1 CasparCG 2.0.3 Alpha (w.r.t 2.0 Stable)
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7 o Data files are now stored in UTF-8 with BOM. Latin1 files are still
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8 supported for backwards compatibility
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9 o Commands written in UTF-8 to log file but only ascii characters to console.
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10 o Added supported video formats:
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11 + 720p2398 (not supported by decklink)
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12 + 720p2400 (not supported by decklink)
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15 + 720p30 (not supported by decklink)
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16 + 720p29.976 (not supported by decklink)
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21 o CLK protocol implementation can now serve more than one connection at a time
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23 o Added timeline support to the CLK protocol.
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24 o Refactored parts of the CLK parser implementation.
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29 o Consumers on same channel now invoked asynchronously to allow for proper
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30 sync of multiple consumers.
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31 o System audio consumer:
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32 + no longer provides sync to caspar.
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34 + Support for multiple screen consumers on the same channel
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35 + No longer spin-waits for vsync
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36 + Now deinterlaces to two separate frames so for example 50i will no longer
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37 be converted to 25p but instead to 50p for smooth playback of interlaced
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39 o Decklink consumer now logs whether a reference signal is detected or not.
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44 o Image scroll producer:
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45 + Field-rate motion instead of frame-rate motion with interlaced video
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46 formats. This can be overridden by giving the PROGRESSIVE parameter.
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47 + SPEED parameter now defines pixels per frame/field instead of half pixels
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48 per frame. The scrolling direction is also reversed so SPEED 0.5 is the
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49 previous equivalent of SPEED -1. Movements are done with subpixel accuracy
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50 + Fixed incorrect starting position of image.
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51 + Rounding error fixes to allow for more exact scrolling.
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52 + Added support for motion blur via a new BLUR parameter
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53 + Added PREMULTIPLY parameter to support images stored with straight alpha.
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55 CasparCG 2.0 Stable (w.r.t Beta 3)
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56 ==================================
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61 o Misc stability and performance fixes.
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67 + Changed semantics to more closely follow ffmpeg (see forums).
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68 + Added options, -r, -acodec, -s, -pix_fmt, -f and more.
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70 + Added vsync support.
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72 CasparCG 2.0 Beta 3 (w.r.t Beta 1)
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73 ==================================
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79 + Both encoding and decoding.
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81 + Updated audio-pipeline for native NTSC support. Previous implementation
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82 did not fully support NTSC audio and could cause incorrect behaviour or
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88 o File Consumer added
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89 + See updated wiki or ask in forum for more information.
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90 + Should support anything ffmpeg supports. However, we will work mainly with
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91 DNXHD, PRORES and H264.
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92 - Key-only is not supported.
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94 + 24 bit audio support.
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95 - Embedded-audio does not work with Epoch cards.
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97 + Low latency enabled by default.
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98 + Added graphs for driver buffers.
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100 + Changed screen consumer square PAL to the more common wide-square PAL.
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101 + Can now be closed.
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102 + Fixed interpolation artifacts when running non-square video-modes.
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103 + Automatically deinterlace interlaced input.
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108 o Decklink Producer
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109 + Improved color quality be avoiding uneccessary conversion to BGRA.
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111 + Fixed missing alpha for (RGB)A formats when deinterlacing.
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112 + Updated buffering to work better with files with long audio/video
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114 + Seekable while running and after reaching EOF. CALL 1-1 SEEK 200.
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115 + Enable/disable/query looping while running. CALL 1-1 LOOP 1.
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116 + Fixed bug with duration calculation.
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117 + Fixed bug with fps calculation.
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118 + Improved auto-transcode accuracy.
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119 + Improved seeking accuracy.
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120 + Fixed bug with looping and LENGTH.
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121 + Updated to newer ffmpeg version.
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122 + Fixed incorrect scaling of NTSC DV files.
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123 + Optimized color conversion when using YADIF filters.
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125 + Release flash-player when empty.
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126 + Use native resolution template-host.
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127 + Template-hosts are now choosen automatically if not configured. The
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128 template-host with the corresponding video-mode name is now chosen.
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129 + Use square pixel dimensions.
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134 o When possible, commands will no longer wait for rendering pipeline. This
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135 reduces command execution latencies, especially when sending a lot of
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136 commands in a short timespan.
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137 o Fixed CINF command.
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138 o ADD/REMOVE no longer require subindex,
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139 e.g. "ADD 1 SCREEN" / "REMOVE 1 SCREEN" instead of "ADD 1-1 SCREEN" / ...
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140 o PARAM is renamed to CALL.
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141 o STATUS command is replaced by INFO.
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142 o INFO command has been extended:
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143 + INFO (lists channels).
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144 + INFO 1 (channel info).
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145 + INFO 1-1 (layer info).
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146 + INFO 1-1 F (foreground producer info).
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147 + INFO 1-1 B (background producer info).
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148 + INFO TEMPLATE mytemplate (template meta-data info, e.g. field names).
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149 o CG INFO command has been extended.
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150 + CG INFO 1 (template-host information, e.g. what layers are occupied).
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155 o Fixed alpha with blend modes.
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156 o Automatically deinterlace for MIXER FILL commands.
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161 o SET MODE now reverts back to old video-mode on failure.
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166 o Improved graphs and added more status information.
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167 o Print configuration into log at startup.
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168 o Use the same log file for the entire day, instead of one per startup as
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170 o Diagnostics window is now closable.
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177 CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (w.r.t Alpha)
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178 =================================
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180 o Blending Modes (needs to be explicitly enabled)
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185 o Added additive keyer in addition to linear keyer.
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186 o Image adjustements
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195 o Support for ffmpeg-filters such as (ee http://ffmpeg.org/libavfilter.html)
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196 + yadif deinterlacer (optimized in CasparCG for full multi-core support)
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201 o 32-bit SSE optimized audio pipeline.
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202 o Decklink-Consumer uses external-key by default.
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203 o Decklink-Consumer has 32 bit embedded-audio support.
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204 o Decklink-Producer has 32 bit embedded-audio support.
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205 o LOADBG with AUTO feature which automatically playes queued clip when
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206 foreground clip has ended.
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207 o STATUS command for layers.
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208 o LOG LEVEL command for log filtering.
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209 o MIX transitation work with transparent clips.
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210 o Freeze on last frame.
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211 o Producer buffering is now configurable.
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212 o Consumer buffering is now configurable.
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213 o Now possible to configure template-hosts for different video-modes.
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214 o Added auto transcoder for ffmpeg-producer which automatically transcodes
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215 input video into compatible video format for the channel.
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216 + interlacing (50p -> 50i)
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217 + deinterlacing (50i -> 25p)
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218 + bob-deinterlacing (50i -> 50p)
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219 + bob-deinterlacing and reinterlacing (w1xh150i -> w2xh250i)
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220 + doubling (25p -> 50p)
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221 + halfing (50p -> 25p)
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222 + field-order swap (upper <-> lower)
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223 o Screen consumer now automatically deinterlaces when receiveing interlaced
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225 o Optimized renderer.
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226 o Renderer can now be run asynchronously with producer by using a
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227 producer-buffer size greater than 0.
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228 o Improved error and crash recovery.
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229 o Improved logging.
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230 o Added Image-Scroll-Producer
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231 o Key-only has now near zery performance overhead.
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232 o Reduced memory requirements
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233 o Removed "warm up lag" which occured when playing the first media clip after
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234 the server has started.
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235 o Added read-back fence for OpenGL device for improved multi-channel
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237 o Memory support increased from standard 2 GB to 4 GB on 64 bit Win 7 OS.
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238 o Added support for 2* Decklink cards in FullHD.
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239 o Misc bugs fixes and performance improvements.
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240 o Color producer now support some color codes in addition to color codes, e.g.
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241 EMPTY, BLACK, RED etc...
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242 o Alpha value in color codes is now optional.
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243 o More than 2 Decklink cards might be possible but have not yet been tested.
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245 CasparCG 2.0 Alpha (w.r.t 1.8)
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246 ==============================
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251 o Mayor refactoring for improved readability and mainainability.
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252 o Some work towards platorm-independence. Currently the greatest challenge for
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253 full platform-independence is flash-producer.
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254 o Misc improved scalability.
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255 o XML-configuration.
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257 + Support for multiple decklink-cards.
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262 o Multiple producers per video_channel.
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263 o Multiple consumers per video_channel.
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264 o Swap producers between layers and channels during run-time.
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265 o Support for upper-field and lower-field interlacing.
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266 o Add and remove consumers during run-time.
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267 o Preliminary support for NTSC.
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272 o Query flash and template-host version.
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273 o Recursive media-folder listing.
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279 o Animated tween transforms.
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281 + Fully GPU accelerated (all features listed below are done on the gpu),
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282 + Layer composition.
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283 + Colorspaces (rgba, bgra, argb, yuv, yuva, yuv-hd, yuva-hd).
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285 + Per-layer image-transforms:
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292 + Per-layer and per-sample audio-transforms:
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294 + Fully internal audio-mixing. Single output-video_channel.
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299 o Decklink-Consumer
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303 o Bluefish-Consumer
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304 + Drivers are loaded on-demand (server now runs on computers without
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305 installed bluefish-drivers).
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307 + Allocated frames are no longer leaked.
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312 o Decklink-Producer
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318 + Asynchronous file IO.
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319 + Parallel decoding of audio and video.
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320 + Colorspace transform are moved to gpu.
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321 o Transition-Producer
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322 + Fully interlaced transition (previsously only progressive, even when
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323 running in interlaced mode).
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324 + Per-sample mixing between source and destination clips.
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325 + Tween transitions.
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327 + DirectDraw access (sligthly improved performance).
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328 + Improved time-sync. Smoother animations and proper interlacing.
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330 + Support for various imageformats through FreeImage library.
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335 o Graphs for monitoring performance and events.
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336 o Misc logging improvements.
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337 o Seperate log-file for every run of the server.
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338 o Error logging provides full exception details, instead of only printing that
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339 an error has occured.
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340 o Console with real-time logging output.
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341 o Console with AMCP input.
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346 o Registry-configuration (replaced by XML-Configuration).
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347 o TGA-Producer (replaced by Image-Producer).
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348 o TGA-Scroll-Producer
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