Project news
30.11.2001
Hotfix relase for some reported problems.
23.11.2001
Todays release might be called 'Win32 fixup' release as it
fixes most of the
known to us problems which have been causing either memory leaks or even core
dumps. Also avicap generaly works - of course without bugreports we will
not know about bugs, that only you might be experiencing.
This version also includes plain C version of Direct Show
filter - so programs using this code do not have to use C++ anymore if
they do not have use it for other parts of the code.
16.11.2001
This release in download section is mainly intented to fix some
stupid bugs introduced in the previous snapshot. As a feature of the day
user may enjoy audio stream switching in runtime - you may vote for
a keystroke to switch between streams. Anyway is there some known
widely accepted standard set of them ? I do not like to put some random
confusing key combination into the player - so we expect some hints from
users here... Most usualy I'm trying to stay compatible with Xawtv.
Right now I think that shift+'1' for the first channel looks reasonable.
9.11.2001
New snapshot - many of bugfixes as usually
- including solution for popup window problem with latest Qt libraries.
Big thanks for this fixs belongs to the TrollTech support.
Though there are still some remaining problems with font names and Qt3
libraries.
23.10.2001
CVS constain MAD audio decoder plugin. Also some fix for
parsing some avi streams has been added which might fix some problems
with badly played MP3 files.
18.10.2001
New CVS snapshot is available in download section which
resolve several know compilation problems. This version also fixes
some problems with registry for Win32 codecs and supports DivX4
codecs settings for brightness, contrasts and saturation (for YUY2
and RGB modes). Should be also compilable with Qt3.0, but we still have
unresolved problem with windows popup menu (appeared in Qt3.0-beta3).
This version is probably the last one before we announce final 0.6.
Note for developers: this version has important change in API -
we are internaly using avm::string and avm::vector classes instead of
those provided by STL - update is simple - just prefix all
string and vector operations which are using avifile results
with avm:: - we will try to hide their external usage as much as we can.
05.10.2001
We are trying to speedup compilation as the newest GCC seems to
be somewhat brain damaged and with inclusion of simple STL headers is
inserting over 600KB of code. As a result of these on going changes,
the current CVS might have some problems - but also many part should be
compiled significantly faster and will take much less space - Note
- by default avifile is compiled with full debug info which takes a lot
of space - so if you have reduced disk space - use --enable-release
02.10.2001
Put a new snapshot of CVS now with all Makefiles and configure
scripts so it should be possible to build the archive even without
autoconf tools. Also extended set of Win32 codecs is now available in
download section.
28.09.2001
Released new CVS snapshost - available in download section
This version should have improved audio-video synch - so if you were
experiencing such problems and you are still using avifile let's try
this version.
11.09.2001
Tragical day for the World history today.
10.09.2001
Some people have reported crashes of avicap when trying to change a
codec. It is a bug that will be fixed ASAP. As a workaround you can try to start
and then stop encoding before going to codec options.
Also, don't get lost if you don't find ./configure in CVS snapshot
( some people do ). You should run ./autogen.sh to generate it. If it fails for
some reason, check for warning messages informing you about files that exist in
both /usr/share/aclocal and /usr/local/share/aclocal. If this does not help,
send a complaint to avifile@prak.org.
Don't forget to mention versions of autoconf, automake and libtool installed on
your system ( use standard --version command-line option to quickly look up
version numbers ).
06.09.2001
Added support for vorbis audio streams (based on the work
of mplayer team).
Improtant change is removement of configure script from CVS so users which
have had some problems with autogen.sh and could have used default configure
script will be now pressed to report their problems (or use other players
- like the one above).