New features:
* Parallel installability with 0.6.x series
* Internationalization
* New translations in this release: Ukrainian, British
* Translations: af az en_GB nl sr sv uk
* id3 fixes
* asf fixes
* qt demux fixes
* dv fixes
* auparse fixes
* wavparse seeking/querying fixes
* alsa fixes for mixing and device releasing
* categorisation fixes
* v4lsrc fixes for webcams
* streamheader fixes
* Portability fixes
* new element: DTS decoder
* new element: libvisual
* new element: theoraenc
* new element: oggmuxer
* new element: rawvorbisenc
* new elements: audiorate and videorate
* new elements: TCP server/client src/sink
* new element: pixbufscale
* new element: osxaudiosink
* new element: sunaudiosink
* new element: videomixer
* new elements: multipartmux/multipartdemux
* new elements: smokeenc/smokedec
* new element: vorbisparse
Bugs fixed:
* 132440 : configure botches DVDNAV_CFLAGS
* 133002 : configure should check for dvdnav header
* 134007 : [alsasink] assertion failure in alsalib snd_pcm_plug_hw_p...
* 135145 : [asfdemux] Can't play randomfile.wma
* 135862 : [wavparse] add ADPCM support
* 135989 : v4l-conf called even when not present
* 136392 : [v4lsrc] buggy wit qc-usb driver
* 136572 : [esdsink] blocks other esd apps in PAUSED state
* 137711 : [oggdemux] jump or move depends on uninitialised value
* 137724 : [qtdemux/ffdec_mpeg4/faad] MPEG-4 video/audio esds atoms
* 137750 : Gst-player not able to seek in wav file
* 138251 : [mad] Can't play bad1.mp3, bad2.mp3
* 139524 : ogg muxer needed
* 139658 : [alsasrc] probes inexistant playback device on capture on...
* 140064 : [speed] can't negotiate
* 140138 : media file makes totem-gst go nuts
* 140265 : ffmpegcolorspace and gnomevfs fail to build buildable
* 140268 : ximagesink and xvimagesink do not build under FreeBSD
* 140384 : Incorrect library dependency in SDL plugin
* 140640 : [asfdemux] segfault
* 140668 : gst-plugins-0.8.1 does not compile
* 140844 : icecastsend (shout) doesnt even try to connect to server
* 140878 : ima adpcm encoded wavs are not supported
* 141176 : [mad] Can't play ...Faithfulness.mp3
* 141188 : monoscope plugin doesnt work as intended
* 141258 : mp3 file seek problem
* 141318 : ffmpegcolorspace doesn't compile on Solaris
* 141821 : kdemacros.h
* 142044 : m4a typefinds to x-m4a instead of quicktime
* 142084 : mad and level plugins dont like each other (caps related ...
* 142107 : build error under mdk 10.0
* 142127 : GstPlay's time_tick event does not return the right time ...
* 142193 : Patch for plugins Codecs klassifications
* 142205 : return type of gst_audio_clock_id_wait_async is wrong
* 142211 : alsasink broken due to mixer device
* 142262 : shout2send not compiling or working (fix attached)
* 142272 : qtdemux doesn't work with sources that cannot seek
* 142286 : The au plugin cannot play au files encoded with ulaw
* 142320 : [ffmpeg - ima-adpcm-ws/wsaud] scheduler issues
* 142493 : default fragment size in osssink is too small
* 142507 : [PATCH] id3tag plugin does not correctly set buffer offset
* 142555 : wavparse doesn't handle truncated files gracefully
* 142566 : Certain mp3s don't get played correctly
* 142585 : gstresample makes wrong assumption about buffer sizes (se...
* 142586 : alsasink resync is broken
* 142664 : v4l2_buffer redeclaration : won't compile with -Werror
* 142764 : ogg that caueses error
* 142797 : Mac OS X Audio Sink and Src
* 142851 : gstid3tag sends wrong offset on discont events
* 142954 : [patch] adding a connection problem signal to shout2send
* 142962 : Error converting wav file to ogg/vorbis
* 143032 : [adder] crash on certain errors
* 143130 : [mixmatrix] returns garbage pointer as request pad
* 143146 : [patch] gst/tcp plugin doesnt compile on OSX
* 143153 : [patch] osxaudio - fix warnings
* 143262 : rifflib does not know several fourccs
* 143283 : [PATCH] Property accessors for the mixer interface
* 143454 : [alsasink] outputs silence on sync problem
* 143749 : tcp plugin dosn't compile on FreeBSD
* 143861 : OSS elements portability on BSD (soundcard.h location)
* 144240 : [cdparanoia] sets wrong timestamps on buffers [patch]
* 144425 : Invalid read of size 4in riff-read.c [patch]
Changes since 0.8.2:
* Hotfix for unregisterable switch element
Changes since 0.8.1:
* new translations: Turkish, Ukrainian, GB English
* Fixes for setting elements to NULL to release devices
* Windows port
* New GStreamer Data Protocol helper library
* New GstAdapter, similar to bytestream
* Fixes for registry loading plugins with same name
* Added no-more-pads signal
* Added Fixed List GValue type
* Fixes to schedulers
Bugs fixed since 0.8.1:
* 133897 : Internal GStreamer error: seek problem
* 134839 : buffers leaked by filesrc, typefind, spider or fakesink
* 137710 : When seeking, the sink's time is reset
* 138012 : [opt] simple pipeline crashe
* 138836 : docs build but won't install
* 140015 : GstValue GTypes should not derive from G_TYPE_BOXED
* 140156 : ARM port / type reading patches
* 140477 : [debug] crash with *:2 while playing alien.mpg
* 140594 : Small memory leak int gst_parse_launch()
* 140734 : filesrc should handle named pipes/devices
* 140743 : Leak in _gst_parse_escape()
* 141083 : gstreamer-0.8.1 compile failure with gcc-3.4: error: PIC ...
* 141304 : GST_CAPS and GST_IS_CAPS broken
* 141317 : Win32 build with newest Microsoft compilers
* 141414 : filesink leaks events
* 141416 : leak in entrygthread scheduler
* 141417 : Memory leak in gthread-cothreads.h
* 142304 : The Win32 makefiles clean too much
* 142804 : needed change to allow x86 Solaris compile with Forte
* 142957 : xmlregistry failes to compile on osx
Changes:
- mkvmerge: Dropped supoprt for 'aviclasses' (one of the two
libraries for accessing AVI files). This mostly
affects the Windows users as I've used aviclasses
and not avilib on Windows so far. The 0.9.0-pre-builds
so far haven't shown any problems, though, so I hope
this doesn't break anything.
new feature: mmg will set the 'display dimensions' automatically
for AVI files whose video track is MPEG4 and has the
pixel aspect ratio stored in the bitstream.
bug fix: The improved MP3 garbage detection was broken resulting
in an error message from mkvmerge in some weird
bug fix: Matroska tracks can use lacing (several frames inside
one Matroska block with only one timecode for the whole
block). mkvmerge did not recreate the timecodes for the
frames 1..n in the lacing correctly.
feature removed: Dropped support for 'time slices'. They were not
used, didn't offer the player any additional value and
caused massive increase in overhead.
bug fix: The OGM fix in 0.9.0 broke handling for non-broken OGM
files a bit.
new feature: Added support for the audio/video synchronization
method used by NanDub (garbage at the beginning of audio
tracks inside an AVI) for AC3 and MPEG audio tracks. In
other words: If an AVI is read and an audio track contains
garbage right at the beginning then the corresponding
audio delay is calculated and used instead of simply
discarding the garbage.
new feature: Enabled reading MPEG4 video from MP4 files (nope,
they're not stored in Matroska's native mode yet).
- mmg
bug fix: The job manager did not handle the conversion of non-ASCII
characters correctly.
new feature: The action 'delete job' in the job manager will also
delete the file in the 'jobs' subdirectory.
new feature: Added an option to make mmg stay always on top (only
on Windows).
new feature: Added a dialog for adding arbitrary command line options
which includes a list of advanced options to chose from.
The Quasar DV codec (libdv) is a software codec for DV video, the
encoding format used by most digital camcorders, typically those that
support the IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire or i.Link) interface. libdv was
developed according to the official standards for DV video: IEC 61834
and SMPTE 314M.
Submitted in PR pkg/24313 by Osamu OISHI with cleanup and update to
0.102 by me.
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.
distinfo file and that both the gmplayer and mplayer-share distinfo
files must be maintained.
(out of 25 files between them, only 3 were actually shared.. oops)
imported by me mainly for the up and coming tunesbrowser import.
GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of
media-handling components, ranging from simple mp3 playback to complex
audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology
transparently. Developers can add new codecs and filters by writing a
simple plugin with a clean, generic interface.
This package provides the mad plugin for GStreamer.
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
--------------------------------
Core support:
* Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
* Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
* Improved HTTP daemon.
* Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
Codecs:
* New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
(http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
* New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
* H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
* Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
(allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
* Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
Input:
* --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
* Improved directory access module.
* New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
* Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
* New options to pass meta info to the input.
* It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
(satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
Demux:
* Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
* mmsh streaming fixes.
* Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
Subtitles:
* Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
* Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
* Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
Stream output:
* Improved session announcement system.
* Minimize threads usage by default.
* Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
* Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
* Improved MPEG TS muxer.
* Improved transrater.
* Meta info options used by the muxers.
* New configuration system.
* Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
VideoLAN manager:
* New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
* Supports live streams and VoD.
* Supports scheduling.
* Telnet interface for vlm.
* HTTP interface for vlm.
Interfaces:
* Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
- Ability to embed video output.
- Support for bitmap fonts.
- Lots of improvements.
* wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
- New design and set of icons.
- Ability to embed video output.
- Support for hotkeys.
- Support for bookmarks.
* Mac OS X
- Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
- Better hotkeys handling.
Mac OS X port:
* OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
* Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
* Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
* Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
Win32 port:
* DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
* Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
* Improved Windows installer.
Linux port:
* PowerPC fixes.
Misc:
* Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
* Roku HD1000 audio output
Changes:
- mkvmerge
bug fix: Improved handling for OGM files. Streams that
are lacking the comment packet are handled better.
bug fix: Some MP3 streams are padded in the front with trash
(mostly those in AVI files). This trash might contain
valid MP3 headers which do not match the remaining headers
for the actual track. Both the MP3 reader and the MP3
packetizer can now skip up to one of those bogus headers
in the trash.
bug fix: The OGM reader was not Endian safe.
bug fix: Audio sync for Vorbis was partially broken for positive
offsets.
Rewrite of the VobSub handling code.
- mmg
bug fix: On some occasions the chapter editor thought there was no
language associated with a chapter name and complained
about that.
bug fix: The chapter editor did not honor the values selected for
'country' and 'language'.
Removed the 'advanced' tab. Those options shouldn't be used anyway.
