[Libvisual-users] LIBVISUAL 0.2.0PRE1 ***PLEASE TEST THIS***

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

Heya fellahs,

Major changes went into libvisual, some might be unstable, even 
completely broken.

I've put online libvisual 0.2.0pre1, PLEASE test this release, report
if it works, and especially if it does NOT work!

If no critical borkness is detected, this will be the release in
only a few days from now.

Available:
http://www.plasser.nl/synap/libvisual/snapshots/libvisual-0.2.0.tar.bz2

http://www.plasser.nl/synap/libvisual/snapshots/libvisual-
plugins-0.2.0.tar.bz2

http://www.plasser.nl/synap/libvisual/snapshots/libvisual-
xmms-0.2.0.tar.bz2

http://www.plasser.nl/synap/libvisual/snapshots/libvisual-
bmp-0.2.0.tar.bz2

NOTE: G-Force and nebulus are now merged INTO libvisual-plugins.

NEWS:
libvisual:
New in 0.2.0pre1: 2005-02-01:

* VisTransform subsystem. (Dennis)
* visual_palette_color_cycle() function. (Dennis)
* visual_param_container_copy_match() function. (Dennis)
* visual_param_container_copy() function. (Dennis)
* visual_timer_elapsed_msecs() function. (Dennis)
* VisCPU subsystem. (Dennis)
* visual_mem_copy(), will contain mmx, sse versions later on. (Dennis)
* MMX version of the 32bits bilinear filter. (Jean-Christophe)
* Fixed the visual_video_blit_overlay(). (Dennis)
* MMX versions of the 32bits alpha overlay. (Dennis)
* VisPluginEnviron system added. (Vitaly, Dennis)
* Nearest scalers. (Chong Kai Xiong, Dennis)
* Bilinear scalers. (Jean-Christophe, Dennis)
* VisError error values, and human readable errors. (Dennis)
* Objectification of all libvisual structures. (Dennis)
* Complete VisObject system. (Dennis)
* VisSongInfo, use the bilinear filterer, scaler for coverart. (Dennis)
* VisPalette VisParamEntry type. (Dennis)
* VisObject VisParamEntry type. (Dennis)
* VisThread threading wrapper system. (Dennis)
* VisUI Complete userinterface abstraction layer. (Dennis)
* Have a string only plugin type, plugins are now members of domains.
(Dennis, Vitaly)
* Many many fixes, improvements and such. (Everyone)

libvisual-plugins:
New in 0.2.0pre1: 2005-02-01:
* Adding pseudotoad flower actor plugin, ported. (Dennis)
* Adding dancing particles plugin, ported. (Dennis)
* Including G-Force in package. (Dennis)
* Including Nebulus in package. (Dennis)
* Adding corona actor plugin, ported. (Dennis, Jean-Christophe)
* Fixed bumpscope actor plugin. (Dennis)
* MMX code added to JESS, alphablend, oinksie (Dennis)
* Fixing many bugs in plugins. (Everyone)
* Adding VisUI userinterfaces to plugins, not usable yet
  because there is no client support yet. (Dennis)

the other stuff is purely maintaince and api updateness.

Cheers,
Dennis