mplayer (1.0)
pre4: "New Year Release"
Security:
* HTTP parser remote heap overflow vulnerability fixed
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 almost finished
* Italian man page translation
* DVD ripping guide
* video out 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
Demuxers:
* Matroska containing RealVideo works better
* fixed random segfaults in VIVO
* endianess 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
* MPEG Aspect code 4 fixed
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)
* synced to original FLAC sources
* fixed chroma-swapping in Hauppauge Macroblock decoder
* Altivec optimized resampler in liba52
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)
* new filter: vf_zrmjpeg (fast MJPEG encoder using libavcodec for Zoran)
* interlaced scaling support in vf_scale
Drivers:
* ao/esd behaves better over network now
* support for Radeon 9600 Pro 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
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
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