1 CasparCG 2.0.4 Stable (w.r.t 2.0.3 Stable)
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7 o Logging output now includes milliseconds and has modified format:
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8 yyyy-mm-d HH:MM:SS.ZZZ
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9 o Added support for generating thumbnails for media files. Currently only
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10 video files and images are supported. By default the media directory is
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11 scanned every 5 seconds for new/modified/removed files and thumbnails are
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12 generated/regenerated/removed accordingly.
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17 o Fixed a problem where the first frame was not always shown on LOAD.
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22 o Added support for a master volume mixer setting for each channel.
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27 o Simplified implementation of bluefish consumer, with regards to
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28 o Avoid that the ffmpeg consumer blocks the channel output when it can't keep
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29 up with the frame rate (drops instead).
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30 o Added support for to create a separate key and fill file when recording with
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31 the ffmpeg consumer. Add the SEPARATE_KEY parameter to the ffmpeg consumer
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32 parameter list. The key file will get the _A suffix to be picked up by the
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33 separated_producer when doing playback.
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34 o The image consumer now writes to the media folder instead of the data
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40 o Added support for playing .swf files using the flash producer.
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45 o The master volume feature is controlled via the MASTERVOLUME MIXER
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46 parameter. Example: MIXER 1 MASTERVOLUME 0.5
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47 o THUMBNAIL LIST/RETRIEVE/GENERATE/GENERATE_ALL command was added to support
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48 the thumbnail feature.
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49 o ADD 1 FILE output.mov SEPARATE_KEY activates the separate key feature of the
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50 ffmpeg consumer creating an additional output_a.mov containing only the key.
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51 o Added KILL command for shutting down the server without console access.
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53 CasparCG 2.0.3 Stable (w.r.t 2.0.3 Alpha)
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54 =========================================
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59 o Fixed dead-lock that can occur with multiple mixer tweens.
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64 o DATA STORE now supports creating folders of path specified if they does not
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66 o DATA REMOVE command was added.
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68 CasparCG 2.0.3 Alpha (w.r.t 2.0 Stable)
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69 =======================================
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74 o Data files are now stored in UTF-8 with BOM. Latin1 files are still
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75 supported for backwards compatibility
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76 o Commands written in UTF-8 to log file but only ascii characters to console.
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77 o Added supported video formats:
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78 + 720p2398 (not supported by decklink)
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79 + 720p2400 (not supported by decklink)
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82 + 720p30 (not supported by decklink)
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83 + 720p29.976 (not supported by decklink)
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88 o CLK protocol implementation can now serve more than one connection at a time
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90 o Added timeline support to the CLK protocol.
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91 o Refactored parts of the CLK parser implementation.
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96 o Consumers on same channel now invoked asynchronously to allow for proper
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97 sync of multiple consumers.
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98 o System audio consumer:
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99 + no longer provides sync to caspar.
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101 + Support for multiple screen consumers on the same channel
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102 + No longer spin-waits for vsync
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103 + Now deinterlaces to two separate frames so for example 50i will no longer
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104 be converted to 25p but instead to 50p for smooth playback of interlaced
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106 o Decklink consumer now logs whether a reference signal is detected or not.
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111 o Image scroll producer:
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112 + Field-rate motion instead of frame-rate motion with interlaced video
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113 formats. This can be overridden by giving the PROGRESSIVE parameter.
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114 + SPEED parameter now defines pixels per frame/field instead of half pixels
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115 per frame. The scrolling direction is also reversed so SPEED 0.5 is the
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116 previous equivalent of SPEED -1. Movements are done with subpixel accuracy
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117 + Fixed incorrect starting position of image.
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118 + Rounding error fixes to allow for more exact scrolling.
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119 + Added support for motion blur via a new BLUR parameter
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120 + Added PREMULTIPLY parameter to support images stored with straight alpha.
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122 CasparCG 2.0 Stable (w.r.t Beta 3)
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123 ==================================
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128 o Misc stability and performance fixes.
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134 + Changed semantics to more closely follow ffmpeg (see forums).
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135 + Added options, -r, -acodec, -s, -pix_fmt, -f and more.
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137 + Added vsync support.
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139 CasparCG 2.0 Beta 3 (w.r.t Beta 1)
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140 ==================================
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146 + Both encoding and decoding.
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148 + Updated audio-pipeline for native NTSC support. Previous implementation
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149 did not fully support NTSC audio and could cause incorrect behaviour or
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155 o File Consumer added
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156 + See updated wiki or ask in forum for more information.
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157 + Should support anything ffmpeg supports. However, we will work mainly with
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158 DNXHD, PRORES and H264.
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159 - Key-only is not supported.
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160 o Bluefish Consumer
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161 + 24 bit audio support.
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162 - Embedded-audio does not work with Epoch cards.
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163 o Decklink Consumer
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164 + Low latency enabled by default.
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165 + Added graphs for driver buffers.
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167 + Changed screen consumer square PAL to the more common wide-square PAL.
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168 + Can now be closed.
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169 + Fixed interpolation artifacts when running non-square video-modes.
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170 + Automatically deinterlace interlaced input.
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175 o Decklink Producer
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176 + Improved color quality be avoiding uneccessary conversion to BGRA.
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178 + Fixed missing alpha for (RGB)A formats when deinterlacing.
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179 + Updated buffering to work better with files with long audio/video
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181 + Seekable while running and after reaching EOF. CALL 1-1 SEEK 200.
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182 + Enable/disable/query looping while running. CALL 1-1 LOOP 1.
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183 + Fixed bug with duration calculation.
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184 + Fixed bug with fps calculation.
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185 + Improved auto-transcode accuracy.
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186 + Improved seeking accuracy.
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187 + Fixed bug with looping and LENGTH.
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188 + Updated to newer ffmpeg version.
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189 + Fixed incorrect scaling of NTSC DV files.
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190 + Optimized color conversion when using YADIF filters.
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192 + Release flash-player when empty.
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193 + Use native resolution template-host.
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194 + Template-hosts are now choosen automatically if not configured. The
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195 template-host with the corresponding video-mode name is now chosen.
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196 + Use square pixel dimensions.
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201 o When possible, commands will no longer wait for rendering pipeline. This
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202 reduces command execution latencies, especially when sending a lot of
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203 commands in a short timespan.
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204 o Fixed CINF command.
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205 o ADD/REMOVE no longer require subindex,
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206 e.g. "ADD 1 SCREEN" / "REMOVE 1 SCREEN" instead of "ADD 1-1 SCREEN" / ...
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207 o PARAM is renamed to CALL.
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208 o STATUS command is replaced by INFO.
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209 o INFO command has been extended:
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210 + INFO (lists channels).
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211 + INFO 1 (channel info).
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212 + INFO 1-1 (layer info).
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213 + INFO 1-1 F (foreground producer info).
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214 + INFO 1-1 B (background producer info).
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215 + INFO TEMPLATE mytemplate (template meta-data info, e.g. field names).
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216 o CG INFO command has been extended.
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217 + CG INFO 1 (template-host information, e.g. what layers are occupied).
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222 o Fixed alpha with blend modes.
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223 o Automatically deinterlace for MIXER FILL commands.
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228 o SET MODE now reverts back to old video-mode on failure.
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233 o Improved graphs and added more status information.
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234 o Print configuration into log at startup.
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235 o Use the same log file for the entire day, instead of one per startup as
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237 o Diagnostics window is now closable.
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244 CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (w.r.t Alpha)
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245 =================================
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247 o Blending Modes (needs to be explicitly enabled)
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252 o Added additive keyer in addition to linear keyer.
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253 o Image adjustements
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262 o Support for ffmpeg-filters such as (ee http://ffmpeg.org/libavfilter.html)
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263 + yadif deinterlacer (optimized in CasparCG for full multi-core support)
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268 o 32-bit SSE optimized audio pipeline.
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269 o Decklink-Consumer uses external-key by default.
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270 o Decklink-Consumer has 32 bit embedded-audio support.
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271 o Decklink-Producer has 32 bit embedded-audio support.
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272 o LOADBG with AUTO feature which automatically playes queued clip when
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273 foreground clip has ended.
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274 o STATUS command for layers.
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275 o LOG LEVEL command for log filtering.
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276 o MIX transitation work with transparent clips.
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277 o Freeze on last frame.
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278 o Producer buffering is now configurable.
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279 o Consumer buffering is now configurable.
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280 o Now possible to configure template-hosts for different video-modes.
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281 o Added auto transcoder for ffmpeg-producer which automatically transcodes
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282 input video into compatible video format for the channel.
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283 + interlacing (50p -> 50i)
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284 + deinterlacing (50i -> 25p)
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285 + bob-deinterlacing (50i -> 50p)
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286 + bob-deinterlacing and reinterlacing (w1xh150i -> w2xh250i)
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287 + doubling (25p -> 50p)
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288 + halfing (50p -> 25p)
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289 + field-order swap (upper <-> lower)
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290 o Screen consumer now automatically deinterlaces when receiveing interlaced
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292 o Optimized renderer.
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293 o Renderer can now be run asynchronously with producer by using a
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294 producer-buffer size greater than 0.
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295 o Improved error and crash recovery.
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296 o Improved logging.
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297 o Added Image-Scroll-Producer
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298 o Key-only has now near zery performance overhead.
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299 o Reduced memory requirements
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300 o Removed "warm up lag" which occured when playing the first media clip after
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301 the server has started.
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302 o Added read-back fence for OpenGL device for improved multi-channel
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304 o Memory support increased from standard 2 GB to 4 GB on 64 bit Win 7 OS.
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305 o Added support for 2* Decklink cards in FullHD.
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306 o Misc bugs fixes and performance improvements.
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307 o Color producer now support some color codes in addition to color codes, e.g.
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308 EMPTY, BLACK, RED etc...
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309 o Alpha value in color codes is now optional.
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310 o More than 2 Decklink cards might be possible but have not yet been tested.
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312 CasparCG 2.0 Alpha (w.r.t 1.8)
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313 ==============================
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318 o Mayor refactoring for improved readability and mainainability.
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319 o Some work towards platorm-independence. Currently the greatest challenge for
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320 full platform-independence is flash-producer.
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321 o Misc improved scalability.
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322 o XML-configuration.
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324 + Support for multiple decklink-cards.
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329 o Multiple producers per video_channel.
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330 o Multiple consumers per video_channel.
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331 o Swap producers between layers and channels during run-time.
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332 o Support for upper-field and lower-field interlacing.
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333 o Add and remove consumers during run-time.
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334 o Preliminary support for NTSC.
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339 o Query flash and template-host version.
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340 o Recursive media-folder listing.
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346 o Animated tween transforms.
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348 + Fully GPU accelerated (all features listed below are done on the gpu),
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349 + Layer composition.
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350 + Colorspaces (rgba, bgra, argb, yuv, yuva, yuv-hd, yuva-hd).
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352 + Per-layer image-transforms:
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359 + Per-layer and per-sample audio-transforms:
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361 + Fully internal audio-mixing. Single output-video_channel.
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366 o Decklink-Consumer
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370 o Bluefish-Consumer
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371 + Drivers are loaded on-demand (server now runs on computers without
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372 installed bluefish-drivers).
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374 + Allocated frames are no longer leaked.
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379 o Decklink-Producer
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385 + Asynchronous file IO.
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386 + Parallel decoding of audio and video.
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387 + Colorspace transform are moved to gpu.
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388 o Transition-Producer
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389 + Fully interlaced transition (previsously only progressive, even when
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390 running in interlaced mode).
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391 + Per-sample mixing between source and destination clips.
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392 + Tween transitions.
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394 + DirectDraw access (sligthly improved performance).
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395 + Improved time-sync. Smoother animations and proper interlacing.
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397 + Support for various imageformats through FreeImage library.
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402 o Graphs for monitoring performance and events.
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403 o Misc logging improvements.
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404 o Seperate log-file for every run of the server.
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405 o Error logging provides full exception details, instead of only printing that
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406 an error has occured.
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407 o Console with real-time logging output.
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408 o Console with AMCP input.
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413 o Registry-configuration (replaced by XML-Configuration).
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414 o TGA-Producer (replaced by Image-Producer).
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415 o TGA-Scroll-Producer
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