MPlayer Changelog

What's new in MPlayer 1.0 RC2

• 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