mplayer (1.0)
pre4: "New Year Release"
DOCS:
* new Copyright file covering the licenses involved
* new Japanese console message translation
* Polish translation almost finished
* DVD ripping guide
* video out driver section added to the man page
* 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
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
Decoders:
* removed zlib dependency in vd/lcl
* 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
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
FFmpeg/libavcodec:
* H.263 AIC and MQ encoding support
* fixed low delay decoding
* fixed H.263+ encoding without UMV
* lot of CBR improvements
* MB type and QP visualization
* lot of code cleanup
* intra & inter dequantization split -> speedup
* fixed stereo IMA ADPCM encoding
* VBV delay setting support (MPEG2 CBR)
* improved RV20 decoder (most known errors eliminated)
* interlaced DCT
* interlaced motion estimation
* interlaced MPEG2 encoding
* 4MV encoding fixes
* initial interlaced MPEG4 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
pre3: "The Real Counter"
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 MinGW32/Cygwin
* support for detecting non-Intel CPUs under Cygwin
* sub autoloading under Windows
* removed pthread dependency (compiles out of the box on a default NetBSD
install)
* 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 files in
Realmedia format
* 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 MPEG4 capture card raw stream format support
Filters:
* some fixes in the delogo filter
* optimized eq2 fi
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