xine-lib 1-rc8 released

Hi all,

The latest version of xine-lib, 1-rc8, is now available for download.

This version address multiple security vulnerabilites on PNM and Real
RTSP clients. All users are advised to upgrade to 1-rc8.
 
We have made important fixes from our previous release, most notably
several mms:// urls should now work (thanks Thibaut), a completely
rewritten OpenGL plugin (thanks Matthias Hopf), multiple DVB plugin
fixes (thanks Mike Lampard), fixed DVD subtitles displaying on xshm 
(thanks Reinhard Nissl) and much more.

There are new features as well, including a support for polypaudio
sound server, faster startup thanks to the plugin catalog cache, 
DVB subtitles support and new winamp.com "streaming" protocol.

As usual, you can download from

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

The MD5 sum of this release is:

dd571489e361987805100fdd80e0b921  xine-lib-1-rc8.tar.gz

The complete ChangeLog says:

xine-lib (1-rc8)
  * Multiple security vulnerabilities fixed on PNM and Real RTSP clients
  * Rewrote OpenGL output plugin.
  * Fixed segfault when seeking with the "xvmc" and "xxmc" plugins playing 
    files with IDCT / mocomp XvMC acceleration. 
  * polypaudio sound server support
  * fixed playback of MMS streams with the new input cache layer [bug #1066926]
  * fixed builds without X11 [bug #1067705]
  * added support for 24-bit LPCM from DVDs [bug #843786]
  * Fixed segfault in xxmc plugin when switch from software decoding to 
    accelerated decoding occured while software surfaces still needed to be 
    duplicated.
  * fixed plugin catalog cache (faster xine startup)
  * updated internal goom to 2k4-dev21; randomized and improved look of 
    initial effect (hopefully no more white screens any more)
  * DVB: Fixed pat parsing with fullfeatured cards.
  * DVB: Now uses auto-inversion if the frontend supports it - should
solve many tuning
    problems for people with sat cards.  
  * DVB: Will now verify that channels.conf file is in correct (?zap) format.
  * fixed OSS mixer disabling itself after first playlist entry
  * improved overlay blending quality, fixed subtitles with XShm
  * improved support for transport streams
  * new plugin for DVB subtitles
  * support realplayer codecs on AMD64
  * fixed restoring xv settings on exit for some frontends
  * UTF-8 support for cddb (freedb) client
  * identify AAC, MPEG4 and H264 on transport streams
  * build fixes and improvements (not using mkinstalldirs, mingw32)
  * fixed mmst and mmsh issues with the cache plugin
  * fixed mmsh "RESET" chunk handling
  * implemented winamp.com "streaming" protocol
  * meta info (title, artist, etc) returned by the xine-lib is now UTF8
  * new XINE_META_INFO_TRACK_NUMBER meta info

This is our last release candidate before final 1.0, so users are invited
to test it, try to break it and report bugs. Have fun!

Miguel


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