xine-announce

[Guenter B. <bar...@we...>]

hi there!

xine-lib 1-beta9 is available for download now. Release focus is on
important bugfixes (buffer overflows, dvd navigation) but once again new
features have been added as well: mpeg4 postfiltering is implemented now
(ported from ffmpeg/libavcodec), http redirects should work now and
finally xine's volume can be controlled independantly of other
applications using the XINE_PARAM_AUDIO_AMP_LEVEL engine parameter.

changelog:

xine-lib (1-beta9)
  * implement XINE_PARAM_AUDIO_AMP_LEVEL so xine's volume can be
    set independantly from other applications
  * mpeg-4 postprocessing support added to ffmpeg video decoder
  * support HTTP redirections
  * fix mpgaudio demuxer to not try to falsely handle AVI files
  * fix mpeg demuxer to work with chunks bigger than xine's buffers
  * fix libmpeg2 to not wait endlessly for I/P frames,
    fix MPEG artifacts on seek
  * fix the MP3 by content detection for some streams
  * fix segfault with non-multiple of 16 height video and XShm
  * fix BAD STATE error on seek with ALSA audio driver
  * fix artefacts when playing certain DivX video streams on i386
  * libavcodec divx/xvid qpel bug workaround ported from ffmpeg cvs
  * libdvdnav: method to try-run VM operations,
    now used for safer chapter skipping and menu jumps
  * libdvdnav: do not rely on a 1:1 mapping between PTTs and PGs
  * libdvdnav: do not rely on PGs to be physically layed out in sequence


gxine 0.3.2 brings a lot of bug fixes and detail improvements such as a
massively enhanced browser plugin (real plugin emulation and gtk
widgets), a splash screen and snapshots from dvd playback should work
now. 

changelog:

0.3.2:  * ASX parser fixes (more tolerant version checking)
        * adapted to new libxine engine verbosity setting method
        * filter out non-ascii characters for strings handed over to
        * pango
          (should fix some gtk warnings)
        * use gtk widgets in browser plugin, add popup window displaying
          the mrl in a gtk entry field so the user can copy it to the
clipboard
          e.g. for stream downloading
        * emulate real player plugin autoplay mode
        * better protection against accidently starting gxine more than
        * once from
          the browser plugin
        * a splash screen for the impatient
        * dvd snapshot bug workaround

enjoy,

   guenter

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