From 958c2e7f834eb1b4e1a0afe0672d9acd80897204 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: diego Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 13:48:57 +0000 Subject: Rename to a more sane spelling. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@22500 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- Changelog | 2773 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 2773 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Changelog (limited to 'Changelog') diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8432a254c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Changelog @@ -0,0 +1,2773 @@ +MPlayer (1.0) + + rc2 + + DOCS: + * console messages and XML documentation converted to UTF-8 + * Russian documentation translation finished + * Russian man page translation finished + * Chinese man page updated + * Chinese documentation translation started + + Decoders: + * Intel Music Coder audio decoding via lavc + * Fraps v2/v4 video decoding via lavc + * fringe codecs: 4XM audio, Electronic Arts ADPCM audio, Delphine CIN audio + and video, Interplay DPCM audio, Sierra VMD video, Tiertex SEQ video, + Westwood IMA ADPCM audio, XAN wc3 video, Id CIN video, Interplay video, + XAN ADPCM audio, Westwood SND1 audio via lavc + * libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.1 + * fixed resolution switching with libmpeg2 + * handle resolution switching for Real codecs + * ffmpeg video decoder handles aspect ratio changes + + Demuxers: + * implemented switch_video and switch_program consistently with switch_audio + (default keys are "_" and TAB, respectively). For the time being program + switching is only available in TS streams handled by demux_ts.c (not + lavf), while video switching is also handled by demux_lavf.c and + demux_avi.c. + * audio and video switching for AVI demuxer (video switching untested) + * GIF demuxer improvements, should work with all GIFs now + * support for VC1 in MPEG-TS and MPEG-PS files (bd,hd)-dvd + * support for EVO demuxing + + Streaming: + * authentication for Real RTSP streams + * near-precise seeking in dvd:// + * speed selection when playing dvd:// streams, to make drive quieter + * SVQ3 and H.264 RTSP fixes, now RTSP Apple keynotes are playable + * smil playlist over Real RTSP + + FFmpeg/libavcodec: + * Intel Music coder audio decoder + * Fraps v2/v4 video decoder + * H.264 decoding speedup + * Native NUT demuxer updated to spec + * NUT muxing and demuxing support via libnut + * WMA encoder + * fix MJPEGB on big-endian systems + + Filters: + * obsolete fame filter removed + * vf_geq speed-ups + * vf_yadif green frame fixed + + MEncoder: + * write to output streams (currently only file:// and smb://) + * support -ffourcc with -of lavf + + Ports: + * further Intel Mac fixes + + Drivers: + * ALSA audio output now sets the non-audio bit for AC3 passthrough even + if the user-specified default device name tries to clear it + + Others: + * libdvdcss updated to Subversion HEAD, now same as upstream version + * libmpdvdkit split into libdvdread and libdvdcss + * obsolete Xvid 3 support removed + * long-deprecated -vop option removed + * video stream switching + * dvdnav:// honour -alang and -slang + * support for doubleclick as input event + * -really-quiet works fully now + * select libavformat demuxer (-lavfdopts format=) + * internal minilzo removed in favor of FFmpeg implementation, + use liblzo2 for encoding + + + rc1: "Codename intentionally left blank" October 22, 2006 + (SVN revisions: MPlayer r20372, FFmpeg r6767) + + DOCS: + * German documentation translation finished + * Russian documentation translation synced and almost finished + + Drivers: + * IVTV hardware MPEG audio/video decoder output + * ALSA audio output: AC3 passthrough now works even when the device name + of the digital output port has been set by the user + * bicubic OpenGL scaling works with ATI cards + * md5sum switched to the libavutil MD5 implementation + * support for libcaca 1.0 via compatibility layer + + Decoders: + * liba52 updated to 0.7.4 (slightly faster) + * SSE optimizations for mp3lib + * removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries + + Demuxers: + * audio stream switching in MPEG-TS/PS, Matroska and + streams supported by libavformat + * audio stream switching between streams with different codecs + * libavformat demuxer now honors -alang + * chapter seeking in Matroska files + * fixed seeking to absolute and percent position for libavformat demuxer + * NUT demuxer using libnut + * Matroska SimpleBlock support + + Inputs: + * split of stream layer from libmpdemux to new stream library + * PVR input for hardware MPEG encoder based cards, such as Hauppauge + WinTV PVR-150/250/350/500 AKA IVTV but also pvrusb2 and cx88 + (requires Linux >= 2.6.18 kernel, featuring native V4L2 MPEG API) + * native RTSP input (handles MPEG-TS over RTP) for generic RTSP servers + * support for seeking to chapters in dvd:// and dvdnav:// streams + * radio support (radio://) + + FFmpeg/libavcodec: + * VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder + * Vorbis decoding speedup, now default Vorbis decoder + * VMware Video decoder + * On2 VP50 and VP62 decoder + * lossless audio decoders: WavPack, TTA, Shorten + * CAVS decoder + * GXF muxer/demuxer + * MXF demuxer + * much improved FLAC encoder + * more H.264 decoding speed improvements, plus support for -lavdopts fast + * Theora decoder fixes + * preliminary Vorbis encoder + * MTV demuxer + + GUI: + * Windows version added + * drag-and-drop ignored last file + * save and load cache setting correctly + * working audio stream selection for Ogg and Matroska files + * executable names like gmplayer_old etc. will now start GUI as well + * -gui/-nogui options + * xinerama fixes, now behaves similar to MPlayer without GUI + + Filters: + * MMX-optimizations for -vf yadif + * MMX-optimizations for -vf zrmjpeg + + MEncoder: + * support of x264 encoding via libavcodec + * rewrite -x264encopts option parser to use the 264 option parser; + likely breaks 3rd party tools as the syntax of some options has changed + * removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries + + Ports: + * partial Intel Mac support, --disable-win32 --disable-mp3lib is needed + * OpenGL can now create windows > screen size under Windows + * allow filenames starting with \\ for remote paths on Windows + + Others: + * SSA/ASS subtitle renderer + * -endpos option for MPlayer + * -correct-pts option + * UTF-8 used for OSD and subtitles, some bitmap fonts will no longer work + correctly and -subcp must be set for all non-UTF-8 subtitles + * more audio-truncation fixes + * libavutil mandatory for MPlayer compilation + * more intuitive -edlout behaviour + * -nortc is now default since -rtc has disadvantages with recent kernels + + + pre8: "NeuTeam strikes back" June 11, 2006 + (SVN revisions: MPlayer r18681, FFmpeg r5466) + + Security: + * support for compilation with non-executable stack + * fix the major issues caught by Coverity's static analysis runs + + DOCS: + * environment variables documentation started + * interactive control fully documented + * improved encoding guide + * new technical encoding guide in DOCS/tech/encoding-guide.txt + which is to be merged into the existing guide + * encoding tips for x264 and XviD + * how to set up MEncoder for x264 support + * new advanced audio usage guide with surround sound instructions + * Hungarian XML documentation translation finished + * Czech documentation translation finished + * French MPlayer documentation synced + * German man page synced + * Hungarian man page synced + * Italian man page synced + * Chinese console messages synced + * misc improvements all over the place + * AIX port documentation added + * all XviD options documented + * CONFIGURATION FILES section added to the man page + * Doxygen comments added to configuration parser and OpenGL + video out driver + + Drivers: + * JACK audio output rewritten without bio2jack + * OpenAL audio output - unfinished, can only do mono output + * OpenGL video output modules support -geometry and -wid options + * for -vo gl manyfmts is now default (since it is a lot faster), use + -vo gl:nomanyfmts if it does not work for you + * streaming textures for -vo gl, much faster if supported (use -dr) + * hardware YUV to RGB conversion for -vo gl and -vo gl2, see yuv suboption + * support for custom fragment programs for -vo gl (see TOOLS/*.fp) + * support for bicubic hardware scaling in -vo gl, see lscale suboption + * use libvbe from vesautils as VESA video driver + * several fixes for the GGI video output driver + * fall back on next video output driver if vo_3dfx failed to initialize + * improved XvMC library detection (disabled by default) + * DPI (Print-Resolution) and Pixel-Aspect support in vo_jpeg + * ALSA audio output: several small fixes and improvements + * removed experimental mmap suboption from the ALSA driver + * YUY2 and back end scaling for S3 Virge chips on fbdev (-vo s3fb) + + Decoders: + * Indeo2 (RT21) support via lavc + * Fraps video decoder via binary DLL + * support for 8-bit PNGs with palette + * support for dmb1 MJPEG files with ffmjpeg + * support for musepack audio (WARNING: when seeking you might get + ear- and speaker-breaking noises). If you hear clipping, use -af volume. + * experimental speex support via libspeex + * On2 VP7 video decoder via binary DLL + * Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) support via lavc + * support FLX and DTA extensions for flic files + * QDM2 audio decoding via lavc + * cook audio decoding via lavc + * TrueSpeech audio decoding via lavc + * CamStudio video decoder via lavc + * hwmpa pass-through MPEG audio codec + * tremor updated to libogg 1.1.2 + * PNG decoding via libavcodec + * removed native RealAudio codecs (ported to lavc) + * Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder via lavc and binary DLL + * support for QuickTime in24/in32/fl32 PCM audio + * internal libfaad updated to CVS 20040915+MPlayer patches + * RTJpeg decoder from lavc is preferred + * bug fix for lavc WMA v2 decoder, now all files should be playable + * -vc mpeg12 resizes the window when aspect ratio changes + * Smacker audio and video decoding via lavc + * Windows Media VC1 video decoder via binary DLL + * Flash Screen video decoder via lavc + + Demuxers: + * simultaneous audio capture/playback (-tv immediatemode=0) fixed in v4l2 + * PVR support + * AAC ADTS demuxer + * libdvdread updated to v0.9.4 + * support for some more MythTV NUV files + * modularization of demuxer code + * MPEG in GXF container support with extension-based detection + * faster MPEG and much faster GXF demuxing + * more user-friendly demuxer forcing + * MPEG Layer 1 and 2 demuxing fixed + * properly pass Vorbis extradata from Matroska container + * DVR format support + * H.264 ES high profile support + * TV channel cycling + * DVD subtitle and audio stream mappings fixed + * fixed RealAudio demuxing, now all files should have correct A/V sync + * partial support for QuickTime sound atom version 2 + * improved handling of text subs in Matroska files + * DVD subtitles disabled by default + * support sipr codec in old RealAudio files + * fixed framerate detection of interlaced H.264 in raw/PS/TS streams + * support for variable framerate Ogg/OGM files + * made demux_ogg.c work with ffvorbis decoder + * fixed playback of RealVideo in Matroska files on ppc + * added support for Vorbis in MOV/MP4 + + Streaming: + * fix streaming of RealAudio files over HTTP + * show SHOUT/Icecast metadata while playing + * ultravox (unsv://) streaming support + * stream code ported to new modular API, massive code cleanup + * bandwidth selection for Real RTSP streams (for faster stream dumps) + + FFmpeg/libavcodec: + * Snow bug fixes and speedup on x86, x86-64 and AltiVec + * MPEG-1/2/4 and H.264 decoder speedup + * Indeo2 (RT21) video decoder + * Fraps video decoder (v0 & v1, v2 not yet supported) + * Vorbis audio decoder + * RV20 fixes + * VP3 decoder fixes and speedup + * countless bug fixes all over the place + * vstrict=-1 is default, Snow, ffv1 etc. need vstrict=-2 + * skiploopfilter/skipidct/skipframe decoder options for very fast H.264 + decoding + * D-Cinema audio demuxer and decoder support + * Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) decoder + * FLX and DTA extensions for flic + * QDM2 audio decoder + * cook audio decoder + * TrueSpeech audio decoder + * WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly + * JPEG-LS decoder (unfinished) + * CamStudio video decoder + * Theora decoder + * improved MOV and QuickTime demuxer + * improved AVI muxer + * multithreaded decoding + * bitexact decoding + * DV50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer + * true audio (TTA) decoder + * AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding + * Creative VOC demuxing + * Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder + * KMVC decoder + * NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTJpeg decoder + * MP4 and MOV demuxer greatly improved to support all varieties of + currently available files + * AVS demuxer and video decoder + * American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system + * Smacker demuxer and decoder + * Flash screen Video decoder + * Trellis-optimized ADPCM audio encoder + * Major improvements to Snow quality and encoding + + GUI: + * skins now reside in a directory named 'skins', not 'Skin' + * ported to GTK2 + * long standing upside down vpotmeter bug fixed + * don't hang on unreadable skin files + * random fixes and improvements + + Filters: + * much faster version of spp filter (-vf fspp), and pp7 ("fast spp=6") + * remove_logo filter + * lavcresample now used by default (-af-adv force=0 gives old behavior) + * vf_expand and vf_dsize now support aspect and round parameters + * screenshot filter + * -af pan command line fix, now outputs the right number of channels + and accepts values < 0 or > 1. Channel order had to be changed. + * -af sinesuppress to remove a sine at a certain frequency + * negative stride support in swscale + * big-endian and AltiVec fixes and performance improvements for swscaler, + color conversions and post-processing + * -srate fixed + * hqdn3d: 2.5x faster temporal-only, 1.6x faster spatial-only + * new proof-of-concept karaoke (voice removal) filter + * motion compensating deinterlacer (-vf mcdeint) + * Yet Another DeInterlacing Filter (-vf yadif) + + MEncoder: + * audio encoding modularized + * AAC (FAAC) audio encoding + * border processing adaptive quantization in libavcodec + * encoding zones, DivX profiles support, luminance masking, + multi-threaded encoding for XviD + * raw audio muxer + * fixed various bugs in the EDL code + * x264 "turbo mode" to speed up first pass of multi-pass encoding + * x264 custom quantization matrices + * -delay allows real audio delay instead of just a delay in the header + * search for (deprecated!) frameno.avi is now disabled by default (use + -frameno-file frameno.avi to enable) + * -o is now mandatory. You can add 'o=test.avi' in ~/.mplayer/mencoder + to get the old behavior back. + * In multiple file encoding, either all or no files must have audio. Use + -nosound to force. + * support for VBR MP2 encoding in toolame + * twolame support + * libavformat muxers support + * VBR audio in MPEG support + * muxer_mpeg: added an experimental film2pal teleciner and fixed previous + bugs that could lead to desync and to wrong TFF/RFF flags being set + * rewritten muxer_mpeg.c: buffering and timing constraints will always + be respected, provided that the muxrate is big enough + + Ports: + * improved timer function on Mac OS X + * 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) + * Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) fixes + * macosx audio output driver fixes + * preliminary support for Intel Macs + * support for playing DVDs copied to harddisk on Cygwin + * DragonFly BSD support + * liba52 ASM optimizations ported to AMD64 + * configure check and compiler optimizations for VIA C3, C3-2 and Pentium-M + * configure check and compiler optimizations for AMD-64 extended + * configure can now run with cross compiling, new configure option + --enable-cross-compile + * -(no)border option to get a bordered/borderless window on Windows + * Experimental AIX support + * AltiVec support fixes + * POWER5 support + * OpenGL output ported to Windows + * FreeBSD default DVD device added + * MIPS64 support + * Darwin portability fixes + * improved Debian packaging + * improved Win32 multi-monitor support + * Sun's mediaLib disabled by default on Solaris (broken and non-optimal) + * VP6 and WMVA binary codecs should now work also under FreeBSD 6 + + Others: + * Audio/Video synchronisation fixes + * enabled hinting for TrueType fonts + * support for file:// syntax + * -fb option removed, use the device suboption of -vo fbdev/fbdev2 instead + * full gcc 4 support + * TOOLS/vobshift.py: vobsub time-adjust tool + * TOOLS/psnr-video.sh: computes PSNR between two existing video files + * fixed auto-insertion of lavc encoder (for DXR2/3 and DVB) + * new option: -idle, to make MPlayer wait for input commands when + done playing all files + * lots of new slave commands (check DOCS/tech/slave.txt) + * lots of new information provided by the -identify option + * fixed ugly looking OSD with -vo gl2 and MMX + * support for OSD localization + * -rawaudio/-rawvideo requires -demuxer rawaudio/-demuxer rawvideo + * libdvdcss updated to 1.2.9 + * ~/.dvdcss is used instead of ~/.mplayer/DVDKeys for cached CSS keys + * libcdio support for CD playback + * new option -msglevel to directly control the verbosity of MPlayer modules + * -verbose option removed, use -v or "-msglevel all" instead + * -edl is now per-file in MPlayer + * new input command prefixes, "pausing_keep" and "pausing_toggle" which + alter pausing state immediately after command + * environment variable MPLAYER_VERBOSE controls verbosity before the + command line is parsed + * environment variable MPLAYER_HOME controls location where + configuration files are searched for + * memleak fixes all over the code + * TOOLS/aconvert: allows MEncoder to encode from an audio-only file + * TOOLS/3*m_convert: D-Cinema audio and video conversion program + * TOOLS/qepdvcd.sh: anything supported to VCD/SVCD PAL/NTSC + * TOOLS/encode2mpeglight: MPEG format encoding tool using only MEncoder + * allow multiple -help clauses on the command line + * console "OSD" for audio-only files + * show total time when playing audio-only files + * support for .wpl playlists + * support for ncurses as termcap library provider + * parallel make fixed + * (improved) support for shared libav* libraries + * playback/encoding profiles support + * new property API + * new -monitorpixelaspect option to determine monitor aspect from + screen resolution + + + pre7try3: February 15, 2006 (unreleased) + + Security: + * heap overflow in demuxer.h fixed + + + pre7try2: August 26, 2005 + + Security: + * heap overflow in PCM audio decoder fixed + + + pre7: "PatentCounter" April 16, 2005 + + Security: + * heap overflow in Real RTSP streaming code fixed + * buffer overflow in MMST streaming code fixed + + + DOCS: + * Czech documentation translation in progress + * German man page almost synced + * slave mode command documentation finished + * TOOLS documented in TOOLS/README + * audio filter documentation moved to the man page and updated + * all audio filters documented + * improved encoding guide + * preliminary documentation for Snow codec in DOCS/tech/snow.txt + * misc updates and fixes all over the place + + Ports: + * DirectX video output fixed on Windows95 + * DirectX video output now supports 256 color mode + * audio device selection support for dsound audio output driver + * --enable-macosx-bundle, use config directory in the appwrapper on OS X + * Sun audio output cleanup + * x86_64 support fixes + * OpenBSD support in libdha + * VIDIX support for more Radeon 9200 models + + Drivers: + * fixed ontop event for some window managers + * audio output layer cleanup + * unified colorkey handling code + * vo_xvmc panscan fix + * fixed some X11 crashes + * OSD fixes in various video output drivers + + Decoders: + * TWinVQ decoder via binary DLL + * integrated Tremor decoder for Ogg/Vorbis + * fixed decoding of stereo alaw files + * preload QT DLLs to work around problems with their hardcoded paths + * support for Real 10 RV30/40 Linux binary codec (fixes some RV40 files) + * expose support for 422P and 444P raw formats + * 32 bit RGB support in binary TSCC decoder + * dropped support of old FAAD2 versions (<= 1.1) + * support for Real 10 cook Linux binary codec (decodes cook5.1) + * improved NV12/NV21 support + * support for 32 bit float and extended WAV files + * prefer native RealAudio 1.0 / 2.0 decoder over binary decoders + * support for multichannel WAV files + * ALAC (QuickTime lossless audio) support via lavc + * WNV1 support via lavc + * AASC (Autoderk RLE video) support via lavc + * LOCO video support via lavc + * fixed Layer 1 stereo playback via mp3lib + * VMnc (VMware video) decoder via binary DLL + * AMR NB/WB support via libavcodec and external reference decoders + * ADTS AAC support + + Demuxers: + * vqf demuxer + * seeking in MPEG-ES fixed + * support for Real multirate files + * framerate autodetection for MPEG-4 and H.264 video in ES and TS streams + * MP3 in Real files + * more user-friendly info about audio and subtitle tracks in Ogg files + * avisynth demuxer + * Multichannel MP3 in MP4 files support (MP3on4) + * some classes of nonworking 14.4/28.8 RealAudio files fixed + * added code to autodetect and demux MPEG audio layers 1 and 2 + * demux AC3 audio files using libavformat by default + * online audio stream switching in the MPEG and Matroska demuxers + * 3GP demuxing support + * DVB updates and ATSC tuner support + * AVC in Matroska support + * SWF and FLV support via libavformat + * use proper Vorbis fourcc + + Streaming: + * stream selection and bandwidth support for MMS over HTTP + * fall back on HTTP if connection refused on pnm:// + * support for UDP streaming (udp://) + * support for vstream TiVo streams (tivo://) + * EOF detect and bugfixes in pnm:// streams + + FFmpeg/libavcodec: + * RV20 fixes + * many H.264 fixes + * B-frames in H.264, H.264 weighted prediction support + * a lot of integer overflow and pointer fixes + * 32 bit RGB support in TSCC + * multichannel MP3 decoder (MP3on4) + * 3g2 support + * ALAC audio decoder + * LOCO video decoder + * WNV1 video decoder + * shorten audio decoder and demuxer + * AASC video decoder + * AMR NB/WB support via external reference decoders + * significantly faster Snow decoding + * experimental ratecontrol for Snow + * countless bug fixes all over the place + + GUI: + * half size event implemented and added to the menu + * ESD configuration dialog and software volume control option + * memleaks fixed + + Filters: + * big cleanup of audio filter layer + * faster af_format for most common cases + * float handling in the audio filter layer finally fixed + * obsolete audio plugins finally removed + * updated HRTF filter + * center channel adding filter + * soft-telecined input support in pullup improved + + MEncoder: + * new experimental MPEG muxer, compatible with DVD and (S)VCD + * multiple file support + * -speed support (framerate conversion with speedup/slowdown) + * EDL support + * low bitrate mp3lame encoding fix + * MJPEG encoding fix + * NUV endianness fix (makes old NUV files unplayable) + * experimental libavformat muxer + * mp3lame CBR encoding fix + * 35% faster turbo mode for 1st pass + + Others: + * -z option replaced by -vo png suboption + * icc fix in the Win32 loader + * crash with Turkish locale fixed + * several memleak fixes + * -aa* options are replaced by -vo aa suboptions + * excessive verbosity reduced + * RTC support for *BSD + * non-UTF-8 external subtitles with Matroska fixed + * gcc 4 fixes + * partial NX (noexec bit) support + * support libsmbclient with SSL + * put changed notices into all imported files for GPL 2a compliance + + + pre6: "X-mas present" December 23, 2004 + + DOCS: + * finally all options are documented + * man page completely reviewed for spelling, wording and clarity + * all audio output driver suboptions documented + * all video output driver suboptions documented + * audio filters section added to the man page + * XviD documentation completed + * French man page in sync again + * German man page updated + * new Czech (complete) and Swedish man page translations + * fixes and updates in various places + + Ports: + * full x86_64 support + * -rootwin, -panscan support in the quartz video output driver + * key repetition and aspect fixed in the quartz video output driver + * "Movie" menu for quartz video output driver with zoom options & preset + * fs_res quartz video output driver suboption chooses fullscreen resolution + * VCD support for Darwin (Mac OS X) + * Mac OS X Finder startup argument support + * support for Real (Helix) codecs on Mac OS X (working this time) + * fix for stdin input and slave mode on MinGW + * support for -rootwin, -colorkey, -wid in the DirectX video output driver + * improved monitor selection in the DirectX video output driver + * new DirectSound audio output driver + * mouse support in Windows + * support for ZetaOS (mostly working) + + Drivers: + * fixes in the VESA and GGI video output drivers + * -jpeg removed in favor of -vo jpeg suboptions + * jpeg video output driver now supports output to multiple directories + * improvements for the Blinkenlights video output driver ;-) + * OpenGL video output driver colorformat fixes (with manyfmts suboption) + * aspect, panscan, hardware OSD support in the OpenGL video output driver + * new pnm and md5sum video output drivers, replacing pgm and md5 + * yuv4mpeg video output now has a file= suboption, can be used with + -fixed-vo to concatenate files having same width, height and fps + * JACK audio output driver updated to bio2jack API changes + * alsa9 and alsa1x replaced by alsa audio output driver + * ALSA audio output driver always uses specified device, even for hwac3 + * support for mixer channel selection in the ALSA audio output driver + * audio output driver for the polypaudio sound server + * VIDIX Cyberblade TV-out fixed + * VIDIX I420 support for Cyberblade and mga + * VIDIX Radeon support on big-endian systems, other Radeon fixes + * VIDIX Radeon R200 QM (Radeon 9100) support + * CLE266 VIDIX driver + * experimental SAVAGE VIDIX driver + + Decoders: + * "experimental" support for 20 and 24 bit LPCM (DVD-Audio) + * libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.0b + * libfaad2 updated to 2.1beta CVS snapshot + * DTS decoding via libavcodec + * Windows Media Audio 9 Voice support via binary DLL + * Windows Media Video 9 Advanced support via binary DLL + * Windows Media Screen Codec 2 support via binary DLL + * Windows Media Image Codec support via binary DLL + * Windows Media Image 2 Codec support via binary DLL + * VDOWave video support via binary DLL + * Miro VideoXL video support via libavcodec + * Creative ADPCM audio support via libavcodec or binary DLL + * IBM Ultimotion video support via libavcodec + * Micronas Speech codec support via binary DLL + * H.261 video codec support via libavcodec + * TechSmith Camtasia video codec support via libavcodec + * sonic audio codec support via libavcodec + * Snow video codec support via libavcodec + * QuickDraw video support via libavcodec + * Cinepak, CYUV and RoQ audio/video moved to FFmpeg + * Vianet Lsvx video support via binary DLL + + Demuxers: + * fix -nosound and -novideo for NSV + * subtitle switching and language code displaying for Matroska + * support for the .vp5 file format (AVI variant) + * seeking in audio-only ASF files fixed + * improved MP3 detection + * support for AVC in .mp4 files + * support for raw H.261 files via libavformat + * improved seeking precision in MPEG files + * better subtitle language code handling for MKV files + * support DVHS files and H.264 over MPEG-TS + * display length and position (in the seekbar) for MOV files + * raw video in MOV files playback improved + + Streaming: + * -cache-min and -cache-prefill options added + * compilation fix for newer LIVE.COM versions + * make ASF without ECC work + * support for MMS on non-standard port + * EOF detected in Real RTSP streams + + FFmpeg/libavcodec: + * reduced resolution decoding with the lowres option + * new experimental wavelet-based Snow video codec + * new sonic audio codec + * TechSmith Camtasia video decoder + * IBM Ultimotion video decoder + * QuickDraw video decoder + * Creative ADPCM decoder + * Miro VideoXL decoder + * Sierra online audio files demuxer and decoder + * QPEG video decoder + * Electronic Arts Game Multimedia format demuxer + * H.261 fixes, H.261 encoder + * fix VIS accelerated code + * DTS support via libdts + * many DV fixes, seek in raw DV files + * support AAC in MOV files + * RV10, RV20 fixes + * RV20 encoding + * AVI demuxer cleanup, palette change support + * iTunes metadata support + * HuffYUV fixes (endianness, RGB32 predictor, median encoding, interlacing) + * ffvhuff (enhanced HuffYUV codec) + * SSE optimizations for 4x4 compare function + * epzs motion search enhancements + * quad tree based motion compensation + * MPEG-4 qpel MMX2/3DNow! optimizations + * H.264: lot of fixes and MMX2/3DNow! optimizations + * AVC1 (H.264 without sync word in .mp4 files) support + * H.264 qpel motion compensation + * Indeo3 grayscale decoding + * preliminary Truemotion 24 bit decoder + * avizlib encoder fixed + * trellis quantization support in H.263 + * DCT optimizations + * AltiVec support on AmigaOS4 + * adapt MMX/MMX2/SSE/3DNow! optimizations to work on x86_64 + * seeking fixes + * better and faster audio resampler + * New dc1394 grabbing interface + * preliminary decoding support for H.264 with CABAC and B-frames + * dvr-ms support in ASF demuxer + * NSV demuxer + * DVD compatible MPEG muxer + * MJPEG-B fixes + * range coder (arithmetic entropy coder) used by Snow and ffv1 + * ffv1 enhancements: signed golomb, range codes + * multi slice support for main profile H.264 streams + * as usual, lots of bug fixes and optimizations + + Filters: + * software volume control when no hardware support available, can be + controlled with the -softvol and -softvol-max parameters + * high-quality audio resampling with -af lavcresample + * cropdetect rounding parameter + * MPlayer -af help + * missing audio plugins (extrastereo, volnorm) converted to audio filters + * sine sweep generator audio filter + * hrtf audio filter to convert multichannel audio to 2 channel output + for headphones, preserving the spatiality of the sound + * big-endian fixes in rgb2rgb converter + * yuv2rgb Altivec optimization fixes + * support for LADSPA plugins + + GUI: + * unified audio options dialog, also for ALSA + * redrawing limited, decreases CPU usage in audio-only case + * icons for the context menu + * doublesize bug fixed + * slowdown after opening the preferences panel bug fixed + * remaining messages moved to help file for translation + * slowdown after using the preferences panel fixed + + Encoding: + * x264 encoder support + * support for MP2 encoding with libtoolame + * libavcodec "turbo mode" to speed up 2-pass encoding + * support for 3-pass encode for libavcodec and x264 + * XviD encoder and decoder modules updated to API-4.1 (XviD-1.1.x) + * flush remaining frames at end of encoding process + + Others: + * -loop and -shuffle now work together + * better EDL support + * some --disable configure options finally work (mp3lib, liba52, libmpeg2) + * framestepping + * change playback speed during playback + * some crashes with binary codecs fixed + * subtitle alignment support for SAMI files + * also support Windows path separator '\' + * FriBiDi fixes for comma handling in Hebrew subtitles + * -crash-debug option to attach gdb automatically after crashes + * gcc 4 compilation fixes + * compilation fixes for many files in the TOOLS directory + * infamous "stuck mouse button" bug fixed, new -key-fifo-size option + * reduced verbosity of MPlayer's output somewhat + * -identify now prints some information about available languages + * double buffering (-double) is now default + * many memleaks fixed + + + pre5try2: December 15, 2004 + + Security: + * buffer overflow in mp3lib fixed + * heap overflow in Real RTSP streaming code fixed + * stack overflow in MMST streaming code fixed + * unnecessary BMP demuxer removed because of buffer overflows + * heap overflow in pnm streaming code fixed + + + pre5: "LinuxTag release" July 15, 2004 + + Name: + * It's "MPlayer - The Movie Player" instead of + "MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux" now. + + Security: + * complete review of string operations, buffer overflows fixed + + DOCS: + * small additions, corrections, updates all over the place + * audio output driver section added to the man page + * several bug fixes and improvements in the MEncoder documentation + * DVD ripping guide extended and improved + * AUTHORS file massively extended + * German man page partially updated + * Hungarian XML documentation translation started + + Ports: + * encrypted DVD playback on Windows fixed (again) + * Cygwin and MinGW now accept the same -dvd-device syntax + * LIVE.COM now works under MinGW + * foundations for MinGW crosscompilation + * disabled SSE on MinGW as it caused crashes + * AC3 passthrough for ao_win32 + * improved vo_quartz (YUV, multiple screens support) + * vo_quartz made default on Mac OS X + * ao_macosx fixed and made default again on Mac OS X + * RealVideo binary codecs support on Mac OS X (still buggy) + * big-endian fixes in vf.c, vo_tga + * OpenBSD portability fixes + * OpenBSD/VAX support + * AMD64 support + + Drivers: + * support for more Radeons (9800 XT among them) in VIDIX + * Radeon related bug fixes in VIDIX + * vo_gl2 now supports GUI, fix for flickering borders in fullscreen + * support 24 and 32 bit PCM files, big-endian fixes + * ao_sdl now converts unsupported formats instead of quitting + * ENCA support + * merged ao_alsa9 and ao_alsa1x drivers into ao_alsa + * NeoMagic TV-out support through VESA + * JACK audio output driver + * vo_sdl fixes (wrong flags and screensaver disabling) + * vo_directx fixes + + Decoders: + * MSZH/ZLIB, FLI, QTRLE, RoQ video and RoQ audio support moved to FFmpeg + * FFmpeg Cinepak and CYUV decoders preferred + * audio format 0xff support (is AAC) + * "raw" audio in MOV supported + * Indeo audio (iac25) support via binary codec + * upgrade libfaad2 to the FAAD 2.0 release + * MPEG-2 chroma422/444 support + * Winnov WINX and WNV1 support via binary codec + + Demuxers: + * Ogg subtitle handling and other bug fixes + * Matroska improvements + * support seeking in Real files without -idx + * support seeking in Real files without index with -forceidx + + Streaming: + * ASF, MMST streaming fixes + * URL escaping fixed + * NSA (Nullsoft audio) streaming support + * embedded RAM playlist support + * multibyte URL support + * rtp:// now supported even with LIVE.COM compiled in + * miscellaneous bug fixes + + Filters: + * vf_softskip: frame skipping filter for MEncoder + * vf_harddup: frame duplication filter for MEncoder + * vf_pullup minor fixes and improvements + * AltiVec-optimized YUV to RGB converter + * vf_spp memory corruption fix on reallocation + + FFmpeg/libavcodec: + * MPEG-2 encoding with 8, 9, 10, 11 bit intra DC precision + * DC clipping fix, intra_dc_precision > 0 support + * Cinepak fixes and palette support + * support skipping of MB rows during decoding + * Vorbis in NUT fixed + * NUT updated to latest specification + * segfault and artifact fixes in SVQ3 decoder + * motion estimation code: overflow and chroma fixes + * change qscale -> lambda for the motion estimation + * noise preserving sum of squares comparison function in ME code + * fixed memory overwrite in truemotion decoder + * clip input motion vectors, better error tolerance on bad vectors + * FLAC decoder cleanup (partial demuxer/decoder separation) + * memalign hack for SSE/SSE2 on that alternative OS :) + * lots of AltiVec optimizations + * qscale + qprd fix + * QTrle4 support + * H.261 decoder + * coefficient saturation fix in H.263 + * H.263 MCBPC fix + * per line lowpass filter in MMX and faster C lowpass filter + * SVQ1 encoder + * as usual, lots of bug fixes and optimizations + + Others: + * fullscreen fixes for many window managers + * fix crash on original Pentiums and older + * dvd://start-end support + * netstream (mpst://) support fixed + * support comments in plaintext playlists + * loader/ dependency removed + * keepaspect option extended to all video output drivers + * WMA to Ogg conversion and simple subtitle editing script added to TOOLS + * support for more lame options + * new set of GUI icons + * memory conserving implementation of GUI potmeters + * X11 code reindented + * further gcc 3.4 support fixes + * mixer API written for changing volume through libaf + * -rtc-device option for specifying the RTC device + * desktop/menu icon added + * miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups + * multi-threaded encoding with libavcodec + * fixed a bug with Real files introduced in pre4 + * -use-stdin renamed to -noconsolecontrols + + + pre4: "YAML Counter" Apr 28, 2004 + + Security: + * HTTP parser remote heap overflow vulnerability fixed (from 1.0pre3try2) + * Real RTSP remote buffer overflow vulnerability fixed + * buffer overflow in the Matroska demuxer + * potentially exploitable buffer overflow in CDDB TOC code + + DOCS: + * new Copyright file covers files from other projects and their licenses + * new DOCS/tech/translations.txt explains how to properly translate MPlayer + * new Japanese console message translation + * Polish translation finished + * Italian man page translation + * DVD ripping guide + * telecine/interlacing guide + * video output driver section added to the man page + * XML build system rewritten - now supports building individual languages + * miscellaneous updates all over the place + + Ports: + * better PA-RISC detection + * support for VAX (tested on VAXstation 4000/VLC) -- really, believe me! + * optimizing for specific MIPS CPUs under IRIX + * AMD64 detection under BSDs + * fbdev driver updated for Linux 2.6 + * support for ELF only OpenBSD + * optimizing for PPC 970 (aka G5) + * SDL support fixed on MinGW + * VIDIX working under Windows XP/2000 (native dhahelper) + * builds out of the box under GNU Hurd + * SSE optimizations enabled under MinGW + * SSE support under OpenBSD + * AltiVec support under NetBSD + * GCC 3.4 support (due to changed behaviour in ASM code snippets) + + Demuxers: + * Matroska containing RealVideo works better + * fixed random segfaults in VIVO + * endianness fixes in CDDA + * UYVY support in tvi/v4l2 + * tvi/bsdbt848 now working under FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT + * tvi/bsdbt848 audio part working under NetBSD + * LIVE.COM demuxer updated to conform with latest libraries + * new, independent, C implementation of the Matroska demuxer + * fix for rare Real files + * more robust Real demuxer (can resync after errors) + * support for AAC inside Real + * MPEG Aspect code 4 fixed + * wrapper demuxer for FFMpeg's libavformat (Nut is playable this way) + * support for selecting subtitle streams with -slang inside Ogg + * much improved seeking in Ogg + * -sid/-aid/-vid start from zero in Ogg demuxer just like other demuxers + * Nullsoft streaming video (NSV) demuxer + * AVI OpenDML read and write support + + Streaming: + * SMIL playlist parser + * support for URL redirection + * support for seeking in HTTP streams + * updated LIVE.COM streaming code + * fall back on live.com RTSP after Real RTSP + * suggests -playlist if normal streaming fails + * many improvements and bug fixes in the streaming code + + Decoders: + * compilation failure without zlib in vd/lcl fixed + * removed obsoleted decoders (which were moved to libavcodec), affected: + vd/8bps, vd/msrle, vd/msvideo1, vd/rpza, vd/smc + * workaround for buggy codecs in ad/acm (support for Sharp G.726) + * fixed chroma-swapping in Hauppauge Macroblock decoder + * AltiVec-optimized resampler in liba52 + * support for VP5 and VP6 DLL decoders + * support for Alparysoft lossless video codec (through DLLs) + * support for Lead MCMW wavelet video codec (through DLLs) + * HE-AAC working through libfaad + * removed libmpflac in favor of FFmpeg's FLAC implementation + * liba52 dynamic range compression support + + Filters: + * vf_bmovl bugfixes + * vf_filmdint now handles 15fps NTSC input + * huge updates and speedup on vf_pullup + * big updates to vf_ilpack (proper interpolation and MMX optimizations) + * vf_zrmjpeg: fast MJPEG encoder using libavcodec for Zoran + * interlaced scaling support in vf_scale + * vf_kerndeint: adaptive deinterlacer + * vf_rgbtest: rgb test pattern generator for developers + * vf_qp: QP change filter + * vf_noformat: the same as vf_format but with reversed meaning + * AltiVec-optimized SWScaler + * vf_phase: phase shift fields + * vf_divtc: duplicate frame removal from deinterlaced telecined video + + Drivers: + * ao/esd behaves better over network now + * support for Radeon 9200/9600/9600 Pro/9700 in VIDIX + * -mixer support for alsa9 + * fixed OSS audio grabber module with hardware not supporting 44khz + * native ALSA 1.x support (not through 0.9 emulation) + * better multibuffer support in VIDIX nVidia driver + * pan & scan support in VIDIX nVidia driver + * support for more cards in VIDIX nVidia driver + * vo_libcaca: color ASCII art output driver + * vo_quartz: native MacOS X/Quartz video output + * support for VIDIX when ATI FireGLX drivers are used + + FFmpeg/libavcodec: + * H.263 AIC and MQ encoding support + * fixed low delay decoding + * fixed H.263+ encoding without UMV + * lots of CBR improvements + * MB type and QP visualization + * lots of code cleanup + * intra & inter dequantization split -> speedup + * fixed stereo IMA ADPCM encoding + * VBV delay setting support (MPEG-2 CBR) + * improved RV20 decoder (most known errors eliminated) + * interlaced DCT + * interlaced motion estimation + * interlaced MPEG-2 encoding + * 4MV encoding fixes + * initial interlaced MPEG-4 encoding + * improved visual quality in SVQ3 decoder + * fixed never-before-tested embedded string decoder in SVQ1 + * optimized quantization (including the trellis way) + * Sierra VMD video decoder + * MMX- and SSE2-optimized H.263 denoiser + * better SVCD compliance (encoder side) + * MMX- and MMX2-optimized interlaced DCT decision + * various cleanup, memleak and segfault fixes + * optimized (2x faster) the MPEG layer 3 decoder + * grayscale coded MJPEG decoding support + * avimszh and avizlib decoders + * "packed" XviD decoding + * fixed some bugs in RV20 B-frames decoding + * closed GOP encoding + * SSE2-optimized FDCT + * support for quantizer noise shaping + * support for EA ADPCM and SMJPEG IMA ADPCM + * QT RLE decoder + * OBMC fixes + * FLAC decoder + * better support for DivX5 + * MMX- and SSE2-optimized VP3/Theora decoding + * support for Theora alpha3 + * many H.264 improvements + * more robust MJPEG startcode search mechanism + * better WMV8 decoding + * native SPARC VIS optimizations + * native G.726 codec + + Others: + * -codecs-file option for specifying alternative codecs.conf file + * fixed some minor bugs in the GUI + * prevent sig11 when $HOME is not set + * fix some command line handling corruptions + * Swedish and Polish yes/no options in config files + * support binding F11 and F12 keys + * TOOLS/divx2svcd updated + * stricter thread code in Win32 loader (works under NetBSD) + * PJS subtitle support (was: dunnowhat) + * TOOLS/avifix: simple tool to fix chunk sizes in AVI files + * proper extraheader handling when libavcodec is used in MEncoder + * AVI OpenDML read and write support + * AVI VPRP (video property) read and write support + * fixed long standing lame quality option off-by-one bug in MEncoder + * MPL2 subtitle support + * less verbosity in Win32 loader and other places + + + pre3try2: security fix release Mar 3, 2004 + + Security: + * HTTP parser remote heap overflow vulnerability fixed + + + pre3: "The Real Counter" Dec 9, 2003 + + DOCS: + * all MPlayer and MEncoder options documented + * all FFmpeg/libavcodec options documented + * Support for building incomplete XML documentation + * Support for building all-in-one HTML docs + * HTML documentation obsoleted + * English, Polish and French HTML documentation removed + * Spanish documentation translation finished + * Macedonian runtime output translation added + * small improvements and bug fixes all over the place + + Ports: + * fixed compilation of Matroska on MinGW/Cygwin + * support for detecting non-Intel CPUs under Cygwin + * sub autoloading under Windows + * removed pthread dependency (out of the box compilation on NetBSD) + * more 64 bit fixes + * a lot of Mac OS X fixes + * prefer TOOLS/cpuinfo over linuxemu's /proc/cpuinfo under FreeBSD/x86 + * Darwin XMMS libs supported + * support newer Darwin versions in AltiVec detection code + * support for newer Apple GCCs + + Codecs and demuxers: + * better support for (buggy) MEncoder created streams in libmpeg2 + * MPEG-TS demuxer updates + * fixed the MPEG muxer + * fixed tons of bugs in MMS streaming + * user settable HTTP user-agent field + * improved (now working) seeking with support for growing RealMedia files + * saveable and loadable index files (workaround for formats not + supporting files over 2GB) + * Ultimotion VfW decoder + * support for MMS streams with UTF urls + * big DVB demuxer update + * fixed MOV demuxer to always read ImageDesc (fixes ffsvq3 bugs) + * fixed an old bug in AVI/Waveformatex size calculation + * XviD API-4 (1.0 beta2) support + * improved FLAC-in-Ogg support + * Matroska: better AC3 detection + * Matroska: VOBsubs, MP2, FLAC, AAC and HE-AAC support + * improved detection of Real RTSP through URL analysis + * fixed stereo 16 bit TWOS + * fixed MPNG when using BGR24 images + * control functions in Ogg demuxer + * HTTP cookies support + * LML-M4 MPEG-4 capture card raw stream format support + + Filters: + * some fixes in the delogo filter + * optimized eq2 filter + * weighted gamma support in the eq2 filter + * new filters: hue, spp, fil, yuvcsp + * alternative postprocessing filter (spp) + * big scale filter updates + * zrmjpeg filter, a kick-ass MJPEG encoder using FFmpeg/libavcodec + * filmdint: new inverse telecine filter, heavily MMX- and 3DNow!-optimized + + FFmpeg/libavcodec: + * Lagrange multipliers instead of qscale, encoding quality much improved + * fixed an old bug in MPlayer's support code + * support wider range of VOLs in H.263 + * direct rendering support in MJPEG + * massive MLib optimizations + * more VQA files supported + * Theora support + * Sunplus JPEG (SP5X) support + * H.263 GOB fixes + * massive cleanups + * reduced memory footprint (!) + * fixed decoding if aspect ratio changes + * MMX2 optimizations in HuffYUV + * lots of bugs squashed in HuffYUV + * long standing decoding errors after 'first frame is not keyframe' fixed + * CRI ADX support + * XA ADPCM support + * fixed files with odd dimensions on PPC + * optimized MPEG-2 bitstream parsing + * better interlacing framework + * support for IBM's XLC compiler + * support for SAR (sample aspect ratio) + * floating point AAN DCT + * dynamically alloc big data fields (lower memory usage in most cases!) + * fixed stereo IMA-ADPCM encoding + * inline vs always_inline - some speedups + * MMX2-optimized FDCT + * accurate 2-4-8 DCT + * much faster DV encoding (beats libdv) + * support Cinepak files with funky (not divisible by 4) resolutions + * AltiVec-optimized FDCT + * XvMC speedups + * initial ZyGoVideo decoding + * RGB support in FFV1 + * new Palette API, all codecs updated + * Noise reduction of DCT coefficients + * "av_log" logging API + * support for buffer hints from codecs + * BGR24, RGB555 and PAL8 image formats + * 8BPS, MS RLE, MS Video1, QT RPZA, QT SMC, FLIC and TrueMotion1 decoders + * 16x8 MV visualisation support + * H.263 overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC), 4MV support + * H.263 alternative inter vlc support + * H.263 deblocking filter (MMX-optimized) + * H.263 modified quantization support + * H.263 slice structured mode support + * Real RV20 decoder (with B-frame support) + + Drivers: + * VIDIX equalizer support in fbdev, svga and vesa + * VIDIX colorkeying support in fbdev, svga and vesa + * obsoleted option: -fb + * new SiS 650/651/740/etc VIDIX driver + * safer vo_directx direct rendering + * massive nvidia_vid updates + * gl2 updates + * ggi now supports non-directbuffer rendering and slices + * tdfxfb fixed on gcc 3.x + * dfbmga updated, G200 support + * colorkeying can be disabled + * Radeon 9800 (R350) support in VIDIX + * proper fix for buffer size workarounds in vo_zr + * new vo_zr2 driver, which uses the advantages of the filter layer + * fixed vo_vesa when used together with pthread + * runtime stay-on-top functionality (in almost all output drivers) + * ALSA 1.x support + + SWScaler: + * updated MLib (Sun VIS) support + * more accurate filters (rounding fixes) + * MMX-optimized UYVY output + * eliminated chroma scaling bugs + + Others: + * fixed aspect and geometry + * fixed compilation when libavcodec is missing (although it's a bad idea) + * MTRR detection added to TOOLS/cpuinfo + * FAAD detection in configure fixed/improved + * improved FLAC configure detection + * GUI file selector updated for newer formats + * Fontconfig support + * proper VOBsub seeking support + * removed oldskool libcss support (nobody uses it, it has drawbacks and + possible security implications) + + MEncoder: + * FFmpeg/libavcodec audio encoding support + * exit if there's no video stream (avoids unexpected segfaults) + * huge bug fixed (missing InitTimer call), screwed up timers in some cases + * rawyuv (i420) 'encoder' + + + pre2: Oct 5, 2003 + + Security: + * remotely exploitable buffer overflow in the ASF streaming code fixed + + DOCS: + * Spanish and Russian translations almost finished + * French, Hungarian, Polish translations updated + * New Romanian translation started + * numerous sections updated + + Ports: + * initial Amiga/MorphOS (through GeekGadgets) support + * FreeBSD 5.x (libkse/libthr) support in Win32 DLL loader + * finally fixed the compilation on non-MVI capable Alpha CPUs + * better AltiVec detection in configure + * OSD menu now works on MinGW + * slave mode, VOBsub and MEncoder support on Windows + * MinGW 3.1.0 supports MPlayer out of the box! + * VIDIX and libdha ported to Windows + * SDL on IRIX support + * vo_gl2 video output ported to Windows + + Codecs and demuxers: + * support for QuickTime version 6.3 DLLs + * fixed some bugs in imported FAAD + * disabled internal FAAD when using buggy GCC + * --enable-externalfaad option to force using external FAAD library + * imaadpcm bug fixed + * ViVD v2 codec support (DLL only) + * QuickTime codecs support inside Matroska + * improved seeking inside Matroska + * some bugs with DMO codecs have been fixed + * fix for MOV files with bogus user data length + * fixed some demuxers which read after EOF + * better RTP synchronisation + * FLAC support through imported libmpflac + + Filters: + * new delogo filter (for removing TV channel logos) + * presets support in swscaler filter + * new audio filter export, for supporting visual effect applications + * correct select handling in bmovl filter + + FFmpeg/libavcodec: + * better DivX/XviD bug detection code + * Id RoQ decoder + * Interplay MVE decoder + * WC3/Xan video decoder + * Xan DPCM, DK3 & DK4 ADPCM audio decoders + * detect old XviD with fourcc=DIVX + * vp3 decoder fixes + * improved the Alpha optimizations + * x86 optimizations are threadsafe now + * settable scene change threshold + * better MPEG-1/MPEG-2 conformance encoder + * quality improvement for high bitrate videos with trellis quantization + * indeo3 decoder fixed + * new options: mv0, cbp + * DV video encoder + * MPEG-1 now works with Trellis quantization + + Faad2: + * synced to latest CVS + * HE_AAC profile added + * SBR QMF improvements + * DRM updates + * Covariance speedup + * reduced memory usage + * overall cleanups and fixes + + Drivers: + * VIDIX driver for nVidia cards + * directfb2 fixed for latest directfb + * smoother audio playback with alsa9 + * fullscreen and geometry support in directx + * fullscreen support with OpenGL drivers + * OSD fixed with svga + * new cvidix and winvidix drivers + * user settable colorkey + + Others: + * several leak fixes + * selecting optimizations for PPC 7455 CPU + * CPU detection code now measures speed on x86 + * unrarlib cleaned up a bit + * updated the list of known x86 CPUs (including Opteron!) + * subtitle alignment and smart line splitting options + + + pre1: "Development" on the beach Sept 1, 2003 + NOTE: the MPlayer 'main' branch was forked at the time of 0.90-rc4, so + 0.90-rc5 (and later 0.90 releases) changes are independent! + (it also means that there are main-only and 0_90-only changes) + + DOCS: + * DOCS/Language/ dirs renamed to DOCS/id, English files moved to DOCS/en + * HTML --> XML format conversion (English, Russian and French for now) + * new Spanish DOCS translation + * man page restructured, options ordered + * Finally merged libavc-option.txt into the man page. + * slave mode commands moved from the man page to DOCS/tech/ + * traditional Chinese help file added + * massive help file updates, most languages are up to date now + * new and improved Windows port section with Cygwin and MinGW subsections + * almost all options documented + * fixes and small updates all over the place + + Big/Structural changes: + * linux/ dir renamed to osdep/ + * postproc/postproc* files moved to libavcodec + * old libmpeg2 replaced with patched version of the 0.3.1 release + * docs priority & installation (--language=ab,cd,ef,all and so on) + * yuv2rgb conversion removed from most vo drivers (like fbdev, gif89, etc) + * reverse-order -vop option obsoleted by -vf, big config layer changes + * stream layer "cleanup", -dvd -> dvd:// etc + * autosub fuzziness, it tries to load all subs with similar filenames + * removed the whole old config reader, leaving only the newer one + (no backward compatibilty!) + + Ports: + * HP-UX fixes + * Ported to Darwin / Mac OS X (with extra accurate Darwin timers) + * Ported to Win32/MinGW (including network, timers, getch, etc) + * Win32 codecs DLL support on Win32 (Cygwin and MinGW) + * fixed mpdvdkit on Cygwin and MinGW + * Lots of PPC (including AltiVec) optimizations + * Some ARM fixes + * Alpha fixes (especially non-gcc3 support) + * Initial Hitachi SuperH support (SH3/SH4) + + Codecs/demuxers support: + * RealAudio Win32 DLLs support + * various RealAudio/RealVideo fixes, including WxH bugs, Sipr, etc + * various RealMedia a-v sync fixes + * RealAudio V4 demuxer + * RealAudio 14_4 and 28_8 codecs support (both binary DLLs and native code) + * RealMedia rtsp:// support (independent from the live.com RTSP stuff!) + * Matroska demuxer (C++ version) + * demuxer: enabling MPEG-4-ES autodetection, H.264-ES support + * WAV extradata parsing (for truespeech, atrac3, etc) + * MPEG-TS (Transport Stream) and TIVO demuxers + * DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) input driver + * hwac3: DTS passthru support + * new filters: down3dright, detc, telecine, tfields, ilpack, ivtc, dsize, + tinterlace, pullup (MMX-optimized!), framestep, tile + * vf layer: slices support (crop, expand, swscale only) + * vf scale aspect fixes + * swscaler: cleanup & API change, yv12 -> yuy2 in alpha asm, + -fPIC compileable + * swscaler: brightness/cont/sat. and different YUV matrices support + * NUV encoding + * SGI image files decoding (-mf) + * Theora video (using libtheora/libogg) support + * DivX.com 5.0.5 libs support + * support for latest XviD en/decoder features + * decoder for Hauppauge PVR 250/350 MB-YUV format (fourcc HM12) + * support for Vanguard's Win32 H.264 etc codecs + * Video for Linux 1: various bugfixes, video eq support + * Video for Linux 2 support + * TV support: kick-ass image format handling + * mp3lib: moved the assembly sources into gcc inline assembly (c) + * mp3lib: sync with mpg123 0.59s-pre + * mp3lib: final layer-1 support + * mp3lib: skip trashed first MP3 frame, fixes many buggy/misdetected files + * imported a working FAAD version + * 8BPS (Planar RGB) support + * working DVD (libmpdvdkit) support for Cygwin/MinGW + + FFmpeg/libavcodec: + * libavcodec: static,const,compiler warning cleanup, UINTX -> uintx_t + * old HuffYUV v1 support + * PAL 4:1:1 SMPTE 314M DV streams support, NTSC DV last MB column fix + * fixing padding bug autodetection for some rare files + * DspContext.(i)dct_* bitexact cleanup + * user settable quantizer bias + * MPEG-1 slice encoding support + * MSMPEG4 2-pass support + * H.264 video decoding + * Indeo 3 video decoding + * VP3 video decoder (buggy somtimes) + * Sorenson 3 (SVQ3) video decoder (it's actually a H.264 variant) + * 3IV1 (3ivx v1) decoding + * ASV1 (ASUS Video v1) and ASV2 (ASUS Video v2) en/decoding + * Improved SVQ1 decoding (using FFmpeg VLC functions) + * truncated unary binarization, unary k-th order exp golomb binarization :) + * FFV1: lossless YUV codec, compresses a lot better than HuffYUV, but slower + * lossless MJPEG en/decoding, pegasus "pseudo yuv" (=RCT) decoding + * ATI VCR1 and VCR2 decoding + * full featured SH4 optimizations + * ARM-optimized simple_idct + * MPEG-2 encoding + * PSX MDEC decoder + * user settable quantization matrices + + Drivers: + * x11_common: fix detection of metacity + * x11_common: 10l fix in original layer detection code + * x11_common: extended fstype config options + * x11_common: smooth window moving + * tdfx_vid driver (3dfx cards overlay with AGP support) + * vo_xover: general X11 overlay driver, currently only tdfx_vid uses it + * mga_vid: various fixes, 16MB G400 detection, support for multiple cards + * new svgalib vo driver + * vo_directfb2: triple buffering support, configuration sys changed, fixes + * OpenGL driver cleanups/fixes (both vo_gl and vo_gl2) + * vo_fbdev cleanup/partial rewrite, now with real direct rendering + * vo_xvmc: new driver featuring XvMC (HW MC/IDCT) acceleration + * new TGA output driver + * new vo_fbdev2 (written from scratch) + + Others: + * gcc can now detect badly called mp_msg()s + * many config/cmdline parsing fixes (some of them were at least 100000l bugs) + * configure: enable VIDIX for PPC + * configure: full featured PPC optimizations, rewritten architecture handling + * spudec.c: Fix "invalid fragment" handling, Improved subtitle queueing + * network streaming layer: IPv6 support + * FTP support + * playtree parsing speedup :) + * various URL parsing fixes + * Crash on broken config files finally fixed! + * GUI: PPC (reverse byteorder) fixes + * GUI: revert to 'default' skin if configured skin failed + * TOOLS/plotpsnr.pl: PSNR plotting tool using gnuplot + * DOCS/tech/mpcf.txt: MPCF/NUT draft/specification + * TVout/matroxtv: various improvements + * spelling/grammar fixes in numerous files + + +MPlayer (0.90) + + rc4: "FlameCounter" Feb 9, 2003 + + DOCS: + * some clarifications and updates in the English DOCS + * massive translation and help-file updates + + Fixes: + * -ac hwac3 fixed (was broken in rc3) + * vo_svga: 4bp & 8bpp fixes + * various GUI fixes, including some critical bugs + * rage128 VIDIX PPC fixes + * libmenu: one crash fixed, some cleanup + * fixed ./configure --cc="ccache gcc" + * -loop fixes, now -loop 2 plays a file twice :) + * (mirrored) OSD volume symbol fixed (|\ -> /|) + * 32bpp QT-RLE support + * AltiVec on non-Darwin systems support + * QuickTime reference file support fixes + * mp3lib: layer-2 decoding fixes + * updates to extension->demuxer mapping table + * libavcodec: DivX 5.03 decoding fix + * ao_oss: limited channels handling fixed + * fixed OGM subtitles and iconv + * fixed -subcp option with unicode truetype fonts + * -mf: type detection (based on extension), better defaults + * vo_xv: -fixed-vo support fixed (fullscreen switching) + * Ogg-in-AVI (audio format 0xFFFE) demuxing fixed + * vorbis decoding fixed (outer loop cleanup) + * swscaler: 4bpp depth 1 pixel/byte format support for -vo svga + * missing error message in command line parser for missing parameters + * swscaler: YVU9->YV12 fixes + * -ao mpegpes + -ac hwac3 fixed + * -ao pcm bogus WAV header fixed + * -vo x11 + -wid fixed + * auto-insert the 'palette' filter if needed, support fixed in filters + * sig11 when playing second audio-only file fixed + * configure: detection of CDDA, nas, i18n, svgalib, FAAD2, lame fixed + * -af/-af-adv support in MEncoder fixed + * libmpdvdkit2: upgraded to use libdvdcss 1.2.5 + + Features: + * raw video support (-rawvideo, similar to -rawaudio) + * experimental MPEG-4-ES support (enable with -demuxer 27 -fps xxx) + * ne