some relevant changes:
-RTSP/MMST security patches now in main distribution
-documentation improvements
-x86_64 support fixes
-integrated Tremor decoder for Ogg/Vorbis
-expose support for 422P and 444P raw formats
-dropped support of old FAAD2 versions (<= 1.1)
-support for 32 bit float and extended WAV files
-support for multichannel WAV files
-ALAC (QuickTime lossless audio) support via lavc
-vqf demuxer
-support for Real multirate files
-more user-friendly info about audio and subtitle tracks in Ogg files
-streaming improvements
-ffmpeg updates
-MEncoder usability improvements
-many fixes and cleanups
Changes since version 1.0pre5:
- 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
This fixes the vulnerabilities reported by iDEFENSE recently.
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)
* bigendian 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, bigendian 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
* MPEG2 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
* MPEG2 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 lavc
* fixed a bug with Real files introduced in pre4
* -use-stdin renamed to -noconsolecontrols
MPlayer 1.0pre4: "YAML Counter"
Security:
* HTTP parser remote heap overflow vulnerability fixed
[already fixed in package previously]
* 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 out driver section added to the man page
* XML build system rewritten - now supports building individual languages
* miscellaneous updates all over the place
Ports:
* better PA-RISC detection
* support for VAX (tested on VAXstation 4000/VLC) -- really, believe me!
* optimizing for specific MIPS CPUs under IRIX
* AMD64 detection under BSDs
* fbdev driver updated for Linux 2.6
* support for ELF only OpenBSD
* optimizing for PPC 970 (aka G5)
* SDL support fixed on MinGW
* 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
* endianess fixes in CDDA
* UYVY support in tvi/v4l2
* tvi/bsdbt848 now working under FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT
* tvi/bsdbt848 audio part working under NetBSD
* LIVE.COM demuxer updated to conform with latest libraries
* new, independent, C implementation of the Matroska demuxer
* fix for rare Real files
* more robust Real demuxer (can resync after errors)
* support for AAC inside Real
* MPEG Aspect code 4 fixed
* support for selecting subtitle streams with -slang inside Ogg
* wrapper demuxer for FFMpeg's libavformat (Nut is playable this way)
* much improved seeking in Ogg
* 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
* fallback to 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 (MPEG2 CBR)
* improved RV20 decoder (most known errors eliminated)
* interlaced DCT
* interlaced motion estimation
* interlaced MPEG2 encoding
* 4MV encoding fixes
* initial interlaced MPEG4 encoding
* improved visual quality in SVQ3 decoder
* fixed never-before-tested embedded string decoder in SVQ1
* optimized quantization (including the trellis way)
* Sierra VMD video decoder
* MMX and SSE2 optimized H263 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
