Journal Sortie de MPlayer 1.0pre5

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Au menu des changements:

MPlayer 1.0pre5: "LinuxTag release"
Name

* It's "MPlayer - The Movie Player" instead of "MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux" now.

Security

* complete review of string operations, buffer overflows fixed

DOCS

* small additions, corrections, updates all over the place
* audio output driver section added to the man page
* several bug fixes and improvements in the MEncoder documentation
* DVD ripping guide extended and improved
* AUTHORS file massively extended
* German man page partially updated
* Hungarian XML documentation translation started

Ports

* encrypted DVD playback on Windows fixed (again)
* Cygwin and MinGW now accept the same -dvd-device syntax
* LIVE.COM now works under MinGW
* foundations for MinGW crosscompilation
* disabled SSE on MinGW as it caused crashes
* AC3 passthrough for ao_win32
* improved vo_quartz (YUV, multiple screens support)
* vo_quartz made default on Mac OS X
* ao_macosx fixed and made default again on Mac OS X
* RealVideo binary codecs support on Mac OS X (still buggy)
* bigendian fixes in vf.c, vo_tga
* OpenBSD portability fixes
* OpenBSD/VAX support
* AMD64 support

Drivers

* support for more Radeons (9800 XT among them) in VIDIX
* Radeon related bug fixes in VIDIX
* vo_gl2 now supports GUI, fix for flickering borders in fullscreen
* support 24 and 32 bit PCM files, bigendian fixes
* ao_sdl now converts unsupported formats instead of quitting
* ENCA support
* merged ao_alsa9 and ao_alsa1x drivers into ao_alsa
* NeoMagic TV-out support through VESA
* JACK audio output driver
* vo_sdl fixes (wrong flags and screensaver disabling)
* vo_directx fixes

Decoders

* MSZH/ZLIB, FLI, QTRLE, RoQ video and RoQ audio support moved to FFmpeg
* FFmpeg Cinepak and CYUV decoders preferred
* audio format 0xff support (is AAC)
* "raw" audio in MOV supported
* Indeo audio (iac25) support via binary codec
* upgrade libfaad2 to the FAAD 2.0 release
* MPEG2 chroma422/444 support
* Winnov WINX and WNV1 support via binary codec

Demuxers

* Ogg subtitle handling and other bug fixes
* Matroska improvements
* support seeking in Real files without -idx
* support seeking in Real files without index with -forceidx

Streaming

* ASF, MMST streaming fixes
* URL escaping fixed
* NSA (Nullsoft audio) streaming support
* embedded RAM playlist support
* multibyte URL support
* rtp:// now supported even with LIVE.COM compiled in
* miscellaneous bug fixes

Filters

* vf_softskip: frame skipping filter for MEncoder
* vf_harddup: frame duplication filter for MEncoder
* vf_pullup minor fixes and improvements
* AltiVec-optimized YUV to RGB converter
* vf_spp memory corruption fix on reallocation

FFmpeg/libavcodec

* MPEG2 encoding with 8, 9, 10, 11 bit intra DC precision
* DC clipping fix, intra_dc_precision > 0 support
* Cinepak fixes and palette support
* support skipping of MB rows during decoding
* Vorbis in NUT fixed
* NUT updated to latest specification
* segfault and artifact fixes in SVQ3 decoder
* motion estimation code: overflow and chroma fixes
* change qscale -> lambda for the motion estimation
* noise preserving sum of squares comparison function in ME code
* fixed memory overwrite in truemotion decoder
* clip input motion vectors, better error tolerance on bad vectors
* FLAC decoder cleanup (partial demuxer/decoder separation)
* memalign hack for SSE/SSE2 on that alternative OS :)
* lots of AltiVec optimizations
* qscale + qprd fix
* QTrle4 support
* H.261 decoder
* coefficient saturation fix in H.263
* H.263 MCBPC fix
* per line lowpass filter in MMX and faster C lowpass filter
* SVQ1 encoder
* as usual, lots of bug fixes and optimizations

Others

* fullscreen fixes for many window managers
* fix crash on original Pentiums and older
* dvd://start-end support
* netstream (mpst://) support fixed
* support comments in plaintext playlists
* loader/ dependency removed
* keepaspect option extended to all video output drivers
* WMA to Ogg conversion and simple subtitle editing script added to TOOLS
* support for more lame options
* new set of GUI icons
* memory conserving implementation of GUI potmeters
* X11 code reindented
* further gcc 3.4 support fixes
* mixer API written for changing volume through libaf
* -rtc-device option for specifying the RTC device
* desktop/menu icon added
* miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups
* multi-threaded encoding with lavc
* fixed a bug with Real files introduced in pre4
* -use-stdin renamed to -noconsolecontrols
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