xine-lib 1-rc3b available for download

Hi all!

The new version of xine-lib, 1-rc3b, is available for download. This
version adds support for Matroska files, Flash Video and Sierra VMD files,
as well as OpenDML 2.0 support for the AVI demuxer. In addition, this new
library can now handle a variety of file formats from the Amiga computer,
including a variety of IFF files and MOD/S3M/XM/IT/etc music tracker
formats (thanks to the ModPlug library).
The new library version contains several new video decoders including
Sierra video, Flash Video, Real Video 2.0 Duck TrueMotion v1, 8BPS, MZSH,
ZLIB, ASV1,2, ATI VCR1 (all courtesy of ffmpeg).
Network streaming drivers are enhanced, including secure HTTP, MMS, and
RTP/UDP.
As for video drivers, there is new support for the CACA library (colored
ASCII art), and fixed/improved support for SDL and Sun PGX32 video.

As always the core xine engine has been enhanced for greater stability so
that you can just play your multimedia with ease.

Like all our releases, you can download xine-lib 1-rc3b from

  http://xinehq.de/index.php/download

If you want to check integrity of the downloaded file, the MD5 sum is:

20d90ab83b52711c1f60060b52571230  xine-lib-1-rc3b.tar.gz

And for reference, the complete ChangeLog for this release says:

xine-lib (1-rc3b)
  * fix SDL plugin that was broken in rc3
  * updated libfaad 2.0 RC3 cvs (fix some raw aac problems, HE support)
  * Win32 Cygwin updates, using DirectX
  * new demuxer for Interchange File Format (IFF) supporting IFF-8SVX, IFF-16SV,
    IFF-ILBM, and IFF-ANIM (limited to opt5, opt7 and opt8 at the moment)
  * fixed problem with jumpy visualization especially on ogg files
  * dxr3: fix situation, where the initial menu on some DVDs would have
    the wrong aspect
  * major refinement of post plugin architecture fixes a lot of races
  * fix runtime audio channel selection, specially for ogg/ogm streams
  * preliminary matroska support
  * support for AAC audio in RealMedia files
  * implement chapter skipping in ogm files
  * more RTP/UDP plugin fixes
  * secure http status string parsing, use status in mmsh again
  * fix endianness problem in OSD texts (using UCS-2LE or UCS-2BE encoding)
  * raw AAC fixes and support for 5.1 AAC streams
  * AVI demuxer OpenDML (AVI2.0) support
  * fix unscaled OSD for Kaffeine
  * Sierra VMD file demuxer
  * new ffmpeg decoders activated:
    * Sierra VMD audio and video
    * Duck TrueMotion v1 (DUCK)
    * Planar RGB (8BPS)
    * Lossless Codecs (MSZH & ZLIB)
    * ASV v1/v2
    * ATI VCR1
    * Real Video 2.0
    * Sierra VMD
    * Flash Video
  * new MOD demuxer
  * new, safer method for on-the-fly rewiring of post plugins
  * add iso-8859-9 and iso-8859-15 codepages into xine fonts
  * work around freezing with arts on BSD
  * documentation about xine fonts
  * make the protocol in MMS configurable - TCP, HTTP or autoprobe
  * added video output plugin for Sun PGX32 framebuffers
  * new video out plugin using CACA - Colored ASCII Art
  * fix a crash when using the gnome-vfs plugin with newer gnome-vfs versions
  * new "file" (wave) audio out plugin
    example: XINE_WAVE_OUTPUT=/tmp/file.wav xine -A file music.mp3
  * autoscan devices /dev/dsp* and /dev/sound/dsp* in OSS audio plugin
  * fix jittering problem with the xshm output plugin
  * fix a playback problem with some mp3 with id3v2 tags
  * asf demuxer fixes
  * new Flash Video (FLV) demuxer
  * option to pass an interface name in RTP MRLs
  * sync to latest libdvdnav fixes some menu problems and tries
    to continue playback in case of errors
  * ignore the hue setting on NVidia cards using the Xv video output
    as both the XFree86 and the proprietary driver are broken

Enjoy,

	Siggi


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