MPlayer / Mencoder 1.0rc4

2011-01-30, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.0rc4 released
posted by the release team

Yes, we can!

MPlayer 1.0rc4 continues the tradition of long overdue, but better late than never releases. It has been tested thoroughly to work with the FFmpeg 0.6 branch. It will be useful to distros and other users relying on FFmpeg 0.6. To get the latest and greatest in features and bug fixes, Subversion HEAD should be a better fit.

1.0rc4 once again adds a slew of new binary codecs and leverages all the stuff added to FFmpeg. Notable additions are VP8 decoding, H.264 bug fixes and speedups, unencrypted Blu-ray support. Network streams can now be played through FFmpeg, there has been quite a bit of subtitle work and Ogg and Matroska demuxer defaults were switched to libavformat. The window position is now decided by the window manager.

Our constant efforts to clean up the codebase continue as usual. A ton of compiler warnings disappeared and there have been refactorings all around. External library copies have been synchronized with upstream. The internal liba52 copy is gone and it is now possible to build against external libmpeg2 and libmpg123.

MPlayer 1.0rc4 can be downloaded by HTTP or FTP.

MD5SUM: f3abf9b59d0ac4fb2b63bc6bc33b8d02
SHA1SUM: 9f904ac332c93dadb061fe183c975b6518fbbc88
MPlayer 1.0rc4: "Yes we can"
GUI: Changes towards removing the GUI

* The GUI will no longer display any error or warning messages.
* Special GUI slave commands (gui_*) were removed, along with the related key bindings.

Decoders:

* YUY2 Lossless Codec (YLC0) via binary DLL
* Truemotion RT codec (TR20) via binary DLL
* Nogantech Codec (NTN1 and NTN2) via binary DLL
* add new FourCCs (m1v1, yuvs, VYUY, Y42B, V422, YUNV, UYNV, UYNY, uyv1, 2Vu1, P422, HDYC, IJLV, MVJP) TwoCCs (0xA106, 0x6c75, 0xAAC0, 0x55005354) to existing decoders
* AMR now handled via OpenCORE decoder
* updated Windows Media Screen Codec (MSS1, MSS2) via binary DLL
* CoreAVC H.264 decoder via binary DLL (Windows only)
* Kega Game video codec (KGV1) via binary DLL
* SoftLab-NSK Forward MPEG-2 I-frames (SLIF) via binary DLL
* JPEG 2000 support via OpenJPEG
* internal liba52 copy removed
* CineForm HD (CFHD) via binary DLL
* VP8 en-/decoding through libvpx wrapper and native decoder in FFmpeg
* support for external libmpeg2 added
* hardware MPEG decoder priority lowered
* external libmpg123 support

Demuxers:

* Mostly fixed timing issues with some H.264 (PAFF) samples
* Matroska and Ogg demuxers switched to use libavformat by default. Report issues and use -demuxer ogg and -demuxer mkv to work around them.
* support for TrueHD in Blu-ray streams in libmpdemux
* more Blu-ray codec support with lavf
* fix length in ASF/WMV files
* support ISDB-Tb DVB streams

Filters:

* remove vf_yuy2, functionality is replaced by -vf format=yuv2
* remove vf_rgb2bgr, functionality is replaced by sws and vf_format

Streaming:

* Support for unencrypted Blu-ray playback through libbluray. Use it through: mplayer br:////path/to/disc

Drivers:

* -vo yuv4mpeg:interlaced no longer does its own interlaced RGB->YUV conversion. Use -vf scale=::1 to keep the same behavior and report if there are any issues with that.
* X11: Window manager chooses Window position by default. Add geometry=50%:50% to your configuration to get the old behavior.
* -vo md5sum md5 calculation changed so output matches FFmpeg's -f framemd5
* Support for more formats in OpenGL video output drivers (different YUV subsampling, 16 bit per component)
* Selectable YUV to RGB conversion standard for -vo gl (-vo gl:colorspace=...:levelconv=...)
* -vo gl now tries to use yuv=2 by default if possible
* -vo gl:stereo=... for experimental stereo (3D) support
* -vo matrixview finally added
* add OS/2 KAI audio driver (-ao kai)

Other:

* -nosub option for disabling auto-selected subtitles
* support for displaying subs in the terminal (FIXME)
* support for subtitles with audio-only files
* support for right-to-left languages with embedded subtitles
* support for UTF-16 encoded external subtitles
* support for 8 channel audio
* sync dvd:// and dvdnav:// features
* support for MPEG-4 ASP in VDPAU video output (non-B-frame only)
* support for live and non-live DVB teletext with demuxer lavf
* -name, -title and -use-filename-title options for MPlayer
* support for stream handling via FFmpeg, in particular RTMP and RTSP (use e.g. ffmpeg://http://example.com/test)
* experimental support for external libass, pass '-disable-ass-internal' to configure
* better support for 16-bit-per-component formats and formats with alpha channel
* better out-of-the-box support for compiling for ARM, IA64, MinGW32 and MinGW-w64, MinGW has ASLR enabled with recent enough binutils
* libdvdcss synced with upstream Subversion snapshot

MEncoder:

* add -tsprog for demuxer lavf


2007-10-07, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.0rc2 released
posted by the release team

It's been a while, but we are still around and have decided that it's time to funnel our steady stream of daily changes into a release again.

One main source of improvements has, as always, been FFmpeg, which added support for several new video and audio codecs along with speedups and massive code cleanups.

MPlayer now supports Real RTSP authentication and the libnemesi streaming library as an alternative to live555. Also, many QuickTime over RTSP streams can now be played. There have been various improvements to TV streaming, Intel Mac support should be complete.

Support for VC-1 in MPEG-TS and MPEG-PS will make many HDTV streams work. Blu-ray or HD-DVD playback is not possible yet, but MPlayer can play the EVO files after they have been decrypted.

MPlayer now assumes square pixels as found on LCD panels. If the video on your monitor appears squished or stretched please use '-monitoraspect 4:3' to get back the previous behavior.

It is no longer necessary to patch the sources to get AMR audio support. Instead, download AMR libraries for Linux and install them as described on that page.

Note that this release will not compile on current (as of this writing) Cygwin versions due to a missing llrint implementation in Cygwin. You will have to wait for the next gcc upgrade in Cygwin or patch either Cygwin or MPlayer locally.

There is no need to download binary codec packages if you already have an older version.
MPlayer 1.0rc2: "AreWeThereYet?"
DOCS:

* console messages and XML documentation converted to UTF-8
* Russian documentation translation finished
* Russian man page translation finished
* Chinese man page translation finished
* Chinese documentation translation started
* Documented get/set/step properties in DOCS/tech/slave.txt

Decoders:

* Intel Music Coder audio decoding via lavc
* Monkey Audio audio decoding via lavc
* Fraps v2/v4 video decoding via lavc
* Video game codecs: 4XM audio, Electronic Arts ADPCM audio, Delphine CIN audio and video, Interplay DPCM audio, Sierra VMD video, Tiertex SEQ video, Westwood IMA ADPCM audio, XAN wc3 video, Id CIN video, Interplay video, XAN ADPCM audio, Westwood SND1 audio, Feeble Files DXA video, THP audio and video, Renderware TeXture Dictionary video, Bethesda Software VID video via lavc
* video game codecs: XAN wc4 video via binary DLL
* libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.1
* fixed resolution switching with libmpeg2
* handle resolution switching for Real codecs
* FFmpeg video decoder can now handle aspect ratio changes
* AMR now handled via libamr wrapper (http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr)
* SIMD optimizations for mp3lib under AMD64

Demuxers:

* Implemented switch_video and switch_program consistently with switch_audio (default keys are "_" and TAB, respectively). For the time being program switching is only available in TS streams handled by demux_ts.c (not libavformat), while video switching is also handled by demux_lavf.c and demux_avi.c.
* audio and video switching for the AVI demuxer (video switching untested)
* GIF demuxer improvements, should work with all GIFs now
* support for VC-1 in MPEG-TS and MPEG-PS files (BD,HD)-DVD
* support for EVO demuxing
* support -noidx with libavformat demuxer
* support for channel navigation with PVR input
* text subtitles should now work with libavformat demuxer
* cleaned up TiVo demuxer

Streaming:

* authentication for Real RTSP streams
* near-precise seeking in dvd:// and dvdnav:// (dvdnav:// requires libdvdnav from mphq)
* speed selection when playing dvd:// streams, to make drive quieter
* support SVQ3 and H.264 in X-QT over RTSP, now RTSP Apple keynotes work (live555)
* SMIL playlist over Real RTSP
* support H.263-2000 over RTSP (live555)
* fix AAC-LATM over RTSP (live555)
* support AMR over RTSP (live555)
* support H.264 over RTSP (live555)
* "device" and "adevice" suboptions now work for the *BSD BT848 TV driver
* dvdnav:// now depends on MPlayer's fork of libdvdnav
* teletext support for tv:// (v4l and v4l2 only)
* radio support for *BSD BT848
* channel scanner for tv://
* fine tuning for tv://
* driver autodetection for tv://
* libnemesi RTSP/RTP support
* EOF detection for RTSP (live555)

FFmpeg/libavcodec:

* Intel Music coder audio decoder
* Fraps v2/v4 video decoder
* H.264 decoding speedup
* Slice-based parallel H.264 decoding (-lavdopts fast:threads=N)
* native NUT demuxer updated to spec
* native NUT muxer
* NUT muxing and demuxing support via libnut
* WMA encoder
* fix MJPEG-B on big-endian systems
* lowres support for some H.264 files
* DTS/DCA audio decoder
* Atrac 3 audio decoder
* MPEG-1/2 speedups
* RoQ muxer, video and audio encoder
* QTRLE encoder
* AC-3 decoder
* Matroska muxer
* Monkey's Audio demuxer and decoder
* Flac encoder and decoder speedups
* AMV demuxer and audio/video decoder

libmpeg2:

* iWMMXt-accelerated DCT and motion compensation for ARM processors

Filters:

* obsolete fame filter removed
* vf_geq speed-ups
* vf_yadif green frame fixed
* fix af_pan when switching audio streams
* add audio left/right balance feature to af_pan

MEncoder:

* write to output streams (currently only file:// and smb://)
* support -ffourcc with -of lavf
* removed B-frame warning message
* fixed bugs that would corrupt headers in the video stream when using telecining and not patch the TFF flag correctly

Ports:

* Complete Intel Mac support
* Hitachi SuperH (SH3) support
* Blackfin optimizations

Drivers:

* ALSA audio output now sets the non-audio bit for AC3 passthrough even if the user-specified default device name tries to clear it
* fixed internal VIDIX in Solaris/x86, also auto-enabled
* rework of internal VIDIX, now a fully static library with builtin drivers
* updated VIDIX ATI drivers
* Sun XVR-100 video output driver

Others:

* monitorpixelaspect=1 is now default. Set monitoraspect=4/3 to get the old behavior (if you have non-square pixels).
* libdvdcss updated to Subversion HEAD, now same as upstream version
* libmpdvdkit split into libdvdread and libdvdcss
* obsolete Xvid 3 support removed
* long-deprecated -vop option removed
* video stream switching
* dvdnav:// honor -alang and -slang
* support for doubleclick as input event
* -really-quiet works as expected now
* select libavformat demuxer (-lavfdopts format=)
* internal minilzo removed in favor of FFmpeg implementation, use liblzo2 for encoding
* change GUI dependency from libpng to libavcodec
* ability to change subtitle size during playback
* ability to turn loop on/off during playback
* Apple Remote support
* libdvdread updated to 0.9.7
* many compiler warning fixes


MPlayer 1.0rc1: "Codename intentionally left blank"
DOCS:

* German documentation translation finished
* Russian documentation translation synced and almost finished

Drivers:

* IVTV hardware MPEG audio/video decoder output
* ALSA audio output: AC3 passthrough now works even when the device name of the digital output port has been set by the user
* bicubic OpenGL scaling works with ATI cards
* md5sum switched to the libavutil MD5 implementation
* support for libcaca 1.0 via compatibility layer

Decoders:

* liba52 updated to 0.7.4 (slightly faster)
* SSE optimizations for mp3lib
* removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries

Demuxers:

* audio stream switching in MPEG-TS/PS, Matroska and streams supported by libavformat
* audio stream switching between streams with different codecs
* libavformat demuxer now honors -alang
* chapter seeking in Matroska files
* fixed seeking to absolute and percent position for libavformat demuxer
* NUT demuxer using libnut
* Matroska SimpleBlock support

Inputs:

* split of stream layer from libmpdemux to new stream library
* PVR input for hardware MPEG encoder based cards, such as Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150/250/350/500 AKA IVTV but also pvrusb2 and cx88 (requires Linux >= 2.6.18 kernel, featuring native V4L2 MPEG API)
* native RTSP input (handles MPEG-TS over RTP) for generic RTSP servers
* support for seeking to chapters in dvd:// and dvdnav:// streams
* radio support (radio://)

FFmpeg/libavcodec:

* VC-1/WMV3/WMV9 video decoder
* Vorbis decoding speedup, now default Vorbis decoder
* VMware Video decoder
* On2 VP50 and VP62 decoder
* lossless audio decoders: WavPack, TTA, Shorten
* CAVS decoder
* GXF muxer/demuxer
* MXF demuxer
* much improved FLAC encoder
* more H.264 decoding speed improvements, plus support for -lavdopts fast
* Theora decoder fixes
* preliminary Vorbis encoder
* MTV demuxer

GUI:

* Windows version added
* drag-and-drop ignored last file
* save and load cache setting correctly
* working audio stream selection for Ogg and Matroska files
* executable names like gmplayer_old etc. will now start GUI as well
* -gui/-nogui options
* xinerama fixes, now behaves similar to MPlayer without GUI

Filters:

* MMX-optimizations for -vf yadif
* MMX-optimizations for -vf zrmjpeg

MEncoder:

* support of x264 encoding via libavcodec
* rewrite -x264encopts option parser to use the 264 option parser; likely breaks 3rd party tools as the syntax of some options has changed
* removed support for obsolete and non-free divx4 libraries

Ports:

* partial Intel Mac support, --disable-loader --disable-mp3lib is needed
* OpenGL can now create windows > screen size under Windows
* allow filenames starting withfor remote paths on Windows

Others:

* SSA/ASS subtitle renderer
* -endpos option for MPlayer
* -correct-pts option
* UTF-8 used for OSD and subtitles, some bitmap fonts will no longer work correctly and -subcp must be set for all non-UTF-8 subtitles
* more audio-truncation fixes
* libavutil mandatory for MPlayer compilation
* more intuitive -edlout behaviour
* -nortc is now default since -rtc has disadvantages with recent kernels


2006.06.11, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.0pre8 released
posted by the release team

It's been more than one year since our last release and yes, we are still alive! Like always, the length of the ChangeLog clearly shows we have been lazy to release but not lazy to code.

First off, we have uncovered some new security bugs in the AVI, Real and MOV code so we urge you to upgrade in any case.

Given how old pre7 is by now, it's strongly recommended to upgrade. We also recommend users to test and use the Subversion version when possible in order to both benefit from latest development, and report/fix bugs. Contrary to running a development kernel, it won't eat your data or make your cat pregnant, but it will help us improve the overall quality of MPlayer.

Among the many features that have been added, it should be noted that libavformat now supports a greater variety of files. If you have a hard time playing some files, please try demuxing with libavformat (-demuxer lavf). MEncoder can also take advantage of libavformat, in order to, for example, create Flash videos.

There have also been many enhancements to the H.264 decoder to make it a lot faster and more error-resilient. More audio and video codecs are supported. Audio/Video synchronisation has been further improved, especially on Real streams and Vorbis.

And that's not it yet! We have some more tricks for you up our sleeves for upcoming versions of MPlayer: experimental DVDnav (DVD menus) support and an experimental graphical user interface for our Windows port. Please join in the testing effort so that these features don't remain experimental ;-).
MPlayer 1.0pre8: "NeuTeam strikes back"
Security:
* support for compilation with non-executable stack * fix the major issues caught by Coverity's static analysis runs

Documentation:
* environment variables documentation started * interactive control fully documented * improved encoding guide * new technical encoding guide in DOCS/tech/encoding-guide.txt which is to be merged into the existing guide * encoding tips for x264 and XviD * how to set up MEncoder for x264 support * new advanced audio usage guide with surround sound instructions * Hungarian XML documentation translation finished * Czech documentation translation finished * French MPlayer documentation synced * German man page synced * Hungarian man page synced * Italian man page synced * Chinese console messages synced * misc improvements all over the place * AIX port documentation added * all XviD options documented * CONFIGURATION FILES section added to the man page * Doxygen comments added to configuration parser and OpenGL video out driver

Drivers:
* JACK audio output rewritten without bio2jack * OpenAL audio output - unfinished, can only do mono output * OpenGL video output modules support -geometry and -wid options * for -vo gl manyfmts is now default (since it is a lot faster), use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if it does not work for you * streaming textures for -vo gl, much faster if supported (use -dr) * hardware YUV to RGB conversion for -vo gl and -vo gl2, see yuv suboption * support for custom fragment programs for -vo gl (see TOOLS/*.fp) * support for bicubic hardware scaling in -vo gl, see lscale suboption * use libvbe from vesautils as VESA video driver * several fixes for the GGI video output driver * fall back on next video output driver if vo_3dfx failed to initialize * improved XvMC library detection (disabled by default) * DPI (Print-Resolution) and Pixel-Aspect support in vo_jpeg * ALSA audio output: several small fixes and improvements * removed experimental mmap suboption from the ALSA driver * YUY2 and back end scaling for S3 Virge chips on fbdev (-vo s3fb)

Decoders:
* Indeo2 (RT21) support via lavc * Fraps video decoder via binary DLL * support for 8-bit PNGs with palette * support for dmb1 MJPEG files with ffmjpeg * support for musepack audio (WARNING: when seeking you might get ear- and speaker-breaking noises). If you hear clipping, use -af volume. * experimental speex support via libspeex * On2 VP7 video decoder via binary DLL * Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) support via lavc * support FLX and DTA extensions for flic files * QDM2 audio decoding via lavc * cook audio decoding via lavc * TrueSpeech audio decoding via lavc * CamStudio video decoder via lavc * hwmpa pass-through MPEG audio codec * tremor updated to libogg 1.1.2 * PNG decoding via libavcodec * removed native RealAudio codecs (ported to lavc) * Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder via lavc and binary DLL * support for QuickTime in24/in32/fl32 PCM audio * internal libfaad updated to CVS 20040915+MPlayer patches * RTJpeg decoder from lavc is preferred * bug fix for lavc WMA v2 decoder, now all files should be playable * -vc mpeg12 resizes the window when aspect ratio changes * Smacker audio and video decoding via lavc * Windows Media VC1 video decoder via binary DLL * Flash Screen video decoder via lavc

Demuxers:
* simultaneous audio capture/playback (-tv immediatemode=0) fixed in v4l2 * PVR support * AAC ADTS demuxer * libdvdread updated to v0.9.4 * support for some more MythTV NUV files * modularization of demuxer code * MPEG in GXF container support with extension-based detection * faster MPEG and much faster GXF demuxing * more user-friendly demuxer forcing * MPEG Layer 1 and 2 demuxing fixed * properly pass Vorbis extradata from Matroska container * DVR format support * H.264 ES high profile support * TV channel cycling * DVD subtitle and audio stream mappings fixed * fixed RealAudio demuxing, now all files should have correct A/V sync * partial support for QuickTime sound atom version 2 * improved handling of text subs in Matroska files * DVD subtitles disabled by default * support sipr codec in old RealAudio files * fixed framerate detection of interlaced H.264 in raw/PS/TS streams * support for variable framerate Ogg/OGM files * made demux_ogg.c work with ffvorbis decoder * fixed playback of RealVideo in Matroska files on PPC * added support for Vorbis in MOV/MP4

Streaming:
* fix streaming of RealAudio files over HTTP * show SHOUT/Icecast metadata while playing * ultravox (unsv://) streaming support * stream code ported to new modular API, massive code cleanup * bandwidth selection for Real RTSP streams (for faster stream dumps)

FFmpeg/libavcodec:
* Snow bug fixes and speedup on x86, x86-64 and AltiVec * MPEG-1/2/4 and H.264 decoder speedup * Indeo2 (RT21) video decoder * Fraps video decoder (v0 & v1, v2 not yet supported) * Vorbis audio decoder * RV20 fixes * VP3 decoder fixes and speedup * countless bug fixes all over the place * vstrict=-1 is default, Snow, ffv1 etc. need vstrict=-2 * skiploopfilter/skipidct/skipframe decoder options for very fast H.264 decoding * D-Cinema audio demuxer and decoder support * Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) decoder * FLX and DTA extensions for flic * QDM2 audio decoder * cook audio decoder * TrueSpeech audio decoder * WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly * JPEG-LS decoder (unfinished) * CamStudio video decoder * Theora decoder * improved MOV and QuickTime demuxer * improved AVI muxer * multithreaded decoding * bitexact decoding * DV50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer * true audio (TTA) decoder * AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding * Creative VOC demuxing * Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder * KMVC decoder * NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTJpeg decoder * MP4 and MOV demuxer greatly improved to support all varieties of currently available files * AVS demuxer and video decoder * American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system * Smacker demuxer and decoder * Flash screen Video decoder * Trellis-optimized ADPCM audio encoder * Major improvements to Snow quality and encoding

GUI:
* skins now reside in a directory named 'skins', not 'Skin' * ported to GTK2 * long standing upside down vpotmeter bug fixed * don't hang on unreadable skin files * random fixes and improvements

Filters:
* much faster version of spp filter (-vf fspp), and pp7 ("fast spp=6") * remove_logo filter * lavcresample now used by default (-af-adv force=0 gives old behavior) * vf_expand and vf_dsize now support aspect and round parameters * screenshot filter * -af pan command line fix, now outputs the right number of channels and accepts values < 0 or > 1. Channel order had to be changed. * -af sinesuppress to remove a sine at a certain frequency * negative stride support in swscale * big-endian and AltiVec fixes and performance improvements for swscaler, color conversions and post-processing * -srate fixed * hqdn3d: 2.5x faster temporal-only, 1.6x faster spatial-only * new proof-of-concept karaoke (voice removal) filter * motion compensating deinterlacer (-vf mcdeint) * Yet Another DeInterlacing Filter (-vf yadif)

MEncoder:
* audio encoding modularized * AAC (FAAC) audio encoding * border processing adaptive quantization in libavcodec * encoding zones, DivX profiles support, luminance masking, multi-threaded encoding for XviD * raw audio muxer * fixed various bugs in the EDL code * x264 "turbo mode" to speed up first pass of multi-pass encoding * x264 custom quantization matrices * -delay allows real audio delay instead of just a delay in the header * search for (deprecated!) frameno.avi is now disabled by default (use -frameno-file frameno.avi to enable) * -o is now mandatory. You can add 'o=test.avi' in ~/.mplayer/mencoder to get the old behavior back. * In multiple file encoding, either all or no files must have audio. Use -nosound to force. * support for VBR MP2 encoding in toolame * twolame support * libavformat muxers support * VBR audio in MPEG support * muxer_mpeg: added an experimental film2pal teleciner and fixed previous bugs that could lead to desync and to wrong TFF/RFF flags being set * rewritten muxer_mpeg.c: buffering and timing constraints will always be respected, provided that the muxrate is big enough

Ports:
* improved timer function on Mac OS X * New Mac OS X "macosx" video output driver. Supported on OS X 10.4 and 10.3 with QuickTime 7 (requires QuickTime 7 SDK to build on 10.3) * Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) fixes * macosx audio output driver fixes * preliminary support for Intel Macs * support for playing DVDs copied to harddisk on Cygwin * DragonFly BSD support * liba52 ASM optimizations ported to AMD64 * configure check and compiler optimizations for VIA C3, C3-2 and Pentium-M * configure check and compiler optimizations for AMD-64 extended * configure can now run with cross compiling, new configure option --enable-cross-compile * -(no)border option to get a bordered/borderless window on Windows * Experimental AIX support * AltiVec support fixes * POWER5 support * OpenGL output ported to Windows * FreeBSD default DVD device added * MIPS64 support * Darwin portability fixes * improved Debian packaging * improved Win32 multi-monitor support * Sun's mediaLib disabled by default on Solaris (broken and non-optimal) * VP6 and WMVA binary codecs should now work also under FreeBSD 6

Others:
* Audio/Video synchronisation fixes * enabled hinting for TrueType fonts * support for file:// syntax * -fb option removed, use the device suboption of -vo fbdev/fbdev2 instead * full gcc 4 support * TOOLS/vobshift.py: vobsub time-adjust tool * TOOLS/psnr-video.sh: computes PSNR between two existing video files * fixed auto-insertion of lavc encoder (for DXR2/3 and DVB) * new option: -idle, to make MPlayer wait for input commands when done playing all files * lots of new slave commands (check DOCS/tech/slave.txt) * lots of new information provided by the -identify option * fixed ugly looking OSD with -vo gl2 and MMX * support for OSD localization * -rawaudio/-rawvideo requires -demuxer rawaudio/-demuxer rawvideo * libdvdcss updated to 1.2.9 * ~/.dvdcss is used instead of ~/.mplayer/DVDKeys for cached CSS keys * libcdio support for CD playback * new option -msglevel to directly control the verbosity of MPlayer modules * -verbose option removed, use -v or "-msglevel all" instead * -edl is now per-file in MPlayer * new input command prefixes, "pausing_keep" and "pausing_toggle" which alter pausing state immediately after command * environment variable MPLAYER_VERBOSE controls verbosity before the command line is parsed * environment variable MPLAYER_HOME controls location where configuration files are searched for * memleak fixes all over the code * TOOLS/aconvert: allows MEncoder to encode from an audio-only file * TOOLS/3*m_convert: D-Cinema audio and video conversion program * TOOLS/qepdvcd.sh: anything supported to VCD/SVCD PAL/NTSC * TOOLS/encode2mpeglight: MPEG format encoding tool using only MEncoder * allow multiple -help clauses on the command line * console "OSD" for audio-only files * show total time when playing audio-only files * support for .wpl playlists * support for ncurses as termcap library provider * parallel make fixed * (improved) support for shared libav* libraries * playback/encoding profiles support * new property API * new -monitorpixelaspect option to determine monitor aspect from screen resolution


MPlayer 1.0pre7: "PatentCounter"
Security:

* heap overflow in Real RTSP streaming code fixed
* buffer overflow in MMST streaming code fixed

DOCS:

* Czech documentation translation in progress
* German man page almost synced
* slave mode command documentation finished
* TOOLS documented in TOOLS/README
* audio filter documentation moved to the man page and updated
* all audio filters documented
* improved encoding guide
* preliminary documentation for snow codec in DOCS/tech/snow.txt
* misc updates and fixes all over the place

Ports:

* DirectX video output fixed on Windows95
* DirectX video output now supports 256 color mode
* audio device selection support for dsound audio output driver
* --enable-macosx-bundle, use config directory in the appwrapper on OS X
* Sun audio output cleanup
* x86_64 support fixes
* OpenBSD support in libdha
* VIDIX support for more Radeon 9200 models

Drivers:

* fixed ontop event for some window managers
* audio output layer cleanup
* unified colorkey handling code
* vo_xvmc panscan fix
* fixed some X11 crashes
* OSD fixes in various video output drivers

Decoders:

* TWinVQ decoder via binary DLL
* integrated Tremor decoder for Ogg/Vorbis
* fixed decoding of stereo alaw files
* preload QT DLLs to work around problems with their hardcoded paths
* support for Real 10 RV30/40 Linux binary codec (fixes some RV40 files)
* expose support for 422P and 444P raw formats
* 32 bit RGB support in binary TSCC decoder
* dropped support of old FAAD2 versions (<= 1.1)
* support for Real 10 cook Linux binary codec (decodes cook5.1)
* improved NV12/NV21 support
* support for 32 bit float and extended WAV files
* prefer native RealAudio 1.0 / 2.0 decoder over binary decoders
* support for multichannel WAV files
* ALAC (QuickTime lossless audio) support via lavc
* WNV1 support via lavc
* AASC (Autoderk RLE video) support via lavc
* LOCO video support via lavc
* fixed Layer 1 stereo playback via mp3lib
* VMnc (VMware video) decoder via binary DLL
* AMR NB/WB support via libavcodec and external reference decoders
* ADTS AAC support

Demuxers:

* vqf demuxer
* seeking in MPEG-ES fixed
* support for Real multirate files
* framerate autodetection for MPEG-4 and H.264 video in ES and TS streams
* MP3 in Real files
* more user-friendly info about audio and subtitle tracks in Ogg files
* avisynth demuxer
* Multichannel MP3 in MP4 files support (MP3on4)
* some classes of nonworking 14.4/28.8 RealAudio files fixed
* added code to autodetect and demux MPEG audio layers 1 and 2
* demux AC3 audio files using libavformat by default
* online audio stream switching in the MPEG and Matroska demuxers
* 3GP demuxing support
* DVB updates and ATSC tuner support
* AVC in Matroska support
* SWF and FLV support via libavformat
* use proper Vorbis fourcc

Streaming:

* stream selection and bandwidth support for MMS over HTTP
* fallback to HTTP if connection refused on pnm://
* support for UDP streaming (udp://)
* support for vstream TiVo streams (tivo://)
* EOF detect and bugfixes in pnm:// streams

FFmpeg/libavcodec:

* RV20 fixes
* many H.264 fixes
* B-frames in H.264, H.264 weighted prediction support
* a lot of integer overflow and pointer fixes
* 32 bit RGB support in TSCC
* multichannel MP3 decoder (MP3on4)
* 3g2 support
* ALAC audio decoder
* LOCO video decoder
* WNV1 video decoder
* shorten audio decoder and demuxer
* AASC video decoder
* AMR NB/WB support via external reference decoders
* significantly faster snow decoding
* experimental ratecontrol for snow
* countless bug fixes all over the place

GUI:

* half size event implemented and added to the menu
* ESD configuration dialog and software volume control option
* memleaks fixed

Filters:

* big cleanup of audio filter layer
* faster af_format for most common cases
* float handling in the audio filter layer finally fixed
* obsolete audio plugins finally removed
* updated HRTF filter
* center channel adding filter
* soft-telecined input support in pullup improved

MEncoder:

* new experimental MPEG muxer, compatible with DVD and (S)VCD
* multiple file support
* -speed support (framerate conversion with speedup/slowdown)
* EDL support
* low bitrate mp3lame encoding fix
* MJPEG encoding fix
* NUV endianness fix (makes old NUV files unplayable)
* experimental libavformat muxer
* mp3lame CBR encoding fix
* 35% faster turbo mode for 1st pass

Others:

* -z option replaced by -vo png suboption
* icc fix in the Win32 loader
* crash with Turkish locale fixed
* several memleak fixes
* -aa* options are replaced by -vo aa suboptions
* excessive verbosity reduced
* RTC support for *BSD
* non-UTF-8 external subtitles with Matroska fixed
* gcc 4 fixes
* partial NX (noexec bit) support
* support libsmbclient with SSL
* put changed notices into all imported files for GPL §2a compliance


MPlayer 1.0pre6: "X-mas present"
DOCS

* finally all options are documented
* man page completely reviewed for spelling, wording and clarity
* all audio output driver suboptions documented
* all video output driver suboptions documented
* audio filters section added to the man page
* XviD documentation completed
* French man page in sync again
* German man page updated
* new Czech (complete) and Swedish man page translations
* fixes and updates in various places

Ports

* full x86_64 support
* -rootwin, -panscan support in the quartz video output driver
* key repetition and aspect fixed in the quartz video output driver
* "Movie" menu for quartz video output driver with zoom options & preset
* fs_res quartz video output driver suboption chooses fullscreen resolution
* VCD support for Darwin (Mac OS X)
* Mac OS X Finder startup argument support
* fix for stdin input and slave mode on MinGW
* support for -rootwin, -colorkey, -wid in the DirectX video output driver
* improved monitor selection in the DirectX video output driver
* new DirectSound audio output driver
* mouse support in Windows
* support for ZetaOS (mostly working)

Drivers

* fixes in the VESA and GGI video output drivers
* -jpeg removed in favor of -vo jpeg suboptions
* jpeg video output driver now supports output to multiple directories
* improvements for the Blinkenlights video output driver ;-)
* OpenGL video output driver colorformat fixes (with manyfmts suboption)
* aspect, panscan, hardware OSD support in the OpenGL video output driver
* new pnm and md5sum video output drivers, replacing pgm and md5
* yuv4mpeg video output now has a file= suboption, can be used with -fixed-vo to concatenate files having same width, height and fps
* JACK audio output driver updated to bio2jack API changes
* alsa9 and alsa1x replaced by alsa audio output driver
* ALSA audio output driver always uses specified device, even for hwac3
* support for mixer channel selection in the ALSA audio output driver
* audio output driver for the polypaudio sound server
* VIDIX Cyberblade TV-out fixed
* VIDIX I420 support for Cyberblade and mga
* VIDIX Radeon support on big-endian systems, other Radeon fixes
* VIDIX Radeon R200 QM (Radeon 9100) support
* CLE266 VIDIX driver
* experimental SAVAGE VIDIX driver

Decoders

* "experimental" support for 20 and 24 bit LPCM (DVD-Audio)
* libmpeg2 updated to 0.4.0b
* libfaad2 updated to 2.1beta CVS snapshot
* DTS decoding via libavcodec
* Windows Media Audio 9 Voice support via binary DLL
* Windows Media Video 9 Advanced support via binary DLL
* Windows Media Screen Codec 2 support via binary DLL
* Windows Media Image Codec support via binary DLL
* Windows Media Image 2 Codec support via binary DLL
* VDOWave video support via binary DLL
* Miro VideoXL video support via libavcodec
* Creative ADPCM audio support via libavcodec or binary DLL
* IBM Ultimotion video support via libavcodec
* Micronas Speech codec support via binary DLL
* H.261 video codec support via libavcodec
* TechSmith Camtasia video codec support via libavcodec
* sonic audio codec support via libavcodec
* snow video codec support via libavcodec
* QuickDraw video support via libavcodec
* Cinepak, CYUV and RoQ audio/video moved to FFmpeg
* Vianet Lsvx video support via binary DLL

Demuxers

* fix -nosound and -novideo for NSV
* subtitle switching and language code displaying for Matroska
* support for the .vp5 file format (AVI variant)
* seeking in audio-only ASF files fixed
* improved MP3 detection
* support for AVC in .mp4 files
* support for raw H.261 files via libavformat
* improved seeking precision in MPEG files
* better subtitle language code handling for MKV files
* support DVHS files and H.264 over MPEG-TS
* display length and position (in the seekbar) for MOV files
* raw video in MOV files playback improved

Streaming

* -cache-min and -cache-prefill options added
* compilation fix for newer LIVE.COM versions
* make ASF without ECC work
* support for MMS on non-standard port
* EOF detected in Real RTSP streams

FFmpeg/libavcodec

* reduced resolution decoding with the lowres option
* new experimental wavelet-based snow video codec
* new sonic audio codec
* TechSmith Camtasia video decoder
* IBM Ultimotion video decoder
* QuickDraw video decoder
* Creative ADPCM decoder
* Miro VideoXL decoder
* Sierra online audio files demuxer and decoder
* QPEG video decoder
* Electronic Arts Game Multimedia format demuxer
* H.261 fixes, H.261 encoder
* fix VIS accelerated code
* DTS support via libdts
* many DV fixes, seek in raw DV files
* support AAC in MOV files
* RV10, RV20 fixes
* RV20 encoding
* AVI demuxer cleanup, palette change support
* iTunes metadata support
* HuffYUV fixes (endianness, RGB32 predictor, median encoding, interlacing)
* ffvhuff (enhanced HuffYUV codec)
* SSE optimizations for 4x4 compare function
* epzs motion search enhancements
* quad tree based motion compensation
* MPEG-4 qpel MMX2/3DNow! optimizations
* H.264: lot of fixes and MMX2/3DNow! optimizations
* AVC1 (H.264 without sync word in .mp4 files) support
* H.264 qpel motion compensation
* Indeo3 grayscale decoding

* preliminary Truemotion 24 bit decoder
* avizlib encoder fixed
* trellis quantization support in H.263
* DCT optimizations
* AltiVec support on AmigaOS4
* adapt MMX/MMX2/SSE/3DNow! optimizations to work on x86_64
* seeking fixes
* better and faster audio resampler
* New dc1394 grabbing interface
* preliminary decoding support for H.264 with CABAC and B-frames
* dvr-ms support in ASF demuxer
* NSV demuxer
* DVD compatible MPEG muxer
* MJPEG-B fixes
* range coder (arithmetic entropy coder) used by snow and ffv1
* ffv1 enhancements: signed golomb, range codes
* multi slice support for main profile H.264 streams
* as usual, lots of bug fixes and optimizations

Filters

* software volume control when no hardware support available, can be controlled with the -softvol and -softvol-max parameters
* high-quality audio resampling with -af lavcresample
* cropdetect rounding parameter
* MPlayer -af help
* missing audio plugins (extrastereo, volnorm) converted to audio filters
* sine sweep generator audio filter
* hrtf audio filter to convert multichannel audio to 2 channel output for headphones, preserving the spatiality of the sound
* big-endian fixes in rgb2rgb converter
* yuv2rgb Altivec optimization fixes
* support for LADSPA plugins

GUI

* unified audio options dialog, also for ALSA
* redrawing limited, decreases CPU usage in audio-only case
* icons for the context menu
* doublesize bug fixed
* slowdown after opening the preferences panel bug fixed
* remaining messages moved to help file for translation
* slowdown after using the preferences panel fixed

Encoding

* x264 encoder support
* support for MP2 encoding with libtoolame
* libavcodec "turbo mode" to speed up 2-pass encoding
* support for 3-pass encode for libavcodec and x264
* XviD encoder and decoder modules updated to API-4.1 (XviD-1.1.x)
* flush remaining frames at end of encoding process

Others

* -loop and -shuffle now work together
* better EDL support
* some --disable configure options finally work (mp3lib, liba52, libmpeg2)
* framestepping
* change playback speed during playback
* some crashes with binary codecs fixed
* subtitle alignment support for SAMI files
* also support Windows path separator ''
* FriBiDi fixes for comma handling in Hebrew subtitles
* -crash-debug option to attach gdb automatically after crashes
* gcc 4 compilation fixes
* compilation fixes for many files in the TOOLS directory
* infamous "stuck mouse button" bug fixed, new -key-fifo-size option
* reduced verbosity of MPlayer's output somewhat
* -identify now prints some information about available languages
* double buffering (-double) is now default
* many memleaks fixed


MPlayer 1.0pre5: "LinuxTag release"
Name
It's "MPlayer - The Movie Player" instead of "MPlayer - The Movie Player for Linux" now.
Security
complete review of string operations, buffer overflows fixed
DOCS
small additions, corrections, updates all over the place
audio output driver section added to the man page
several bug fixes and improvements in the MEncoder documentation
DVD ripping guide extended and improved
AUTHORS file massively extended
German man page partially updated
Hungarian XML documentation translation started
Ports
encrypted DVD playback on Windows fixed (again)
Cygwin and MinGW now accept the same -dvd-device syntax
LIVE.COM now works under MinGW
foundations for MinGW crosscompilation
disabled SSE on MinGW as it caused crashes
AC3 passthrough for ao_win32
improved vo_quartz (YUV, multiple screens support)
vo_quartz made default on Mac OS X
ao_macosx fixed and made default again on Mac OS X
RealVideo binary codecs support on Mac OS X (still buggy)
bigendian fixes in vf.c, vo_tga
OpenBSD portability fixes
OpenBSD/VAX support
AMD64 support
Drivers
support for more Radeons (9800 XT among them) in VIDIX
Radeon related bug fixes in VIDIX
vo_gl2 now supports GUI, fix for flickering borders in fullscreen
support 24 and 32 bit PCM files, bigendian fixes
ao_sdl now converts unsupported formats instead of quitting
ENCA support
merged ao_alsa9 and ao_alsa1x drivers into ao_alsa
NeoMagic TV-out support through VESA
JACK audio output driver
vo_sdl fixes (wrong flags and screensaver disabling)
vo_directx fixes
Decoders
MSZH/ZLIB, FLI, QTRLE, RoQ video and RoQ audio support moved to FFmpeg
FFmpeg Cinepak and CYUV decoders preferred
audio format 0xff support (is AAC)
"raw" audio in MOV supported
Indeo audio (iac25) support via binary codec
upgrade libfaad2 to the FAAD 2.0 release
MPEG2 chroma422/444 support
Winnov WINX and WNV1 support via binary codec
Demuxers
Ogg subtitle handling and other bug fixes
Matroska improvements
support seeking in Real files without -idx
support seeking in Real files without index with -forceidx
Streaming
ASF, MMST streaming fixes
URL escaping fixed
NSA (Nullsoft audio) streaming support
embedded RAM playlist support
multibyte URL support
rtp:// now supported even with LIVE.COM compiled in
miscellaneous bug fixes
Filters
vf_softskip: frame skipping filter for MEncoder
vf_harddup: frame duplication filter for MEncoder
vf_pullup minor fixes and improvements
AltiVec-optimized YUV to RGB converter
vf_spp memory corruption fix on reallocation
FFmpeg/libavcodec
MPEG2 encoding with 8, 9, 10, 11 bit intra DC precision
DC clipping fix, intra_dc_precision > 0 support
Cinepak fixes and palette support
support skipping of MB rows during decoding
Vorbis in NUT fixed
NUT updated to latest specification
segfault and artifact fixes in SVQ3 decoder
motion estimation code: overflow and chroma fixes
change qscale -> lambda for the motion estimation
noise preserving sum of squares comparison function in ME code
fixed memory overwrite in truemotion decoder
clip input motion vectors, better error tolerance on bad vectors
FLAC decoder cleanup (partial demuxer/decoder separation)
memalign hack for SSE/SSE2 on that alternative OS :)
lots of AltiVec optimizations
qscale + qprd fix
QTrle4 support
H.261 decoder
coefficient saturation fix in H.263
H.263 MCBPC fix
per line lowpass filter in MMX and faster C lowpass filter
SVQ1 encoder
as usual, lots of bug fixes and optimizations
Others
fullscreen fixes for many window managers
fix crash on original Pentiums and older
dvd://start-end support
netstream (mpst://) support fixed
support comments in plaintext playlists
loader/ dependency removed
keepaspect option extended to all video output drivers
WMA to Ogg conversion and simple subtitle editing script added to TOOLS
support for more lame options
new set of GUI icons
memory conserving implementation of GUI potmeters
X11 code reindented
further gcc 3.4 support fixes
mixer API written for changing volume through libaf
-rtc-device option for specifying the RTC device
desktop/menu icon added
miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups
multi-threaded encoding with lavc
fixed a bug with Real files introduced in pre4
-use-stdin renamed to -noconsolecontrols



MPlayer 1.0pre4: "YAML Counter"
Security:
HTTP parser remote heap overflow vulnerability fixed
Real RTSP remote buffer overflow vulnerability fixed
buffer overflow in the Matroska demuxer
potentially exploitable buffer overflow in CDDB TOC code
DOCS:
new Copyright file covers files from other projects and their licenses
new DOCS/tech/translations.txt explains how to properly translate MPlayer
new Japanese console message translation
Polish translation finished
Italian man page translation
DVD ripping guide
telecine/interlacing guide
video out driver section added to the man page
XML build system rewritten - now supports building individual languages
miscellaneous updates all over the place
Ports:
better PA-RISC detection
support for VAX (tested on VAXstation 4000/VLC) -- really, believe me!
optimizing for specific MIPS CPUs under IRIX
AMD64 detection under BSDs
fbdev driver updated for Linux 2.6
support for ELF only OpenBSD
optimizing for PPC 970 (aka G5)
SDL support fixed on MinGW
VIDIX working under Windows XP/2000 (native dhahelper)
builds out of the box under GNU Hurd
SSE optimizations enabled under MinGW
SSE support under OpenBSD
AltiVec support under NetBSD
GCC 3.4 support (due to changed behaviour in ASM code snippets)
Demuxers:
Matroska containing RealVideo works better
fixed random segfaults in VIVO
endianess fixes in CDDA
UYVY support in tvi/v4l2
tvi/bsdbt848 now working under FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT
tvi/bsdbt848 audio part working under NetBSD
LIVE.COM demuxer updated to conform with latest libraries
new, independent, C implementation of the Matroska demuxer
fix for rare Real files
more robust Real demuxer (can resync after errors)
support for AAC inside Real
MPEG Aspect code 4 fixed
support for selecting subtitle streams with -slang inside Ogg
wrapper demuxer for FFMpeg's libavformat (Nut is playable this way)
much improved seeking in Ogg
Nullsoft streaming video (NSV) demuxer
AVI OpenDML read and write support
Streaming:
SMIL playlist parser
support for URL redirection
support for seeking in HTTP streams
updated LIVE.COM streaming code
fallback to live.com RTSP after Real RTSP
suggests -playlist if normal streaming fails
many improvements and bug fixes in the streaming code
Decoders:
compilation failure without zlib in vd/lcl fixed
removed obsoleted decoders (which were moved to libavcodec), affected: vd/8bps, vd/msrle, vd/msvideo1, vd/rpza, vd/smc
workaround for buggy codecs in ad/acm (support for Sharp G.726)
fixed chroma-swapping in Hauppauge Macroblock decoder
AltiVec optimized resampler in liba52
support for VP5 and VP6 DLL decoders
support for Alparysoft lossless video codec (through DLLs)
support for Lead MCMW wavelet video codec (through DLLs)
HE-AAC working through libfaad
removed libmpflac in favor of FFmpeg's FLAC implementation
liba52 dynamic range compression support
Filters:
vf_bmovl bugfixes
vf_filmdint now handles 15fps NTSC input
huge updates and speedup on vf_pullup
big updates to vf_ilpack (proper interpolation and MMX optimizations)
vf_zrmjpeg: fast MJPEG encoder using libavcodec for Zoran
interlaced scaling support in vf_scale
vf_kerndeint: adaptive deinterlacer
vf_rgbtest: rgb test pattern generator for developers
vf_qp: qp change filter
vf_noformat: the same as vf_format but with reversed meaning
AltiVec optimized SWScaler
vf_phase: phase shift fields
vf_divtc: duplicate frame removal from deinterlaced telecined video
Drivers:
ao/esd behaves better over network now
support for Radeon 9200/9600/9600 Pro/9700 in VIDIX
-mixer support for alsa9
fixed OSS audio grabber module with hardware not supporting 44khz
native ALSA 1.x support (not through 0.9 emulation)
better multibuffer support in VIDIX nVidia driver
pan & scan support in VIDIX nVidia driver
support for more cards in VIDIX nVidia driver
vo_libcaca: color ASCII art output driver
vo_quartz: native MacOS X/Quartz video output
support for VIDIX when ATI FireGLX drivers are used
FFmpeg/libavcodec:
H.263 AIC and MQ encoding support
fixed low delay decoding
fixed H.263+ encoding without UMV
lots of CBR improvements
MB type and QP visualization
lots of code cleanup
intra & inter dequantization split -> speedup
fixed stereo IMA ADPCM encoding
VBV delay setting support (MPEG2 CBR)
improved RV20 decoder (most known errors eliminated)
interlaced DCT
interlaced motion estimation
interlaced MPEG2 encoding
4MV encoding fixes
initial interlaced MPEG4 encoding
improved visual quality in SVQ3 decoder
fixed never-before-tested embedded string decoder in SVQ1
optimized quantization (including the trellis way)
Sierra VMD video decoder
MMX and SSE2 optimized H263 denoiser
better SVCD compliance (encoder side)
MMX and MMX2 optimized interlaced DCT decision
various cleanup, memleak and segfault fixes
optimized (2x faster) the MPEG layer 3 decoder
grayscale coded MJPEG decoding support
avimszh and avizlib decoders
"packed" XviD decoding
fixed some bugs in RV20 B-frames decoding
closed GOP encoding
SSE2 optimized FDCT
support for quantizer noise shaping
support for EA ADPCM and SMJPEG IMA ADPCM
QT RLE decoder
OBMC fixes
FLAC decoder
better support for DivX5
MMX and SSE2 optimized VP3/Theora decoding
support for Theora alpha3
many H.264 improvements
more robust MJPEG startcode search mechanism
better WMV8 decoding
native Sparc VIS optimizations
native G.726 codec
Others:
-codecs-file option for specifying alternative codecs.conf file
fixed some minor bugs in the GUI
prevent sig11 when $HOME is not set
fix some command line handling corruptions
Swedish and Polish yes/no options in config files
support binding F11 and F12 keys
TOOLS/divx2svcd updated
stricter thread code in Win32 loader (works under NetBSD)
PJS subtitle support (was: dunnowhat)
TOOLS/avifix: simple tool to fix chunk sizes in AVI files
proper extraheader handling when libavcodec is used in MEncoder
AVI OpenDML read and write support
AVI VPRP (video property) read and write support
fixed long standing lame quality option off-by-one bug in MEncoder
MPL2 subtitle support
less verbosity in Win32 loader and other places