Project news
06.03.2006
Well well well, there is a surprise :) new release. Of course
most users will use mplayer or xine - yet there is a still small place
for aviplay :) So those of you, who are missing it on the latest distros,
this version should be compilable with some very latest compilers
and libraries. Of course, the ffmpeg is kept in sync, yet now
some options are missing for this moment. It will be updated over the time.
Let's hope new release will be in this year ;).
01.10.2004
Ok, not really that alive as it used to be :) - but still some
updates are being made to this project. As many people often tend to use
some old tarballs instead of CVS, here goes the latest greatest snapshot
from CVS.
BTW if there is anyone who could give me an account on some machine
connected to fast network with sshd running on port 443 which could be
used freely - that would be nice.
24.07.2003
Somewhat delayed news info :). Ok there is new release
dated 20030710 - it appears to be uncompilable by older gcc however.
(It's using some C99 feature unsupported by gcc-2.95 and older)
I'll try to 'shortly' release newer version.
As usually users of CVS shouldn't see such problem.
22.05.2003
Hmm - such a long time between releases. This time it should
be slightly easier to compile (libmad does not need separate configure call
anymore). Also quite a few new codecs via ffmpeg have been added (I guess
the most famous one is SVQ3 aka Sorrenson3 - but do not get too excited here :)
it will play something, but audio is currently out of synch for mov streams.
(check other players like xine,mplayer - they should be playing
such files already (movie trailers usually)).
Some updates could be also found within the avicap tool as well.
It's worth to note that for AAC support user has to install libfaad library.
And as always - unreported problem will get hardly fixed!
14.03.2003
New snashot which fixes the problem with Xft usage.
(It has got lost somehow with previous cleanup). Also it's now building
more shared libs - so it should be more easily visible which libraries
are used - it might eventually later use them from system if they will
be present (and avoid it's building).
But so far their API is changing so fast it wouldn't
make much sence to use them as they would work just for 2 weeks.
19.02.2003
Updated snapshot which - as usual fixes bugs (and as always I'm
amazed long some of them could be there for such a long time).
Also I think there is potential danger that these snapshots are one
of the latest 0.7 releases. The question is whatever it would be
worth to continue with 0.8 - or directly switch to ffmpeg - add some
code to use win32 libs and use just threaded core of avifile.
It's not very practical to develop such a huge project as a one-man show
- it's really time consuming and keeping thing compatible makes it
even harder - version 0.8 wouldn't be probably compatible anyway.
Users might express their opinion on avifile list (well if there
are actually still some of them :))
04.02.2003
New release which is fixing compilation problem with
duplicated file entry.
22.01.2003
17.01.2003
As SourceForge seems to have some problems with pserver support
according to their statements I've prepared new release which is probably worth
of upgrading to.
14.01.2003
Ok we have new year so it would be good idea to put here new
version. Hopefully this time support for subtitles should be restored.
Option for selecting codepage has been added -subcp or
--subtitle_codepage i.e. -subcp cp1250 or -subcp default (your
locale settings will be used then). Also note that file with subtitles
now has to be specified with option -sub filename.sub
(or they are eventualy autoloaded). This is because avifile could open
multiple files (i.e. aviplay *.avi) and it wouldn't be easy to deside
which file has been mean as subtitle file.
This release contains fresh fmpeg checkout with WMV2 native decoder as well.
Also this release should better handle recent update of libxft.
25.11.2002
CVS version now fully supports all the latest WM9 video/audio
formats. Enjoy.
22.11.2002
Released new quick snapshot for those who wants to try-out WMV9.
It should also fix few reported compilations problems.
20.11.2002
Oops... I did it again as well - sorry I had to simply
say that this way after reading
mplayer's info page.
So what's the new
hot feature of avifile - well recently M$ introduced new format Windows
Media Video 9 - and until today you couldn't have view such movie
on Linux easily - now at least x86 users could be happy. The new support
for DMO (Direct Media Object) interface starts to be usable in avifile.
Now let's just wait for Sorenson3 support from MP-Team as this might
probably push me to enable support for Qt format.
7.11.2002
There is now new hotfix release for version 0.7.17 which
basicaly makes it usable with certain systems. Sometimes it's hard to
check all kind of options' combination. So hopefully those who have had building
problems with avifile or their aviplay has been crashing during startup
this new release should help.
1.11.2002
In download section there is new version of avifile
which finaly replaces problematic 0.7.16 release.
As it could be seen in previous
news entry it contains the latest ffmpeg code with WMA software decoder.
Also cropping is now supported for RGB modes (though not all items
in player's menu works at this moment). Also I've finaly enabled
ffmpeg DR1 method rendering so also users could use it. (There were
some problems which had to be resolved first so there will be no major
problems. And as always user could enable/disable
this at runtime).
31.10.2002
As of today you could finaly play all your WMA files without
the need to use Win32 dll library - as ffmpeg now contains
decoder for this audio format in source form. So just enjoy.
18.10.2002
Hallo again. There was not much things going on lately.
For this moment at least CVS version seems to be again compilable
by latest compilers. There are being added some new features. Users
may try to play multiple files (i.e. aviplay 1.avi 2.avi *.asf -
using Insert/Delete for prev/next file)
Also there is some support for image croping - thus users may turn
2:1 movies into 4:3 one (at this moment you have to disable
preserve aspect ratio in preferencies and it works just in
hw YUV mode). Another new feature would
be full support for command line option settings - almost every single
option should be selectable also from command line - though it's
a little bit complicated - but --help should be a little bit
helpfull - of course there are yet some bugs some not everything
will work properly.
13.09.2002
Released new snapshot as we have Friday 13th :). It contains
support for VIDIX - usable only with ROOT privileges so
it's dangerous to use - so do not use it on any box which has some
sensitive data - you have been warned!
10.09.2002
Avifile from now supports
VIDIX
(comes from mplayer and
mplayerxp).- it provides it own copy
of mplayerxp vidix source tree (hopefully it will stay in sync with it's
original). To use VIDIX at this moment user has to run aviplay with
root priviledges - this should change sooner or later.
Before there will be new snapshot however some new options has to be
added to configure and this will take some time - meanwhile if you
will experience any problem which might have been introduced with
this extension do not wait and report your problem on avifile list.
At this moment users could just hope the right driver will be
selected for their system there is no way to select driver.
21.08.2002
Ok so far it looks like something really bad happend
to our mail-list server located at Germany - if there
is something urgent - users could use kabi@users.sf.net
16.08.2002
Released version 0.7.15 with some memory leak fixes.
This player fully support TV Nova archive
www.nova.cz so people
could see how just the flooding (
povodne) looks like.
02.08.2002
Released version 0.7.14 with some more networking code updates.