[xine-user] Re: [Desejados] [xine-announce] xine-lib 1-rc8 released

[Carlos V. <car...@te...>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:02:46 -0200, Miguel Freitas <mfr...@gm...>  
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The latest version of xine-lib, 1-rc8, is now available for download.
>
> This version address multiple security vulnerabilites on PNM and Real
> RTSP clients. All users are advised to upgrade to 1-rc8.
> We have made important fixes from our previous release, most notably
> several mms:// urls should now work (thanks Thibaut), a completely
> rewritten OpenGL plugin (thanks Matthias Hopf), multiple DVB plugin
> fixes (thanks Mike Lampard), fixed DVD subtitles displaying on xshm
> (thanks Reinhard Nissl) and much more.
>
> There are new features as well, including a support for polypaudio
> sound server, faster startup thanks to the plugin catalog cache,
> DVB subtitles support and new winamp.com "streaming" protocol.
>
> As usual, you can download from
>
> http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases
>
> The MD5 sum of this release is:
>
> dd571489e361987805100fdd80e0b921  xine-lib-1-rc8.tar.gz
>
> The complete ChangeLog says:
>
> xine-lib (1-rc8)
>   * Multiple security vulnerabilities fixed on PNM and Real RTSP clients
>   * Rewrote OpenGL output plugin.
>   * Fixed segfault when seeking with the "xvmc" and "xxmc" plugins  
> playing
>     files with IDCT / mocomp XvMC acceleration.
>   * polypaudio sound server support
>   * fixed playback of MMS streams with the new input cache layer [bug  
> #1066926]
>   * fixed builds without X11 [bug #1067705]
>   * added support for 24-bit LPCM from DVDs [bug #843786]
>   * Fixed segfault in xxmc plugin when switch from software decoding to
>     accelerated decoding occured while software surfaces still needed to  
> be
>     duplicated.
>   * fixed plugin catalog cache (faster xine startup)
>   * updated internal goom to 2k4-dev21; randomized and improved look of
>     initial effect (hopefully no more white screens any more)
>   * DVB: Fixed pat parsing with fullfeatured cards.
>   * DVB: Now uses auto-inversion if the frontend supports it - should
> solve many tuning
>     problems for people with sat cards.
>   * DVB: Will now verify that channels.conf file is in correct (?zap)  
> format.
>   * fixed OSS mixer disabling itself after first playlist entry
>   * improved overlay blending quality, fixed subtitles with XShm
>   * improved support for transport streams
>   * new plugin for DVB subtitles
>   * support realplayer codecs on AMD64
>   * fixed restoring xv settings on exit for some frontends
>   * UTF-8 support for cddb (freedb) client
>   * identify AAC, MPEG4 and H264 on transport streams
>   * build fixes and improvements (not using mkinstalldirs, mingw32)
>   * fixed mmst and mmsh issues with the cache plugin
>   * fixed mmsh "RESET" chunk handling
>   * implemented winamp.com "streaming" protocol
>   * meta info (title, artist, etc) returned by the xine-lib is now UTF8
>   * new XINE_META_INFO_TRACK_NUMBER meta info
>
> This is our last release candidate before final 1.0, so users are invited
> to test it, try to break it and report bugs. Have fun!
>
> Miguel


Thank you Miguel, as usual a great new.. :-)

Abraços

Carlos Vendramini
São Paulo/SP - BRA
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