Author: bircoph Date: Sat Feb 28 05:32:36 2009 New Revision: 3371 Log: Add history page. This is just old history.html with minimal changes. May be buggy, should be tested. Added: trunk/src/history.en Added: trunk/src/history.en ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ trunk/src/history.en Sat Feb 28 05:32:36 2009 (r3371) @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +<h1>History</h1> + +<p> +This began a year ago... I have tried lots of players under Linux +(<span class="application">mtv</span>, <span class="application">xmps</span>, +<span class="application">dvdview</span>, <span class="application">livid/oms</span>, +<span class="application">videolan</span>, <span class="application">xine</span>, +<span class="application">xanim</span>, <span class="application">avifile</span>, +<span class="application">xmmp</span>) but they all have some problem. Mostly with +special files or with audio/video sync. Most of them are unable to play both +MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed +problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one... +</p></blockquote></div><p>A'rpi, 2001</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">mpg12play</span> v0.1-v0.3</strong></span>: Sep 22-25, 2000 +</p><p> +The first try, hacked together in a half hour! I've used libmpeg3 +from <a class="ulink" href="http://www.heroinewarrior.com" target="_top">http://www.heroinewarrior.com</a> up to the version 0.3, but +there were image quality and speed problems with it. +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">mpg12play</span> v0.5-v0.87</strong></span>: Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000 +</p><p> +MPEG codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a +great stuff, but it was slow and was written in C++ (A'rpi hates C++!!!) +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">mpg12play</span> v0.9-v0.95pre5</strong></span>: Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000 +</p><p> +MPEG codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman and +Michel Lespinasse. It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect +image quality and 100% MPEG standard conformance. +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> v0.3-v0.9</strong></span>: Nov 18-Dec 4, 2000 +</p><p> +It was a pack of two programs: mpg12play v0.95pre6 and my +new simple AVI player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader. +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> v0.10</strong></span>: Jan 1, 2001 +</p><p>The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary! +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> v0.11pre series</strong></span>: +</p><p> +Some new developers joined and since 0.11 the <span class="application">MPlayer</span> +project is a team-work! Added ASF file support, and OpenDivX +(see <a class="ulink" href="http://www.projectmayo.com" target="_top">http://www.projectmayo.com</a>) en/decoding. +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> v0.17a "The IdegCounter"</strong></span>: Apr 27, 2001 +</p><p> +The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy +development! Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... +and of course old code was improved too, bugs removed etc. +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> 0.18 "The BugCounter"</strong></span>: Jul 9, 2001 +</p><p> +2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF +support, more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to +audio), even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST! +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</strong></span>: Oct 8, 2001 +</p><p> +Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, +bugs fixed, new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including +open source DivX codecs and much more. Try it! +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</strong></span>: Jan 3, 2002 +</p><p> +MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV file formats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, +ADPCM codecs, and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, +first release of <span class="application">MEncoder</span>, TV grabbing, cache, +liba52, countless fixes. +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> 0.90pre10 "The BirthdayCounter"</strong></span> Nov 11, 2002 +</p><p> +Although this is not a release, I am going to mention it because it +came out 2 years after <span class="application">MPlayer</span> v0.01. +Happy birthday, <span class="application">MPlayer</span>! +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> 0.90rc1 "The CodecCounter"</strong></span> Dec 7, 2002 +</p><p> +Again not a release, but after adding Sorenson 3 (QuickTime) +and Windows Media 9 support, <span class="application">MPlayer</span> is the +world's first movie player with support for all known video formats! +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> 0.90 "The CounterCounter"</strong></span> Apr 6, 2003 +</p><p> +After more than 1 year, we finally concluded that the code was indeed +stable again, and ready to be published as a release. Unfortunately we +forgot even to increase the version number, and other annoying bugs went +in, so get ready for... +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> 0.91</strong></span> Aug 13, 2003 +</p><p> +The above mentioned and lot of other bugs have been fixed. +This is the latest stable version. +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> 1.0pre1 "Development on the beach"</strong></span> Sep 1, 2003 +</p><p> +Although this is not a stable release, I am going to mention it because it is +the first pre version of the 1.0 series of <span class="application">MPlayer</span> +and it is intended to help the <span class="emphasis"><em>big bug hunting party</em></span>. +This is a huge step forward! +</p></li><li><p> +<span class="bold"><strong><span class="application">MPlayer</span> 1.0</strong></span> date yet unknown +</p></li></ul>