Author: diego Date: Sun Jan 30 20:48:50 2011 New Revision: 3556 Log: MPlayer 1.0rc4 release notes Modified: trunk/src/news.en Modified: trunk/src/news.en ============================================================================== --- trunk/src/news.en Sun Jan 30 20:12:03 2011 (r3555) +++ trunk/src/news.en Sun Jan 30 20:48:50 2011 (r3556) @@ -5,16 +5,40 @@ <h1>News</h1> -<!-- <div class="newsentry"> <h2> - <a name="mplayer10rc4">2010-08-10, Monday :: MPlayer 1.0rc4 released</a> + <a name="mplayer10rc4">2011-01-30, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.0rc4 released</a> <br><span class="poster">posted by the release team</span> </h2> <p> -rc4 has arrived. +Yes, we can! +</p> + +<p> +MPlayer 1.0rc4 continues the tradition of long overdue, but better late +than never releases. It has been tested thoroughly to work with the FFmpeg +0.6 branch. It will be useful to distros and other users relying on FFmpeg +0.6. To get the latest and greatest in features and bug fixes, Subversion +HEAD should be a better fit. +</p> + +<p> +1.0rc4 once again adds a slew of new binary codecs and leverages all the +stuff added to FFmpeg. Notable additions are VP8 decoding, H.264 bug fixes +and speedups, unencrypted Blu-ray support. Network streams can now be played +through FFmpeg, there has been quite a bit of subtitle work and Ogg and +Matroska demuxer defaults were switched to libavformat. The window position +is now decided by the window manager. +</p> + +<p> +Our constant efforts to clean up the codebase continue as usual. A ton +of compiler warnings disappeared and there have been refactorings all +around. External library copies have been synchronized with upstream. +The internal liba52 copy is gone and it is now possible to build against +external libmpeg2 and libmpg123. </p> <p> @@ -24,8 +48,8 @@ </p> <p> -MD5SUM: <b></b><br> -SHA1SUM: <b></b> +MD5SUM: <b>f3abf9b59d0ac4fb2b63bc6bc33b8d02</b><br> +SHA1SUM: <b>9f904ac332c93dadb061fe183c975b6518fbbc88</b> </p> <h3>MPlayer 1.0rc4: <i>"Yes we can"</i></h3> @@ -139,7 +163,6 @@ </ul> </div> --->