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MPlayer (1.0)
rc4: "Yes We Can"
Decoders:
* YUY2 Lossless Codec (YLC0) via binary DLL
* Truemotion RT codec (TR20) via binary DLL
* Nogantech Codec (NTN1 and NTN2) via binary DLL
* add new FourCCs (m1v1, yuvs, VYUY, Y42B, V422, YUNV, UYNV, UYNY, uyv1,
2Vu1, P422, HDYC, IJLV, MVJP)
TwoCCs (0xA106, 0x6c75, 0xAAC0, 0x55005354)
to existing decoders.
* AMR now handled via OpenCORE decoder
* updated Windows Media Screen Codec (MSS1, MSS2) via binary DLL
* CoreAVC H.264 decoder via binary DLL (Windows only)
* Kega Game video codec (KGV1) via binary DLL
* SoftLab-NSK Forward MPEG-2 I-frames (SLIF) via binary DLL
* JPEG 2000 support via OpenJPEG
Demuxers:
* support for TrueHD in Blu-ray streams in libmpdemux
* more Blu-ray codec support with lavf
* fix length in ASF/WMV files
* support ISDB-Tb DVB streams
Drivers:
* Support for more formats in OpenGL video output drivers (different YUV
subsampling, 16 bit per component)
* Selectable YUV to RGB conversion standard for -vo gl
(-vo gl:colorspace=...:levelconv=...)
* -vo gl now tries to use yuv=2 by default if possible.
* -vo matrixview finally added
* add OS/2 KAI audio driver (-ao kai)
Other:
* -nosub option for disabling auto-selected subtitles
* support for displaying subs in the terminal (FIXME)
* support for subtitles with audio-only files
* support for right-to-left languages with embedded subtitles
* support for UTF-16 encoded external subtitles
* support for 8 channel audio
* sync dvd:// and dvdnav:// features
* support for MPEG-4 ASP in VDPAU video output (non B-frame only)
* support for live and non-live DVB teletext with demuxer lavf
* -name, -title and -use-filename-title options for MPlayer
* support for stream handling via FFmpeg, in particular rtmp and rtsp
(use e.g. ffmpeg://http://example.com/test)
* better support for 16-bit-per-component formats and formats
with alpha channel.
* better out-of-the-box support for compiling for ARM, IA64,
MinGW32 and MinGW-w64, MinGW has ASLR enabled with recent
enough binutils.
MEncoder:
* add -tsprog for demuxer lavf
rc3: "BikeshedCounter" March 27, 2009
Decoders:
* support for X8 frames (fixes "J-type picture is not supported" for WMV2)
* support for DTS WAV/DTS-CD passthrough by ad_hwac3
* Apple's raw YUV2 in MOV
* LATM over LOAS AAC decoding via internal libfaad2
* video game codecs: BFI video, Playstation MDEC video, ADPCM XA audio,
EA Maxis XA ADPCM audio, RL2 video, Beam Software SIFF video, V.Flash PTX video
* AVOption support for libavcodec-based decoders
* use lavc ADPCM codecs by default
* support for progressive JPEG in ffmjpeg
* ACDSystems MJPEG (ACDV) via binary DLL and lavc
* SIF1 via binary DLL
* wincam screen capture (WCMV) via binary DLL
* Creative Labs Video Blaster Webcam MJPEG (CJPG) via binary DLL and ijpg library
* kensington webcam (AJPG, ABYR) via binary DLL
* centre for wavelets (wavc) via binary DLL
* GeoVision Advanced MPEG-4 (GMP4, GM40) via binary DLL
* Xiricam JPEG from Veo PC Camera (XJPG) via binary DLL
* WorldConnect Wavelet Video (SMSV) via binary DLL
* VDOWave 3 advanced (VDO3,VDOM,VDOW) via binary DLL
* VoxWare MetaVoice (format 0x0074) via binary DLL
* Ulead DV Audio (0x215,0x216) via binary DLL
* GoToMeeting codec (G2M2,G2M3) via binary DLL
* SP4x codec - used by Aiptek MegaCam (SP4x) via binary DLL
* Broadway MPEG Capture Codec (BW10) via binary DLL
* ZDSoft screen recorder (ZDSV) via binary DLL
* WebTrain Communication lossless screen recorder (WTVC) via binary DLL
* xfire video (XFR1) via binary DLL
* VFAPI rgb transcode (vifp) via binary DLL
* ETI CamCorder EYECON (NUB0,NUB1,NUB2) via binary DLL
* fox motion (FMVC) via binary DLL
* Trident video (TY2C,TY2N,TY0N) via binary DLL
* 10-bit video (v210) via Cinewave binary DLL
* Brooktree YUV 4:1:1 Raw (Y41P) via binary DLL
* many rare/obscure fourccs for known formats added
* lower priority for binary Linux rv3040 codecs due to bugs
* remove native NuppelVideo decoder, use lavc instead
Demuxers:
* -lavfdopts cryptokey allows decrypting MXF and ASF files
* support for wavpack in Matroska
* AVOption support for lavf demuxing
* prefer lavf musepack demuxer over libmpdemux
* prefer lavf MOV demuxer over libmpdemux (use -demuxer mov for old behavior)
* support program switching in lavf demuxer
* support -slang in lavf demuxer
* support nosound switching in lavf demuxer
* support libass in lavf demuxer
* support VOBsub in lavf demuxer
* support MOV subtitle format
* support for attachments in lavf demuxer
* support for chapters in lavf demuxer
* support seeking in multirate RealMedia files
* FLAC speedup in lavf demuxer
* MNG demuxer
* remove native NuppelVideo demuxer, use lavf demuxer instead
Filters:
* vf_ow new overcomplete wavelet denoiser
* change vf_screenshot dependency from libpng to lavc
* add af_scaletempo which maintains audio pitch when changing playback speed
* fix multi-channel reordering
* af_stats, filter to print information about the audio stream
Streaming:
* tv:// support for Windows
* fix teletext on some systems
* DVD streams can switch angles
* DVD still menus are now supported via dvdnav://
* allow specifying the TV standard for each channel
* switch internal dvdread to libdvdread SVN external
FFmpeg/libavcodec:
* DNxHD encoder
* H.264 PAFF decoding
* Nellymoser ASAO decoder
* Beam Software SIFF demuxer and decoder
* libvorbis Vorbis decoding removed in favor of native decoder
* IntraX8 (J-Frame) subdecoder for WMV2 and VC-1
* Ogg (Vorbis only) muxer
* PC Paintbrush PCX decoder
* Sun Rasterfile decoder
* TechnoTrend PVA demuxer
* Linux Media Labs MPEG-4 (LMLM4) demuxer
* AVM2 (Flash 9) SWF muxer
* QT variant of IMA ADPCM encoder
* iPod/iPhone compatible MP4 muxer
* Mimic decoder
* MSN TCP Webcam stream demuxer
* RL2 demuxer / decoder
* IFF demuxer
* 8SVX audio decoder
* BFI demuxer
* MAXIS EA XA (.xa) demuxer / decoder
* BFI video decoder
* OMA demuxer
* MLP/TrueHD decoder
* Electronic Arts CMV decoder
* Motion Pixels Video decoder
* Motion Pixels MVI demuxer
* removed animated GIF decoder/demuxer
* D-Cinema audio muxer
* Electronic Arts TGV decoder
* Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) encoder
* AAC decoder
* floating point PCM encoder/decoder
* MXF muxer
* E-AC-3 support added to AC-3 decoder
* Nellymoser ASAO encoder
* ASS and SSA demuxer and muxer
* liba52 wrapper removed
* SVQ3 watermark decoding support
* Speex decoding via libspeex
* Electronic Arts TGQ decoder
* RV30 and RV40 decoder
* QCELP / PureVoice decoder
* hybrid WavPack support
* R3D REDCODE demuxer
* Electronic Arts TQI decoder
* OpenJPEG based JPEG 2000 decoder
* NC (NC4600) cameras file demuxer
* MXF D-10 muxer
* Generic metadata API
* H.264 speedup and PAFF decoding (install Yasm for faster H.264 decoding)
* correctly decode more of the H.264 conformance testsuite
* VC-1/WMV3 decoder speedup
* VP3 decoder speedup
* VP6 decoder speedup
* Split-Radix FFT (speedup multiple audio codecs)
* MMX/SSE/ARM and other misc speedups
libmpeg2:
* enable Alpha/ARM optimizations in libmpeg2
* SSE2-optimized IDCT routines from upstream libmpeg2
* libmpeg2 updated to version 0.5.1
Drivers:
* replace PolypAudio by PulseAudio (-ao pulse)
* add force-pbo suboption for faster output in vo_gl
* add Nintendo Wii/GameCube video driver (-vo wii)
* VIDIX driver for SuperH Mobile VEU hardware block
* support -border on vo_gl/gl2 in x11
* Direct3D Windows video output driver added
* factorize code in vo_wii
* remove unnecessary code from vo x11, xv, xvmc
* add OS/2 DART audio driver (-ao dart)
* add VDPAU video output
* add OS/2 KVA video driver (-vo kva)
MEncoder:
* check for system-wide configuration file in MEncoder
* AVOption support for lavc encoders
* AVOption support for lavf muxers
Others:
* many compiler warning fixes
* basic support for Closed Captioning roll-up mode
* reworked screensaver disabling support, most users will need to use
-heartbeat-cmd due to screensaver authors failing to design a common API
* grayscale decoding/encoding with FFmpeg disabled where it slowed down
the color case
* Linux AppleIR remote support
* add options to disable some or all configuration files
* support for DOS-style file:///x:/path paths
* some new slave commands (check DOCS/tech/slave.txt)
* libdvdcss updated to 1.2.10, now same as upstream version
* fix -endchapter support again for -dump* options
* add startup audio volume option
* add option to disable default key binds
* change default OSD and subtitle font size to a smaller default
libass:
* various fixes and updates to match VSFilter renderer
* support \blur tag and ScaledBordersAndShadow property
* fractional arguments and subpixel accuracy
* keep positions when pan-and-scan is used
Ports:
* small crash with vo_macosx fixed
* AC3/DTS passthrough for ao_macosx
* fix frozen OSD on Mac OS X
* vo_gl now works with -wid and nVidia drivers on Windows (this is a hack)
* VIDIX on SuperH
* workarounds for AltiVec on Apple gcc 3.3 on Mac OS X dropped
* vo_macosx can now be compiled in 64-bits mode
* allow multiple MPlayer instances with vo_macosx using buffer_name
* OpenGL support for unmodified MinGW64
SWScaler:
* new LGPLed YUV to RGB tables generator
rc2try2:
Security:
* buffer overflow in url.c fixed
* buffer overflow in stream_cddb.c fixed
* stack overflow in demuxer_audio.c fixed
* buffer overflow in demuxer_mov.c fixed
rc2: "AreWeThereYet?" October 7, 2007
(SVN revisions: MPlayer r24722, FFmpeg r10677)
DOCS:
* console messages and XML documentation converted to UTF-8
* Russian documentation translation finished
* Russian man page translation finished
* Chinese man page translation finished
* Chinese documentation translation started
* Documented get/set/step properties in DOCS/tech/slave.txt
Decoders:
* Intel Music Coder audio decoding via lavc
* Monkey Audio audio decoding via lavc
* Fraps v2/v4 video decoding via lavc
* Video game codecs: 4XM audio, Electronic Arts ADPCM audio, Delphine CIN
audio and video, Interplay DPCM audio, Sierra VMD video, Tiertex SEQ
video, Westwood IMA ADPCM audio, XAN wc3 video, Id CIN video, Interplay
video, XAN ADPCM audio, Westwood SND1 audio, Feeble Files DXA video, THP
audio and video, Renderware TeXture Dictionary video, Bethesda Software
VID video via lavc
* video game codecs: XAN wc4 video via binary DLL
* libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.1
* fixed resolution switching with libmpeg2
* handle resolution switching for Real codecs
* FFmpeg video decoder can now handle aspect ratio changes
* AMR now handled via libamr wrapper (http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr)
* SIMD optimizations for mp3lib under AMD64
Demuxers:
* Implemented switch_video and switch_program consistently with switch_audio
(default keys are "_" and TAB, respectively). For the time being program
switching is only available in TS streams handled by demux_ts.c (not
libavformat), while video switching is also handled by demux_lavf.c and
demux_avi.c.
* audio and video switching for the AVI demuxer (video switching untested)
* GIF demuxer improvements, should work with all GIFs now
* support for VC-1 in MPEG-TS and MPEG-PS files (BD,HD)-DVD
* support for EVO demuxing
* support -noidx with libavformat demuxer
* support for channel navigation with PVR input
* text subtitles should now work with libavformat demuxer
* cleaned up TiVo demuxer
Streaming:
* authentication for Real RTSP streams
* near-precise seeking in dvd:// and dvdnav://
(dvdnav:// requires libdvdnav from mphq)
* speed selection when playing dvd:// streams, to make drive quieter
* support SVQ3 and H.264 in X-QT over RTSP, now RTSP Apple keynotes work
(live555)
* SMIL playlist over Real RTSP
* support H.263-2000 over RTSP (live555)
* fix AAC-LATM over RTSP (live555)
* support AMR over RTSP (live555)
* support H.264 over RTSP (live555)
* "device" and "adevice" suboptions now work for the *BSD BT848 TV driver
* dvdnav:// now depends on MPlayer's fork of libdvdnav
* teletext support for tv:// (v4l and v4l2 only)
* radio support for *BSD BT848
* channel scanner for tv://
* fine tuning for tv://
* driver autodetection for tv://
* libnemesi RTSP/RTP support
* EOF detection for RTSP (live555)
FFmpeg/libavcodec:
* Intel Music coder audio decoder
* Fraps v2/v4 video decoder
* H.264 decoding speedup
* Slice-based parallel H.264 decoding (-lavdopts fast:threads=N)
* native NUT demuxer updated to spec
* native NUT muxer
* NUT muxing and demuxing support via libnut
* WMA encoder
* fix MJPEG-B on big-endian systems
* lowres support for some H.264 files
* DTS/DCA audio decoder
* Atrac 3 audio decoder
* MPEG-1/2 speedups
* RoQ muxer, video and audio encoder
* QTRLE encoder
* AC-3 decoder
* Matroska muxer
* Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
* Flac encoder and decoder speedups
* AMV demuxer and audio/video decoder
libmpeg2:
* iWMMXt-accelerated DCT and motion compensation for ARM processors
Filters:
* obsolete fame filter removed
* vf_geq speed-ups
* vf_yadif green frame fixed
* fix af_pan when switching audio streams
* add audio left/right balance feature to af_pan
MEncoder:
* write to output streams (currently only file:// and smb://)
* support -ffourcc with -of lavf
* removed B-frame warning message
* fixed bugs that would corrupt headers in the video stream when using telecining
and not patch the TFF flag correctly
Ports:
* Complete Intel Mac support
* Hitachi SuperH (SH3) support
* Blackfin optimizations
Drivers:
* ALSA audio output now sets the non-audio bit for AC3 passthrough even
if the user-specified default device name tries to clear it
* fixed internal VIDIX in Solaris/x86, also auto-enabled
* rework of internal VIDIX, now a fully static library with builtin drivers
* updated VIDIX ATI drivers
* Sun XVR-100 video output driver
Others:
* monitorpixelaspect=1 is now default. Set monitoraspect=4/3 to get the old
behavior (if you have non-square pixels).
* libdvdcss updated to Subversion HEAD, now same as upstream version
* libmpdvdkit split into libdvdread and libdvdcss
* obsolete Xvid 3 support removed
* long-deprecated -vop option removed
* video stream switching
* dvdnav:// honor -alang and -slang
* support for doubleclick as input event
* -really-quiet works as expected now
* select libavformat demuxer (-lavfdopts format=)
* internal minilzo removed in favor of FFmpeg implementation,
use liblzo2 for encoding
* change GUI dependency from libpng to libavcodec
* ability to change subtitle size during playback
* ability to turn loop on/off during playback
* Apple Remote support
* libdvdread updated to 0.9.7
* many compiler warning fixes
rc1try3: June 5, 2007 (unreleased)
Security:
* stack overflow in stream_cddb.c fixed
rc1try2: December 31, 2006 (unreleased)
Security:
* buffer overflow in asmrp.c fixed
rc1: "Codename intentionally left blank" October 22, 2006
(SVN revisions: MPlayer r20372, FFmpeg r6767)
DOCS:
* German documentation translation finished
* Russian documentation translation synced and almost finished
Drivers:
* IVTV hardware MPEG audio/video decoder output
* ALSA audio output: AC3 passthrough now works even when the device name
of the digital output port has been set by the user
* bicubic OpenGL scaling works with ATI cards
* md5sum switched to the libavutil MD5 implementation
* support for libcaca 1.0 via compatibility layer
Decoders:
* liba52 updated to 0.7.4 (slightly faster)
* SSE optimizations for mp3lib
* removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries
Demuxers:
* audio stream switching in MPEG-TS/PS, Matroska and
streams supported by libavformat
* audio stream switching between streams with different codecs
* libavformat demuxer now honors -alang
* chapter seeking in Matroska files
* fixed seeking to absolute and percent position for libavformat demuxer
* NUT demuxer using libnut
* Matroska SimpleBlock support
Inputs:
* split of stream layer from libmpdemux to new stream library
* PVR input for hardware MPEG encoder based cards, such as Hauppauge
WinTV PVR-150/250/350/500 AKA IVTV but also pvrusb2 and cx88
(requires Linux >= 2.6.18 kernel, featuring native V4L2 MPEG API)
* native RTSP input (handles MPEG-TS over RTP) for generic RTSP servers
* support for seeking to chapters in dvd:// and dvdnav:// streams
* radio support (radio://)
FFmpeg/libavcodec:
* VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
* Vorbis decoding speedup, now default Vorbis decoder
* VMware Video decoder
* On2 VP50 and VP62 decoder
* lossless audio decoders: WavPack, TTA, Shorten
* CAVS decoder
* GXF muxer/demuxer
* MXF demuxer
* much improved FLAC encoder
* more H.264 decoding speed improvements, plus support for -lavdopts fast
* Theora decoder fixes
* preliminary Vorbis encoder
* MTV demuxer
GUI:
* Windows version added
* drag-and-drop ignored last file
* save and load cache setting correctly
* working audio stream selection for Ogg and Matroska files
* executable names like gmplayer_old etc. will now start GUI as well
* -gui/-nogui options
* xinerama fixes, now behaves similar to MPlayer without GUI
Filters:
* MMX-optimizations for -vf yadif
* MMX-optimizations for -vf zrmjpeg
MEncoder:
* support of x264 encoding via libavcodec
* rewrite -x264encopts option parser to use the 264 option parser;
likely breaks 3rd party tools as the syntax of some options has changed
* removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries
Ports:
* partial Intel Mac support, --disable-win32 --disable-mp3lib is needed
* OpenGL can now create windows > screen size under Windows
* allow filenames starting with \\ for remote paths on Windows
Others:
* SSA/ASS subtitle renderer
* -endpos option for MPlayer
* -correct-pts option
* UTF-8 used for OSD and subtitles, some bitmap fonts will no longer work
correctly and -subcp must be set for all non-UTF-8 subtitles
* more audio-truncation fixes
* libavutil mandatory for MPlayer compilation
* more intuitive -edlout behaviour
* -nortc is now default since -rtc has disadvantages with recent kernels
pre8: "NeuTeam strikes back" June 11, 2006
(SVN revisions: MPlayer r18681, FFmpeg r5466)
Security:
* support for compilation with non-executable stack
* fix the major issues caught by Coverity's static analysis runs
DOCS:
* environment variables documentation started
* interactive control fully documented
* improved encoding guide
* new technical encoding guide in DOCS/tech/encoding-guide.txt
which is to be merged into the existing guide
* encoding tips for x264 and XviD
* how to set up MEncoder for x264 support
* new advanced audio usage guide with surround sound instructions
* Hungarian XML documentation translation finished
* Czech documentation translation finished
* French MPlayer documentation synced
* German man page synced
* Hungarian man page synced
* Italian man page synced
* Chinese console messages synced
* misc improvements all over the place
* AIX port documentation added
* all XviD options documented
* CONFIGURATION FILES section added to the man page
* Doxygen comments added to configuration parser and OpenGL
video out driver
Drivers:
* JACK audio output rewritten without bio2jack
* OpenAL audio output - unfinished, can only do mono output
* OpenGL video output modules support -geometry and -wid options
* for -vo gl manyfmts is now default (since it is a lot faster), use
-vo gl:nomanyfmts if it does not work for you
* streaming textures for -vo gl, much faster if supported (use -dr)
* hardware YUV to RGB conversion for -vo gl and -vo gl2, see yuv suboption
* support for custom fragment programs for -vo gl (see TOOLS/*.fp)
* support for bicubic hardware scaling in -vo gl, see lscale suboption
* use libvbe from vesautils as VESA video driver
* several fixes for the GGI video output driver
* fall back on next video output driver if vo_3dfx failed to initialize
* improved XvMC library detection (disabled by default)
* DPI (Print-Resolution) and Pixel-Aspect support in vo_jpeg
* ALSA audio output: several small fixes and improvements
* removed experimental mmap suboption from the ALSA driver
* YUY2 and back end scaling for S3 Virge chips on fbdev (-vo s3fb)
Decoders:
* Indeo2 (RT21) support via lavc
* Fraps video decoder via binary DLL
* support for 8-bit PNGs with palette
* support for dmb1 MJPEG files with ffmjpeg
* support for musepack audio (WARNING: when seeking you might get
ear- and speaker-breaking noises). If you hear clipping, use -af volume.
* experimental speex support via libspeex
* On2 VP7 video decoder via binary DLL
* Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) support via lavc
* support FLX and DTA extensions for flic files
* QDM2 audio decoding via lavc
* cook audio decoding via lavc
* TrueSpeech audio decoding via lavc
* CamStudio video decoder via lavc
* hwmpa pass-through MPEG audio codec
* tremor updated to libogg 1.1.2
* PNG decoding via libavcodec
* removed native RealAudio codecs (ported to lavc)
* Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder via lavc and binary DLL
* support for QuickTime in24/in32/fl32 PCM audio
* internal libfaad updated to CVS 20040915+MPlayer patches
* RTJpeg decoder from lavc is preferred
* bug fix for lavc WMA v2 decoder, now all files should be playable
* -vc mpeg12 resizes the window when aspect ratio changes
* Smacker audio and video decoding via lavc
* Windows Media VC1 video decoder via binary DLL
* Flash Screen video decoder via lavc
Demuxers:
* simultaneous audio capture/playback (-tv immediatemode=0) fixed in v4l2
* PVR support
* AAC ADTS demuxer
* libdvdread updated to v0.9.4
* support for some more MythTV NUV files
* modularization of demuxer code
* MPEG in GXF container support with extension-based detection
* faster MPEG and much faster GXF demuxing
* more user-friendly demuxer forcing
* MPEG Layer 1 and 2 demuxing fixed
* properly pass Vorbis extradata from Matroska container
* DVR format support
* H.264 ES high profile support
* TV channel cycling
* DVD subtitle and audio stream mappings fixed
* fixed RealAudio demuxing, now all files should have correct A/V sync
* partial support for QuickTime sound atom version 2
* improved handling of text subs in Matroska files
* DVD subtitles disabled by default
* support sipr codec in old RealAudio files
* fixed framerate detection of interlaced H.264 in raw/PS/TS streams
* support for variable framerate Ogg/OGM files
* made demux_ogg.c work with ffvorbis decoder
* fixed playback of RealVideo in Matroska files on ppc
* added support for Vorbis in MOV/MP4
Streaming:
* fix streaming of RealAudio files over HTTP
* show SHOUT/Icecast metadata while playing
* ultravox (unsv://) streaming support
* stream code ported to new modular API, massive code cleanup
* bandwidth selection for Real RTSP streams (for faster stream dumps)
FFmpeg/libavcodec:
* Snow bug fixes and speedup on x86, x86-64 and AltiVec
* MPEG-1/2/4 and H.264 decoder speedup
* Indeo2 (RT21) video decoder
* Fraps video decoder (v0 & v1, v2 not yet supported)
* Vorbis audio decoder
* RV20 fixes
* VP3 decoder fixes and speedup
* countless bug fixes all over the place
* vstrict=-1 is default, Snow, ffv1 etc. need vstrict=-2
* skiploopfilter/skipidct/skipframe decoder options for very fast H.264
decoding
* D-Cinema audio demuxer and decoder support
* Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) decoder
* FLX and DTA extensions for flic
* QDM2 audio decoder
* cook audio decoder
* TrueSpeech audio decoder
* WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
* JPEG-LS decoder (unfinished)
* CamStudio video decoder
* Theora decoder
* improved MOV and QuickTime demuxer
* improved AVI muxer
* multithreaded decoding
* bitexact decoding
* DV50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
* true audio (TTA) decoder
* AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
* Creative VOC demuxing
* Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder
* KMVC decoder
* NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTJpeg decoder
* MP4 and MOV demuxer greatly improved to support all varieties of
currently available files
* AVS demuxer and video decoder
* American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
* Smacker demuxer and decoder
* Flash screen Video decoder
* Trellis-optimized ADPCM audio encoder
* Major improvements to Snow quality and encoding
GUI:
* skins now reside in a directory named 'skins', not 'Skin'
* ported to GTK2
* long standing upside down vpotmeter bug fixed
* don't hang on unreadable skin files
* random fixes and improvements
Filters:
* much faster version of spp filter (-vf fspp), and pp7 ("fast spp=6")
* remove_logo filter
* lavcresample now used by default (-af-adv force=0 gives old behavior)
* vf_expand and vf_dsize now support aspect and round parameters
* screenshot filter
* -af pan command line fix, now outputs the right number of channels
and accepts values < 0 or > 1. Channel order had to be changed.
* -af sinesuppress to remove a sine at a certain frequency
* negative stride support in swscale
* big-endian and AltiVec fixes and performance improvements for swscaler,
color conversions and post-processing
* -srate fixed
* hqdn3d: 2.5x faster temporal-only, 1.6x faster spatial-only
* new proof-of-concept karaoke (voice removal) filter
* motion compensating deinterlacer (-vf mcdeint)
* Yet Another DeInterlacing Filter (-vf yadif)
MEncoder:
* audio encoding modularized
* AAC (FAAC) audio encoding
* border processing adaptive quantization in libavcodec
* encoding zones, DivX profiles support, luminance masking,
multi-threaded encoding for XviD
* raw audio muxer
* fixed various bugs in the EDL code
* x264 "turbo mode" to speed up first pass of multi-pass encoding
* x264 custom quantization matrices
* -delay allows real audio delay instead of just a delay in the header
* search for (deprecated!) frameno.avi is now disabled by default (use
-frameno-file frameno.avi to enable)
* -o is now mandatory. You can add 'o=test.avi' in ~/.mplayer/mencoder
to get the old behavior back.
* In multiple file encoding, either all or no files must have audio. Use
-nosound to force.
* support for VBR MP2 encoding in toolame
* twolame support
* libavformat muxers support
* VBR audio in MPEG support
* muxer_mpeg: added an experimental film2pal teleciner and fixed previous
bugs that could lead to desync and to wrong TFF/RFF flags being set
* rewritten muxer_mpeg.c: buffering and timing constraints will always
be respected, provided that the muxrate is big enough
Ports:
* improved timer function on Mac OS X
* New Mac OS X "macosx" video output driver. Supported on OS X 10.4
and 10.3 with QuickTime 7 (requires QuickTime 7 SDK to build on 10.3)
* Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) fixes
* macosx audio output driver fixes
* preliminary support for Intel Macs
* support for playing DVDs copied to harddisk on Cygwin
* DragonFly BSD support
* liba52 ASM optimizations ported to AMD64
* configure check and compiler optimizations for VIA C3, C3-2 and Pentium-M
* configure check and compiler optimizations for AMD-64 extended
* configure can now run with cross compiling, new configure option
--enable-cross-compile
* -(no)border option to get a bordered/borderless window on Windows
* Experimental AIX support
* AltiVec support fixes
* POWER5 support
* OpenGL output ported to Windows
* FreeBSD default DVD device added
* MIPS64 support
* Darwin portability fixes
* improved Debian packaging
* improved Win32 multi-monitor support
* Sun's mediaLib disabled by default on Solaris (broken and non-optimal)
* VP6 and WMVA binary codecs should now work also under FreeBSD 6
Others:
* Audio/Video synchronisation fixes
* enabled hinting for TrueType fonts
* support for file:// syntax
* -fb option removed, use the device suboption of -vo fbdev/fbdev2 instead
* full gcc 4 support
* TOOLS/vobshift.py: VOBsub time-adjust tool
* TOOLS/psnr-video.sh: computes PSNR between two existing video files
* fixed auto-insertion of lavc encoder (for DXR2/3 and DVB)
* new option: -idle, to make MPlayer wait for input commands when
done playing all files
* lots of new slave commands (check DOCS/tech/slave.txt)
* lots of new information provided by the -identify option
* fixed ugly looking OSD with -vo gl2 and MMX
* support for OSD localization
* -rawaudio/-rawvideo requires -demuxer rawaudio/-demuxer rawvideo
* libdvdcss updated to 1.2.9
* ~/.dvdcss is used instead of ~/.mplayer/DVDKeys for cached CSS keys
* libcdio support for CD playback
* new option -msglevel to directly control the verbosity of MPlayer modules
* -verbose option removed, use -v or "-msglevel all" instead
* -edl is now per-file in MPlayer
* new input command prefixes, "pausing_keep" and "pausing_toggle" which
alter pausing state immediately after command
* environment variable MPLAYER_VERBOSE controls verbosity before the
command line is parsed
* environment variable MPLAYER_HOME controls location where
configuration files are searched for
* memleak fixes all over the code
* TOOLS/aconvert: allows MEncoder to encode from an audio-only file
* TOOLS/3*m_convert: D-Cinema audio and video conversion program
* TOOLS/qepdvcd.sh: anything supported to VCD/SVCD PAL/NTSC
* TOOLS/encode2mpeglight: MPEG format encoding tool using only MEncoder
* allow multiple -help clauses on the command line
* console "OSD" for audio-only files
* show total time when playing audio-only files
* support for .wpl playlists
* support for ncurses as termcap library provider
* parallel make fixed
* (improved) support for shared libav* libraries
* playback/encoding profiles support
* new property API
* new -monitorpixelaspect option to determine monitor aspect from
screen resolution
pre7try3: February 15, 2006 (unreleased)
Security:
* heap overflow in demuxer.h fixed
pre7try2: August 26, 2005
Security:
* heap overflow in PCM audio decoder fixed
pre7: "PatentCounter" April 16, 2005
Security:
* heap overflow in Real RTSP streaming code fixed
* buffer overflow in MMST streaming code fixed
DOCS:
* Czech documentation translation in progress
* German man page almost synced
* slave mode command documentation finished
* TOOLS documented in TOOLS/README
* audio filter documentation moved to the man page and updated
* all audio filters documented
* improved encoding guide
* preliminary documentation for Snow codec in DOCS/tech/snow.txt
* misc updates and fixes all over the place
Ports:
* DirectX video output fixed on Windows95
* DirectX video output now supports 256 color mode
* audio device selection support for dsound audio output driver
* --enable-macosx-bundle, use config directory in the appwrapper on OS X
* Sun audio output cleanup
* x86_64 support fixes
* OpenBSD support in libdha
* VIDIX support for more Radeon 9200 models
Drivers:
* fixed ontop event for some window managers
* audio output layer cleanup
* unified colorkey handling code
* vo_xvmc panscan fix
* fixed some X11 crashes
* OSD fixes in various video output drivers
Decoders:
* TWinVQ decoder via binary DLL
* integrated Tremor decoder for Ogg/Vorbis
* fixed decoding of stereo alaw files
* preload QT DLLs to work around problems with their hardcoded paths
* support for Real 10 RV30/40 Linux binary codec (fixes some RV40 files)
* expose support for 422P and 444P raw formats
* 32 bit RGB support in binary TSCC decoder
* dropped support of old FAAD2 versions (<= 1.1)
* support for Real 10 cook Linux binary codec (decodes cook5.1)
* improved NV12/NV21 support
* support for 32 bit float and extended WAV files
* prefer native RealAudio 1.0 / 2.0 decoder over binary decoders
* support for multichannel WAV files
* ALAC (QuickTime lossless audio) support via lavc
* WNV1 support via lavc
* AASC (Autoderk RLE video) support via lavc
* LOCO video support via lavc
* fixed Layer 1 stereo playback via mp3lib
* VMnc (VMware video) decoder via binary DLL
* AMR NB/WB support via libavcodec and external reference decoders
* ADTS AAC support
Demuxers:
* vqf demuxer
* seeking in MPEG-ES fixed
* support for Real multirate files
* framerate autodetection for MPEG-4 and H.264 video in ES and TS streams
* MP3 in Real files
* more user-friendly info about audio and subtitle tracks in Ogg files
* avisynth demuxer
* Multichannel MP3 in MP4 files support (MP3on4)
* some classes of nonworking 14.4/28.8 RealAudio files fixed
* added code to autodetect and demux MPEG audio layers 1 and 2
* demux AC3 audio files using libavformat by default
* online audio stream switching in the MPEG and Matroska demuxers
* 3GP demuxing support
* DVB updates and ATSC tuner support
* AVC in Matroska support
* SWF and FLV support via libavformat
* use proper Vorbis fourcc
Streaming:
* stream selection and bandwidth support for MMS over HTTP
* fall back on HTTP if connection refused on pnm://
* support for UDP streaming (udp://)
* support for vstream TiVo streams (tivo://)
* EOF detect and bugfixes in pnm:// streams
FFmpeg/libavcodec:
* RV20 fixes
* many H.264 fixes
* B-frames in H.264, H.264 weighted prediction support
* a lot of integer overflow and pointer fixes
* 32 bit RGB support in TSCC
* multichannel MP3 decoder (MP3on4)
* 3g2 support
* ALAC audio decoder
* LOCO video decoder
* WNV1 video decoder
* shorten audio decoder and demuxer
* AASC video decoder
* AMR NB/WB support via external reference decoders
* significantly faster Snow decoding
* experimental ratecontrol for Snow
* countless bug fixes all over the place
GUI:
* half size event implemented and added to the menu
* ESD configuration dialog and software volume control option
* memleaks fixed
Filters:
* big cleanup of audio filter layer
* faster af_format for most common cases
* float handling in the audio filter layer finally fixed
* obsolete audio plugins finally removed
* updated HRTF filter
* center channel adding filter
* soft-telecined input support in pullup improved
MEncoder:
* new experimental MPEG muxer, compatible with DVD and (S)VCD
* multiple file support
* -speed support (framerate conversion with speedup/slowdown)
* EDL support
* low bitrate mp3lame encoding fix
* MJPEG encoding fix
* NUV endianness fix (makes old NUV files unplayable)
* experimental libavformat muxer
* mp3lame CBR encoding fix
* 35% faster turbo mode for 1st pass
Others:
* -z option replaced by -vo png suboption
* icc fix in the Win32 loader
* crash with Turkish locale fixed
* several memleak fixes
* -aa* options are replaced by -vo aa suboptions
* excessive verbosity reduced
* RTC support for *BSD
* non-UTF-8 external subtitles with Matroska fixed
* gcc 4 fixes
* partial NX (noexec bit) support
* support libsmbclient with SSL
* put changed notices into all imported files for GPL 2a compliance
pre6: "X-mas present" December 23, 2004
DOCS:
* finally all options are documented
* man page completely reviewed for spelling, wording and clarity
* all audio output driver suboptions documented
* all video output driver suboptions documented
* audio filters section added to the man page
* XviD documentation completed
* French man page in sync again
* German man page updated
* new Czech (complete) and Swedish man page translations
* fixes and updates in various places
Ports:
* full x86_64 support
* -rootwin, -panscan support in the quartz video output driver
* key repetition and aspect fixed in the quartz video output driver
* "Movie" menu for quartz video output driver with zoom options & preset
* fs_res quartz video output driver suboption chooses fullscreen resolution
* VCD support for Darwin (Mac OS X)
* Mac OS X Finder startup argument support
* support for Real (Helix) codecs on Mac OS X (working this time)
* fix for stdin input and slave mode on MinGW
* support for -rootwin, -colorkey, -wid in the DirectX video output driver
* improved monitor selection in the DirectX video output driver
* new DirectSound audio output driver
* mouse support in Windows
* support for ZetaOS (mostly working)
Drivers:
* fixes in the VESA and GGI video output drivers
* -jpeg removed in favor of -vo jpeg suboptions
* jpeg video output driver now supports output to multiple directories
* improvements for the Blinkenlights video output driver ;-)
* OpenGL video output driver colorformat fixes (with manyfmts suboption)
* aspect, panscan, hardware OSD support in the OpenGL video output driver
* new pnm and md5sum video output drivers, replacing pgm and md5
* yuv4mpeg video output now has a file= suboption, can be used with
-fixed-vo to concatenate files having same width, height and fps
* JACK audio output driver updated to bio2jack API changes
* alsa9 and alsa1x replaced by alsa audio output driver
* ALSA audio output driver always uses specified device, even for hwac3
* support for mixer channel selection in the ALSA audio output driver
* audio output driver for the polypaudio sound server
* VIDIX Cyberblade TV-out fixed
* VIDIX I420 support for Cyberblade and mga
* VIDIX Radeon support on big-endian systems, other Radeon fixes
* VIDIX Radeon R200 QM (Radeon 9100) support
* CLE266 VIDIX driver
* experimental SAVAGE VIDIX driver
Decoders:
* "experimental" support for 20 and 24 bit LPCM (DVD-Audio)
* libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.0b
* libfaad2 updated to 2.1beta CVS snapshot
* DTS decoding via libavcodec
* Windows Media Audio 9 Voice support via binary DLL
* Windows Media Video 9 Advanced support via binary DLL