Software update: xine 1.0.1

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About four months after the release of xine’s 1.0 release, version 1.01 has finally become available. Xine is a free, open source multi-media player for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Irix, and Mac OS X. It can play CDs, DVDs, and VCDs, also play avi, mov, wmv, and MP3 files, and multimedia streams from the Internet are no problem at all. In addition to the necessary bug fixes, this release also includes improvements in the XvMC and OpenGL plugins, and the WMA voice and WMA lossless codecs are now also supported. The full changelog looks like this:

Changes:

  • Big XvMC quality / correctness / cpu usage fix. [bug #1114517]
  • fixed builds with Xv or the entire X11 unavailable
  • updated internal copies of VCD libraries to libcdio 0.71 and vcdimager 0.7.21
  • fixed compatibility with new libtool versions [bug #1094262]
  • renamed input.http_no_proxy to media.network.http_no_proxy
  • tightened no-proxy domain matching & added exact host match (‘=’ prefix)
  • assume that front ends can handle tabs (ffmpeg pp plugin help text)
  • fixed MMS/ASF chained stream bug
  • Shoutcast: fixed meta info handling
  • MMST: fixed incorrect command length
  • fixed end of stream detection with AVI files
  • added support for WMA Voice codec
  • added limited support for character entities to the XML parser
  • fixed support or icecast 2 server
  • fixed some memleaks related to DVD playback and MPEG PES
  • fixed PNG/MNG image distortion and incorrect coloring
  • fixed build on solaris and other platforms [bugs #1062987, #1114677 and #1115001]
  • published documentation about Win32 platform
  • brand new DirectX audio output plugin for Windows
  • updated win32 MSVC port
  • used only ASCII characters for C locale
  • fixed cropping and zooming with vidix
  • fixed status reporting to honor IDLE status as documented
  • fixed abortions on DVB channel switching [bug #1090707]
  • updated vidix to 0.9.9
  • plugin description accessor functions (may load plugins)
  • fixed translations, they were not used in some cases
  • Win32 port updates: cross compilation of VCD, external ffmpeg with MSVC
  • fixed pthread leak
  • fixed onefield_xv deprecated deinterlace method
  • multiple slice-per-rows (HDTV) fixes in the libmpeg2 code, particularly regarding VLD XvMC.
  • cleaned up hardware acceleration hooks in libmpeg2.
  • fixed X include path searching while configure detects XvMC support.
  • Experimental bob deinterlacing support in the xxmc module
  • improved plugin loader to allow plugin garbage collection and more flexible plugin linking
  • support for Windows Media Audio Lossless

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Version number 1.0.1
Operating systems Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris, UNIX
Website The Xine Project
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License type GPL
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