3 CasparCG 2.0.4 Stable (as compared to 2.0.4 Beta 1)
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9 o Can now open media with digit only names.
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10 o Misc stability and performance improvements.
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15 o Conditional compilation of chroma key support and straight alpha output
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16 support in shader (just like with blend-modes) because of performance impact
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17 even when not in use on a layer/on a channel. New <mixer /> element added to
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18 configuration for turning on mixer features that not everybody would want to
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19 pay for (performance-wise). blend-modes also moved into this element.
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20 o MIXER LEVELS interpretet arguments in the wrong order, so that gamma was
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21 interpreted as max_input and vice versa.
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26 o Replaced usage of SFML for <system-audio /> with PortAudio, because of
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27 problems with SFML since change to static linkage. Also PortAudio seems to
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29 o Added support for NewTek AirPlay. Enables the use of the CasparCG Server
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30 output as an input source in a NewTek TriCaster without requiring a video
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31 card. <newtek /> element in config enables AirPlay on a channel.
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32 o Decklink: Created custom decklink allocator for reducing memory footprint.
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37 o ffmpeg: Added support for arbitrary ffmpeg options in ffmpeg_producer.
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38 o flash: No longer starts a flash player to service CG commands that means
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39 nothing without an already running flash player.
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40 o flash: globally serialize initialization and destruction of flash players,
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41 to avoid race conditions in flash.
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42 o flash: changed so that the flash buffer is filled with flash player
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43 generated content at initialization instead of empty frames.
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48 o Performance improvements.
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49 o Never send old values to OSC reveivers, collect the latest value of each
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50 path logged since last UDP send, and send the new UDP packet (to each
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51 subscribing OSC receiver) with the values collected.
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52 o Batch as many OSC messages as possible in an OSC bundle to reduce the number
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53 of UDP packets sent. Breakup into separate packages if necessary to avoid
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55 o Removed usage of Microsoft Agents library (server ran out of memory after a
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56 while) in favour of direct synchronous invocations.
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59 CasparCG 2.0.4 Beta 1 (as compared to 2.0.3 Stable)
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60 ===================================================
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65 o Front-end GUI for simplified configuration and easy access to common tasks.
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66 o Added support for video and images file thumbnail generation. By default the
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67 media directory is scanned every 5 seconds for new/modified/removed files
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68 and thumbnails are generated/regenerated/removed accordingly.
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69 o Support for new video modes: 1556p2398, 1556p2400, 1556p2500, 2160p2398,
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70 2160p2400, 2160p2500, 2160p2997 and 2160p3000.
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71 o Experimental ATI graphics card support by using static linking against SFML
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72 instead of dynamic. Should improve ATI GPU support, but needs testing.
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73 o Added support for playback and pass-through of up to 16 audio channels. See
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74 http://casparcg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1453 for more information.
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75 o Optimizations in AMCP protocol implementations for large incoming messages,
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76 for example base64 encoded PNG images.
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77 o Logging output now includes milliseconds and has modified format:
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78 YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.zzz
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79 o Improved audio playback with 720p5994 and 720p6000 channels.
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80 o An attempt to improve output synchronization of consumers has been made. Use
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87 <embedded-audio>true</embedded-audio>
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91 <key-only>true</key-only>
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96 ...to instruct the server to keep both DeckLink consumers in sync with each
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97 other. Consider this experimental, so don't wrap everything in
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98 <synchronizing /> unless synchronization of consumer outputs is needed. For
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99 synchronization to be effective all synchronized cards must have genlock
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100 reference signal connected.
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105 o Fixed a problem where the first frame was not always shown on LOAD.
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110 o Added support for a master volume mixer setting for each channel.
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115 o Added support for chroma keying.
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116 o Fixed bug where MIXER CONTRAST set to < 1 can cause transparency issues.
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117 o Experimental support for straight alpha output.
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122 o Avoid that the FFmpeg consumer blocks the channel output when it can't keep
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123 up with the frame rate (drops frames instead).
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124 o Added support for to create a separate key and fill file when recording with
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125 the FFmpeg consumer. Add the SEPARATE_KEY parameter to the FFmpeg consumer
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126 parameter list. The key file will get the _A file name suffix to be picked
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127 up by the separated_producer when doing playback.
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128 o The Image consumer now writes to the media folder instead of the data
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130 o Fixed bug in DeckLink consumer where we submit too few audio samples to the
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131 driver when the video format has a frame rate > 50.
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132 o Added another experimental DeckLink consumer implementation where scheduled
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133 playback is not used, but a similar approach as in the bluefish consumer
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134 where we wait for a frame to be displayed and then display the next frame.
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135 It is configured via a <blocking-decklink> consumer element. The benefits of
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136 this consumer is lower latency and more deterministic synchronization
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137 between multiple instances (should not need to be wrapped in a
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138 <synchronizing> element when separated key/fill is used).
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143 o Added support for playing .swf files using the Flash producer.
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144 o Image producer premultiplies PNG images with their alpha.
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145 o Image producer can load a PNG image encoded as base64 via:
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146 PLAY 1-0 [PNG_BASE64] <base64 string>
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147 o FFmpeg producer can now use a directshow input filters:
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148 PLAY 1-10 "dshow://video=Some Camera"
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153 o The master volume feature is controlled via the MASTERVOLUME MIXER
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154 parameter. Example: MIXER 1 MASTERVOLUME 0.5
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155 o THUMBNAIL LIST/RETRIEVE/GENERATE/GENERATE_ALL command was added to support
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156 the thumbnail feature.
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157 o ADD 1 FILE output.mov SEPARATE_KEY activates the separate key feature of the
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158 FFmpeg consumer creating an additional output_a.mov containing only the key.
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159 o Added KILL command for shutting down the server without console access.
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160 o Added RESTART command for shutting down the server in the same way as KILL
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161 except that the return code from CasparCG Server is 5 instead of 0, which
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162 can be used by parent process to take other actions. The
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163 'casparcg_auto_restart.bat' script restarts the server if the return code is
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165 o DATA RETRIEVE now returns linefeeds encoded as an actual linefeed (the
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166 single character 0x0a) instead of the previous two characters:
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168 o MIXER CHROMA command added to control the chroma keying. Example:
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169 MIXER 1-1 CHROMA GREEN|BLUE 0.10 0.04
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170 o Fixed bug where MIXER FILL overrides any previous MIXER CLIP on the same
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171 layer. The bugfix also has the side effect of supporting negative scale on
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172 MIXER FILL, causing the image to be flipped.
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173 o MIXER <ch> STRAIGHT_ALPHA_OUTPUT added to control whether to output straight
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175 o Added INFO <ch> DELAY and INFO <ch>-<layer> DELAY commands for showing some
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176 delay measurements.
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182 o Support for sending OSC messages over UDP to either a predefined set of
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183 clients (servers in the OSC sense) or dynamically to the ip addresses of the
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184 currently connected AMCP clients.
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185 o /channel/[1-9]/stage/layer/[0-9]
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186 + always /paused [paused or not]
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187 + color producer /color [color string]
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188 + ffmpeg producer /profiler/time [render time] [frame duration]
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189 + ffmpeg producer /file/time [elapsed seconds] [total seconds]
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190 + ffmpeg producer /file/frame [frame] [total frames]
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191 + ffmpeg producer /file/fps [fps]
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192 + ffmpeg producer /file/path [file path]
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193 + ffmpeg producer /loop [looping or not]
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194 + during transitions /transition/frame [current frame] [total frames]
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195 + during transitions /transition/type [transition type]
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196 + flash producer /host/path [filename]
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197 + flash producer /host/width [width]
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198 + flash producer /host/height [height]
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199 + flash producer /host/fps [fps]
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200 + flash producer /buffer [buffered] [buffer size]
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201 + image producer /file/path [file path]
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204 CasparCG 2.0.3 Stable (as compared to 2.0.3 Alpha)
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205 ==================================================
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210 o Fixed dead-lock that can occur with multiple mixer tweens.
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215 o DATA STORE now supports creating folders of path specified if they does not
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217 o DATA REMOVE command was added.
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220 CasparCG 2.0.3 Alpha (as compared to 2.0 Stable)
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221 ================================================
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226 o Data files are now stored in UTF-8 with BOM. Latin1 files are still
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227 supported for backwards compatibility
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228 o Commands written in UTF-8 to log file but only ascii characters to console.
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229 o Added supported video formats:
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230 + 720p2398 (not supported by DeckLink)
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231 + 720p2400 (not supported by DeckLink)
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234 + 720p30 (not supported by DeckLink)
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235 + 720p29.976 (not supported by DeckLink)
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240 o CLK protocol implementation can now serve more than one connection at a time
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242 o Added timeline support to the CLK protocol.
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243 o Refactored parts of the CLK parser implementation.
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248 o Consumers on same channel now invoked asynchronously to allow for proper
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249 sync of multiple consumers.
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250 o System audio consumer:
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251 + no longer provides sync to caspar.
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253 + Support for multiple screen consumers on the same channel
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254 + No longer spin-waits for vsync
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255 + Now deinterlaces to two separate frames so for example 50i will no longer
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256 be converted to 25p but instead to 50p for smooth playback of interlaced
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258 o Decklink consumer now logs whether a reference signal is detected or not.
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263 o Image scroll producer:
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264 + Field-rate motion instead of frame-rate motion with interlaced video
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265 formats. This can be overridden by giving the PROGRESSIVE parameter.
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266 + SPEED parameter now defines pixels per frame/field instead of half pixels
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267 per frame. The scrolling direction is also reversed so SPEED 0.5 is the
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268 previous equivalent of SPEED -1. Movements are done with subpixel accuracy
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269 + Fixed incorrect starting position of image.
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270 + Rounding error fixes to allow for more exact scrolling.
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271 + Added support for motion blur via a new BLUR parameter
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272 + Added PREMULTIPLY parameter to support images stored with straight alpha.
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275 CasparCG 2.0 Stable (as compared to Beta 3)
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276 ===========================================
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281 o Misc stability and performance fixes.
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287 + Changed semantics to more closely follow FFmpeg (see forums).
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288 + Added options, -r, -acodec, -s, -pix_fmt, -f and more.
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290 + Added vsync support.
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293 CasparCG 2.0 Beta 3 (as compared to Beta 1)
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294 ===========================================
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300 + Both encoding and decoding.
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302 + Updated audio-pipeline for native NTSC support. Previous implementation
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303 did not fully support NTSC audio and could cause incorrect behaviour or
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309 o File Consumer added
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310 + See updated wiki or ask in forum for more information.
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311 + Should support anything FFmpeg supports. However, we will work mainly with
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312 DNXHD, PRORES and H264.
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313 - Key-only is not supported.
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314 o Bluefish Consumer
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315 + 24 bit audio support.
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316 - Embedded-audio does not work with Epoch cards.
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317 o Decklink Consumer
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318 + Low latency enabled by default.
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319 + Added graphs for driver buffers.
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321 + Changed screen consumer square PAL to the more common wide-square PAL.
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322 + Can now be closed.
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323 + Fixed interpolation artifacts when running non-square video-modes.
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324 + Automatically deinterlace interlaced input.
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329 o Decklink Producer
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330 + Improved color quality be avoiding uneccessary conversion to BGRA.
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332 + Fixed missing alpha for (RGB)A formats when deinterlacing.
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333 + Updated buffering to work better with files with long audio/video
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335 + Seekable while running and after reaching EOF. CALL 1-1 SEEK 200.
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336 + Enable/disable/query looping while running. CALL 1-1 LOOP 1.
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337 + Fixed bug with duration calculation.
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338 + Fixed bug with fps calculation.
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339 + Improved auto-transcode accuracy.
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340 + Improved seeking accuracy.
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341 + Fixed bug with looping and LENGTH.
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342 + Updated to newer FFmpeg version.
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343 + Fixed incorrect scaling of NTSC DV files.
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344 + Optimized color conversion when using YADIF filters.
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346 + Release Flash Player when empty.
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347 + Use native resolution TemplateHost.
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348 + TemplateHosts are now choosen automatically if not configured. The
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349 TemplateHost with the corresponding video-mode name is now chosen.
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350 + Use square pixel dimensions.
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355 o When possible, commands will no longer wait for rendering pipeline. This
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356 reduces command execution latencies, especially when sending a lot of
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357 commands in a short timespan.
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358 o Fixed CINF command.
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359 o ADD/REMOVE no longer require subindex,
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360 e.g. "ADD 1 SCREEN" / "REMOVE 1 SCREEN" instead of "ADD 1-1 SCREEN" / ...
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361 o PARAM is renamed to CALL.
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362 o STATUS command is replaced by INFO.
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363 o INFO command has been extended:
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364 + INFO (lists channels).
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365 + INFO 1 (channel info).
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366 + INFO 1-1 (layer info).
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367 + INFO 1-1 F (foreground producer info).
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368 + INFO 1-1 B (background producer info).
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369 + INFO TEMPLATE mytemplate (template meta-data info, e.g. field names).
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370 o CG INFO command has been extended.
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371 + CG INFO 1 (template-host information, e.g. what layers are occupied).
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376 o Fixed alpha with blend modes.
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377 o Automatically deinterlace for MIXER FILL commands.
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382 o SET MODE now reverts back to old video-mode on failure.
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387 o Improved graphs and added more status information.
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388 o Print configuration into log at startup.
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389 o Use the same log file for the entire day, instead of one per startup as
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391 o Diagnostics window is now closable.
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394 CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (as compared to Alpha)
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395 ==========================================
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397 o Blending Modes (needs to be explicitly enabled)
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402 o Added additive keyer in addition to linear keyer.
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403 o Image adjustements
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412 o Support for FFmpeg-filters such as (ee http://ffmpeg.org/libavfilter.html)
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413 + yadif deinterlacer (optimized in CasparCG for full multi-core support)
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418 o 32-bit SSE optimized audio pipeline.
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419 o Decklink-Consumer uses external-key by default.
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420 o Decklink-Consumer has 32 bit embedded-audio support.
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421 o Decklink-Producer has 32 bit embedded-audio support.
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422 o LOADBG with AUTO feature which automatically playes queued clip when
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423 foreground clip has ended.
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424 o STATUS command for layers.
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425 o LOG LEVEL command for log filtering.
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426 o MIX transitation work with transparent clips.
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427 o Freeze on last frame.
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428 o Producer buffering is now configurable.
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429 o Consumer buffering is now configurable.
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430 o Now possible to configure template-hosts for different video-modes.
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431 o Added auto transcoder for FFmpeg producer which automatically transcodes
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432 input video into compatible video format for the channel.
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433 + interlacing (50p -> 50i)
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434 + deinterlacing (50i -> 25p)
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435 + bob-deinterlacing (50i -> 50p)
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436 + bob-deinterlacing and reinterlacing (w1xh150i -> w2xh250i)
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437 + doubling (25p -> 50p)
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438 + halfing (50p -> 25p)
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439 + field-order swap (upper <-> lower)
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440 o Screen consumer now automatically deinterlaces when receiveing interlaced
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442 o Optimized renderer.
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443 o Renderer can now be run asynchronously with producer by using a
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444 producer-buffer size greater than 0.
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445 o Improved error and crash recovery.
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446 o Improved logging.
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447 o Added Image-Scroll-Producer
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448 o Key-only has now near zery performance overhead.
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449 o Reduced memory requirements
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450 o Removed "warm up lag" which occured when playing the first media clip after
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451 the server has started.
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452 o Added read-back fence for OpenGL device for improved multi-channel
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454 o Memory support increased from standard 2 GB to 4 GB on 64 bit Win 7 OS.
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455 o Added support for 2* Decklink cards in FullHD.
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456 o Misc bugs fixes and performance improvements.
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457 o Color producer now support some color codes in addition to color codes, e.g.
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458 EMPTY, BLACK, RED etc...
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459 o Alpha value in color codes is now optional.
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460 o More than 2 Decklink cards might be possible but have not yet been tested.
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463 CasparCG 2.0 Alpha (as compared to 1.8)
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464 =======================================
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469 o Mayor refactoring for improved readability and mainainability.
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470 o Some work towards platorm-independence. Currently the greatest challenge for
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471 full platform-independence is flash-producer.
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472 o Misc improved scalability.
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473 o XML-configuration.
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475 + Support for multiple DeckLink cards.
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480 o Multiple producers per video_channel.
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481 o Multiple consumers per video_channel.
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482 o Swap producers between layers and channels during run-time.
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483 o Support for upper-field and lower-field interlacing.
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484 o Add and remove consumers during run-time.
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485 o Preliminary support for NTSC.
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490 o Query flash and template-host version.
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491 o Recursive media-folder listing.
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497 o Animated tween transforms.
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499 + Fully GPU accelerated (all features listed below are done on the gpu),
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500 + Layer composition.
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501 + Colorspaces (rgba, bgra, argb, yuv, yuva, yuv-hd, yuva-hd).
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503 + Per-layer image-transforms:
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510 + Per-layer and per-sample audio-transforms:
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512 + Fully internal audio-mixing. Single output-video_channel.
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517 o Decklink-Consumer
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521 o Bluefish-Consumer
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522 + Drivers are loaded on-demand (server now runs on computers without
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523 installed bluefish-drivers).
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525 + Allocated frames are no longer leaked.
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530 o Decklink-Producer
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536 + Asynchronous file IO.
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537 + Parallel decoding of audio and video.
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538 + Colorspace transform are moved to gpu.
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539 o Transition-Producer
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540 + Fully interlaced transition (previsously only progressive, even when
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541 running in interlaced mode).
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542 + Per-sample mixing between source and destination clips.
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543 + Tween transitions.
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545 + DirectDraw access (sligthly improved performance).
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546 + Improved time-sync. Smoother animations and proper interlacing.
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548 + Support for various imageformats through FreeImage library.
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553 o Graphs for monitoring performance and events.
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554 o Misc logging improvements.
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555 o Seperate log-file for every run of the server.
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556 o Error logging provides full exception details, instead of only printing that
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557 an error has occured.
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558 o Console with real-time logging output.
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559 o Console with AMCP input.
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564 o Registry-configuration (replaced by XML-Configuration).
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565 o TGA-Producer (replaced by Image-Producer).
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566 o TGA-Scroll-Producer
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