What's new in PlayItAll Media Player 1.0.5
Jan 22, 2011
- Decoders:
- SubRip extra styles improvements
- Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
- Windows port:
- Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
- increase performance and fix x264 issues
- Translations:
- Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali,
- Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
- Russian, Slovak translation updates
- New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
New in PlayItAll Media Player 1.0.4 (Jan 22, 2011)
- Audio outputs:
- Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
- Make PulseAudio the default output if available
- Video outputs:
- Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
- Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
- Input:
- Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
- Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
- Playlist:
- Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
- Qt4 interface:
- Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
- Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
- Translations:
- New Walloon translation
- Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
New in PlayItAll Media Player 1.0.3 (Jan 22, 2011)
- Video outputs:
- Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
- regressions in most popular drivers
- New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
- Decoders:
- Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
- didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
- Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
- Encoders:
- x264 has profile-limitter, like:
- transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
- Input:
- Update for appletrailers lua script
- Fixes on the RAR stream filter
- Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
- Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
- Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
- Service discovery:
- New udev module for linux
- Qt4 interface:
- Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
- Translations:
- French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
New in PlayItAll Media Player 1.0.2 (Jan 22, 2011)
- Decoders:
- Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
- Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
- Various fixes on theora and ogg
- Demuxers:
- Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
- Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
- Access:
- Fixes for v4l2 devices
- Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
- Qt Interface:
- Fix some playlist sorting issues
- Encoders:
- MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
- x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
- x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
- if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
- otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
- otherwise ABR-mode is used
- x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
- ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
- vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
New in PlayItAll Media Player 1.0.1 (Jan 22, 2011)
- Demuxers:
- Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
- Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
- Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
- Fix Dailymotion access script
- Fix crashes in xspf files handler
- Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
- Access:
- Add extra caching for files on network shares
- Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
- Decoders:
- Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
- Improve SSA subtitles rendering
- Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
- Muxers:
- Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
- Qt Interface:
- Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
- Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
- Windows port:
- The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
- Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuania
New in PlayItAll Media Player 1.0.0 (Jan 22, 2011)
- Playback:
- Instantaneous pausing
- Frame-by-Frame playback
- Finer speed control
- On-the-fly recording for all medias
- Timeshift for most medias
- RTSP trickplay support
- Subtitles core improvements and fixes
- Decoders:
- New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
- New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
- New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
- New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
- New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
- Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
- New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
- Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
- Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
- Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
- Demuxers:
- Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
- Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
- Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
- Metadata for mod files are supported
- GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
- New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
- New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
- Encoders:
- Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
- Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
- Access:
- RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
- On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
- Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
- DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
- New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
- OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
- DVB scanning on linux
- EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
- On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
- zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
- zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
- Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
- MTP device access on Unix
- CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
- start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
- Inputs:
- Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
- Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
- Windows and Mac OS X.
- Playlist:
- Export the playlist in HTML
- Lua script for BBC radio playback
- Better metadata handling and reading
- Stream output:
- Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
- Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
- bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
- Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
- Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
- Maemo Port:
- New Maemo port with:
- an interface based on Hildon framework.
- scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
- Windows CE Port:
- EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
- Audio output:
- Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
- Surround support for PulseAudio
- Video output:
- Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
- Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
- hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
- Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
- The old image video output has been removed.
- Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
- Miscellaneous:
- Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
- New Localization:
- Khmer
- Mongolian
- Sorani
New in PlayItAll Media Player 0.9.10 (Jan 22, 2011)
- HTTP Interface:
- Fixed default ACL
- Various fixes to the following modules:
- Access:
- HTTP, SMB
- updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
- Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module
- Stream out:
- RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
- Decoder:
- TSCC
New in PlayItAll Media Player 0.9.9 (Jan 22, 2011)
- Decoders:
- Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
- Demuxers:
- Various fixes related to real demuxer
- New Localizations:
- Indonesian
- Bengali
- Updates of other localizations
- Various bugfixes:
- Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
- Lots of small bugfixes.
- Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
- Telnet fixes on Windows
- Resampling fixes when transcoding
New in PlayItAll Media Player 0.9.8a (Jan 22, 2011)
- Security update:
- Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
- Bunch of small bugfixes.
New in PlayItAll Media Player 0.9.6 (Jan 22, 2011)
- New Localizations:
- Ukranian
- Security updates:
- Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
- Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
New in PlayItAll Media Player 0.9.5 (Jan 22, 2011)
- Security updates:
- Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
- Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
- Features:
- Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
- Various bugfixes:
- Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
- Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
- Windows port:
- Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
- Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
- Qt Interface:
- Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
- Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
- Various fixed in playlist
- Access:
- MMAP module is now deactivated by default
- Translations:
- Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation