changes:
There are improvements to DVB subtitle support and H.264 video, and fixes
for MP3 playback, DVB, ivtv, Flash video streams and some playlist types
(particularly XML ones). One significant fix is that the special "be nice
to the user" '#' handling has been dropped since it seems to have been
causing more problems than it fixes.
pkgsrc note: a fix for CVE-2008-0225 (RTSP buffer overflow) is
already included
This has improved DVB subtitles support, implements simple subtitle scaling
and bold & italics for text subtitles, and allows control of XxMC bob
deinterlacing. It also has fixes for an audio resampling problem (which
manifested as regular clicking), a problem which would cause the goom
plugin to stop working, and URL escape handling (use of %) in DVD and
Video CD MRLs. Some memory leaks are also fixed, and there are some
build fixes for Solaris users.
changes:
-bugfixes, among others for VCD playback
-adds support for libdca (formerly libdts)
-handle disappearing audio devices (possibly ALSA specific)
changes:
This release contains improvements and important bugfixes.
Some issues that have really "bugged" us for quite some
time (like NTSC DVDs audio sync, broken since 1.1.2, and
H.264 crashes) are finally fixed.
Some of the new features include True Audio and WavPack
support.
bugfixes, cleanup etc
pkgsrc notes:
-new True Audio / WavPack support is not enabled yet
-cleanup of bl3.mk: no need to propagate internals
-removed dependency on libflac -- there is support to play flac files
internally
-removed build of plugins for more exotic video outputs (SDL, ImageMagick,
GL, aalib), this might be built in extra pkgs (like esound and arts
already do)
* Security fixes:
- Heap overflow in libmms (related to CVE-2006-2200)
- Buffer overrun in Real Media input plugin. [bug #1603458]
Thanks to Roland Kay for reporting and JW for the patch.
* Update build system to support x86 Darwin setups, and merge patches to
support Darwin OS better.
* Replace custom ALSA check with pkg-config check, and make sure 0.9.0 is
the requried version.
* When the compiler supports it, enable hidden visibility for all the
plugins to export only the plugin info entry (and eventual needed
special functions), to replace the min-symtab option that wasn't working.
* Add "m4b" to the list of supported file extensions for the Qt demuxer, to
allow playing (unprotected) audiobooks in AAC format.
* Remove --disable-fpic hack, prefer using --without-pic instead.
* Add new output plugin: PulseAudio (based on PolypAudio plugin), that uses
0.9 API (PulseAudio is PolypAudio renamed).
* Remove PolypAudio plugin, latest version supported 0.7 API that is no more
supported by upstream, and it's replaced by PulseAudio.
* Allow 0 for DVD title/chapter (navigation or full title).
* New experimental JACK audio driver.
* Fix switch from alsa/dmix 2.0 to 5.1 [bug #1226595]
* Don't use proxy for localhost connection. [bug #1553633]
* Use mmap() to open local files if available.
* Use pkg-config to look for external FFmpeg.
* Allow FFmpeg to play MP3s in case MAD is not present.
* Reduce the dead time when trying to connect to dead hosts, by falling back
to non-blocking sockets on the last address found for an host, and allowing
users to provide a connection timeout. [bug #1550844]
* Return the correct error message to frontends when a file is inaccessible or
the network connection is broken. [bug #1550763]
* Support libcaca 0.99, thanks to cjacker huang.
* Fix crash on video-only WMV streams. [bug #1564598]
* Report audio stream on Shorten files (required for Amarok to play them).
* Optionally use fontconfig to look up fonts to use for OSD. [bug #1551042]
* Prefer FreeType2 rendered fonts to bitmap fonts.
* Stone age platforms update
* Enabled TrueSpeech codec
* New X11 visual type: xine-lib may now use frontend's mutex/lock mechanism
instead of XLockDisplay/XUnlockDisplay.
* Allow playing of OggFlac files. [bug #1590690]
* Allow playing FLAC files with an ID3 tag at the start.
* Fix some crashes caused by MP3 files (and possibly others) being
misdetected as AAC.
xine-lib (1.1.2)
* Security fixes:
- CVE-2005-4048: possible buffer overflow in libavcodec (crafted PNGs).
- CVE-2006-2802: possible buffer overflow in the HTTP plugin.
- possible buffer overflow via bad indexes in specially-crafted AVI files
* Update gettext support to 0.14.5, disable internal gettext, fix locales
handling, use the correct domain for strings.
* Italian translation update
* Czech translation update
* Disable the XXMC plugin if Xv support isn't there
* Also look for Xv support in /usr/lib for X.org's new location
* Fix using xine-lib on systems with SELinux enabled
* Build right with libiconv in /usr/local as default on FreeBSD
* Fix a potential crash with fixed-size lacing in the Matroska demuxer
* Patch from SuSE to fix alsa after hardware suspend
* Fix the ./configure --enable-static-xv parameter
* Really fix the speed changing race that was mentioned in 1.1.1
* Send events for tvtime filmmode changes
* Add an image decoder based on gdk-pixbuf
* Add browseable capability to smb input plugin
* Enable AMD64 mmx/sse support in some plugins (tvtime, libmpeg2, goom...)
* Fix xxmc subpictures (broken since 1.1.1)
* FFmpeg update (version 51.1.0)
* Fix detection of locale containing a modifier (like "@euro")
* New volume normalization post plugin
* New image noise post plugin (useful for mitigating some compression artifacts)
* Support for Vorbis-style comments in FLAC files
* Coverity fixes
* Add ATSC support to the DVB plugin
* Make various structures and arrays constant.
* Fix up health check to find libX11 and libXv shared objects even if
devel packages aren't installed (where appropriate). (Ubuntu 47357)
* Fix install problems in case configure was generated by autoconf >= 2.59c.
* Fixed some win32 codec freezes when configured w32-path doesn't exist
* Add support for RealPlayer 10 codecs (from SUSE)
xine-lib (1.1.1)
* Improve sound quality when using alsa 1.0.9 or above.
When playing a 44.1khz stream on a 48khz only capable sound card.
It bypasses alsa-lib resampler and uses xine's
* Windows ports bug fixes and improvements
* Set up the framebuffer palette (fb video out).
* build fixes and improvements, added --with-pthread-prefix and
--with-zlib-prefix options
* new DirectFB video output plugin with many improvements (output to overlay
or TV, deinterlacing, image controls, zoom, OSD, double/triple buffering,
vsync, flicker filtering, field parity control)
* overlay cropping fixes for small streams or when using cropping support
* experimental frame allocation optimization reduces cpu usage of the
deinterlacer plugin by up 25%
* implement time seeking on DVD plugin
* move CFLAGS optimizations to a separated file (added --disable-optimizations)
* use the same codec path as MPlayer (/usr[/local]/lib/codecs)
* FFmpeg sync (new QDM2 decoder)
* imported Duck TrueMotion 2 decoder from FFmpeg
* sync libfaad2 to latest GPL compatible version; fixes AAC decoding on x86_64 arch
* support gapless playback while switching streams (requires UI cooperation)
* fix speed changing race causing deadlock with v4l plugin
* cddb improvements/fixes (DTITLE/DYEAR parsing, timeout increase and
multiline entries support) [#1205274]
xine-lib (1.1.0)
* new quality deinterlacer from dscaler: GreedyH (Greedy High Motion)
* new quality deinterlacer from dscaler: TomsMoComp (Tom's Motion Compensated)
* added help for most deinterlace methods
* ffmpeg update
* use ImageMagick to convert and display different type of images (png, jpg...)
* improve ASX playlist parsing
* add an extended MRL reference event (MRL title, start time, play time):
needed for the ASX parser; deprecates plain MRL reference events.
* goom updated to 2k4-0
xine-lib (1.0.4)
* tiny doc update
* build fixes and cross build improvements
* fixed an align problem in Win32 DirectX video output plugin
* fixed linking of X11 plugins for some platforms
changes:
-Big XvMC quality / correctness / cpu-usage fix
-added support for WMA Voice codec
-support for Windows Media Audio Lossless
-bugfixes
-security fixes (were already patched in pkgsrc)
also add a patch to correct the path for win32 codecs, needed if
xine-lib in embedded into other applications (as totem)
X11 from pkgsrc.
For some reason, X11 is not found by the configure script in such systems
(which is the correct behavior, as USE_X11 is undefined). This results in
a configuration failure because the script defines the HAVE_XV conditional
in an incorrect place (inside a shell conditional).
Problem reported by Owen Becker <owen at safeasmilk.net> in tech-pkg@.
* Build the oss audio plugin, fix hardcoded audio device.
* When Mesa is used the opengl plugin is not built, check this via
USE_BUILTIN.{MesaLib,glu}.
* Fix some tests in configure.ac.
* Add PLIST.common_end to remove directories, otherwise the dirs are not
removed correctly.
More changes to come in the future for configure.ac...
Bump PKGREVISION.
New Features:
- Added support for Annodex bitsream format. The Annodex bitstream
format is a subset of the Ogg encapsulation format: it"s basically
Ogg with extra timing information, so that time-based stream
- Added support for VobSub-in-Matroska (Vobsub is raw subtitle
stream from a DVD. This patch enables support for VobSub
- Added support for 44100Hz DTS in .wav files
- Added experimental time stretching plugin: play stream faster or
slower than original speed, optionally preserving pitch
- Added configure option for building xine with external ffmpeg
library
- Added api for finer playback speed control (requires frontend
support)
- Added support for QuickTime 6.3 DLLs
- Added support for mp3 audio in mp4 files
- Added support for using utf-8 for matroska subtitles
changes:
rc4a:
Some have experienced problems with rc4 due a bug managing the colorkey
overlay for XV (XVideo). With some video cards (most notably Matrox), it
caused parts of the image to not be displayed properly. These bugs have
now been fixed. Others have experienced compilation problems in our
previous releases resulting in static noise being produced for WMA streams.
This has also been fixed in rc4a.
Users of 5.1 and other audio surround setups will need to reconfigure their
xine settings. A newer, more user-friendly, "Speaker arrangement" config
item is now provided and must be used.
rc5:
xine-lib 1-rc5 contains important fixes from our previous release,
most notably compilation fixes for AMD64 plataform, fixed
downloading of reference files (asx, rm, etc) with HTTP, some
crashes with win32 DLLs and playback issues of some MPEG streams.
There are cool new features as well, like the surround 5.1 upmix
plugin and MacOS X support.
NetBSD. Applied the same symbol hacks that are used to make the Linux
RealPlayer modules work with mplayer -- but also use the native RV2.0 codec
now.
17.03.2004 xine-lib 1-3c3b released
This version adds support for Matroska
files, Flash Video and Sierra VMD files, as
well as OpenDML 2.0 support for the AVI
demuxer. In addition, this new library can
now handle a variety of file formats from
the Amiga computer, including a variety of
IFF files and MOD/S3M/XM/IT/etc music
tracker formats (thanks to the ModPlug
library). The new library version contains
several new video decoders including Sierra
video, Flash Video, Real Video 2.0 Duck
TrueMotion v1, 8BPS, MZSH, ZLIB, ASV1,2,
ATI VCR1 (all courtesy of ffmpeg). Network
streaming drivers are enhanced, including
secure HTTP, MMS, and RTP/UDP. As for video
drivers, there is new support for the CACA
library (colored ASCII art), and
fixed/improved support for SDL and Sun
PGX32 video. As always the core xine engine
has been enhanced for greater stability so
that you can just play your multimedia with
ease.
- Fixed some bugs which caused xine to segfault under certain conditions,
and a long-standing issue that would make xine hang with the NPTL
implementation in Linux kernel 2.6.
- Stabilized core engine and much improved subtitles.
- Built-in VCD navigation, XvMC support and better handling of funny filenames.
- A security hole regarding the "#save" MRL option has been closed.
- Added a feature: append "#save:filename" to an MRL to save the stream during
playback.
- Lots of bugfixes.
