[MPlayer-DOCS] [homepage]: r2533 - trunk/src/news.src.en
rtogni
subversion at mplayerhq.hu
Mon Jun 12 00:12:28 CEST 2006
Author: rtogni
Date: Mon Jun 12 00:12:28 2006
New Revision: 2533
Modified:
trunk/src/news.src.en
Log:
MPlayer 1.0pre8
Modified: trunk/src/news.src.en
==============================================================================
--- trunk/src/news.src.en (original)
+++ trunk/src/news.src.en Mon Jun 12 00:12:28 2006
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<div class="newsentry">
<h2>
+ <a name="subversion">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 & 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 < 0 or > 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://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+ <a href="ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+<!-- <li>Hungary
+ <a href="http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+ <a href="ftp://ftp2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>-->
+ <li>Switzerland 2
+ <a href="http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+ <li>Germany
+ <a href="ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/X11/multimedia/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+ <li>Germany 2
+ <a href="http://studwww.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de/~s_doeffi/MPlayer/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+ <li>Sweden
+ <a href="http://equinox.campus.ltu.se/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">HTTP</a>
+ <a href="ftp://equinox.campus.ltu.se/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">FTP</a></li>
+ <li>Sweden 2
+ <a href="http://tranquillity.campus.ltu.se/~rtogni/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">HTTP</a></li>
+<!-- <li>USA
+ <a href="http://www.people.virginia.edu/~drf8f/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre8.tar.bz2">HTTP</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>
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