changes:
RTP improvements
Support digest auth for RTSP
Additional documentation
Support DSCP QoS in multifdsink
Add NV12/NV21 video buffer layouts
Video scaling now bilinear by default
Support more than 8 channels in audio conversions
Channel mapping fixes for audioconvert
Improve tmplayer and sami subtitle support
Support 1x1 pixel buffers for videoscale
Typefinding improvements for MPEG2, musepack
Ogg/Dirac mapping updated in oggmux
Fixes in ogg demuxing
audiosink synchronisation and slaving fixes
Support muting of the audio in playbin by selecting -1 as the audio stream
Work done on playbin2 and uridecodebin
Improvements in the experimental GIO plugin
decodebin fixes
Handle GAP buffers in some places
Various other leak and bug-fixes
changes:
Add the Presets interface
Use the binary registry by default
Deprecate gst_element_get_pad and don't use it anywhere any more.
Reverse playback fixes
API to get missing element messages from parse_launch parsing.
Fixes in latency calculations
BaseTransform negotiation fixes
New Buffering query and messages
Fix multiqueue deadlocks when changing limits
Remove pre-generated parser hacks and require newer flex/bison
Use GSlice in more places
Use static strings in property declarations everywhere to save memory
allocations
Fix unaligned memory accesses with the binary registry and add CRC checks
Lots of other bug fixes
- If the system defines isnan() and isinf() then undef them before using
gnash specific versions (which in the case of isnan() has different
numbers of arguments). Fixes build on NetBSD-4.0
2008-05-10 Russ Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Sixth alpha release of Gnash (0.8.3).
Improvements since 0.8.2 release are:
More visible to users:
* Native fullscreen support (from AS) implemented.
* Long command-line options properly supported.
* View detailed movie information from GTK gui.
* Added an option in Preferences to initially display a movie
as a blank ("Click here to start") screen.
* Added "dump" GUI to dump a movie to disk.
* Improved Cairo rendering performance.
* Fix support for OpenOffice Impress SWF exporter (malformed..)
Less visible to users:
* Garbage Collector usage reduced where appropriate.
* Mouse.hide and Mouse.show implemented in GTK.
* ActionScript inheritance fixes:
o super implemented correctly (still not 100% compatible for SWF7)
o implements / instanceof works correctly now
* FsCommands quit, fullscreen and showMenu implemented.
* FsCommand-to-javascript implemented (plugin).
* Minor ActionScript compatibility fixes: String, XML, toLocaleString,
int, parseInt. fromCharCode, toString (SWF4) etc.
* Fixes to arguments class (tests: Function.as, line404~456).
* Stage.scaleMode implemented (fixes resizing of various movies).
* Stage.align implemented.
* Fixes to Date class (platform consistent).
* Logging uses boost::format.
* Improved Win32 support: builds using MinGW/MSYS (cross-compile
not tested yet), and initial implementation of npgnash.dll exists.
* Sprite handling improved, fixing FlowPlayer and other video SWFs.
* TextField handling:
o Fix in device font handling (DefineFontInfo tag)
o Fix support for DefineFont2 tag (sizes)
o Improve TextField support for TextFormat use.
* Fix parsing of malformed XML files
* Fix loading of text / XML with Byte Order Marks.
* Minor fix to _x and _y translation.
* More functions correctly registered as ASnative.
* System.capabilities information expanded.
* Jemalloc memory allocator from Mozilla added as an option.
* Redesigned and implemented AMF0 support, with the beginning of
AMF3 support.
* SWF8 line styles support (both from tag and drawing api)
changes:
- For extra safety against possible Integer overflows like the ones found
in CVE-2008-1482, backport more calloc usage from 1.2 branch
-Added MIME types and .mpp for musepack
-Fixed display of some MJPEG streams
-Deprecate xine_xmalloc() function, see src/xine-utils/utils.c for more
information about the reason
-Provide a useful implementation of xine_register_log_cb()
-New version of the JACK output plugin
pkgsrc note: the fix for CVE-2008-1878 was integrated upstream
Set SKIP_UNPACK_REQUIRED_MODULES=1 so we do not install our own copy of
various perl modules, set USE_TOOLS+=perl, and update required versions
in perl dependencies
changes:
* Fix the playlist parser trying to parse RCS files
* Fix parsing of file that appear to be DOS text files but are Podcasts
* Fix linefeeds appearing in titles
changes:
OSS v4 support
libdc1394 2.0.0 support
AAC support fixes
RTP support improved
New OFA element
SRT subtitle encoder added
Windows Inet support for http/ftp
Fixes in dc1394, MIDI, MPEG-2 encoding, MythTV input, NAS
Fixes in Bayer decoder, replaygain analysis, GSM decoder
DVB/MPEG-TS support improved
NSF decoder updated
'metadata' plugin enhancements
Dirac encoder ported to libschroedinger
mplex element ported to 0.10
VCD/CDXA parser ported to 0.10
Directshow wrapper improvements
'selector' plugin enhancements
souphttpsrc moved to the -good module
Various other fixes and enhancements
changes:
-The libsoup based http source moved from the -bad module and was raised
to primary rank
-GOOM visualisation plugin updated to Goom2k4
-Fixes in UDP, RTSP, matroska, QT/mov, AVI, v4l2, OS/X, SunAudio, mulaw
and wavpack
-New gdkpixbuf output for snapshotting
-Various other bug-fixes
