[ Thanks to Miguel
Freitas for this link. ]
xine-lib 1-rc3 is a maintenance release: Lots of bugs have been
fixed, most of the code has been reviewed and cleaned up, and many
little details are improved. Compared to 1-rc2, you’ll probably
notice
- much smoother subtitles
- smaller startup delay
- improved stability
Full changelog:
xine-lib (1-rc3)
- fix dvd menu blending when using tvtime plugin (yuy2
blend) - fix problems with some more elaborate post plugin setups
- discontinuity problems in audio only streams fixed
- fix a bug in the id3v2.2 parsing code
- fix best streams choice in mmsh
- updated internal copy of ffmpeg with a lot of warning
fixes - help texts for video post plugins
- fix pts handling bug that caused long freezing in some animated
dvd menus - configfile beautification (values set to default are now
commented out) - fix some more problems with jumpy non-MPEG NTSC streams on the
DXR3 - handle comments in rpm playlist files
- realaudio demuxer improvements including support for 14.4 codec
and reading meta info - post plugin for ffmpeg libpostprocess (pp)
- updated win32 MSVC port
- default to menu button 1, if an invalid button is set (fixes
main menu of “Alice in Wonderland” RC2) - fix yuy2 output on mga_vid vidix driver
- fix syncing code of audio visualization post plugins (goom
video does not jump any more) - problem with long frame durations fixed
- seek timeout in RIP input plugin
- support for saved files bigger than 2 GB
- new unscaled overlay feature (using XShape extension) text
subtitles may now be rendered at full screen resolution - load xine fonts on demand – faster startup
- decoder priority can be changed without restarting
- fix length of mpeg 2 audio vbr streams
- use AUDIODEV enviroment variable on Sun
- text subtitles improvements and bugfixes
- unified handling of external subtitles and ogg subtitles
- detect end of real rtsp streams
- fix tvtime segfaults
- fix performance problems of RTP/UDP plugin
- fix crash with really long subtitle/language names in ogm/off
files - lots of internal cleanup
- fix crash when using the save plugin with mmst
- =id3v2.3 parser
- fix playback of 8 bit sound when the soundcard doesn’t support
them