's static analysis runs</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Documentation:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>environment variables documentation started</li>
-	<li>interactive control fully documented</li>
-	<li>improved encoding guide</li>
-	<li>new technical encoding guide in DOCS/tech/encoding-guide.txt which is to be merged into the existing guide</li>
-	<li>encoding tips for x264 and XviD</li>
-	<li>how to set up MEncoder for x264 support</li>
-	<li>new advanced audio usage guide with surround sound instructions</li>
-	<li>Hungarian XML documentation translation finished</li>
-	<li>Czech documentation translation finished</li>
-	<li>French MPlayer documentation synced</li>
-	<li>German man page synced</li>
-	<li>Hungarian man page synced</li>
-	<li>Italian man page synced</li>
-	<li>Chinese console messages synced</li>
-	<li>misc improvements all over the place</li>
-	<li>AIX port documentation added</li>
-	<li>all XviD options documented</li>
-	<li>CONFIGURATION FILES section added to the man page</li>
-	<li>Doxygen comments added to configuration parser and OpenGL video out driver</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4> Drivers:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>JACK audio output rewritten without bio2jack</li>
-	<li>OpenAL audio output - unfinished, can only do mono output</li>
-	<li>OpenGL video output modules support -geometry and -wid options</li>
-	<li>for -vo gl manyfmts is now default (since it is a lot faster), use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if it does not work for you</li>
-	<li>streaming textures for -vo gl, much faster if supported (use -dr)</li>
-	<li>hardware YUV to RGB conversion for -vo gl and -vo gl2, see yuv suboption</li>
-	<li>support for custom fragment programs for -vo gl (see TOOLS/*.fp)</li>
-	<li>support for bicubic hardware scaling in -vo gl, see lscale suboption</li>
-	<li>use libvbe from vesautils as VESA video driver</li>
-	<li>several fixes for the GGI video output driver</li>
-	<li>fall back on next video output driver if vo_3dfx failed to initialize</li>
-	<li>improved XvMC library detection (disabled by default)</li>
-	<li>DPI (Print-Resolution) and Pixel-Aspect support in vo_jpeg</li>
-	<li>ALSA audio output: several small fixes and improvements</li>
-	<li>removed experimental mmap suboption from the ALSA driver</li>
-	<li>YUY2 and back end scaling for S3 Virge chips on fbdev (-vo s3fb)</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Decoders:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>Indeo2 (RT21) support via lavc</li>
-	<li>Fraps video decoder via binary DLL</li>
-	<li>support for 8-bit PNGs with palette</li>
-	<li>support for dmb1 MJPEG files with ffmjpeg</li>
-	<li>support for musepack audio (WARNING: when seeking you might get ear- and speaker-breaking noises). If you hear clipping, use -af volume.</li>
-	<li>experimental speex support via libspeex</li>
-	<li>On2 VP7 video decoder via binary DLL</li>
-	<li>Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) support via lavc</li>
-	<li>support FLX and DTA extensions for flic files</li>
-	<li>QDM2 audio decoding via lavc</li>
-	<li>cook audio decoding via lavc</li>
-	<li>TrueSpeech audio decoding via lavc</li>
-	<li>CamStudio video decoder via lavc</li>
-	<li>hwmpa pass-through MPEG audio codec</li>
-	<li>tremor updated to libogg 1.1.2</li>
-	<li>PNG decoding via libavcodec</li>
-	<li>removed native RealAudio codecs (ported to lavc)</li>
-	<li>Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder via lavc and binary DLL</li>
-	<li>support for QuickTime in24/in32/fl32 PCM audio</li>
-	<li>internal libfaad updated to CVS 20040915+MPlayer patches</li>
-	<li>RTJpeg decoder from lavc is preferred</li>
-	<li>bug fix for lavc WMA v2 decoder, now all files should be playable</li>
-	<li>-vc mpeg12 resizes the window when aspect ratio changes</li>
-	<li>Smacker audio and video decoding via lavc</li>
-	<li>Windows Media VC1 video decoder via binary DLL</li>
-	<li>Flash Screen video decoder via lavc</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Demuxers:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>simultaneous audio capture/playback (-tv immediatemode=0) fixed in v4l2</li>
-	<li>PVR support</li>
-	<li>AAC ADTS demuxer</li>
-	<li>libdvdread updated to v0.9.4</li>
-	<li>support for some more MythTV NUV files</li>
-	<li>modularization of demuxer code</li>
-	<li>MPEG in GXF container support with extension-based detection</li>
-	<li>faster MPEG and much faster GXF demuxing</li>
-	<li>more user-friendly demuxer forcing</li>
-	<li>MPEG Layer 1 and 2 demuxing fixed</li>
-	<li>properly pass Vorbis extradata from Matroska container</li>
-	<li>DVR format support</li>
-	<li>H.264 ES high profile support</li>
-	<li>TV channel cycling</li>
-	<li>DVD subtitle and audio stream mappings fixed</li>
-	<li>fixed RealAudio demuxing, now all files should have correct A/V sync</li>
-	<li>partial support for QuickTime sound atom version 2</li>
-	<li>improved handling of text subs in Matroska files</li>
-	<li>DVD subtitles disabled by default</li>
-	<li>support sipr codec in old RealAudio files</li>
-	<li>fixed framerate detection of interlaced H.264 in raw/PS/TS streams</li>
-	<li>support for variable framerate Ogg/OGM files</li>
-	<li>made demux_ogg.c work with ffvorbis decoder</li>
-	<li>fixed playback of RealVideo in Matroska files on PPC</li>
-	<li>added support for Vorbis in MOV/MP4</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Streaming:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>fix streaming of RealAudio files over HTTP</li>
-	<li>show SHOUT/Icecast metadata while playing</li>
-	<li>ultravox (unsv://) streaming support</li>
-	<li>stream code ported to new modular API, massive code cleanup</li>
-	<li>bandwidth selection for Real RTSP streams (for faster stream dumps)</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>FFmpeg/libavcodec:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>Snow bug fixes and speedup on x86, x86-64 and AltiVec</li>
-	<li>MPEG-1/2/4 and H.264 decoder speedup</li>
-	<li>Indeo2 (RT21) video decoder</li>
-	<li>Fraps video decoder (v0 &amp; v1, v2 not yet supported)</li>
-	<li>Vorbis audio decoder</li>
-	<li>RV20 fixes</li>
-	<li>VP3 decoder fixes and speedup</li>
-	<li>countless bug fixes all over the place</li>
-	<li>vstrict=-1 is default, Snow, ffv1 etc. need vstrict=-2</li>
-	<li>skiploopfilter/skipidct/skipframe decoder options for very fast H.264 decoding</li>
-	<li>D-Cinema audio demuxer and decoder support</li>
-	<li>Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) decoder</li>
-	<li>FLX and DTA extensions for flic</li>
-	<li>QDM2 audio decoder</li>
-	<li>cook audio decoder</li>
-	<li>TrueSpeech audio decoder</li>
-	<li>WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly</li>
-	<li>JPEG-LS decoder (unfinished)</li>
-	<li>CamStudio video decoder</li>
-	<li>Theora decoder</li>
-	<li>improved MOV and QuickTime demuxer</li>
-	<li>improved AVI muxer</li>
-	<li>multithreaded decoding</li>
-	<li>bitexact decoding</li>
-	<li>DV50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer</li>
-	<li>true audio (TTA) decoder</li>
-	<li>AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding</li>
-	<li>Creative VOC demuxing</li>
-	<li>Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder</li>
-	<li>KMVC decoder</li>
-	<li>NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTJpeg decoder</li>
-	<li>MP4 and MOV demuxer greatly improved to support all varieties of currently available files</li>
-	<li>AVS demuxer and video decoder</li>
-	<li>American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system</li>
-	<li>Smacker demuxer and decoder</li>
-	<li>Flash screen Video decoder</li>
-	<li>Trellis-optimized ADPCM audio encoder</li>
-	<li>Major improvements to Snow quality and encoding</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>GUI:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>skins now reside in a directory named 'skins', not 'Skin'</li>
-	<li>ported to GTK2</li>
-	<li>long standing upside down vpotmeter bug fixed</li>
-	<li>don't hang on unreadable skin files</li>
-	<li>random fixes and improvements</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Filters:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>much faster version of spp filter (-vf fspp), and pp7 ("fast spp=6")</li>
-	<li>remove_logo filter</li>
-	<li>lavcresample now used by default (-af-adv force=0 gives old behavior)</li>
-	<li>vf_expand and vf_dsize now support aspect and round parameters</li>
-	<li>screenshot filter</li>
-	<li>-af pan command line fix, now outputs the right number of channels and accepts values &lt; 0 or &gt; 1. Channel order had to be changed.</li>
-	<li>-af sinesuppress to remove a sine at a certain frequency</li>
-	<li>negative stride support in swscale</li>
-	<li>big-endian and AltiVec fixes and performance improvements for swscaler, color conversions and post-processing</li>
-	<li>-srate fixed</li>
-	<li>hqdn3d: 2.5x faster temporal-only, 1.6x faster spatial-only</li>
-	<li>new proof-of-concept karaoke (voice removal) filter</li>
-	<li>motion compensating deinterlacer (-vf mcdeint)</li>
-	<li>Yet Another DeInterlacing Filter (-vf yadif)</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>MEncoder:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>audio encoding modularized</li>
-	<li>AAC (FAAC) audio encoding</li>
-	<li>border processing adaptive quantization in libavcodec</li>
-	<li>encoding zones, DivX profiles support, luminance masking, multi-threaded encoding for XviD</li>
-	<li>raw audio muxer</li>
-	<li>fixed various bugs in the EDL code</li>
-	<li>x264 "turbo mode" to speed up first pass of multi-pass encoding</li>
-	<li>x264 custom quantization matrices</li>
-	<li>-delay allows real audio delay instead of just a delay in the header</li>
-	<li>search for (deprecated!) frameno.avi is now disabled by default (use -frameno-file frameno.avi to enable)</li>
-	<li>-o is now mandatory. You can add 'o=test.avi' in ~/.mplayer/mencoder to get the old behavior back.</li>
-	<li>In multiple file encoding, either all or no files must have audio. Use -nosound to force.</li>
-	<li>support for VBR MP2 encoding in toolame</li>
-	<li>twolame support</li>
-	<li>libavformat muxers support</li>
-	<li>VBR audio in MPEG support</li>
-	<li>muxer_mpeg: added an experimental film2pal teleciner and fixed previous bugs that could lead to desync and to wrong TFF/RFF flags being set</li>
-	<li>rewritten muxer_mpeg.c: buffering and timing constraints will always be respected, provided that the muxrate is big enough</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Ports:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>improved timer function on Mac OS X</li>
-	<li>New Mac OS X "macosx" video output driver. Supported on OS X 10.4 and 10.3 with QuickTime 7 (requires QuickTime 7 SDK to build on 10.3)</li>
-	<li>Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) fixes</li>
-	<li>macosx audio output driver fixes</li>
-	<li>preliminary support for Intel Macs</li>
-	<li>support for playing DVDs copied to harddisk on Cygwin</li>
-	<li>DragonFly BSD support</li>
-	<li>liba52 ASM optimizations ported to AMD64</li>
-	<li>configure check and compiler optimizations for VIA C3, C3-2 and Pentium-M</li>
-	<li>configure check and compiler optimizations for AMD-64 extended</li>
-	<li>configure can now run with cross compiling, new configure option --enable-cross-compile</li>
-	<li>-(no)border option to get a bordered/borderless window on Windows</li>
-	<li>Experimental AIX support</li>
-	<li>AltiVec support fixes</li>
-	<li>POWER5 support</li>
-	<li>OpenGL output ported to Windows</li>
-	<li>FreeBSD default DVD device added</li>
-	<li>MIPS64 support</li>
-	<li>Darwin portability fixes</li>
-	<li>improved Debian packaging</li>
-	<li>improved Win32 multi-monitor support</li>
-	<li>Sun's mediaLib disabled by default on Solaris (broken and non-optimal)</li>
-	<li>VP6 and WMVA binary codecs should now work also under FreeBSD 6</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h4>Others:</h4>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>Audio/Video synchronisation fixes</li>
-	<li>enabled hinting for TrueType fonts</li>
-	<li>support for file:// syntax</li>
-	<li>-fb option removed, use the device suboption of -vo fbdev/fbdev2 instead</li>
-	<li>full gcc 4 support</li>
-	<li>TOOLS/vobshift.py: vobsub time-adjust tool</li>
-	<li>TOOLS/psnr-video.sh: computes PSNR between two existing video files</li>
-	<li>fixed auto-insertion of lavc encoder (for DXR2/3 and DVB)</li>
-	<li>new option: -idle, to make MPlayer wait for input commands when done playing all files</li>
-	<li>lots of new slave commands (check DOCS/tech/slave.txt)</li>
-	<li>lots of new information provided by the -identify option</li>
-	<li>fixed ugly looking OSD with -vo gl2 and MMX</li>
-	<li>support for OSD localization</li>
-	<li>-rawaudio/-rawvideo requires -demuxer rawaudio/-demuxer rawvideo</li>
-	<li>libdvdcss updated to 1.2.9</li>
-	<li>~/.dvdcss is used instead of ~/.mplayer/DVDKeys for cached CSS keys</li>
-	<li>libcdio support for CD playback</li>
-	<li>new option -msglevel to directly control the verbosity of MPlayer modules</li>
-	<li>-verbose option removed, use -v or "-msglevel all" instead</li>
-	<li>-edl is now per-file in MPlayer</li>
-	<li>new input command prefixes, "pausing_keep" and "pausing_toggle" which alter pausing state immediately after command</li>
-	<li>environment variable MPLAYER_VERBOSE controls verbosity before the command line is parsed</li>
-	<li>environment variable MPLAYER_HOME controls location where configuration files are searched for</li>
-	<li>memleak fixes all over the code</li>
-	<li>TOOLS/aconvert: allows MEncoder to encode from an audio-only file</li>
-	<li>TOOLS/3*m_convert: D-Cinema audio and video conversion program</li>
-	<li>TOOLS/qepdvcd.sh: anything supported to VCD/SVCD PAL/NTSC</li>
-	<li>TOOLS/encode2mpeglight: MPEG format encoding tool using only MEncoder</li>
-	<li>allow multiple -help clauses on the command line</li>
-	<li>console "OSD" for audio-only files</li>
-	<li>show total time when playing audio-only files</li>
-	<li>support for .wpl playlists</li>
-	<li>support for ncurses as termcap library provider</li>
-	<li>parallel make fixed</li>
-	<li>(improved) support for shared libav* libraries</li>
-	<li>playback/encoding profiles support</li>
-	<li>new property API</li>
-	<li>new -monitorpixelaspect option to determine monitor aspect from screen resolution</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>
-MPlayer 1.0pre8 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://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
-		<a href="ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>
-MPlayer 1.0pre8 is also available on BitTorrent.
-</p>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>BitTorrent
-		<a href="../../MPlayer/torrents/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2.torrent">torrent</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>
-MD5SUM: <b>f82bb2bc51b6cd5e5dd96f88f6f98582</b>
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="subversion">2006-06-06, Monday :: Subversion repository online</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-The CVS to Subversion conversion is finally finished. You can access the
-MPlayer Subversion repository at
-</p>
-
-<pre>
-  svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/
-</pre>
-
-<p>
-or browse it <a href="http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk">online</a>.
-Development will now continue normally with next-generation revision
-control technology.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="mphqdead">2006-05-23, Tuesday :: MPHQ is dead</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Roberto</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-Our old server mphq died on Friday afternoon. Probably it won't come back
-online.
-</p>
-<p>
-While many services were already moved to the new server natsuki, CVS
-repositories and mailing lists were still hosted on the old machine.
-</p>
-<p>
-The mail system was set up in no time (thanks to our sysadmin team), and the
-lists are back online since Monday. The CVS server won't be moved: We are
-converting the repositories to Subversion (as already planned), and the
-development will continue using Subversion. But this will take some time.
-FFmpeg will be first (a testing only repository is already available to
-developers), then MPlayer will be converted.
-</p>
-<p>
-The latest MPlayer and FFmpeg CVS
-<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/~rtogni/snapshots/">snapshots</a>
-are available. [snapshots removed, get MPlayer and FFmpeg with Subversion]
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="interview2006">2006-05-04, Thursday :: MPlayer interview</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-Alex, Oded and myself were interviewed by cruocitae for
-<a href="http://itreviews.blogspot.com/">http://itreviews.blogspot.com/</a>.
-To get a peek into our minds
-<a href="http://itreviews.blogspot.com/2006/05/mplayer-interview.html">read the interview</a>.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="linuxtag2006">2006-05-01, Monday :: MPlayer at LinuxTag 2006</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p class="left-inset">
-<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/">
-<img src="../images/linuxtag.png" alt="LinuxTag logo" width="119" height="80"></a>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The multimedia booth at
-<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/en/home/news.html">LinuxTag</a>
-is starting to become an institution. If you decide to come to Wiesbaden
-this year you can meet some members of the MPlayer and
-<a href="http://ffmpeg.org">FFmpeg</a> teams there.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-As a special feature this year we will attempt to fix any broken samples you
-deliver to our booth. If you have a problematic file, bring it to us, we will
-categorize it and try to find a fix and/or workaround for your problem.
-We can make no promises about the success, but we will give it our best shot.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="LqAward2005">2006-03-08, Wednesday :: LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p class="left-inset">
-<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/t409049.html">
-<img src="../images/LQ-2005MCA-video.png" alt="2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award" width="120" height="120"></a>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The polls have just closed on the annual Members Choice Award by
-<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/">LinuxQuestions.org</a>
-and MPlayer has won in the category
-<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/t409049.html">Video Multimedia Application of the Year</a>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-568 people (46.94%) voted for MPlayer. The second place went to
-<a href="http://xinehq.de">xine</a> with 365 votes (30.17%) and the
-third place was taken by <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/">VLC</a>
-with 117 (9.67%).
-</p>
-
-<p>
-A big thank you to our many fans.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="server_operational">2006-02-27, Monday :: server operational</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-If you can read this, the new server is already serving web pages.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Due to various circumstances it has taken us far longer than expected to
-get the machine set up and transported to its final hosting location.
-Right now it's already serving web pages and FTP as well as experimental
-Subversion repositories. Please bear with us for a little longer until we
-have the mirror network up and running, continue the transition from CVS
-to Subversion and move over the mailing lists.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Again, many thanks to the <a href="donations.html#server">many donors</a>
-that have made this wish a reality.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="vuln13">2006-02-15, Wednesday :: heap overflow in demuxer.h</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Roberto</span>
-</h2>
-
-<h3>Summary</h3>
-
-<p>
-A potential buffer overflow was found in the ASF demuxer, and further analysis
-showed that the bug was in some more generic code in demuxer.h, used to
-create and resize buffers. You can read the original bug report here
-<a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122029">
-media-video/mplayer ASF File Parsing Integer Overflow (CAN-2006-0579)</a>
-on Gentoo Bugzilla.
-</p>
-
-<h3>Severity</h3>
-
-<p>
-High (arbitrary remote code execution under the user ID running the player)
-when streaming an ASF file from a malicious server, medium (local code
-execution under the user ID running the player) if you play a malicious ASF
-file locally.
-At the time the buffer overflow was fixed there was no known exploit.
-</p>
-
-<h3>Solution</h3>
-
-<p>
-A <a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/main/libmpdemux/demuxer.h.diff?r1=1.87&amp;r2=1.88">fix</a>
-for this problem was committed to CVS on Sun Feb 12 09:28:09 2006 UTC, and
-enhanced in versions 1.89 and 1.90.
-Users of affected MPlayer versions should download a
-<a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/demuxer_h_fix_20060212.diff">patch</a>
-for MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 or update to the latest version if they're using CVS.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Please note that we are not releasing an updated tarball with this fix at this
-moment. Since MPlayer 1.0pre7 is very old, we encourage you to upgrade to the
-CVS version.<br>
-If you need to stay with 1.0pre7, get the MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 tarball,
-apply the patch with the fix and recompile MPlayer.<br>
-If you mantain a binary package for MPlayer, please name the updated version
-MPlayer 1.0pre7try3.
-</p>
-
-<h3>Affected versions</h3>
-
-<p>
-MPlayer 1.0pre7, MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 and CVS before Sun Feb 12 09:28:09 2006 UTC.
-Older versions are probably affected, too, but they were not checked.
-</p>
-
-
-<h3>Unaffected versions</h3>
-
-<p>
-CVS HEAD after Sun Feb 12 09:28:09 2006 UTC<br>
-MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 + security patch
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="HUPAward2005">2005-12-23, Friday :: HUP Readers' Choice Award 2005</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p class="left-inset">
-<a href="http://hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=10324">
-<img src="../images/hup2005.png" alt="HUP Readers' Choice Award 2005" width="120" height="120"></a>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Over in Hungary MPlayer appears to remain popular and has won the Readers'
-Choice Award of the <a href="http://hup.hu">Hungarian Unix Portal</a> in
-the &quot;favorite video player of the year&quot; category for the third
-time in a row.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-MPlayer got 539 votes (84%), placing it before VLC 58 (9%) and last year's
-runner-up xine 42 (7%). If you can read Hungarian, check out the
-<a href="http://hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=10324">HUP award page</a>.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="TUXAward2005">2005-09-02, Friday :: TUX 2005 Readers' Choice Award</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p class="left-inset">
-<a href="http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000151">
-<img src="../images/tux-readerschoice-winner.png" alt="TUX 2005 Readers' Choice Award" width="125" height="125"></a>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Good news everyone!
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It appears that MPlayer is as popular as ever.
-We have just been notified that
-<a href="http://tuxmagazine.com/">TUX magazine</a> has announced
-the winners of its first annual Readers' Choice Award and
-MPlayer has come out on top in the category
-<a href="http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000151">Favorite Media Player</a>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Thanks for all your support, it's really appreciated!
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="vuln12">2005-08-26, Friday :: heap overflow in ad_pcm.c</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Attila</span>
-</h2>
-<p>
-There is a bug which, depending on configuration, can lead to a heap overflow.
-If and under which circumstances this is exploitable is unclear to us as of
-now. We are aware that at least one person was able to write a working
-exploit on his system using an AVI file with uncompressed PCM audio.
-We have found a file that is supposed to exploit it but could not make it work,
-still we do not want to put you at risk by waiting longer to publish this.
-</p>
-
-<h3>Solution</h3>
-
-<p>
-A <a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/main/libmpcodecs/ad_pcm.c.diff?r1=1.18&amp;r2=1.19">fix</a>
-for this problem was committed to CVS on Thu Aug 25 19:46:20 2005 UTC.
-You can download a patch for MPlayer 1.0pre7
-<a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/patches/ad_pcm_fix_20050826.diff">here.</a>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Adding <code>ac=-pcm,</code> (notice the trailing ',') to your configuration
-file is a quick fix that should keep you safe as long as you don't use the
-<code>-ac</code> option on the command line. It will prevent you from playing
-uncompressed audio, though.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-We also prepared a new tarball for the pre7 release with the fix applied.
-Please note that this is not a new MPlayer release, if you want to have all
-the new features introduced after pre7 you should use the CVS version.
-</p>
-
-<h3>Affected versions</h3>
-
-<p>
-MPlayer 1.0pre7 and before<br>
-Up to now the only version where an exploit was demonstrated is
-MPlayer 1.0pre7, but the bug is present in all previous versions.
-</p>
-
-
-<h3>Unaffected versions</h3>
-
-<p>
-MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 and after<br>
-CVS HEAD after Thu Aug 25 19:46:20 2005 UTC
-</p>
-
-<p>
-MPlayer 1.0pre7try2 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://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
-		<a href="http://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>
-MD5SUM: <b>aaca4fd327176c1afb463f0f047ef6f4</b>
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="server_thanks">2005-08-17, Wednesday :: thanks</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Alex</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-Firstly, we would like to thank all donors for the generous contributions
-we have received in the last weeks. We had never dreamed the call for
-donations would be so successful. Now we have ordered a much better
-server than expected, which opens the path for us to offer more and
-better services. We can even afford a backup solution! The server is
-expected to arrive in four weeks, but we will need a few more weeks
-for stress-testing and completing the setup.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The list of donors can be found on the <a href="donations.html">donations</a> page.
-Please <a href="mailto:alex_REMOVE_THE_UNDERSCORES_AND_THE_TEXT_IN_BETWEEN_ at mplayerhq.hu">mail me</a> if you would like to
-have your name removed. Also due to some bank transfer conditions, some names
-are missing or wrongly spelled. Mail if you need correction!
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Next updates will contain more in-depth information about the hardware and
-services. To be continued...
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="vesautils">2005-08-16, Tuesday :: vesautils</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Alex</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-I merged the VESA efforts of MPlayer and MPlayerXP. Together with some
-utilities from svgalib and vbetool this forms vesatools. Starting with
-the next MPlayer release, this library will be used for the VESA video
-output. This adds support for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
-</p>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>webpage: <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/vesautils/">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/vesautils/</a></li>
-	<li>ViewVC: <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/vesautils/trunk/">http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/vesautils/trunk/</a></li>
-	<li>mailing list: <a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/vesautils-devel">http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/vesautils-devel</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="server_wanted">2005-08-05, Friday :: new server wanted</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Alex</span>
-</h2>
-
-<h3>What happened?</h3>
-
-<p>
-As you may have noticed, we had a server failure due to an air-conditioning
-breakdown. The server's filesystem got corrupted, affecting our CVS repository.
-This has finally prompted us to look for a different hosting solution and maybe
-refresh the hardware in the process. We have an opportunity to host our server
-at a real hosting company with reliable air conditioning and power supply, but
-they only have space for a 1U rackmount case, while we have a standard tower case.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-There are three options:
-</p>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>Get a new hoster for the old server and replace a few parts or</li>
-	<li>get a new 1U server and place it at the offered place or</li>
-	<li>get a new server and a new hosting provider.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>
-After reviewing our requirements closely we would much prefer to get a
-new server that will suffice for some years to come. We were offered
-virtual hosting, but we really need a dedicated server. Also note that
-the <a href="http://ffmpeg.org">FFmpeg</a> project is hosted on the same
-server and other projects like <a href="http://xinehq.de/">xine</a>
-rely on us to distribute codec packages for them, so this machine is
-really central for free software multimedia.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-We collected some donations at LinuxTag to cover expenses and have
-roughly 70EUR left, but that is barely enough for a single disk.
-Now we are searching for special discounts, monetary donations
-- or better - a complete configuration. Regarding monetary
-donations, we would like to spend the whole sum on the server
-to avoid the problem of having money lying around.
-</p>
-
-<h3>the configuration we are looking for</h3>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>1U case (this is the most important part)</li>
-	<li>dual 1Ghz or single 2GHz CPU</li>
-	<li>1GB RAM</li>
-	<li>2x 200GB HDD in RAID-1, preferably SATA disks</li>
-	<li>Reliable backup solution, we would like to have 3x300GB HDDs
-		for backups to another server.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3>How to donate money</h3>
-
-<dl>
-<dt>Paypal</dt>
-<dd>(removed)</dd>
-<dt>European bank account</dt>
-<dd>Account name: Beregszaszi Alex (removed)</dd>
-<dt>US cheques</dt>
-<dd>Richard Felker (removed)</dd>
-<dt>German bank account</dt>
-<dd>Account name: Reimar Döffinger (removed)</dd>
-<dt>Swiss bank account</dt>
-<dd>Account name: Attila Dogan (removed)</dd>
-<dt>French bank account</dt>
-<dd>Account name: MR POIRIER GUILLAUME (removed)</dd>
-<dt>Hungarian bank account</dt>
-<dd>Account name: Beregszaszi Alex (removed)</dd>
-</dl>
-
-<p>
-It is important that you write <strong>MPlayer</strong> into the comment
-field. If you would not like to see your name on the donors
-list add <strong>anonymous</strong>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-We will report about financial status in at most a month.
-If you have any questions please contact us via the
-<a href="http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng">mplayer-dev-eng mailing list</a>,
-<a href="info.html#irc">IRC</a> or
-<a href="mailto:alex_REMOVE_THE_UNDERSCORES_AND_THE_TEXT_IN_BETWEEN_ at mplayerhq.hu">privately</a>.
-</p>
-
-<h3>2005-08-09 Failure Update</h3>
-
-<p>
-The disk with the ftp downloadable data (releases, codec packages, samples,
-skins, cvs snapshots, ...) failed again on Monday, and it's now offline.
-Please use one of our mirrors to get MPlayer.
-CVS is on a different disk and it's still available.
-Because of this failure online docs are no longer accessible, please refer to
-the documentation included in MPlayer tarball.
-Incoming directory is gone too.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="video_book">2005-07-26, Tuesday :: video book</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p class="left-inset">
-<a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/index.php?26&amp;backPID=15&amp;tt_products=20">
-<img src="../images/videobook_small.png" alt="book cover" width="100" height="141"></a>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<a href="https://opensourcepress.de/">Open Source Press</a> has published an
-<a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/index.php?26&amp;backPID=15&amp;tt_products=20">anthology about video under Linux</a>.
-It gives a good overview of the current state of things in 19 chapters
-that cover the areas video playback, video editing and video streaming,
-with each chapter either covering software you can use to accomplish
-those tasks under Linux or giving an introduction to the many technical
-facets of video. The authors of the chapters are all project members or
-closely related to the projects they write about.
-<a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/148.html">Yours truly</a>
-wrote - surprise - the chapter about MPlayer. The
-<a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/fileadmin/osp/pdf/video_inhalt.pdf">preface and table of contents</a>
-are available online. The book is currently only available in German.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="swpat_directive_rejected">2005-07-11, Monday :: software patent directive rejected</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-With a truly overwhelming majority the EU parliament has
-<a href="http://wiki.ffii.org/Ep050706En">rejected the proposed software patent directive</a>
-last week. This is a great victory for the movement against software
-patents and a relief for free software and all of the software
-industry in Europe and worldwide. It is also a great personal
-satisfaction for myself and other members of the MPlayer team that
-have been actively lobbying against software patents. Rejoice and be
-happy for this was a grand day indeed.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Nevertheless all that glistens is not gold and while we have won an
-important battle, this struggle is far from over. There are still
-thousands of software patents that have already been granted in
-Europe. Furthermore efforts to extend patentability towards software
-will now continue on the national level and probably return at the EU
-level in a few years. Thus we have to continue our fight to fend off
-software patents completely and worldwide. For this we need the help
-of all community members. <strong>You</strong> have to keep a watchful
-eye on your political representatives, inform them about the issues at
-stake and make sure they pass sensible legislation.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-
-
-<div class="newsentry">
-
-<h2>
-	<a name="linuxtag2005">2005-06-19, Sunday :: MPlayer at LinuxTag 2005</a>
-	<br><span class="poster">posted by Diego</span>
-</h2>
-
-<p class="left-inset">
-<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2005/">
-<img src="../images/linuxtag.png" alt="LinuxTag logo" width="119" height="80"></a>
-</p>
-
-<p>
-It's that time of year again... The MPlayer team will be at the
-<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2005/en/home.html">LinuxTag 2005</a>
-manning the multimedia booth. Roberto Togni, Alexander Strasser, Sascha
-Sommer, Dominik Mierzejewski, Reimar Döffinger, Diego Biurrun, Alex
-Beregszaszi, Luca Barbato will be present most of the time and we will
-be joined by Mike Melanson (<a href="http://ffmpeg.org">FFmpeg</a> /
-<a href="http://xinehq.de">xine</a>) and Måns Rullgård
-(<a href="http://ffmpeg.org">FFmpeg</a> /
-<a href="http://tcvp.sf.net">tcvp</a>).
-</p>
-
-<p>
-LinuxTag takes place in Karlsruhe, Germany from the 22nd to the 25th of
-June. Its motto is &quot;Where .com meets .org.&quot; and it is a mix between a
-trade show and a conference where both companies and free software
-projects are present. Drop by if you wish to talk to us.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Video is one of the focal points of this year's LinuxTag. There will
-be a conference track dedicated to video on
-<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/typo3site/fvp-do.html?&amp;L=1">Thursday</a> and
-<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/typo3site/fvp-fr.html?&amp;L=1">Friday</a>.
-The presentations in the video track are based on an
-<a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/index.php?26&amp;backPID=15&amp;tt_products=20">anthology about video under Linux</a>
-published by <a href="https://www.opensourcepress.de/">Open Source Press</a>.
-Diego Biurrun will give a
-<a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/typo3site/freecongress-details.html?&amp;L=1&amp;talkid=306">presentation about MPlayer</a>
-on Thursday based on the book chapter he wrote.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
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