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2 <!-- $Revision$ --> |
9675 | 3 <!-- FIXME: history really should be in the appendix --> |
4 <sect1 id="history"> | |
5 <title>History</title> | |
6 | |
10229 | 7 <blockquote><para> |
8 This began a year ago... I have tried lots of players under linux | |
9675 | 9 (mtv, xmps, dvdview, livid/oms, videolan, xine, xanim, avifile, xmmp) but |
10 they all have some problem. Mostly with special files or with audio/video | |
11212 | 11 sync. Most of them are unable to play both MPEG1, MPEG2 and AVI (DivX) |
9675 | 12 files. Many players have image quality or speed problems too. So I've |
13 decided to write/modify one... | |
10229 | 14 </para></blockquote><para>A'rpi, 2001</para> |
9675 | 15 |
10229 | 16 <para> |
9675 | 17 <itemizedlist> |
18 <listitem><para> | |
19 <emphasis role="bold">mpg12play v0.1-v0.3</emphasis>: Sep 22-25, 2000 | |
20 </para> | |
21 <para>The first try, hacked together in a half hour! I've used libmpeg3 | |
22 from <ulink url="http://www.heroinewarrior.com"/> up to the version 0.3, but | |
23 there were image quality and speed problems with it. | |
24 </para></listitem> | |
25 <listitem><para> | |
26 <emphasis role="bold">mpg12play v0.5-v0.87</emphasis>: Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000 | |
27 </para><para>Mpeg codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a | |
11212 | 28 great stuff, but it was slow and was written in C++ (A'rpi hates C++!!!) |
9675 | 29 </para></listitem> |
30 <listitem><para> | |
31 <emphasis role="bold">mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5</emphasis>: Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000 | |
32 </para><para>Mpeg codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman and | |
33 Michel Lespinasse. It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect | |
34 image quality and 100% MPEG standard conformance. | |
35 </para></listitem> | |
36 <listitem><para> | |
37 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer v0.3-v0.9</emphasis>: Nov 18-Dec 4, 2000 | |
38 </para><para>It was a pack of two programs: mpg12play v0.95pre6 and my | |
39 new simple AVI player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader. | |
40 </para></listitem> | |
41 <listitem><para> | |
42 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer v0.10</emphasis>: Jan 1, 2001 | |
43 </para><para>The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary! | |
44 </para></listitem> | |
45 <listitem><para> | |
46 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer v0.11pre series</emphasis>: | |
11212 | 47 </para><para>Some new developers joined and since 0.11 the MPlayer project |
9675 | 48 is a team-work! Added ASF file support, and OpenDivX |
49 (see <ulink url="http://www.projectmayo.com"/>) en/decoding. | |
50 </para></listitem> | |
51 <listitem><para> | |
52 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer v0.17a "The IdegCounter"</emphasis> Apr 27, 2001 | |
53 </para><para>The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy | |
54 development! Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added... | |
55 and of course old code was improved too, bugs removed etc. | |
56 </para></listitem> | |
57 <listitem><para> | |
58 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer 0.18 "The BugCounter"</emphasis> Jul 9, 2001 | |
59 </para><para>2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF | |
60 support, more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to | |
61 audio), even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST! | |
62 </para></listitem> | |
63 <listitem><para> | |
64 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</emphasis> Oct 8, 2001 | |
65 </para><para>Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version, | |
66 bugs fixed, new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including | |
67 opensource DivX codecs and much more. Try it! | |
68 </para></listitem> | |
69 <listitem><para> | |
70 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</emphasis> Jan 3, 2002 | |
71 </para><para>MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV fileformats support, native CRAM, Cinepak, | |
72 ADPCM codecs, and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support, | |
73 first release of MEncoder, TV grabbing, cache, liba52, countless fixes. | |
74 </para></listitem> | |
75 <listitem><para> | |
76 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer 0.90pre10 "The BirthdayCounter"</emphasis> Nov 11, 2002 | |
77 </para><para> Although this is not a release, I am going to mention it because it | |
78 came out 2 years after MPlayer v0.01. Happy birthday, MPlayer! | |
79 </para></listitem> | |
80 <listitem><para> | |
81 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer 0.90rc1 "The CodecCounter"</emphasis> Dec 7, 2002 | |
82 </para><para>Again not a release, but after adding Sorenson 3 (QuickTime) | |
83 and Windows Media 9 support, MPlayer is the world's first movie player with | |
84 support for all known video formats! | |
85 </para></listitem> | |
86 <listitem><para> | |
10111 | 87 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer 0.90 "The CounterCounter"</emphasis> Apr 6, 2003 |
10132 | 88 </para><para>After more than 1 year, we finally concluded that the code was indeed |
89 stable again, and ready to be published as a release. Unfortunately we | |
90 forgot even to increase the version number, and other annoying bugs went | |
91 in, so get ready for... | |
92 </para></listitem> | |
93 <listitem><para> | |
11030 | 94 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer 0.91</emphasis> Aug 13, 2003 |
95 </para><para>The above mentioned and lot of other bugs have been fixed. | |
96 This is the latest stable version. | |
97 </para></listitem> | |
98 <listitem><para> | |
99 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer 1.0pre1 "Development on the beach"</emphasis> Sep 1, 2003 | |
100 </para><para>Although this is not a stable release, I am going to mention | |
101 it because it is the first pre version of the 1.0 series of MPlayer and | |
102 it is intended to help the <emphasis>big bug hunting party</emphasis>. | |
103 This is a huge step forward! | |
104 </para></listitem> | |
105 <listitem><para> | |
106 <emphasis role="bold">MPlayer 1.0</emphasis> date yet unknown | |
9675 | 107 </para></listitem> |
108 </itemizedlist> | |
109 </para> | |
110 </sect1> |