New 1.4.1 version:
- Added new elements/classes DiscardPadding, CodecDelay and
SeekPreRoll
- The licensing information has been cleared up/unified.
- The Makefile now contain options for specifying the destination
base directory during installation ("DESTDIR") and for
specifying which library types to build ("link").
- The libraries are built without the "-ansi" and
"-fno-gnu-keywords" flags on Linux
- Code cleanup
changes:
several new elements that were added to the Matroska specifications:
CueDuration, CueRelativePosition, ChapterStringUID, VideoAlphaMode
and DefaultDecodedFieldDuration
changes: cleanup and minor fixes
pkgsrc note: according to the ChangeLog, this version is not binary
compatible to older versions -> ABI_DEPENDS bumped
changes:
-API extensions
-bugfixes
pkgsrc note: while the changelog doesn't tell details, there seems
to be an ABI incompatibility to the previous version. Bump the
bl3 dependency.
Changes:
- fix the segment family UID
- no more TrackAngle and new TrackTranslate elements
- rename ChapterLink* to ChapterTranslate*
- add KaxChapterLinkEditionUID
- fix the KaxSegmentFamily flags
- added KaxSegmentFamily, KaxChapterLink, KaxChapterLinkCodec and
KaxChapterLinkID
- Move all of the (re-)activated Matroska v1 elements out of "#if == 2"
blocks.
- support for KaxMaxBlockAdditionID and fix default values
- BlockAdditions is in Matroska 1 now
- added the button track type
- Use malloc() and free() instead of new[] and delete[] where the lib might
deal with pointers that have been allocated by the app, or where the app
has allocated the memory. Reason: new[]ed memory cannot be realloc()ed.
- remove support for the gap flag in the Block
- add almost automatic handling of SilentTracks
- added KaxTrackFlagForced
- added KaxTrackAngle and various fixes
- TrackOverlay is now multiple
- added KaxClusterSilentTracks and KaxClusterSilentTrackNumber
Changes:
- remove patch-aa, it has been merged upstream
0.7.3:
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- add KaxEditionFlagDefault, KaxEditionManaged, TargetType, TagLanguage,
TagDefault, EditionFlagHidden
- rename the new KaxTagLanguage to KaxTagLangue
- misc small bugfixes
0.7.2:
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- chapters/tags: add an edition UID and clean the code according to the specs
- mingw32: Proper description for the SHARED option. Make building the lib
statically the default just like it is for libembl.
Changes:
- use bzip2 distribution tarball
0.7.1:
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- KaxClusterPosition is already in use and therefore a v1 element
- various cosmetic changes to Makefile and build system itself
- do not define MATROSKA_VERSION=2 anymore. it's not needed for mplayer
any longer and no other application needs it. per discussion with Moritz
Bunkus.
- add test target, do not build tests as a part of normal build
- i can as well add myself as MAINTAINER..
container format library.
Matroska aims to become THE Standard of Multimedia Container Formats.
It was derived from a project called MCF, but differentiates from it
significantly. It is based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language),
a binary derivative of XML.
Matroska is designed with the future in mind. It incorporates features
you would expect from a modern container format, like:
- Streamable over internet (HTTP and RTP)
- Fast seeking in the file
- High error recovery
- Menus (like DVDs have)
- Chapter entries
- Selectable subtitle streams
- Selectable audio streams
- Modularly extendable
From pkgsrc-wip, submitted by Sergey Svishchev.
