The Farsight project is an effort to create a framework to deal
with all known audio/video conferencing protocols. On one side it
offers a generic API that makes it possible to write plugins for
different streaming protocols, on the other side it offers an API
for clients to use those plugins.
The main target clients for Farsight are Instant Messaging
applications. These applications should be able to use Farsight
for all their Audio/Video conferencing needs without having to
worry about any of the lower level streaming and NAT traversal
issues.
Farsight forms an integral part of the Telepathy framework. It is
used by Empathy through the Telepathy-Farsight library. It can also
be easily used on embedded platforms by using Stream-Engine. The
Telepathy-Farsight library binds it to the Connection Managers via
D-Bus and the Telepathy Media Stream Spec and is used for all their
streaming requirements.
changes:
Recognise Kate subpicture subtitles
Support progressive download in playbin2
GIO improvements
Add buffer-list support in appsink
Add gaussian-noise mode to audiotestsrc
bump cdparanoia req to 0.10.2 and improve caching
Improve audio source base class
Add frame-by-frame stepping and examples
Extend stream-probing in decodebin2
Many RTSP improvements
support for PGS subpictures
adder improvements
Add Y444, v210, v216 formats
implement preset interface in vorbisenc, theoraenc, oggmux
Improve libvisual visualisation timestamp tracking
playbin2 enhancements: custom audiosink, subpictures, cdda
Improvements in textrender
Support raw YUV 4:2:2 and SIREN in RIFF
Add 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 support to theoradec
Many other bug-fixes and improvements
changes:
Fully support nested structures in caps
Support frame-by-frame stepping in sinks
Add buffer-lists to pass around groups of buffers
Use TaskPools for managing worker threads
New stream-status API for finer thread control
Code optimisations
Many other bug-fixes and enhancements
Shared directories can now be created independently by the pacakges
needing them and will be removed automatically by pkg_delete when empty.
Packages needing empty directories can use the @pkgdir command in PLIST.
Discussed and ok'd in thread starting at
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2009/06/30/msg003546.html
Version 1.1.4 (2009 June 24)
* New async error reporting mechanism. Calls made after a fatal error are
now safely handled in the event an error code is ignored
* Added allocation checks useful to some embedded applications
* fix possible read past end of buffer when reading 0 bits
* Updates to API documentation
* Build fixes
changes:
Real and WMS RTSP improvements
Other cleanups and bug fixes
Improve ASF file handling
Large MPEG video file support
Interlacing support for MPEG video
New 'lamemp3dec' mp3 encoder element
x264enc moved from -bad
Remove id3mux in favour of the new id3tag element in -bad
changes:
New shapewipe video transition plugin
qtmux improvements
camerabin improvements
HDV MPEG-TS private streams support
Output interlacing information in mpegvideoparse
MS-ADPCM decoder
RTP fixes and enhancements
DTS decoder improvements
New ID3 tagging plugin that supports v1, v2.3 and v2.4
Support for PGS (BluRay) subtitles
Many other bug fixes and enhancements
* Live recording
* Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support
* Finer speed controls
* New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM,
Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, ...)
* New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, ...) and major improvements in many formats...
* New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
* Video scaling in fullscreen
* RTSP Trickplay support
* Zipped file playback
* Customizable toolbars
* Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
* Better integration in Gtk environments
* MTP devices on linux
* AirTunes streaming
* New skin for the skins2 interface
