Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 22482:615f0023a44b
Rename to a more sane spelling.
| author | diego |
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| date | Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:48:57 +0000 |
| parents | ce511dbb0d68 |
| children | 662e7f56ec7f |
| files | ChangeLog Changelog |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 2773 insertions(+), 2773 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog Fri Mar 09 13:03:57 2007 +0000 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,2773 +0,0 @@ -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) - * new video filter: field (cheap deinterlacer) - * DVD/VOBsub improvements: positioning, optional gaussian blur scaler - * vf_bmovl: 400% speedup :) - * libavcodec: native DV audio decoder - * GIF demuxer (for animated GIFs) - * new noise removal filter: -vop denoise3d - * per-channel gamma and MMX-opt'ed bri/cont/saturation support in -vop eq2 - * live.com lib support cleanup, support for more stream types - * playtree imported into the GUI instead of the GUI's own playlist hack - * support for the XviD and DivX4/5Linux libraries at the same time - * -fstype option: override priority/layer of the fullscreen switch methods - * libavcodec: some B-frame related encoding failures/crashes fixed - - - rc3: "BugfixCounter" Jan 19, 2003 - - DOCS: - * English man page & HTML docs updates - * audio filter documentation - * help_diff.sh doesn't depend on bash any more - * Hungarian, French, Italian, German, Polish(?) docs synced - - Important fixes: - * X11 fullscreen switching (yes, again...) rewritten, some X11 code cleanup - * Voxware and QuickTime DLLs finally work (was broken in some contexts) - * VIDIX Radeon support cleanup, should really solve the pink screen bugs - * Cygwin: -vo directx crashes and garbled picture with some files fixed - * OGM/Ogg seeking (broken frames) fixed, subtitle fixes, XCD support - * libaf: big (audio filter layer) updates, floating point support, speedup - * ffwma2 fixed (better error resilience) - * SPU queueing - fixes missing or early disappearing DVD subtitles - * the mysterious DVD audio delay (150-300ms) fixed - * extension-based file format detection fixed the MP3 vs. MPEG-PS conflict - * cache2 keeps buffer for non-seekable media, fixes QuickTime streaming - - Fixes: - * mp3lib CPU detection part cleanup, 'decwin' linker problem fixed - * various cddb:// fixes, support of NetBSD 1.6 - * libmpdvdkit2: Fix DVD authentication on Solaris 9 - * libmpdvdkit2: libdvdcss upgraded to 1.2.4 (keeping the key cache patch) - * libmpdvdkit2: fixed decryption from multiple VOB files (hdd or Darwin) - * -ao arts, -ao oss: Fix 8-bit sound support - * -vop expand + FFmpeg codecs conflicts solved, some other -vop bugs fixed - * -ac ffmp2 with MPEG files (sig11) fixed - * QT Qclp audio codec initialization fixed - * exit codes cleanup (0 for quit/eof, 1 for error) - * -ao win32 sync problems solved, -autosync 100 is still recommended - * -vo gif89a uninit sig11 fixed - * the usual compiler warning fixes :) - * use -pphelp instead of -vop pp=help - * various big-endian fixes - * 16bpp packed YUV fixes in crop, mirror, rotate filters - * some -fixed-vo and vo_preinit fixes, -vo sdl, xmga, mga should work... - * various Solaris compatibility fixes (should work out of the box) - * mms:// port fixes, tries 1755 if 80 failed - * libavcodec: various ME fixes, B-frames fixes, WMV2 slice decoding fixes - * -ao alsa9 audio-file playback high CPU usage fixed - * libaf updates, 2-pass initialization to get better filter path - * better detection of playlists, support for [Reference]-style format - * handle QuickTime reference media files as playlist - * cddb:// & cdda:// CD-ROM device name fixes on Linux and *BSD - - Features: - * -ao esd: new EsounD audio driver - * -vo dxr3: new NORM option - * XAnim & RealPlayer binary Codecs working on PPC - * Radeon 9000 support in VIDIX, colorkey restoring for all Radeons - * initial PPC (big-endian) support in VIDIX Rage128 driver - * pnm:// streaming support (ported from xine) - * muxer layer: MEncoder can now write MPEG-PS format, too (EXPERIMENTAL!) - * libavcodec: WMV2 decoder (buggy/untested) - * DVB "HEAD" (aka. NEWSTRUCT) drivers support - * subtitle background bounding-box support (optional grey-level & opacity) - * libaf: 3 new filters: panning, compressor/limiter and a noise gate - * per-mediafile config file support (for file-specific options) - * iconv (codepage conversion) support for OGM (Ogg) subtitles - * v4l: user friendly channel tuning - * freetype & old-style RAW font support usable (compilable) at the same time - * vo_directfb2, vo_dfbmga: DirectFB 0.9.16 support - * libavcodec: motion estimation pre pass, qpel encoding, trellis quantization - * libavcodec, liba52, mp3lib: AltiVec optimizations - * keep window aspect ratio at resizing (x11, xv), requires WM support - * -geometry option, also accepts X11 syntax - * real .bin+.cue (S)VCD images support (-vcd 2 -cuefile xxx.cue) - * postprocess: YUV 411/422/444 support, stride fixes - * jumping of overlapping subs fixed, sorting is automatic, iconv fixes - * MPEG-2 telecine detection and automatic inverse telecine (MPlayer only) - - GUI: - * correct GTK widget destroy event handler - * fullscreen switching fixed (sync with x11_common) - * fix GTK submenu - * new font render engine - * added persistant history patch - * SDL Audio configure window - * add overlapping to preferences - * add playbar for subwindow - * add vertical potmeter for skin - * fixed 'single pixel bug' - * fixed some possible crashes - - - rc2: Dec 24, 2002 - General: - * DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt and tech/directfb.txt - * some DOCS corrections/updates/sync/HTML fixes - * GUI: fixed three submenu bugs and several other problems - * more compiler warning fixes - * NetBSD: CPU SSE/SSE2 detection & VCD reading fixes - * fixed possible v4l capturing crash - * merged the EDL 0.5 patch - using & creating edit-lists (runtime cut&skip) - * subtitle alignment changeable: top/bottom/middle (key 'i') - * -slang support for VOBsub files - - VO: - * X11 fullscreen switching code changed again (esp. for GNOME2/KDE 3.1) - * VIDIX: svgalib kernelhelper support (as libdha alternative) - * VIDIX driver for trident cyberblade card - * VIDIX: 8 pixel shift & pink window bugs fixed in the RADEON driver - * new, rewritten version of vo_svga (VIDIX support etc) and vo_gif89 - * yuv4mpeg vs. framedrop/frameskip fixed - - Codecs: - * libavcodec: fixed possible 20% speedloss bug - * support for the experimental (and buggy) dev-api-3 XviD CVS branch - * fall back on built-in codecs.conf if no compatible external file found - * experimental Sorenson 1/3 encoding (using QuickTime DLLs) - * more accurate video bitrate calculation for AVI files - * presets support for libmp3lame encoding - * CDDA seeking fixed - * Win32/RealPlayer codecs DLL & 64bit Alpha Linux RealPlayer codecs support - * XMMS Input plugins (demuxer & codec) support - * Fixed a bug in MMX-optimized mp3lib (triggered by OpenBSD). - - - rc1: "CodecCounter" Dec 7, 2002 - Docs: - * new French translation - * IRIX section - * various updates (both English & Hungarian) - - Codecs: - * new codec pack download page (there are several packs for various IFs) - * Win32/QuickTime codec plugin DLL support -> SVQ3 + QDMC/QDM2/Qclp !!! - * Win32/DMO codec DLL interface support -> Windows Media Audio/Video 9 !!! - * MJPEG 2000 support (using Morgan & Imagepower VfW DLLs) - * libavcodec: optimized HuffYUV en/decoder, with experimental YV12 support - * libavcodec: MJPEG-B support (need more samples) - * more xvidencopts - * VorbisGain tag support, tremor (fast vorbis decoder lib) support - * BIG libavcodec messups & codmetics & cleanups & API changes & fixes - * dynamic plugin support for libmpcodecs (for future binary codec releases) - - GUI: - * general code cleanup, more robust GTK code - * preferences: screensaver, Autosync settings - * cache=4 fixed (caused jerky/lagging/slow playback with gmplayer) - - Others: - * new config/cmdline parser code (optional) - * OSD menu system (preferences, shell, file selector, etc) - * libaf: runtime cpudetection, volume, equalizer, better format conversion - * subtitle overlapping can be disabled, added subtitle sorting - * subtitle dump to JACOsub and SAMI formats - * displays URLs from 'Reference Media' type MOV files, dump generic data - * find best (longest) streams in MOV files (twotowers...) - * get position/length function in demuxers - for slavemode & -identify - * -ao alsa9 surround fixes, 8-bit PCM fixed - * -vo dfbmga: -dr support, fixed OSD flickering - * -stop-xscreensaver fixed, support for KDE screensaver, too - * More compiler warning fixes - * AltiVec (G4) support - - - pre10: "BirthdayCounter" Nov 11, 2002 - Docs: - * DVD auth, VCD sections extended (DOCS/cd-dvd.html) - * unified *BSD sections, extended Cygwin - - Fixes: - * LIRC error message (Error while reading cmd fd X : Success) fixed - * playback of some (streamed?) DivX files starting with non-I-frames fixed - * -vo png fixed (removed builtin YV12 support, removed OSD) - * some MP3 playback/seek segfaults fixed - * VIDIX Mach64 colorkey on PPC fixed - * -ao sdl now handles "featureless" soundcards - * -vo zr fixes - * fixed sig11 if vo init failed - * various DXR2 and DXR3 fixes - * v4l buffering fixed - * fixed multiple reads caused by byteswapping macro (mjpeg.c, mach64_vid.c) - * cleanup of postprocessing code - now it's threadsafe and can be shared - * ported to GNU/Hurd - * cleanup of AVI pts (timestamp) handling - no more BPS hack in mplayer.c - * small cleanup of A-V sync code - using relative instead of absolute timers - * GUI code cleanup, obsolete files/dirs removed - * various small bug fixes, endianness fixes - * MEncoder: -pass option removed, use -divx4opts pass=N / -lavcopts vpass=N - * MEncoder: "ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion `q>0.0' failed" fixed! - * MEncoder: -ovc xvid fixes, cleanup, enhancements - * screensaver/dpms re-enabling fixed - * RealVideo demuxer fixes - ASF-style stream detection method - - Features: - * -ao win32 (for Windows port) - * libavcodec: native WMA v1/v2 (aka DivX audio) decoder - * hw-accelerated video eq for -vo x11 and gl2, using DirectColor colormap - * overlapping subtitles support, jacosub (*.js) format support - * -vo dxr3 got a new syncengine, ':sync', also added native overlay support, - activate with ':overlay', read the manual for more info on how to set up - * QDMC/QDM2/MACE audio codec support, using QuickTime 5 Win32 DLLs (libwine!) - * libavcodec: various MJPEG decoding fixes - now it decodes all sample files! - * mencvcd updates, sox/toolame support, etc - * -vo dfbmga - play video on Matrox G400's second head using directfb 0.9.14 - * RealAudio ATRC (sony atrac3) audio support (using binary plugin) - - Filters: - * -af/-af-adv options cleanup - * now auto-inserting -vop lavc for MPEG-only vo's - * video filter API documented :) - * better deblocking filter (-vop pp), pp/npp syntax changed! - * -vop 2xsai - 2x scaler for drawn images (low-color cartoon animations) - * -vop unsharp - a sharp/blur filter, nice, but very slow - * -vop il - (de)interleave fields - * -vop swapuv - guess what :) - * -vop boxblur - box blur... - * -vop perpective - * -vop sab - * -vop smartblur - - - pre9: Oct 24, 2002 - Docs: - * man page rewritten again :))) - * man page updated to latest options, including lavc options - * Chinese docs translation added - * Hungarian translation is (was? :)) up-to-date again - - Cleanup: - * divx4_vbr.c is now really GPL - with the permission of the DivX.com guys! - * cyuv decoder restructuring, now supports planar YUV formats, too - * removed obsolete variables, like has_audio, has_video, allow_dshow, fifo - * help_mp-XX.h files moved to help/ subdirectory, removed obsolete entries - * the obsolete 0x1ff eof hack removed from MPEG-ES demuxer and decoders - * stheaders.h cleanup, removed unneeded wine includes from MPlayer core - * tons of compiler warning fixes, including some 10l ones - * mga/xmga vo shared code, vesa and svga drivers cleanup - * major vo drivers are now -fixed-vo compliant: x11, xv, xvidix, xmga, gl2 - * libmpdemux option handling cleanup - now it's MPlayer-independent again - * removed fork() from LIRC input module - * libfame removed from main tree/release - libavcodec is faster, better etc. - - Fixes: - * Some fullscreen switching fixes, including Metacity vs KDE 3.1 - * Many GUI bug fixes - * -vo DGA fixes, cleanup - * -dvdkey sig11 fixed - * K6-III's 3dnowex vs mmxext sigill fixed in mp3lib - * -vo gif89, jpeg U-V swapping fixed - * RTC setup fixes, more verbose messages, hints - * MEncoder: demuxer/codec uninit order fixed (solves some sig11) - * various v4l and ALSA capturing fixes - * demux_mov: fixed crash with MPEG-4 on SPARC, decoding on big-endian - * various NAS ao fixes - * libvo: optional stride support for packed YUV / RGB formats - * MEncoder: set keyframe flag on audio packets, fixes Windows seeking - * loader: fixed 2 10l bugs, ATI VCR2 DLL now works. using new style CS code. - * demux_avi: always use block counter even if dwSampleSize!=0, fixes samples - * SPU decoder (DVD/VOBsubs): fixed 2 major bugs causing lost subtitles - * various memory leak fixes (valgrind rulez :) - * fixed RealAudio SIPR(O) codec (the wrapper didn't find the dspr.so.6) - * mms:// audio (radio) streaming fixed - * DVB: -vop lavc=bitrate is working again - * various big-endian fixes - - Features: - * new audio filter layer (libaf) - automatic samplerate conversion - * experimental -vo directx driver for Cygwin build - * unrarlib included for rar'ed VOBsubs - * native XviD encoding (-ovc xvid) interface for MEncoder - * new softeq filter with gamma support: -vop eq2 - * -ao/-vo accepts list of drivers and can fall back on one, like -ac/-vc - * audio/video codec selection (-ac/-afm) rewritten, now uses codec/fm list - * get_delay() smoothing (-autosync) - should help buggy sound drivers - * smb:// URL support (disabled by default, ./configure part not yet done!) - * support for 1/4/8bpp raw video (requires -vop palette / -vop 1bpp) - * support for QuickTime alaw/agsm audio codecs, 3IV2, 3VID video codecs - * swscale can now output YUY2 format, upscaled (default), unscaled (-sws 0) - * VIDIX with LinuxPPC support (Mach64 is confirmed to work) - * GUI: cache, autoq settings, start in fullscreen, toggle button in menu - * New video filter to overlay images over video: -vop bmovl - - Libavcodec: - * RV10 codec cleanup (2nd level demuxer moved to demuxer layer) - * MPEG-4 interlaced DCT _en_coding support - * luma masking support (encoding) - * runtime selectable IDCT algo - * faster MPEG-1/2 decoder - * DV decoding (both PAL and NTSC) - * MPEG-1 2-pass encoding support - * better/cleaner error resilience (done in a 2nd pass after decoding) - * H.263/MPEG-4 out of order slice decoding - * -lavdopts bug= reworked, now uses flags, autodetects most of them - * complete MPEG-4 GMC decoding support - - - pre8: Sep 18, 2002 - Docs: - * man page rewritten, now has better indenting, and can be converted to HTML - * AUTHORS, MAINTAINERS converted back to separate text files, and updated. - * ChangeLog file is included again (was removed after 0.18) - * some new tech docs on libmpcodecs, updates/fixes in others, manpage.txt - * more updates in translation files (help_mp-XX.h) - * removed obsolete/unused entries from help_mp-en.h - - Cleanup: - * XAnim interface merged & fixed, now uses mpi and supports direct rendering - * cleanup of libmpdemux stream layer, especially of TV and MF parts - * more unused files removed: vo_fsdga, vo_odivx, vd_rle, timer.c, ttf_load - - Fixes: - * the http:// infinite memleak bug has been fixed, some WMS9 mms:// fixes - * various SPARC/Sun, HP-UX and NetBSD/OpenBSD portability fixes - * -vop palette fixes, CRAM and QPEG colors are OK now - * demuxer fixed for >2GB nuppelvideo files - * MEncoder: -ss fixed for 3-pass encoding - * gui.conf locale bug fixed (again... hope this time it's OK) - * X11 fullscreen switching fixed, when d_width == screenwidth - * MOV files edit-list handling fixed - solved 'short read' issue - - Features: - * new demuxer for .PVA files (file format of TV/DVB apps on Win32) - * -mf now supports TGA (24/32bpp uncompressed/rle) images - * libavcodec: support for interlaced MPEG-4 _de_coding - * libavcodec: aspect ratio encoding support (MPEG-4, MJPEG, H.263?) - * Win32 DLL loader merged/synced with avifile CVS - - - pre7: Sep 5, 2002 - Cleanup: - * libvo2, old input code & sis_vid removed, other code cleanups - * tons of compiler warning fixes, some configure/Makefile improvements - * more messages are translated, many translations updated - * docs review continued, HTML cleanups - * option -vfm/-afm now uses names instead of numbers, driver IDs removed - - Code: - * vfw/vfwex cleanup, support for runtime csp queries, 8bpp support - * new native mszh/zlib codec - * libavcodec: 2-pass control code rewritten, now everything is customizable - * libavcodec: MPEG-4/XviD en/decoding support improved, rv10 decoding fixes - * various RealVideo demuxer and video codec fixes, sipr audio support - * new video filters: soft eq (brightness), halfpack (deinterlacer), film noise - * OGM subtitles support - * optional freetype 2.1+ support for runtime-scalable .ttf font rendering - * various networking and mms:// fixes, live.com support improved - * various v4l video capturing and audio capturing fixes, audio input layer - * libmpdvdkit2 - based on libdvdcss 1.2.2 + libdvdread 0.9.3 + key cache - * alsa: iec958-init completely rewritten - better SP/DIF AC3 support - - GUI: - * gui.conf locale bug fixed (hopefully) - * preferences menu extended, runtime subtitle loading support - * drag'n'drop support - - - pre6: Aug 6, 2002 - * WMV1, Sorenson v1 (SVQ1) and RealPlayer 8.0 (RV20/30, Cook) codecs support - * libavcodec M1 direct rendering - * IPB support with Xv - * libavcodec improvements, bugfixes (encoder and decoder side) - * Raw DV demuxer - * libdv-based DV audio/video decoder - * Various MOV/MP4, RM and ASF/WMV demuxer bugfixes, improvements - * Detection of AVI files which needs -ni - * workaround for some Nandub bugs - * Support for live.com RTP/RTSP streaming libraries - * Support to rip DVD subs in VOBsub format - * bug fixes of mpsub/srt converter - * Closed Captioning (ASCII subs on RC1 DVDs) support - * Massive directfb updates - * VIDIX fixes/updates, including fixes of all known Radeon bugs - * dithered 1/4/8 bpp support with -vo svga (EGA rulez:)) - * alsa9 fixes/improvements - * native ARTS driver - * various endianness and 64-bit fixes (including MEncoder and -ao pcm) - * many small compatibility/portability fixes (better Cygwin, Darwin support) - * GUI fixes (playlist, audio/video equalizer, preferences) - * Skins (fixed many small glitches, a few new skins) - * 'mencvcd' script (creating VCD/SVCD with MEncoder) - * HTML DOCS updates - * man page & README restructured (again :)) - - - pre5: Jun 8, 2002 - Documentation: - * a lot of fixes, updates, cleanups - * new README containing quick install guide - * tech level docs on libavcodec encoding options - * HTML doc is now IE 6.0.2600 compatible! :))) - - Code changes: - * subreader (ASCII subtitle file parser) fixes - * spudec (VOBsub) cleanup/fixes - * new (faster, better) scaler - * bbox support - * mmst:// streaming support - * OGM (Ogg) audio/video stream selection - * native Micro$oft MPEG4v1 (MPG4) codec, error concealement for all MPEG-4s - * various libavcodec encoding improvements - * MPEG-1 && -vo x11 crash fixed when movie's height%16!=0 - * raw (uncompressed) video fixed (AVI & MOV) - * flickering/blocking fixed for old VfW codecs (indeo3, cinepak etc) - * introduced codecs.conf versioning to avoid problems caused by too old conf - - Display: - * some more X11 cleanup, icewm fullscreen fixes, -vo gl/gl2 fixed - * xscreensaver disabling support (optional, disabled by default) - * pan&scan support in xv, xmga, xvidix - * Xv YV12 stride problems fixed when width%8!=0 - * VIDIX Rage128/Radeon driver synced with MPlayerXP, various xvidix fixes - * DVB A/V sync fixes, libfame updated to 0.9.0 - * native -ao arts driver - * AC3 passthrough support for -ao alsa9 - * -ao nas fixed - - Miscellaneous fixes: - * GUI: VCD and URL support, some bugs fixed - * some cleanup of messages (less debug stuff) printed by MPlayer - * gcc 3.1 support - * various portability fixes (Cygwin, Darwin, 64bit SPARC/Alpha) - - - pre4: May 13, 2002 - * X11 fullscreen toggle fixes with many window managers, multifile playback - * DXR2 support - * Output into animated GIF - * "cropdetect" video filter to autodetect necessary cropsize - * libavcodec marked as default encoder for MEncoder - * man page rewrite - * a lot of other fixes - - - pre3: May 3, 2002 - * 3DNow! optimization of AC3 4ch downmix fixed, optimizations re-enabled - * DGA error/fail after 1 second of playing fixed - * big A-V desync for some AVI files fixed - * image distortions when seeking in some MPEG files fixed - * libmpdvdkit + gcc 3.x issue solved (our CFLAGS triggered a gcc3 bug...) - * GUI aspect ratio and fullscreen switch fixes, cleanups - * low-PS WMV playback fixed - * Mac OS X (Darwin) port? - * buggy v4l audio grabbing disabled, we cannot fix, but patches are welcomed! - * various MJPEG improvements in libavcodec - - - pre2: Apr 30, 2002 - * hwac3 fixes (try AFMT_AC3 first), big-endian fixes for PCM audio - * 2-pass encoding with libavcodec (-lavcopts vpass=x), B-frames support - * faster Ogg seeking (use -forceidx for slow but accurate one) - * audio-only with GUI fixed - * -rootwin fixed for x11, xv, xmga, xvidix - * aspect ratio fix for ffmpeg12 - * MPEG-ES detection fixed - * runtime cpudetect disabled by default - * support for many new Win32 codecs, including mss1, tm20, ucod, truespeech - * DivX audio dll sig11 with glibc 2.1.(2|3) fixed - * libmpdvdkit - patched kit of DVD libraries (enabled for Linux+FreeBSD) - * man pages updated - * 'f' (fullscreen switch) fixed for some WMs, still has problems - * various FreeBSD and OpenBSD portability patches - * options -xy,-zoom,-flip usable with MEncoder, too, -xy keeps aspect - * -vop lavc, using new fast best libavcodec for realtime MPEG-1 transcoding - * fixed GTK GUI crash with --disable-mencoder - * no more black VOBsub subtitles :) - - - pre1: Apr 21, 2002 - * 100% GPL - yeah, so what? - * runtime CPU detection - x86 MPlayer binary can run on "any" other x86 CPU - * video filter layer - with numerous plugins (crop, expand, etc) - * view or encode DVD/VOBsub and/or text subtitles into the output AVI - * preliminary dvdnav support (experimental) - * direct rendering - can't be used with libavcodec yet, sorry - * display subtitles under the image, on black bands - * FFmpeg (included) now supports decoding MPEG4v2 (MP42) and DivX 5.0 files - * greatly enhanced MPEG-4 encoder (libavcodec) - * audio-only (WAV/MP3/WMA/Ogg) file playback (console only) - * playing/encoding audio from separate WAV/MP3 file - * support for more file formats, including the new and very popular Ogg - * multiple file playback from console, including various playlist formats - * and of course, faster than ever... :) - - -MPlayer (0.60) "The RTFMCounter": Jan 2, 2002 - - release: - * minor bug fixes for RealMedia/nuppelvideo demuxers - * docs updates - * help file translation updates - - - pre2: Dec 29, 2002 - * build fixes (install codecs.conf) - * DVD subtitles improved (stability and pts fixes) - * new options: -alang, -vlang, -rootwin, -npp ... (rtfm) - * DXR3 fixes - * AC3 passthrough fix - * docs updates - * make install - - - pre1: Dec 25, 2002 - * new file formats (MOV, FLI/FLC, VIVO, RealMedia, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, - yuv4mpeg2) - * more native codecs (CRAM, CVID, FLI, generic ADPCM (and IMA) decoder, - g723, XAnim) - * MEncoder (a tool for encoding video to DivX4+MP3) - * rewritten configure script (better autodetection, cleaner messages) - * MMX/SSE optimizations - * faster postprocessing filter, syntax change (deinterlacing support) - * DirectShow code in C - * software YV12 scaling - * aspect ratio fixes - * input cache for smoother network/DVD playback - * GUI fixes and new skins - * DVD subtitles - * playing in root window (-rootwin) - * liba52 - * audio filters (surround, 5.1, up/downsample, etc) - * new homepage design - * grabbing from TV through v4l - * hardware MPEG decoder support (DXR3, Siemens DVB) - - - -MPlayer (0.50) "The Faszom(C)ounter": Oct 8, 2001 - - release: - * documentation updates - * non-Linux build fixes - - - prex 1-3: Sep 28 2001 - Oct 5 2001 - * some pre-beta nationalization support - * HTMLized documentation, split in sections - * a lot of bug fixing - * new AAlib driver (independent of SDL, SUB/OSD support) - * DivX DirectShow equalizer over keyboard - * dynamic setting of DivX postprocessing quality (-autoq) - * updated FAQ section on the homepage - - - -MPlayer (0.18) "The BugCounter": (0.18 only consisted of prereleases) - - pre 1-5: Jun 26 2001 - Jul 9 2001 - * mp3lib even more optimized for 3DNow!/MMX - * GGI driver - * ICCCM patch - - * skin support - * GUI support - - * libao2 (null, oss, alsa, sdl) introduced - * ASF seeking fixed - * option to force audio playback samplerate (-srate) - * framedropping for MPEG files as well - * X11 driver works on remote display (without SHM) - * A-V sync for AVI files fixed (both -bps and -nobps) - - - -MPlayer v0.17a "IdegCounter++": Apr 27 2001 - - first 0.17 release failed - buggy files outdated docs etc :( - it's (hopefully) fixed now. - - - -MPlayer v0.17 "IdegCounter": Apr 27, 2001 - * DVD playing (libcss) - * OSD and subtitles with antialiased fonts - * new Win32 codecs (WMV1,AP42,ASV2 etc) - * new VO drivers (SVGAlib,fbdev,DGA,SDL etc) - * source cleanup, most part of the code rewritten - -* jumped to 0.17 * (why 17? oh. chass just got a new 17" monitor :)) - - - faster memcpy() routine (MMX/3DNow!/SSE-optimized) - - new stream selection code (autodetected) - - pre-devel-alpha DVD code (libcss) - - subtitle code 100% (perfected timing code) - - new output drivers (SVGAlib, FBdev) - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre27-CVS: - - updated libmpeg2 source to libmpeg2-0.2.1-CVS version - - updated OpenDivX encore/decore to 4.0 alpha48 - - cmdline/configfile handler by szabi - - added DirectShow support (now DivX-only) - - bugfix: stream.c/stream_new() uninitialized variables - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre26-CVS: - - updated libmpeg2 source to libmpeg2-0.2.0 version - - small fixes - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre25-CVS: yeah, we moved to SourceForge CVS! - - DOCS updated (email address changed from arpi@* -> maillist) - - LIRC fix, mplayer_lirc changed back to mplayer [Andreas Ackermann] - - stream.c: unsigned int fixes, required for some strange ASF files - - asfheader.c: using w=h=b=1 for audio_concealment_none - - VCD-related stuff moved from stream.c to vcd_read.c - - added DGA driver by Andreas Ackermann - - added debian/ subdir for the Debian package makers... see DOCS/DEBIAN - - new Makefile/dependency system - - added check_events() to libvo, X11 stuff moved to x11_common.c - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre24: Feb 19, 2001 - small fixes again :( - - DOCS/LIRC changed: users *must* enable lirc support manually, it is - not autodetected yet. (./configure --enable-lirc) - - the {prefix} bug fixed by Gabucino - - added man page by Gabucino - - man page -vo fixes by A'rpi - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre23: Feb 18, 2001 - lirc support, text updates, mailinglists - - added "-ni" option to force usage of the non-interleaved AVI parser - - DOCS/* updated by Gabucino - - new homepage by Gabucino - - MPlayer-users & announce mailing lists by Dariusz Pietrzak (see README) - - LIRC support by Andreas Ackermann (see DOCS/LIRC) - enable with ./configure --enable-lirc - TODO: ./configure should detect LIRC installed and better Makefile handling - - added AVI_NINI parser for broken (no index) non-interleaved files - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre22: Feb 16, 2001 - last fixes, release is coming soon! - - non-interleaved AVI EOF bug fixed [thanks to DC-1 for help] - - "You" strings in Makefile after make dep bug fixed... [thx to DC-1] - - SDL disabled by default. You have to ./configure --enable-sdl to enable. - - homepage updated by Gabucino - - homepage updated by A'rpi - - FAQ updated by A'rpi - -fork() -> 0.12pre1 - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre21: Feb 12, 2001 - MPEG-1 pp, stereo fix - - "Skip chunk xxxx" messages moved from -v to -v -v -v debug level... - [thanks to Christoph H. Lampert] - - DivX postprocess filter works for MPEG-1 files, too! (-divxq 1/3/7/31) - - MPEG layer-2 audio fixed - it's stereo again!!! - - audio select() detection: if detected audio buffer size == 0, then - exit with message "Recompile mplayer with #undef HAVE_AUDIO_SELECT !"... - - syncfb driver added to the source tree, under drivers/ - (it's very similar to mga_vid, but has syncronization to screen and - de-interlace features) - - draw_slice in syncfb finished for G400 cards (plays MPEG-1/2, OpenDivX) - (de-interlacing has been disabled, because it's buggy now) - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre20: Feb 11, 2001 - NI-AVI support, small fixes & patches... - - ASF parser: flag 0x40 (explicit packet size) implemented [Marvin] - - new option to select DSP device: -dsp (default: /dev/dsp) [Pontscho] - - option -o changed to -vo - - ./configure: applied patches [LGB,Ian Kumlien,Magnus Pfeffer] - - AVI chunk_id->ds mapper moved to demux_avi_select_stream() - - added non-interleaved AVI parser - - added non-interleaved AVI detection (if a_pos-v_pos distance > 1MB) - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre19: Feb 9, 2001 - small fixes... - - vo_xmga.c: G200 draw_slice fixed - xmga + mga: common part (draw_frame & draw_slice) moved to mga_common.c - - some independent code (asfinfo.c and GL-test) moved to the new TOOLS subdir - - movinfo.c added to TOOLS (small util to dump MOV file structure) - - AVI & ASF stream id detection changed: now using IDs from the header - (but still can be overriden by -aid or -vid) [Christoph H. Lampert] - - native MS-GSM audio codec ported from avifile source (-afm 6) - [thanks for the testfile to Christoph H. Lampert] - - README updated (input & codec lists) - - implemented ASF audio descrambling [Dirk Vornheder & Einon] - -> that weird_al_yankovic ASF is not so weird now :) - - AUTHORS file changed - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre18: Feb 7, 2001 - patch release :) - - skip broken ASF fragments (for better seeking) - - seeking code cleanup in sources (now it's in a switch(){}) - - opendivx encoding bitrate option changed from -divxq to -br - (for the DivX -> DivX re-encoding) - - TO DO section moved to file TODO - - applied ./configure and Makefile changes patch from LGB - - libvo function changes by Pontscho: x11 (with -fs), xmga (bugfixed!) - - libvo: driver sources renamed from video_out_*.c -> vo_*.c - - libvo: added uninit() function to drivers - - libvo: fork()'ed X11 eventhandler for x11 and xmga drivers [me & Pontscho] - (gl and xv version is coming soon!) - - libvo: sdl driver now closes SDL at QUIT... - - small English fixes (docs & messages) [Balazs Tibor] - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre17: Feb 4, 2001 - fixes - - ASF "missing video stream" fixed (stream id & 0x7F) [Christoph H. Lampert] - - added GL-test directory, it contains source and compiler script of a - very simple open-gl texture updating (glTexSubImage) test program. - if it runs well, then mplayer -o gl should work, too. - it works on G400+Utah-GLX, but segfaults in the G400 driver of X 4.0.2/DRI. - try it with different cards/drivers, and please report me the results. - - benchmarking in gltest.c: calculate fps and process times - - ASF seeking v0.01-pre0.1 :) - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre16: Feb 4, 2001 - ACM fixed - - Win32/ACM audio codec fixed (most important for ASF with DivX audio): - There was an output buffer size problem with the Win32/ACM audio codec - at low bitrates (usually used for ASF files with DivX audio) - Input and output buffer sizes are now queryed, problem solved :) - - SDL support compiling hint by Michael Durller added to the FAQ - - opendivx support in ASF files [Gérard Lantau] - - ./configure & Makefiles patch by Aaron Hope applied. - (adds --with-win32libdir and fixes --with-x11libdir) - - ./configure fixed, now it defaults to /usr/lib/win32 if detection failed - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre15: Feb 2, 2001 - ASF sync fixed - - ASF parser: now supports other than 0x5D segments [Dirk Vornheder] - - new ASF PTS reading: sync works now, including fps... - (-fps no longer required!) [thanks again to Eugene Kuznetsov for docs!] - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre14: Feb 1, 2001 - small fixes, ASF sync v0.1 :) - - version number incremented :))) - - libvo / Xv driver swapped red-blue fixed - - ASF timestamps implemented - now ASF A-V should be in sync if you - specify the correct fps at commandline (-fps), +-1 fps allowed... - [i haven't yet found method to get fps out from ASF headers :(((] - - some error and consistency checking into demux_asf - if you see many warning! messages playing an ASF file, then contact - me and upload the file (first 1MB is enough if it represents the problem) - Don't forget: there is no public doc about the ASF file format, so - everything we know is suspected and can be wrong... without your help - we will never have a working ASF player... - - ASF fragment offset checks disabled for grouping... - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre13: Jan 31, 2001 - libvo changes, MPEG bitrate, VCD fix, ASF grouping - - libvo: draw_slice() interface changed, now it has src stride[3] and - destination rect dimension (w,h,x,y) - It's able to blit whole frames, not only 16-pixel slices... - - libmpeg2 and opendivx codec changed to use new draw_slice() - -> opendivx extra 64-pixel width band at right disappeared! - - MPEG bitrate fix: if picture->bitrate==0x3FFFF (means "unspecified" ?) - then using standard VCD bitrate (75*2324 bytes/sec) - -> fixed seeking for those MPEGs with "16MBit/s" bitrate... - - drivers/sis_vid: video4linux interface disabled - - broken VCD playing fixed: stream_reset shouldn't seek to 0x0... - [bugreport: Kang Sun] - - asf_parser: grouping implemented! [test file provided by Gabucino :))] - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre12: Jan 30, 2001 - ./configure fixes, improved odivx-encoding, streaming fixes - - ./configure: use /tmp/main$$.c instead of /tmp.main.c, and - remove file after tests [SaPe] - - ./configure: trying the gcc optimize options and fall back on 'pentium' - if it fails (useful for people with old gcc and new CPU :)) - - removed -fomit-frame-pointer from OPTFLAGS at config.mak - - version number incremented [Gabucino] - - odivx encoder fix: allow long (longer than xxxx.avi) destination filenames - (sizeof() changed to strlen()...) [Gabucino] - - AVI writer - overwrite disabled (exits with error message if destination - file already exists...) [Gabucino] - - use -divxq to set encoding bitrate (in bits (not kbits!) default: 780000) - - no audio decoding if -encode option is used - - audio streaming disabled if -nosound specified (setting audio_id to -2) - - fast MPEG-ES detection (doesn't read the whole MPEG-PS file) - - compile-time option to disable using soundcard driver's select() - (required for some people with buggy/pre-alpha/etc sound driver...) - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre11: Jan 29, 2001 - streaming fixes, ASF support pre, indeo5 fix - - asf/asfinfo.c improved: now dumps streams to files - needs testing! - (it's ready to be converted to ASF demuxer and integrated into MPlayer) - - stream.c / stream_reset() fix: now really seeks back to position 0! - - ASF file format detection added (no ASF reading yet!!!) - - ASF demultiplexer added, changes in demuxer.c to handle fragmented packets - > it plays ASF video well, but still has problems with DivX/WMA audio. :((( - - indeo 5 playing fixed (removed ICDECOMPRESS_UPDATE from flags) - - xmga resizing problems with some window managers, so default order is - changed xmga,xma... to mga,xmga,... - - found gcc bug: compiling MPlayer with flags - OPTFLAGS=-O -g -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math - causes image sizes negating -> mga_vid kernel driver Oops... :((( - - runaway.bride.sample.avi seeking segfault discovered: AC3 resync fails :( - - improved signal handling: module name is now printed. audio_resync added. - - RGB opendivx encoding implemented, now AVI->opendivx is possible. - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre10: Jan 22, 2001 - OpenDivX encoding, streaming fixes, AVI seek fixes - - new libvo driver: odivx (OpenDivX File Writer) - - AVI file writing support, new option: -encode filename - to encode an MPEG/VOB/VCD to opendivx: - mplayer file1.mpg -encode file2.avi -o odivx -nosound - (sound encoding/copying is not yet supported) - - libvo: default driver priority changed to: xmga,mga,syncfb,3dfx,xv,x11,gl - - AVI writer: index support - - small fixes in AVI writer to be compliant (adjusted chunk/list lengths) - - demuxer.c: stream buffering fixes: - - missing {} in mplayer.c occurring audio reads when has_audio=0 - - reordered packet reader and pack count checks -> no more unwanted EOF - - added 4MB buffer memory usage limit to demuxed streams - - CPU flags in ./configure changed: - k7 -> k6 (current stable gcc doesn't support k7) - 386,486 -> i386,i486 [Balazs Tibor] - - demux_avi: index check now accepts (raw.len+1)==idx.len [Balazs Tibor] - - FAQ added - - ** Now we are done with planned features & urgent fixes, ** - ** it's time for final testing and then the 0.11 release!! ** - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre9: Jan 18, 2001 - OpenDivX fixes,speedup - - solved OpenDivX width problem (stride=width+(Quality?0:64)) - now -divxq 0 works, and 0 is the default - - libvo call moved out from my_convert_yuv() so it can be measured (CPU %) - - IDCT code ported from libmpeg2 -> much faster OpenDivX decoding - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre8: Jan 18, 2001 - SDL fixes, OpenDivX support - - added -I/usr/X11R6/include to libvo CFLAGS - - (removed later: applied libvo SDL driver fixes by Jeffrey Boser) - - OpenDivX support, initial hack, maybe not working for you... - (I need testfiles, I have only one) - use -divxq option to adjust quality (1..29 works), 1=default - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre7: Jan 14, 2001 - SDL support - - ported SDL driver from mpeg2dec/libvo (current CVS) - (it's slower than internal X11 driver, but supports software scaling!) - - fixed SDL driver to support -fs and pass keyboard events - - SDL driver changed to support YV12 and YUY2 formats instead of IYUV - (now works with DivX files, too) - - 'q' (Quit) disabled in SDL fullscreen mode (because it's impossible - to restore screen before exiting so it gets into an unusable state now) - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre6: Jan 14, 2001 - audio fix - - fixed video_out_xv.c compilation problems [bugreport: Kalle Mellerup] - - modified audio playing: always keep buffer (both internal and card's) - filled using select() -> -alsa audio delays should be fixed. - - updated DOCS/AUTHORS and DOCS/README - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre5: Jan 12, 2001 - xmmp audio support, applied Pontscho's libvo patch - - xmmp audio driver support by Arthur Kleer - - new video_out driver by Pontscho: xmga (Matrox G200/G400 only!) - It does same under X 3.3.x what Xv extension does under X 4.0.x! - (you will have a moveable/resizeable window but see a YUV video - overlay in it using color keying) - - added keyboard event support in X11 windows [Pontscho] - (using mplayer_[put|get]_key() in codecctrl.c) - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre4: Jan 6, 2001 - x11 driver fixes, 15/16bpp support - - version in version.h fixed :))) [Pontscho] - - inttypes.h moved to DOCS/ (copy back to the root if you need it) - - depth calculation in vo_init() changed (Pontscho's version couldn't - differenciate between 15 and 16bpp) - - x11 driver now uses vo_init() instead of get_depth() - - yuv2mmx: 15bpp not really supported -> removed from list, now - conversion is done (well) by the C code -> MPEG play in 15bpp works! - - AVI playing support added in 15bpp (memcpy) - - AVI playing support added in 16bpp (C 15->16 converter by me) - - AVI playing support added in 16bpp (MMX 15->16 converter by Strepto) - - libvo/x11: yuv2rgb used MMX code on non-MMX CPUs, too!!! fixed... - - all x11 modes tested (and MPEG/24bpp byteorder fixed): - MPEG: AVI/VfW: - 15bpp C convert memcpy - 16bpp MMX/C convert MMX/C convert - 24bpp C convert memcpy - 32bpp MMX/C convert memcpy / C conv. - => now all the movie types are viewable using the -o x11 driver! - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre3: Jan 5, 2001 - MPEG fixes, fullscreen support - - vertical.mpg serious libvo (x11,gl) segfaults fixed: - yuv2rgb_mmx requires one more lines that vertical image size... - fixed (allocating memory for width*(height+1)). [bug report: Gabucino] - - Pontscho's fullscreen patch applied! - Using option -fs will maximize window size (for all resizeable drivers - including mga!) and disable window decorations (x11,Xv,gl only) - - simple inttypes.h included for libc5 (and glibc2.0, too?) users - - homepage updates (links changed ftp->http) - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre2: Jan 4, 2001 - better user messages, MP3 codec selection, demuxer changes - - w32codec.zip restored at the FTP site (somehow it got damaged...) - - added version.h, and used its content everywhere - - 'premature end-of-file' problem fixed: freeing audio buffers and - setting d_audio->id=-2 if has_audio==0 [bugreport by Dmitri Pogosyan] - - some more messages added if verbose>=1 - - demuxer.c: error message printed if A or V chunk buffer is full - 'mplayer test.avi -aid -2' still not works without option '-nosound' - - adding new config.h option to set default MP3 audio codec (mpg123/l3codeca) - ./configure selects mp3lib only if you have 3DNow! [idea: Gabucino] - - automatic fall back on mp3lib/mpg123 if l3codeca.acm can't be loaded/inited - - - -MPlayer v0.11-pre1: - AVI sync fixes - - AVI audio seeking improvements: now using nBlockAlign value to seek - inside the chunk, so DivX audio works without big delays!!! - - AVI PTS calculation modified: counting video PTS when skip_video_frames>0 - so new audio PTS values will be correct. Solved many sync probs! - - A-V sync with AVI files fixed! - Now only the Desperado-trailer has 1.0 sec delay after seeking. - - fixed AVI sync in -bps mode, too! :) (perfect except that Desperado AVI) - - - -MPlayer v0.10: Jan 1, 2001 "The new year" release! - - testing - - docs changed - - it's time to release and remove the old buggy 0.09 version... - - release!!! - - - -MPlayer v0.10-pre8: libvo/x11 changes - - libvo: x11/xv driver split into x11 and xv drivers - - libvo: DUMMY_VO_FUNC removed from driver sources - - libvo: default driver order changed, because some users with software-only - OpenGL thought that this 'slow' player can only play at 1-3fps :) - - - -MPlayer v0.10-pre7: Dec 31, 2000 - libmpeg2 interface changes, display size/area changes, AVI fixes - - libmpeg2/decode.c modified: - - removed unused OMS and mpeg2dec stuff - - decode_data rewritten, now works like parse_es.c - => doesn't copy any data -> faster and less memory usage - - mplayer.c sends code 0x1FF after every frame, so libmpeg2 knows - when to display it - - mplayer.c: in_frame flag fixes, didn't work well with MPEG-2 streams - (because there is a 0x1B2 chunk between 0x100 and 0x101) - - 'picture' changed from static to shmem-allocated - -> better picture after codec restart (tested with JapAd.mpg) - -> keep information of the header changes (after init) - - MPEG image size changed, now only the real part of frame is displayed - (no more green stripe at the bottom) - - picture struct: new fields: display_picture_width/height - - image buffer allocation (shmem) is done by decode.c instead of libvo - - new option: -xy <value> (resize both x/y direction) - if value<=8 -> x_scale = y_scale = value - else -> x_size=value y_size=aspectratio*x_size - - mplayer.c: video output moved out from AVI/MPG init sections and - now it's common code (added movie_size_x/y variables and out_fmt global) - - new keys: - ESC => quit - + and - => adjust audio delay +- 0.1 second - k => kill/restart the MPEG codec process (for testing) - - codec control interface changed: wait for syncword after (re)start - to avoid receiving old frames => it's stable again! - - removed (now unused) allocate/free image buffer code from libvo - - mplayer: new internal variable for video format: has_video - 0 = none (unused yet) - 1 = MPEG-1/2 video - 2 = Win32/VfW video codec - - config.h has defaults for bps-based AVI sync and ALSA timer code options: - #undef AVI_SYNC_BPS => now it's disabled by default!!! use -bps to enable - #define ALSA_TIMER => now it's enabled by default!!! use -noalsa to dis. - - help updated - - prints max compressed framesize at exit (both AVI & MPEG) - - AVI audio seeking fixed: some ACM codecs (DivX audio and ms-adpcm) - can't seek inside a chunk, they are only able to play whole chunks. - Current audio seeking has changed to seek inside the chunk only if the - codec supports it (only internal codecs and ACM/MP3 allows it). - - AVI: audio delay correction if seeking inside the chunk is not possible - - - -MPlayer v0.10-pre6: Dec 24, 2000 "Xmas edition" - MPEG signal & EOF fixes - - ./configure: k6_mtrr (2.4.test11+) added [Pontscho] - - `term destroys if mplayer (MPG) called from mc.ext` bug fixed: - added sighandler to the 3rd process (MPEG codec) to avoid sig. recursion - - better output at exit (handled now by exit_player()) - - MPEG EOF problem (codec restart) fixed: added EOF detection to parse_es.c - - internal flag 'current_module' added to get more info at segfaults - (contains module number where the segfault occurred) - - audio detection changed: using afm=4 (Win32/ACM) for MP3 audio (AVI files) - (you MUST have l3codeca.acm at /usr/lib/win32, or you have to use '-afm 1') - - - -MPlayer v0.10-pre5: Dec 22, 2000 - flipping fixed - - AVI image flipping reworked: - - new flag: avi_header.flipped, TRUE if upside-down - - image flipping code removed/disabled from libvo modules - - duplicate flip_page() calls removed (overload with x11 and mga) - - aLaw audio codec (AVI id 0x06) added (uses code from XAnim source) - - - -MPlayer v0.10-pre4: - test release, small fixes - - video_out driver <-> codec incompatibility message changed - - fixed the config.format bug in drivers/mga_vid_test, so it works again! - [thanks to David Whysong] - - libmpeg2 upgraded - - - -MPlayer v0.10-pre3: Dec 10, 2000 - test release, verbose mode, new docs - - new option: -v = increment verbosity level - (debug printf's changed to verbose level-dependent) - - default level: 0, only some informal output - - init debug: 1, some basic debug infos, AVI header, function values - - player debug: 2, print AVI indexes, chunk inputs, more debug infos - - parser debug: 3, prints everything related to input parsers - to increment verbose level, use multiple -v options (-v -v -v for level 3) - - bitrate calculation for AVI files - - README rewritten, added Troubleshooting and Bugreports sections - - TVout directory added (only the scripts) - - - -MPlayer v0.10-pre2: Dec 8, 2000 - bugfix test release, bps-sync enabled - - AVI: supporting both 0-based and movi-based index types (autodetect) - - AVI: tested with VBR audio: plays well with -mc 0 option, seek doesn't - work yet [thanks to Alan Chen for testfile] - - AVI: A-V sync to avg. byte/sec implemented (again) and enabled by default - (disable with -nobps if you want) - - ./configire: 3rd name ('kni') of the P3 added. Where is the compatibility? - - useless '\' removed from libac3/Makefile [Otvos Ferenc] - - - -MPlayer v0.10-pre1: Dec 5, 2000 - test release, players merged!!! - - avip and mpegp have been merged to a single binary called 'mplayer' - - file type detection (AVI/MPEG-PS/MPEG-ES/Other) - - no redundant code (common code for common jobs) - - big format-dependent codes moved to functions (separated files) - - better error messages, removed some debug stuff, code cleanups - - old libmpeg2 version removed from source tree - - help texts merged (help_avi+help_mpg -> help_mp) - - new options: -x <x> -y <y> = scale image (if selected driver supports) - if value<=8 then image size will be multiplied by value, otherwise - image size will be scaled to <value> pixels. - For example: - 2x ZOOM: mplayer -x 2 -y 2 test.mpg - 800x600: mplayer -x 800 -y 600 test.mpg - [default values are still configurable at compile-time, see config.h] - - TV project (not finished) codebase added (see tvision.c, or: make tvision) - - - -MPlayer v0.09: Dec 5, 2000 - Beta release [same as 0.09-pre3] - - version changed in the files - - docs updated - - - -MPlayer v0.09-pre3: Dec 3, 2000 - bugfix test-release, X11 support testing - - fixed the if [ -z $pparam ] bug in ./configure [Christian Birchinger] - - many changes in AVI seek code, resulting in near-perfect seeking now! - current method calculates absolute audio position, so with VBR audio it - doesn't work yet... - - avip: Xv support (YUY2 image format) - - avip: X11 support (24 & 32 bpp only, BGR format) - I need a very fast 15->16bpp converter for 16bpp support... anyone helps? - - - -MPlayer v0.09-pre2: - bugfix test-release - - removed unnecessary code from libmpeg2/header.c - Walken told me that standard MPG/VOB streams must NOT use framerate - and bitrate extension... and the ext. id check is done by the caller. - - CRC support to mp3lib's MPEG audio layer-2 decoder - thanks for bug report & test file to Samson - - - -MPlayer v0.09-pre1: Dec 1, 2000 - bugfix test-release - - imported new libmpeg2 files (under testing...) - - GL renderer flickering bug fixed (MMX missing emms() between yuv2rgb and - glTexSubImage(), bug triggered by new Utah-GLX code) - [thanks to Christian Birchinger] - - - -MPlayer v0.08: Nov 27, 2000 - Index support, AVI seeking, DLL loader fix, compilation fixes - - Added support for chunk index usage (disable with -noidx option) - - Removed code optimization flags from loader/Makefile because - it segfaults if compiled optimized (it does some hacks with - pointers, maybe the reordered code confuses it) - - added new tool called aviparse (read and check AVI file structure) - - indexed and raw chunk info comparing, bad chunks dropped - - termcap usage is optional (for those Debian users without termcap) - - #if HAVE_* fixed (to #ifdef HAVE_*) - - ./configure supports new /proc/cpuinfo (2.4.0-test11) - - sse is called 'sse' again - - 'flags' field renamed to 'features' - - Xv benchmark results added to DOCS/SPEED - - AVI seeking (and other goodies, pause etc) implemented - no PTS resync after seek yet. - - default video_out driver changed from 'mga' to the first available driver - new driver priority: mga_vid, opengl, x11 - - - -MPlayer v0.07: Nov 21, 2000 - Easier compile - - Added Pontscho's ./configure script (it's modified a lot) - - Updated makefiles, and tested a lot :) - - Updated DOCS/INSTALL - - - -MPlayer v0.06: Nov 20, 2000 - Better codec selection - - AVI audio&video codec selection moved to new codecs.c file, - loader/driver.c and loader/afl.c modified for this - - YUV support fixed, codecs.c setup flags to handle YUV properly - YUV works fine with DivX, MPEG-4, cvid, and upside-down iv50 - - DOCS/INSTALL updated - - DOCS/SPEED updated, DivX benchmarks added - - - -MPlayer v0.05: Nov 18, 2000 - Merged with MPEGplayer 0.90pre6, first public release of AVI player - - code merged with mpegplayer, new Makefile, some small modifications - - docs updated and moved to DOCS - - - -MPlayer v0.04: Nov 17, 2000 - YUV (YUY2) support with DivX 3.11 DLL, some code cleanup, preview-release - - - -MPlayer v0.03: Nov 14, 2000 - - - -MPlayer v0.01: Nov 11, 2000 - first preview version based on new MPEGplayer's codebase. - it contains the Win32 loader from avifile, and can decode DivX 3.11 video. - - - -mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5: Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000 - MPEG codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel - Lespinasse. It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect - image quality and 100% MPEG standard conformance. - - - -mpg12play v0.5-v0.87: Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000 - MPEG codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was great - stuff, but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!) - - - -mpg12play v0.1-v0.3: Sep 22-25, 2000 - The first try, hacked together in half an hour! I've used libmpeg3 - from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3, but there were - image quality and speed problems with it.
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/Changelog Fri Mar 09 13:48:57 2007 +0000 @@ -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) + * new video filter: field (cheap deinterlacer) + * DVD/VOBsub improvements: positioning, optional gaussian blur scaler + * vf_bmovl: 400% speedup :) + * libavcodec: native DV audio decoder + * GIF demuxer (for animated GIFs) + * new noise removal filter: -vop denoise3d + * per-channel gamma and MMX-opt'ed bri/cont/saturation support in -vop eq2 + * live.com lib support cleanup, support for more stream types + * playtree imported into the GUI instead of the GUI's own playlist hack + * support for the XviD and DivX4/5Linux libraries at the same time + * -fstype option: override priority/layer of the fullscreen switch methods + * libavcodec: some B-frame related encoding failures/crashes fixed + + + rc3: "BugfixCounter" Jan 19, 2003 + + DOCS: + * English man page & HTML docs updates + * audio filter documentation + * help_diff.sh doesn't depend on bash any more + * Hungarian, French, Italian, German, Polish(?) docs synced + + Important fixes: + * X11 fullscreen switching (yes, again...) rewritten, some X11 code cleanup + * Voxware and QuickTime DLLs finally work (was broken in some contexts) + * VIDIX Radeon support cleanup, should really solve the pink screen bugs + * Cygwin: -vo directx crashes and garbled picture with some files fixed + * OGM/Ogg seeking (broken frames) fixed, subtitle fixes, XCD support + * libaf: big (audio filter layer) updates, floating point support, speedup + * ffwma2 fixed (better error resilience) + * SPU queueing - fixes missing or early disappearing DVD subtitles + * the mysterious DVD audio delay (150-300ms) fixed + * extension-based file format detection fixed the MP3 vs. MPEG-PS conflict + * cache2 keeps buffer for non-seekable media, fixes QuickTime streaming + + Fixes: + * mp3lib CPU detection part cleanup, 'decwin' linker problem fixed + * various cddb:// fixes, support of NetBSD 1.6 + * libmpdvdkit2: Fix DVD authentication on Solaris 9 + * libmpdvdkit2: libdvdcss upgraded to 1.2.4 (keeping the key cache patch) + * libmpdvdkit2: fixed decryption from multiple VOB files (hdd or Darwin) + * -ao arts, -ao oss: Fix 8-bit sound support + * -vop expand + FFmpeg codecs conflicts solved, some other -vop bugs fixed + * -ac ffmp2 with MPEG files (sig11) fixed + * QT Qclp audio codec initialization fixed + * exit codes cleanup (0 for quit/eof, 1 for error) + * -ao win32 sync problems solved, -autosync 100 is still recommended + * -vo gif89a uninit sig11 fixed + * the usual compiler warning fixes :) + * use -pphelp instead of -vop pp=help + * various big-endian fixes + * 16bpp packed YUV fixes in crop, mirror, rotate filters + * some -fixed-vo and vo_preinit fixes, -vo sdl, xmga, mga should work... + * various Solaris compatibility fixes (should work out of the box) + * mms:// port fixes, tries 1755 if 80 failed + * libavcodec: various ME fixes, B-frames fixes, WMV2 slice decoding fixes + * -ao alsa9 audio-file playback high CPU usage fixed + * libaf updates, 2-pass initialization to get better filter path + * better detection of playlists, support for [Reference]-style format + * handle QuickTime reference media files as playlist + * cddb:// & cdda:// CD-ROM device name fixes on Linux and *BSD + + Features: + * -ao esd: new EsounD audio driver + * -vo dxr3: new NORM option + * XAnim & RealPlayer binary Codecs working on PPC + * Radeon 9000 support in VIDIX, colorkey restoring for all Radeons + * initial PPC (big-endian) support in VIDIX Rage128 driver + * pnm:// streaming support (ported from xine) + * muxer layer: MEncoder can now write MPEG-PS format, too (EXPERIMENTAL!) + * libavcodec: WMV2 decoder (buggy/untested) + * DVB "HEAD" (aka. NEWSTRUCT) drivers support + * subtitle background bounding-box support (optional grey-level & opacity) + * libaf: 3 new filters: panning, compressor/limiter and a noise gate + * per-mediafile config file support (for file-specific options) + * iconv (codepage conversion) support for OGM (Ogg) subtitles + * v4l: user friendly channel tuning + * freetype & old-style RAW font support usable (compilable) at the same time + * vo_directfb2, vo_dfbmga: DirectFB 0.9.16 support + * libavcodec: motion estimation pre pass, qpel encoding, trellis quantization + * libavcodec, liba52, mp3lib: AltiVec optimizations + * keep window aspect ratio at resizing (x11, xv), requires WM support + * -geometry option, also accepts X11 syntax + * real .bin+.cue (S)VCD images support (-vcd 2 -cuefile xxx.cue) + * postprocess: YUV 411/422/444 support, stride fixes + * jumping of overlapping subs fixed, sorting is automatic, iconv fixes + * MPEG-2 telecine detection and automatic inverse telecine (MPlayer only) + + GUI: + * correct GTK widget destroy event handler + * fullscreen switching fixed (sync with x11_common) + * fix GTK submenu + * new font render engine + * added persistant history patch + * SDL Audio configure window + * add overlapping to preferences + * add playbar for subwindow + * add vertical potmeter for skin + * fixed 'single pixel bug' + * fixed some possible crashes + + + rc2: Dec 24, 2002 + General: + * DOCS/tech/encoding-tips.txt and tech/directfb.txt + * some DOCS corrections/updates/sync/HTML fixes + * GUI: fixed three submenu bugs and several other problems + * more compiler warning fixes + * NetBSD: CPU SSE/SSE2 detection & VCD reading fixes + * fixed possible v4l capturing crash + * merged the EDL 0.5 patch - using & creating edit-lists (runtime cut&skip) + * subtitle alignment changeable: top/bottom/middle (key 'i') + * -slang support for VOBsub files + + VO: + * X11 fullscreen switching code changed again (esp. for GNOME2/KDE 3.1) + * VIDIX: svgalib kernelhelper support (as libdha alternative) + * VIDIX driver for trident cyberblade card + * VIDIX: 8 pixel shift & pink window bugs fixed in the RADEON driver + * new, rewritten version of vo_svga (VIDIX support etc) and vo_gif89 + * yuv4mpeg vs. framedrop/frameskip fixed + + Codecs: + * libavcodec: fixed possible 20% speedloss bug + * support for the experimental (and buggy) dev-api-3 XviD CVS branch + * fall back on built-in codecs.conf if no compatible external file found + * experimental Sorenson 1/3 encoding (using QuickTime DLLs) + * more accurate video bitrate calculation for AVI files + * presets support for libmp3lame encoding + * CDDA seeking fixed + * Win32/RealPlayer codecs DLL & 64bit Alpha Linux RealPlayer codecs support + * XMMS Input plugins (demuxer & codec) support + * Fixed a bug in MMX-optimized mp3lib (triggered by OpenBSD). + + + rc1: "CodecCounter" Dec 7, 2002 + Docs: + * new French translation + * IRIX section + * various updates (both English & Hungarian) + + Codecs: + * new codec pack download page (there are several packs for various IFs) + * Win32/QuickTime codec plugin DLL support -> SVQ3 + QDMC/QDM2/Qclp !!! + * Win32/DMO codec DLL interface support -> Windows Media Audio/Video 9 !!! + * MJPEG 2000 support (using Morgan & Imagepower VfW DLLs) + * libavcodec: optimized HuffYUV en/decoder, with experimental YV12 support + * libavcodec: MJPEG-B support (need more samples) + * more xvidencopts + * VorbisGain tag support, tremor (fast vorbis decoder lib) support + * BIG libavcodec messups & codmetics & cleanups & API changes & fixes + * dynamic plugin support for libmpcodecs (for future binary codec releases) + + GUI: + * general code cleanup, more robust GTK code + * preferences: screensaver, Autosync settings + * cache=4 fixed (caused jerky/lagging/slow playback with gmplayer) + + Others: + * new config/cmdline parser code (optional) + * OSD menu system (preferences, shell, file selector, etc) + * libaf: runtime cpudetection, volume, equalizer, better format conversion + * subtitle overlapping can be disabled, added subtitle sorting + * subtitle dump to JACOsub and SAMI formats + * displays URLs from 'Reference Media' type MOV files, dump generic data + * find best (longest) streams in MOV files (twotowers...) + * get position/length function in demuxers - for slavemode & -identify + * -ao alsa9 surround fixes, 8-bit PCM fixed + * -vo dfbmga: -dr support, fixed OSD flickering + * -stop-xscreensaver fixed, support for KDE screensaver, too + * More compiler warning fixes + * AltiVec (G4) support + + + pre10: "BirthdayCounter" Nov 11, 2002 + Docs: + * DVD auth, VCD sections extended (DOCS/cd-dvd.html) + * unified *BSD sections, extended Cygwin + + Fixes: + * LIRC error message (Error while reading cmd fd X : Success) fixed + * playback of some (streamed?) DivX files starting with non-I-frames fixed + * -vo png fixed (removed builtin YV12 support, removed OSD) + * some MP3 playback/seek segfaults fixed + * VIDIX Mach64 colorkey on PPC fixed + * -ao sdl now handles "featureless" soundcards + * -vo zr fixes + * fixed sig11 if vo init failed + * various DXR2 and DXR3 fixes + * v4l buffering fixed + * fixed multiple reads caused by byteswapping macro (mjpeg.c, mach64_vid.c) + * cleanup of postprocessing code - now it's threadsafe and can be shared + * ported to GNU/Hurd + * cleanup of AVI pts (timestamp) handling - no more BPS hack in mplayer.c + * small cleanup of A-V sync code - using relative instead of absolute timers + * GUI code cleanup, obsolete files/dirs removed + * various small bug fixes, endianness fixes + * MEncoder: -pass option removed, use -divx4opts pass=N / -lavcopts vpass=N + * MEncoder: "ff_rate_estimate_qscale: Assertion `q>0.0' failed" fixed! + * MEncoder: -ovc xvid fixes, cleanup, enhancements + * screensaver/dpms re-enabling fixed + * RealVideo demuxer fixes - ASF-style stream detection method + + Features: + * -ao win32 (for Windows port) + * libavcodec: native WMA v1/v2 (aka DivX audio) decoder + * hw-accelerated video eq for -vo x11 and gl2, using DirectColor colormap + * overlapping subtitles support, jacosub (*.js) format support + * -vo dxr3 got a new syncengine, ':sync', also added native overlay support, + activate with ':overlay', read the manual for more info on how to set up + * QDMC/QDM2/MACE audio codec support, using QuickTime 5 Win32 DLLs (libwine!) + * libavcodec: various MJPEG decoding fixes - now it decodes all sample files! + * mencvcd updates, sox/toolame support, etc + * -vo dfbmga - play video on Matrox G400's second head using directfb 0.9.14 + * RealAudio ATRC (sony atrac3) audio support (using binary plugin) + + Filters: + * -af/-af-adv options cleanup + * now auto-inserting -vop lavc for MPEG-only vo's + * video filter API documented :) + * better deblocking filter (-vop pp), pp/npp syntax changed! + * -vop 2xsai - 2x scaler for drawn images (low-color cartoon animations) + * -vop unsharp - a sharp/blur filter, nice, but very slow + * -vop il - (de)interleave fields + * -vop swapuv - guess what :) + * -vop boxblur - box blur... + * -vop perpective + * -vop sab + * -vop smartblur + + + pre9: Oct 24, 2002 + Docs: + * man page rewritten again :))) + * man page updated to latest options, including lavc options + * Chinese docs translation added + * Hungarian translation is (was? :)) up-to-date again + + Cleanup: + * divx4_vbr.c is now really GPL - with the permission of the DivX.com guys! + * cyuv decoder restructuring, now supports planar YUV formats, too + * removed obsolete variables, like has_audio, has_video, allow_dshow, fifo + * help_mp-XX.h files moved to help/ subdirectory, removed obsolete entries + * the obsolete 0x1ff eof hack removed from MPEG-ES demuxer and decoders + * stheaders.h cleanup, removed unneeded wine includes from MPlayer core + * tons of compiler warning fixes, including some 10l ones + * mga/xmga vo shared code, vesa and svga drivers cleanup + * major vo drivers are now -fixed-vo compliant: x11, xv, xvidix, xmga, gl2 + * libmpdemux option handling cleanup - now it's MPlayer-independent again + * removed fork() from LIRC input module + * libfame removed from main tree/release - libavcodec is faster, better etc. + + Fixes: + * Some fullscreen switching fixes, including Metacity vs KDE 3.1 + * Many GUI bug fixes + * -vo DGA fixes, cleanup + * -dvdkey sig11 fixed + * K6-III's 3dnowex vs mmxext sigill fixed in mp3lib + * -vo gif89, jpeg U-V swapping fixed + * RTC setup fixes, more verbose messages, hints + * MEncoder: demuxer/codec uninit order fixed (solves some sig11) + * various v4l and ALSA capturing fixes + * demux_mov: fixed crash with MPEG-4 on SPARC, decoding on big-endian + * various NAS ao fixes + * libvo: optional stride support for packed YUV / RGB formats + * MEncoder: set keyframe flag on audio packets, fixes Windows seeking + * loader: fixed 2 10l bugs, ATI VCR2 DLL now works. using new style CS code. + * demux_avi: always use block counter even if dwSampleSize!=0, fixes samples + * SPU decoder (DVD/VOBsubs): fixed 2 major bugs causing lost subtitles + * various memory leak fixes (valgrind rulez :) + * fixed RealAudio SIPR(O) codec (the wrapper didn't find the dspr.so.6) + * mms:// audio (radio) streaming fixed + * DVB: -vop lavc=bitrate is working again + * various big-endian fixes + + Features: + * new audio filter layer (libaf) - automatic samplerate conversion + * experimental -vo directx driver for Cygwin build + * unrarlib included for rar'ed VOBsubs + * native XviD encoding (-ovc xvid) interface for MEncoder + * new softeq filter with gamma support: -vop eq2 + * -ao/-vo accepts list of drivers and can fall back on one, like -ac/-vc + * audio/video codec selection (-ac/-afm) rewritten, now uses codec/fm list + * get_delay() smoothing (-autosync) - should help buggy sound drivers + * smb:// URL support (disabled by default, ./configure part not yet done!) + * support for 1/4/8bpp raw video (requires -vop palette / -vop 1bpp) + * support for QuickTime alaw/agsm audio codecs, 3IV2, 3VID video codecs + * swscale can now output YUY2 format, upscaled (default), unscaled (-sws 0) + * VIDIX with LinuxPPC support (Mach64 is confirmed to work) + * GUI: cache, autoq settings, start in fullscreen, toggle button in menu + * New video filter to overlay images over video: -vop bmovl + + Libavcodec: + * RV10 codec cleanup (2nd level demuxer moved to demuxer layer) + * MPEG-4 interlaced DCT _en_coding support + * luma masking support (encoding) + * runtime selectable IDCT algo + * faster MPEG-1/2 decoder + * DV decoding (both PAL and NTSC) + * MPEG-1 2-pass encoding support + * better/cleaner error resilience (done in a 2nd pass after decoding) + * H.263/MPEG-4 out of order slice decoding + * -lavdopts bug= reworked, now uses flags, autodetects most of them + * complete MPEG-4 GMC decoding support + + + pre8: Sep 18, 2002 + Docs: + * man page rewritten, now has better indenting, and can be converted to HTML + * AUTHORS, MAINTAINERS converted back to separate text files, and updated. + * ChangeLog file is included again (was removed after 0.18) + * some new tech docs on libmpcodecs, updates/fixes in others, manpage.txt + * more updates in translation files (help_mp-XX.h) + * removed obsolete/unused entries from help_mp-en.h + + Cleanup: + * XAnim interface merged & fixed, now uses mpi and supports direct rendering + * cleanup of libmpdemux stream layer, especially of TV and MF parts + * more unused files removed: vo_fsdga, vo_odivx, vd_rle, timer.c, ttf_load + + Fixes: + * the http:// infinite memleak bug has been fixed, some WMS9 mms:// fixes + * various SPARC/Sun, HP-UX and NetBSD/OpenBSD portability fixes + * -vop palette fixes, CRAM and QPEG colors are OK now + * demuxer fixed for >2GB nuppelvideo files + * MEncoder: -ss fixed for 3-pass encoding + * gui.conf locale bug fixed (again... hope this time it's OK) + * X11 fullscreen switching fixed, when d_width == screenwidth + * MOV files edit-list handling fixed - solved 'short read' issue + + Features: + * new demuxer for .PVA files (file format of TV/DVB apps on Win32) + * -mf now supports TGA (24/32bpp uncompressed/rle) images + * libavcodec: support for interlaced MPEG-4 _de_coding + * libavcodec: aspect ratio encoding support (MPEG-4, MJPEG, H.263?) + * Win32 DLL loader merged/synced with avifile CVS + + + pre7: Sep 5, 2002 + Cleanup: + * libvo2, old input code & sis_vid removed, other code cleanups + * tons of compiler warning fixes, some configure/Makefile improvements + * more messages are translated, many translations updated + * docs review continued, HTML cleanups + * option -vfm/-afm now uses names instead of numbers, driver IDs removed + + Code: + * vfw/vfwex cleanup, support for runtime csp queries, 8bpp support + * new native mszh/zlib codec + * libavcodec: 2-pass control code rewritten, now everything is customizable + * libavcodec: MPEG-4/XviD en/decoding support improved, rv10 decoding fixes + * various RealVideo demuxer and video codec fixes, sipr audio support + * new video filters: soft eq (brightness), halfpack (deinterlacer), film noise + * OGM subtitles support + * optional freetype 2.1+ support for runtime-scalable .ttf font rendering + * various networking and mms:// fixes, live.com support improved + * various v4l video capturing and audio capturing fixes, audio input layer + * libmpdvdkit2 - based on libdvdcss 1.2.2 + libdvdread 0.9.3 + key cache + * alsa: iec958-init completely rewritten - better SP/DIF AC3 support + + GUI: + * gui.conf locale bug fixed (hopefully) + * preferences menu extended, runtime subtitle loading support + * drag'n'drop support + + + pre6: Aug 6, 2002 + * WMV1, Sorenson v1 (SVQ1) and RealPlayer 8.0 (RV20/30, Cook) codecs support + * libavcodec M1 direct rendering + * IPB support with Xv + * libavcodec improvements, bugfixes (encoder and decoder side) + * Raw DV demuxer + * libdv-based DV audio/video decoder + * Various MOV/MP4, RM and ASF/WMV demuxer bugfixes, improvements + * Detection of AVI files which needs -ni + * workaround for some Nandub bugs + * Support for live.com RTP/RTSP streaming libraries + * Support to rip DVD subs in VOBsub format + * bug fixes of mpsub/srt converter + * Closed Captioning (ASCII subs on RC1 DVDs) support + * Massive directfb updates + * VIDIX fixes/updates, including fixes of all known Radeon bugs + * dithered 1/4/8 bpp support with -vo svga (EGA rulez:)) + * alsa9 fixes/improvements + * native ARTS driver + * various endianness and 64-bit fixes (including MEncoder and -ao pcm) + * many small compatibility/portability fixes (better Cygwin, Darwin support) + * GUI fixes (playlist, audio/video equalizer, preferences) + * Skins (fixed many small glitches, a few new skins) + * 'mencvcd' script (creating VCD/SVCD with MEncoder) + * HTML DOCS updates + * man page & README restructured (again :)) + + + pre5: Jun 8, 2002 + Documentation: + * a lot of fixes, updates, cleanups + * new README containing quick install guide + * tech level docs on libavcodec encoding options + * HTML doc is now IE 6.0.2600 compatible! :))) + + Code changes: + * subreader (ASCII subtitle file parser) fixes + * spudec (VOBsub) cleanup/fixes + * new (faster, better) scaler + * bbox support + * mmst:// streaming support + * OGM (Ogg) audio/video stream selection + * native Micro$oft MPEG4v1 (MPG4) codec, error concealement for all MPEG-4s + * various libavcodec encoding improvements + * MPEG-1 && -vo x11 crash fixed when movie's height%16!=0 + * raw (uncompressed) video fixed (AVI & MOV) + * flickering/blocking fixed for old VfW codecs (indeo3, cinepak etc) + * introduced codecs.conf versioning to avoid problems caused by too old conf + + Display: + * some more X11 cleanup, icewm fullscreen fixes, -vo gl/gl2 fixed + * xscreensaver disabling support (optional, disabled by default) + * pan&scan support in xv, xmga, xvidix + * Xv YV12 stride problems fixed when width%8!=0 + * VIDIX Rage128/Radeon driver synced with MPlayerXP, various xvidix fixes + * DVB A/V sync fixes, libfame updated to 0.9.0 + * native -ao arts driver + * AC3 passthrough support for -ao alsa9 + * -ao nas fixed + + Miscellaneous fixes: + * GUI: VCD and URL support, some bugs fixed + * some cleanup of messages (less debug stuff) printed by MPlayer + * gcc 3.1 support + * various portability fixes (Cygwin, Darwin, 64bit SPARC/Alpha) + + + pre4: May 13, 2002 + * X11 fullscreen toggle fixes with many window managers, multifile playback + * DXR2 support + * Output into animated GIF + * "cropdetect" video filter to autodetect necessary cropsize + * libavcodec marked as default encoder for MEncoder + * man page rewrite + * a lot of other fixes + + + pre3: May 3, 2002 + * 3DNow! optimization of AC3 4ch downmix fixed, optimizations re-enabled + * DGA error/fail after 1 second of playing fixed + * big A-V desync for some AVI files fixed + * image distortions when seeking in some MPEG files fixed + * libmpdvdkit + gcc 3.x issue solved (our CFLAGS triggered a gcc3 bug...) + * GUI aspect ratio and fullscreen switch fixes, cleanups + * low-PS WMV playback fixed + * Mac OS X (Darwin) port? + * buggy v4l audio grabbing disabled, we cannot fix, but patches are welcomed! + * various MJPEG improvements in libavcodec + + + pre2: Apr 30, 2002 + * hwac3 fixes (try AFMT_AC3 first), big-endian fixes for PCM audio + * 2-pass encoding with libavcodec (-lavcopts vpass=x), B-frames support + * faster Ogg seeking (use -forceidx for slow but accurate one) + * audio-only with GUI fixed + * -rootwin fixed for x11, xv, xmga, xvidix + * aspect ratio fix for ffmpeg12 + * MPEG-ES detection fixed + * runtime cpudetect disabled by default + * support for many new Win32 codecs, including mss1, tm20, ucod, truespeech + * DivX audio dll sig11 with glibc 2.1.(2|3) fixed + * libmpdvdkit - patched kit of DVD libraries (enabled for Linux+FreeBSD) + * man pages updated + * 'f' (fullscreen switch) fixed for some WMs, still has problems + * various FreeBSD and OpenBSD portability patches + * options -xy,-zoom,-flip usable with MEncoder, too, -xy keeps aspect + * -vop lavc, using new fast best libavcodec for realtime MPEG-1 transcoding + * fixed GTK GUI crash with --disable-mencoder + * no more black VOBsub subtitles :) + + + pre1: Apr 21, 2002 + * 100% GPL - yeah, so what? + * runtime CPU detection - x86 MPlayer binary can run on "any" other x86 CPU + * video filter layer - with numerous plugins (crop, expand, etc) + * view or encode DVD/VOBsub and/or text subtitles into the output AVI + * preliminary dvdnav support (experimental) + * direct rendering - can't be used with libavcodec yet, sorry + * display subtitles under the image, on black bands + * FFmpeg (included) now supports decoding MPEG4v2 (MP42) and DivX 5.0 files + * greatly enhanced MPEG-4 encoder (libavcodec) + * audio-only (WAV/MP3/WMA/Ogg) file playback (console only) + * playing/encoding audio from separate WAV/MP3 file + * support for more file formats, including the new and very popular Ogg + * multiple file playback from console, including various playlist formats + * and of course, faster than ever... :) + + +MPlayer (0.60) "The RTFMCounter": Jan 2, 2002 + + release: + * minor bug fixes for RealMedia/nuppelvideo demuxers + * docs updates + * help file translation updates + + + pre2: Dec 29, 2002 + * build fixes (install codecs.conf) + * DVD subtitles improved (stability and pts fixes) + * new options: -alang, -vlang, -rootwin, -npp ... (rtfm) + * DXR3 fixes + * AC3 passthrough fix + * docs updates + * make install + + + pre1: Dec 25, 2002 + * new file formats (MOV, FLI/FLC, VIVO, RealMedia, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, + yuv4mpeg2) + * more native codecs (CRAM, CVID, FLI, generic ADPCM (and IMA) decoder, + g723, XAnim) + * MEncoder (a tool for encoding video to DivX4+MP3) + * rewritten configure script (better autodetection, cleaner messages) + * MMX/SSE optimizations + * faster postprocessing filter, syntax change (deinterlacing support) + * DirectShow code in C + * software YV12 scaling + * aspect ratio fixes + * input cache for smoother network/DVD playback + * GUI fixes and new skins + * DVD subtitles + * playing in root window (-rootwin) + * liba52 + * audio filters (surround, 5.1, up/downsample, etc) + * new homepage design + * grabbing from TV through v4l + * hardware MPEG decoder support (DXR3, Siemens DVB) + + + +MPlayer (0.50) "The Faszom(C)ounter": Oct 8, 2001 + + release: + * documentation updates + * non-Linux build fixes + + + prex 1-3: Sep 28 2001 - Oct 5 2001 + * some pre-beta nationalization support + * HTMLized documentation, split in sections + * a lot of bug fixing + * new AAlib driver (independent of SDL, SUB/OSD support) + * DivX DirectShow equalizer over keyboard + * dynamic setting of DivX postprocessing quality (-autoq) + * updated FAQ section on the homepage + + + +MPlayer (0.18) "The BugCounter": (0.18 only consisted of prereleases) + + pre 1-5: Jun 26 2001 - Jul 9 2001 + * mp3lib even more optimized for 3DNow!/MMX + * GGI driver + * ICCCM patch + + * skin support + * GUI support + + * libao2 (null, oss, alsa, sdl) introduced + * ASF seeking fixed + * option to force audio playback samplerate (-srate) + * framedropping for MPEG files as well + * X11 driver works on remote display (without SHM) + * A-V sync for AVI files fixed (both -bps and -nobps) + + + +MPlayer v0.17a "IdegCounter++": Apr 27 2001 + - first 0.17 release failed - buggy files outdated docs etc :( + it's (hopefully) fixed now. + + + +MPlayer v0.17 "IdegCounter": Apr 27, 2001 + * DVD playing (libcss) + * OSD and subtitles with antialiased fonts + * new Win32 codecs (WMV1,AP42,ASV2 etc) + * new VO drivers (SVGAlib,fbdev,DGA,SDL etc) + * source cleanup, most part of the code rewritten + +* jumped to 0.17 * (why 17? oh. chass just got a new 17" monitor :)) + + - faster memcpy() routine (MMX/3DNow!/SSE-optimized) + - new stream selection code (autodetected) + - pre-devel-alpha DVD code (libcss) + - subtitle code 100% (perfected timing code) + - new output drivers (SVGAlib, FBdev) + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre27-CVS: + - updated libmpeg2 source to libmpeg2-0.2.1-CVS version + - updated OpenDivX encore/decore to 4.0 alpha48 + - cmdline/configfile handler by szabi + - added DirectShow support (now DivX-only) + - bugfix: stream.c/stream_new() uninitialized variables + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre26-CVS: + - updated libmpeg2 source to libmpeg2-0.2.0 version + - small fixes + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre25-CVS: yeah, we moved to SourceForge CVS! + - DOCS updated (email address changed from arpi@* -> maillist) + - LIRC fix, mplayer_lirc changed back to mplayer [Andreas Ackermann] + - stream.c: unsigned int fixes, required for some strange ASF files + - asfheader.c: using w=h=b=1 for audio_concealment_none + - VCD-related stuff moved from stream.c to vcd_read.c + - added DGA driver by Andreas Ackermann + - added debian/ subdir for the Debian package makers... see DOCS/DEBIAN + - new Makefile/dependency system + - added check_events() to libvo, X11 stuff moved to x11_common.c + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre24: Feb 19, 2001 + small fixes again :( + - DOCS/LIRC changed: users *must* enable lirc support manually, it is + not autodetected yet. (./configure --enable-lirc) + - the {prefix} bug fixed by Gabucino + - added man page by Gabucino + - man page -vo fixes by A'rpi + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre23: Feb 18, 2001 + lirc support, text updates, mailinglists + - added "-ni" option to force usage of the non-interleaved AVI parser + - DOCS/* updated by Gabucino + - new homepage by Gabucino + - MPlayer-users & announce mailing lists by Dariusz Pietrzak (see README) + - LIRC support by Andreas Ackermann (see DOCS/LIRC) + enable with ./configure --enable-lirc + TODO: ./configure should detect LIRC installed and better Makefile handling + - added AVI_NINI parser for broken (no index) non-interleaved files + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre22: Feb 16, 2001 + last fixes, release is coming soon! + - non-interleaved AVI EOF bug fixed [thanks to DC-1 for help] + - "You" strings in Makefile after make dep bug fixed... [thx to DC-1] + - SDL disabled by default. You have to ./configure --enable-sdl to enable. + - homepage updated by Gabucino + - homepage updated by A'rpi + - FAQ updated by A'rpi + +fork() -> 0.12pre1 + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre21: Feb 12, 2001 + MPEG-1 pp, stereo fix + - "Skip chunk xxxx" messages moved from -v to -v -v -v debug level... + [thanks to Christoph H. Lampert] + - DivX postprocess filter works for MPEG-1 files, too! (-divxq 1/3/7/31) + - MPEG layer-2 audio fixed - it's stereo again!!! + - audio select() detection: if detected audio buffer size == 0, then + exit with message "Recompile mplayer with #undef HAVE_AUDIO_SELECT !"... + - syncfb driver added to the source tree, under drivers/ + (it's very similar to mga_vid, but has syncronization to screen and + de-interlace features) + - draw_slice in syncfb finished for G400 cards (plays MPEG-1/2, OpenDivX) + (de-interlacing has been disabled, because it's buggy now) + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre20: Feb 11, 2001 + NI-AVI support, small fixes & patches... + - ASF parser: flag 0x40 (explicit packet size) implemented [Marvin] + - new option to select DSP device: -dsp (default: /dev/dsp) [Pontscho] + - option -o changed to -vo + - ./configure: applied patches [LGB,Ian Kumlien,Magnus Pfeffer] + - AVI chunk_id->ds mapper moved to demux_avi_select_stream() + - added non-interleaved AVI parser + - added non-interleaved AVI detection (if a_pos-v_pos distance > 1MB) + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre19: Feb 9, 2001 + small fixes... + - vo_xmga.c: G200 draw_slice fixed + xmga + mga: common part (draw_frame & draw_slice) moved to mga_common.c + - some independent code (asfinfo.c and GL-test) moved to the new TOOLS subdir + - movinfo.c added to TOOLS (small util to dump MOV file structure) + - AVI & ASF stream id detection changed: now using IDs from the header + (but still can be overriden by -aid or -vid) [Christoph H. Lampert] + - native MS-GSM audio codec ported from avifile source (-afm 6) + [thanks for the testfile to Christoph H. Lampert] + - README updated (input & codec lists) + - implemented ASF audio descrambling [Dirk Vornheder & Einon] + -> that weird_al_yankovic ASF is not so weird now :) + - AUTHORS file changed + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre18: Feb 7, 2001 + patch release :) + - skip broken ASF fragments (for better seeking) + - seeking code cleanup in sources (now it's in a switch(){}) + - opendivx encoding bitrate option changed from -divxq to -br + (for the DivX -> DivX re-encoding) + - TO DO section moved to file TODO + - applied ./configure and Makefile changes patch from LGB + - libvo function changes by Pontscho: x11 (with -fs), xmga (bugfixed!) + - libvo: driver sources renamed from video_out_*.c -> vo_*.c + - libvo: added uninit() function to drivers + - libvo: fork()'ed X11 eventhandler for x11 and xmga drivers [me & Pontscho] + (gl and xv version is coming soon!) + - libvo: sdl driver now closes SDL at QUIT... + - small English fixes (docs & messages) [Balazs Tibor] + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre17: Feb 4, 2001 + fixes + - ASF "missing video stream" fixed (stream id & 0x7F) [Christoph H. Lampert] + - added GL-test directory, it contains source and compiler script of a + very simple open-gl texture updating (glTexSubImage) test program. + if it runs well, then mplayer -o gl should work, too. + it works on G400+Utah-GLX, but segfaults in the G400 driver of X 4.0.2/DRI. + try it with different cards/drivers, and please report me the results. + - benchmarking in gltest.c: calculate fps and process times + - ASF seeking v0.01-pre0.1 :) + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre16: Feb 4, 2001 + ACM fixed + - Win32/ACM audio codec fixed (most important for ASF with DivX audio): + There was an output buffer size problem with the Win32/ACM audio codec + at low bitrates (usually used for ASF files with DivX audio) + Input and output buffer sizes are now queryed, problem solved :) + - SDL support compiling hint by Michael Durller added to the FAQ + - opendivx support in ASF files [Gérard Lantau] + - ./configure & Makefiles patch by Aaron Hope applied. + (adds --with-win32libdir and fixes --with-x11libdir) + - ./configure fixed, now it defaults to /usr/lib/win32 if detection failed + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre15: Feb 2, 2001 + ASF sync fixed + - ASF parser: now supports other than 0x5D segments [Dirk Vornheder] + - new ASF PTS reading: sync works now, including fps... + (-fps no longer required!) [thanks again to Eugene Kuznetsov for docs!] + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre14: Feb 1, 2001 + small fixes, ASF sync v0.1 :) + - version number incremented :))) + - libvo / Xv driver swapped red-blue fixed + - ASF timestamps implemented - now ASF A-V should be in sync if you + specify the correct fps at commandline (-fps), +-1 fps allowed... + [i haven't yet found method to get fps out from ASF headers :(((] + - some error and consistency checking into demux_asf + if you see many warning! messages playing an ASF file, then contact + me and upload the file (first 1MB is enough if it represents the problem) + Don't forget: there is no public doc about the ASF file format, so + everything we know is suspected and can be wrong... without your help + we will never have a working ASF player... + - ASF fragment offset checks disabled for grouping... + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre13: Jan 31, 2001 + libvo changes, MPEG bitrate, VCD fix, ASF grouping + - libvo: draw_slice() interface changed, now it has src stride[3] and + destination rect dimension (w,h,x,y) + It's able to blit whole frames, not only 16-pixel slices... + - libmpeg2 and opendivx codec changed to use new draw_slice() + -> opendivx extra 64-pixel width band at right disappeared! + - MPEG bitrate fix: if picture->bitrate==0x3FFFF (means "unspecified" ?) + then using standard VCD bitrate (75*2324 bytes/sec) + -> fixed seeking for those MPEGs with "16MBit/s" bitrate... + - drivers/sis_vid: video4linux interface disabled + - broken VCD playing fixed: stream_reset shouldn't seek to 0x0... + [bugreport: Kang Sun] + - asf_parser: grouping implemented! [test file provided by Gabucino :))] + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre12: Jan 30, 2001 + ./configure fixes, improved odivx-encoding, streaming fixes + - ./configure: use /tmp/main$$.c instead of /tmp.main.c, and + remove file after tests [SaPe] + - ./configure: trying the gcc optimize options and fall back on 'pentium' + if it fails (useful for people with old gcc and new CPU :)) + - removed -fomit-frame-pointer from OPTFLAGS at config.mak + - version number incremented [Gabucino] + - odivx encoder fix: allow long (longer than xxxx.avi) destination filenames + (sizeof() changed to strlen()...) [Gabucino] + - AVI writer - overwrite disabled (exits with error message if destination + file already exists...) [Gabucino] + - use -divxq to set encoding bitrate (in bits (not kbits!) default: 780000) + - no audio decoding if -encode option is used + - audio streaming disabled if -nosound specified (setting audio_id to -2) + - fast MPEG-ES detection (doesn't read the whole MPEG-PS file) + - compile-time option to disable using soundcard driver's select() + (required for some people with buggy/pre-alpha/etc sound driver...) + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre11: Jan 29, 2001 + streaming fixes, ASF support pre, indeo5 fix + - asf/asfinfo.c improved: now dumps streams to files - needs testing! + (it's ready to be converted to ASF demuxer and integrated into MPlayer) + - stream.c / stream_reset() fix: now really seeks back to position 0! + - ASF file format detection added (no ASF reading yet!!!) + - ASF demultiplexer added, changes in demuxer.c to handle fragmented packets + > it plays ASF video well, but still has problems with DivX/WMA audio. :((( + - indeo 5 playing fixed (removed ICDECOMPRESS_UPDATE from flags) + - xmga resizing problems with some window managers, so default order is + changed xmga,xma... to mga,xmga,... + - found gcc bug: compiling MPlayer with flags + OPTFLAGS=-O -g -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math + causes image sizes negating -> mga_vid kernel driver Oops... :((( + - runaway.bride.sample.avi seeking segfault discovered: AC3 resync fails :( + - improved signal handling: module name is now printed. audio_resync added. + - RGB opendivx encoding implemented, now AVI->opendivx is possible. + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre10: Jan 22, 2001 + OpenDivX encoding, streaming fixes, AVI seek fixes + - new libvo driver: odivx (OpenDivX File Writer) + - AVI file writing support, new option: -encode filename + to encode an MPEG/VOB/VCD to opendivx: + mplayer file1.mpg -encode file2.avi -o odivx -nosound + (sound encoding/copying is not yet supported) + - libvo: default driver priority changed to: xmga,mga,syncfb,3dfx,xv,x11,gl + - AVI writer: index support + - small fixes in AVI writer to be compliant (adjusted chunk/list lengths) + - demuxer.c: stream buffering fixes: + - missing {} in mplayer.c occurring audio reads when has_audio=0 + - reordered packet reader and pack count checks -> no more unwanted EOF + - added 4MB buffer memory usage limit to demuxed streams + - CPU flags in ./configure changed: + k7 -> k6 (current stable gcc doesn't support k7) + 386,486 -> i386,i486 [Balazs Tibor] + - demux_avi: index check now accepts (raw.len+1)==idx.len [Balazs Tibor] + - FAQ added + + ** Now we are done with planned features & urgent fixes, ** + ** it's time for final testing and then the 0.11 release!! ** + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre9: Jan 18, 2001 + OpenDivX fixes,speedup + - solved OpenDivX width problem (stride=width+(Quality?0:64)) + now -divxq 0 works, and 0 is the default + - libvo call moved out from my_convert_yuv() so it can be measured (CPU %) + - IDCT code ported from libmpeg2 -> much faster OpenDivX decoding + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre8: Jan 18, 2001 + SDL fixes, OpenDivX support + - added -I/usr/X11R6/include to libvo CFLAGS + - (removed later: applied libvo SDL driver fixes by Jeffrey Boser) + - OpenDivX support, initial hack, maybe not working for you... + (I need testfiles, I have only one) + use -divxq option to adjust quality (1..29 works), 1=default + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre7: Jan 14, 2001 + SDL support + - ported SDL driver from mpeg2dec/libvo (current CVS) + (it's slower than internal X11 driver, but supports software scaling!) + - fixed SDL driver to support -fs and pass keyboard events + - SDL driver changed to support YV12 and YUY2 formats instead of IYUV + (now works with DivX files, too) + - 'q' (Quit) disabled in SDL fullscreen mode (because it's impossible + to restore screen before exiting so it gets into an unusable state now) + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre6: Jan 14, 2001 + audio fix + - fixed video_out_xv.c compilation problems [bugreport: Kalle Mellerup] + - modified audio playing: always keep buffer (both internal and card's) + filled using select() -> -alsa audio delays should be fixed. + - updated DOCS/AUTHORS and DOCS/README + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre5: Jan 12, 2001 + xmmp audio support, applied Pontscho's libvo patch + - xmmp audio driver support by Arthur Kleer + - new video_out driver by Pontscho: xmga (Matrox G200/G400 only!) + It does same under X 3.3.x what Xv extension does under X 4.0.x! + (you will have a moveable/resizeable window but see a YUV video + overlay in it using color keying) + - added keyboard event support in X11 windows [Pontscho] + (using mplayer_[put|get]_key() in codecctrl.c) + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre4: Jan 6, 2001 + x11 driver fixes, 15/16bpp support + - version in version.h fixed :))) [Pontscho] + - inttypes.h moved to DOCS/ (copy back to the root if you need it) + - depth calculation in vo_init() changed (Pontscho's version couldn't + differenciate between 15 and 16bpp) + - x11 driver now uses vo_init() instead of get_depth() + - yuv2mmx: 15bpp not really supported -> removed from list, now + conversion is done (well) by the C code -> MPEG play in 15bpp works! + - AVI playing support added in 15bpp (memcpy) + - AVI playing support added in 16bpp (C 15->16 converter by me) + - AVI playing support added in 16bpp (MMX 15->16 converter by Strepto) + - libvo/x11: yuv2rgb used MMX code on non-MMX CPUs, too!!! fixed... + - all x11 modes tested (and MPEG/24bpp byteorder fixed): + MPEG: AVI/VfW: + 15bpp C convert memcpy + 16bpp MMX/C convert MMX/C convert + 24bpp C convert memcpy + 32bpp MMX/C convert memcpy / C conv. + => now all the movie types are viewable using the -o x11 driver! + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre3: Jan 5, 2001 + MPEG fixes, fullscreen support + - vertical.mpg serious libvo (x11,gl) segfaults fixed: + yuv2rgb_mmx requires one more lines that vertical image size... + fixed (allocating memory for width*(height+1)). [bug report: Gabucino] + - Pontscho's fullscreen patch applied! + Using option -fs will maximize window size (for all resizeable drivers + including mga!) and disable window decorations (x11,Xv,gl only) + - simple inttypes.h included for libc5 (and glibc2.0, too?) users + - homepage updates (links changed ftp->http) + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre2: Jan 4, 2001 + better user messages, MP3 codec selection, demuxer changes + - w32codec.zip restored at the FTP site (somehow it got damaged...) + - added version.h, and used its content everywhere + - 'premature end-of-file' problem fixed: freeing audio buffers and + setting d_audio->id=-2 if has_audio==0 [bugreport by Dmitri Pogosyan] + - some more messages added if verbose>=1 + - demuxer.c: error message printed if A or V chunk buffer is full + 'mplayer test.avi -aid -2' still not works without option '-nosound' + - adding new config.h option to set default MP3 audio codec (mpg123/l3codeca) + ./configure selects mp3lib only if you have 3DNow! [idea: Gabucino] + - automatic fall back on mp3lib/mpg123 if l3codeca.acm can't be loaded/inited + + + +MPlayer v0.11-pre1: + AVI sync fixes + - AVI audio seeking improvements: now using nBlockAlign value to seek + inside the chunk, so DivX audio works without big delays!!! + - AVI PTS calculation modified: counting video PTS when skip_video_frames>0 + so new audio PTS values will be correct. Solved many sync probs! + - A-V sync with AVI files fixed! + Now only the Desperado-trailer has 1.0 sec delay after seeking. + - fixed AVI sync in -bps mode, too! :) (perfect except that Desperado AVI) + + + +MPlayer v0.10: Jan 1, 2001 "The new year" release! + - testing + - docs changed + - it's time to release and remove the old buggy 0.09 version... + - release!!! + + + +MPlayer v0.10-pre8: libvo/x11 changes + - libvo: x11/xv driver split into x11 and xv drivers + - libvo: DUMMY_VO_FUNC removed from driver sources + - libvo: default driver order changed, because some users with software-only + OpenGL thought that this 'slow' player can only play at 1-3fps :) + + + +MPlayer v0.10-pre7: Dec 31, 2000 + libmpeg2 interface changes, display size/area changes, AVI fixes + - libmpeg2/decode.c modified: + - removed unused OMS and mpeg2dec stuff + - decode_data rewritten, now works like parse_es.c + => doesn't copy any data -> faster and less memory usage + - mplayer.c sends code 0x1FF after every frame, so libmpeg2 knows + when to display it + - mplayer.c: in_frame flag fixes, didn't work well with MPEG-2 streams + (because there is a 0x1B2 chunk between 0x100 and 0x101) + - 'picture' changed from static to shmem-allocated + -> better picture after codec restart (tested with JapAd.mpg) + -> keep information of the header changes (after init) + - MPEG image size changed, now only the real part of frame is displayed + (no more green stripe at the bottom) + - picture struct: new fields: display_picture_width/height + - image buffer allocation (shmem) is done by decode.c instead of libvo + - new option: -xy <value> (resize both x/y direction) + if value<=8 -> x_scale = y_scale = value + else -> x_size=value y_size=aspectratio*x_size + - mplayer.c: video output moved out from AVI/MPG init sections and + now it's common code (added movie_size_x/y variables and out_fmt global) + - new keys: + ESC => quit + + and - => adjust audio delay +- 0.1 second + k => kill/restart the MPEG codec process (for testing) + - codec control interface changed: wait for syncword after (re)start + to avoid receiving old frames => it's stable again! + - removed (now unused) allocate/free image buffer code from libvo + - mplayer: new internal variable for video format: has_video + 0 = none (unused yet) + 1 = MPEG-1/2 video + 2 = Win32/VfW video codec + - config.h has defaults for bps-based AVI sync and ALSA timer code options: + #undef AVI_SYNC_BPS => now it's disabled by default!!! use -bps to enable + #define ALSA_TIMER => now it's enabled by default!!! use -noalsa to dis. + - help updated + - prints max compressed framesize at exit (both AVI & MPEG) + - AVI audio seeking fixed: some ACM codecs (DivX audio and ms-adpcm) + can't seek inside a chunk, they are only able to play whole chunks. + Current audio seeking has changed to seek inside the chunk only if the + codec supports it (only internal codecs and ACM/MP3 allows it). + - AVI: audio delay correction if seeking inside the chunk is not possible + + + +MPlayer v0.10-pre6: Dec 24, 2000 "Xmas edition" + MPEG signal & EOF fixes + - ./configure: k6_mtrr (2.4.test11+) added [Pontscho] + - `term destroys if mplayer (MPG) called from mc.ext` bug fixed: + added sighandler to the 3rd process (MPEG codec) to avoid sig. recursion + - better output at exit (handled now by exit_player()) + - MPEG EOF problem (codec restart) fixed: added EOF detection to parse_es.c + - internal flag 'current_module' added to get more info at segfaults + (contains module number where the segfault occurred) + - audio detection changed: using afm=4 (Win32/ACM) for MP3 audio (AVI files) + (you MUST have l3codeca.acm at /usr/lib/win32, or you have to use '-afm 1') + + + +MPlayer v0.10-pre5: Dec 22, 2000 + flipping fixed + - AVI image flipping reworked: + - new flag: avi_header.flipped, TRUE if upside-down + - image flipping code removed/disabled from libvo modules + - duplicate flip_page() calls removed (overload with x11 and mga) + - aLaw audio codec (AVI id 0x06) added (uses code from XAnim source) + + + +MPlayer v0.10-pre4: + test release, small fixes + - video_out driver <-> codec incompatibility message changed + - fixed the config.format bug in drivers/mga_vid_test, so it works again! + [thanks to David Whysong] + - libmpeg2 upgraded + + + +MPlayer v0.10-pre3: Dec 10, 2000 + test release, verbose mode, new docs + - new option: -v = increment verbosity level + (debug printf's changed to verbose level-dependent) + - default level: 0, only some informal output + - init debug: 1, some basic debug infos, AVI header, function values + - player debug: 2, print AVI indexes, chunk inputs, more debug infos + - parser debug: 3, prints everything related to input parsers + to increment verbose level, use multiple -v options (-v -v -v for level 3) + - bitrate calculation for AVI files + - README rewritten, added Troubleshooting and Bugreports sections + - TVout directory added (only the scripts) + + + +MPlayer v0.10-pre2: Dec 8, 2000 + bugfix test release, bps-sync enabled + - AVI: supporting both 0-based and movi-based index types (autodetect) + - AVI: tested with VBR audio: plays well with -mc 0 option, seek doesn't + work yet [thanks to Alan Chen for testfile] + - AVI: A-V sync to avg. byte/sec implemented (again) and enabled by default + (disable with -nobps if you want) + - ./configire: 3rd name ('kni') of the P3 added. Where is the compatibility? + - useless '\' removed from libac3/Makefile [Otvos Ferenc] + + + +MPlayer v0.10-pre1: Dec 5, 2000 + test release, players merged!!! + - avip and mpegp have been merged to a single binary called 'mplayer' + - file type detection (AVI/MPEG-PS/MPEG-ES/Other) + - no redundant code (common code for common jobs) + - big format-dependent codes moved to functions (separated files) + - better error messages, removed some debug stuff, code cleanups + - old libmpeg2 version removed from source tree + - help texts merged (help_avi+help_mpg -> help_mp) + - new options: -x <x> -y <y> = scale image (if selected driver supports) + if value<=8 then image size will be multiplied by value, otherwise + image size will be scaled to <value> pixels. + For example: + 2x ZOOM: mplayer -x 2 -y 2 test.mpg + 800x600: mplayer -x 800 -y 600 test.mpg + [default values are still configurable at compile-time, see config.h] + - TV project (not finished) codebase added (see tvision.c, or: make tvision) + + + +MPlayer v0.09: Dec 5, 2000 + Beta release [same as 0.09-pre3] + - version changed in the files + - docs updated + + + +MPlayer v0.09-pre3: Dec 3, 2000 + bugfix test-release, X11 support testing + - fixed the if [ -z $pparam ] bug in ./configure [Christian Birchinger] + - many changes in AVI seek code, resulting in near-perfect seeking now! + current method calculates absolute audio position, so with VBR audio it + doesn't work yet... + - avip: Xv support (YUY2 image format) + - avip: X11 support (24 & 32 bpp only, BGR format) + I need a very fast 15->16bpp converter for 16bpp support... anyone helps? + + + +MPlayer v0.09-pre2: + bugfix test-release + - removed unnecessary code from libmpeg2/header.c + Walken told me that standard MPG/VOB streams must NOT use framerate + and bitrate extension... and the ext. id check is done by the caller. + - CRC support to mp3lib's MPEG audio layer-2 decoder + thanks for bug report & test file to Samson + + + +MPlayer v0.09-pre1: Dec 1, 2000 + bugfix test-release + - imported new libmpeg2 files (under testing...) + - GL renderer flickering bug fixed (MMX missing emms() between yuv2rgb and + glTexSubImage(), bug triggered by new Utah-GLX code) + [thanks to Christian Birchinger] + + + +MPlayer v0.08: Nov 27, 2000 + Index support, AVI seeking, DLL loader fix, compilation fixes + - Added support for chunk index usage (disable with -noidx option) + - Removed code optimization flags from loader/Makefile because + it segfaults if compiled optimized (it does some hacks with + pointers, maybe the reordered code confuses it) + - added new tool called aviparse (read and check AVI file structure) + - indexed and raw chunk info comparing, bad chunks dropped + - termcap usage is optional (for those Debian users without termcap) + - #if HAVE_* fixed (to #ifdef HAVE_*) + - ./configure supports new /proc/cpuinfo (2.4.0-test11) + - sse is called 'sse' again + - 'flags' field renamed to 'features' + - Xv benchmark results added to DOCS/SPEED + - AVI seeking (and other goodies, pause etc) implemented + no PTS resync after seek yet. + - default video_out driver changed from 'mga' to the first available driver + new driver priority: mga_vid, opengl, x11 + + + +MPlayer v0.07: Nov 21, 2000 + Easier compile + - Added Pontscho's ./configure script (it's modified a lot) + - Updated makefiles, and tested a lot :) + - Updated DOCS/INSTALL + + + +MPlayer v0.06: Nov 20, 2000 + Better codec selection + - AVI audio&video codec selection moved to new codecs.c file, + loader/driver.c and loader/afl.c modified for this + - YUV support fixed, codecs.c setup flags to handle YUV properly + YUV works fine with DivX, MPEG-4, cvid, and upside-down iv50 + - DOCS/INSTALL updated + - DOCS/SPEED updated, DivX benchmarks added + + + +MPlayer v0.05: Nov 18, 2000 + Merged with MPEGplayer 0.90pre6, first public release of AVI player + - code merged with mpegplayer, new Makefile, some small modifications + - docs updated and moved to DOCS + + + +MPlayer v0.04: Nov 17, 2000 + YUV (YUY2) support with DivX 3.11 DLL, some code cleanup, preview-release + + + +MPlayer v0.03: Nov 14, 2000 + + + +MPlayer v0.01: Nov 11, 2000 + first preview version based on new MPEGplayer's codebase. + it contains the Win32 loader from avifile, and can decode DivX 3.11 video. + + + +mpg12play v0.9-v0.95pre5: Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000 + MPEG codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman & Michel + Lespinasse. It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect + image quality and 100% MPEG standard conformance. + + + +mpg12play v0.5-v0.87: Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000 + MPEG codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was great + stuff, but it was slow and was written in C++ (I hate C++!!!) + + + +mpg12play v0.1-v0.3: Sep 22-25, 2000 + The first try, hacked together in half an hour! I've used libmpeg3 + from www.heroinewarrior.com up to the version 0.3, but there were + image quality and speed problems with it.