+C H A N G E S\r
+\r
+CasparCG 2.0.6 Stable (as compared to 2.0.4 Stable)\r
+===================================================\r
+\r
+General\r
+-------\r
+ o iVGA: Allow for the server to work without Processing.AirSend.x86.dll to\r
+ prevent a possible GPL violation. It is available as a separate optional\r
+ download.\r
+ o iVGA: Only provide sync to channel while connected, to prevent channel\r
+ ticking too fast.\r
+ o FFmpeg: Fixed bug during deinterlace-bob-reinterlace where output fields\r
+ were offset by one field in relation to input fields.\r
+ o FFmpeg: Fixed bug in ffmpeg_consumer where an access violation occurred\r
+ during destruction.\r
+ o Frontend: Only writes elements to casparcg.config which overrides a default\r
+ value to keep the file as compact as possible.\r
+ o System audio: Patched sfml-audio to work better with oal-consumer and\r
+ therefore removed portaudio as the system audio implementation and went back\r
+ to oal.\r
+ o Flash: Changed so that the initial buffer fill of frames is rendered at a\r
+ frame-duration pace instead of as fast as possible. Otherwise time based\r
+ animations render incorrectly. During buffer recovery, a higher paced\r
+ rendering takes place, but still not as fast as possible, which can cause\r
+ animations to be somewhat incorrectly rendered. This is the only way though\r
+ if we want the buffer to be able to recover after depletion.\r
+ o Version bump to keep up with CasparCG Client version.\r
+\r
+\r
+\r
+CasparCG 2.0.4 Stable (as compared to 2.0.4 Beta 1)\r
+===================================================\r
+\r
+General\r
+-------\r
+ o Can now open media with file names that only consist of digits.\r
+ o Miscellaneous stability and performance improvements.\r
+\r
+Video mixer\r
+-----------\r
+ o Conditional compilation of chroma key support and straight alpha output\r
+ support in shader (just like with blend-modes) because of performance impact\r
+ even when not in use on a layer or on a channel. New <mixer /> element added\r
+ to configuration for turning on mixer features that not everybody would want\r
+ to pay for (performance-wise.) blend-modes also moved into this element.\r
+ o Fixed bug where MIXER LEVELS interpreted arguments in the wrong order, so \r
+ that gamma was interpreted as max_input and vice versa.\r
+\r
+Consumers\r
+---------\r
+ o Added support for NewTek iVGA, which enables the use of CasparCG Server \r
+ fill+key output(s) as input source(s) to a NewTek TriCaster without \r
+ requiring video card(s) in the CasparCG Server machine, or taking up inputs\r
+ in the TriCaster. <newtek-ivga /> element in config enables iVGA on a\r
+ channel.\r
+ o Decklink: Created custom decklink allocator to reduce the memory footprint.\r
+ o Replaced usage of SFML for <system-audio /> with PortAudio, because of\r
+ problems with SFML since change to static linkage. Also PortAudio seems to\r
+ give lower latency.\r
+\r
+Producers\r
+---------\r
+ o FFmpeg: Added support for arbitrary FFmpeg options/parameters\r
+ in ffmpeg_producer.\r
+ o Flash: Flash Player 11.8 now tested and fully supported.\r
+ o Flash: No longer starts a Flash Player to service CG commands that mean\r
+ nothing without an already running Flash Player.\r
+ o Flash: globally serialize initialization and destruction of Flash Players,\r
+ to avoid race conditions in Flash.\r
+ o Flash: changed so that the Flash buffer is filled with Flash Player\r
+ generated content at initialization instead of empty frames.\r
+\r
+OSC\r
+---\r
+ o Performance improvements.\r
+ o Never sends old values to OSC reveivers. Collects the latest value of each\r
+ path logged since last UDP send, and sends the new UDP packet (to each\r
+ subscribing OSC receiver) with the values collected.\r
+ o Batches as many OSC messages as possible in an OSC bundle to reduce the \r
+ number of UDP packets sent. Breakup into separate packages if necessary to \r
+ avoid fragmentation.\r
+ o Removed usage of Microsoft Agents library (Server ran out of memory after a\r
+ while) in favour of direct synchronous invocations.\r
+\r
+\r
+\r
CasparCG 2.0.4 Beta 1 (as compared to 2.0.3 Stable)\r
===================================================\r
\r
General\r
-------\r
o Front-end GUI for simplified configuration and easy access to common tasks.\r
- o Added support for video and images file thumbnail generation. By default the media \r
- directory is scanned every 5 seconds for new/modified/removed files and thumbnails \r
- are generated/regenerated/removed accordingly.\r
- o Support for new video modes: 2k2398, 2k2400, 2k2500, 4k2398, 4k2400, 4k2500,\r
- 4k2997 and 4k3000.\r
- o Experimental ATI graphics card support by using static linking against SFML \r
+ o Added support for video and images file thumbnail generation. By default the\r
+ media directory is scanned every 5 seconds for new/modified/removed files\r
+ and thumbnails are generated/regenerated/removed accordingly.\r
+ o Support for new video modes: 1556p2398, 1556p2400, 1556p2500, 2160p2398,\r
+ 2160p2400, 2160p2500, 2160p2997 and 2160p3000.\r
+ o Experimental ATI graphics card support by using static linking against SFML\r
instead of dynamic. Should improve ATI GPU support, but needs testing.\r
o Added support for playback and pass-through of up to 16 audio channels. See\r
http://casparcg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1453 for more information.\r
o Optimizations in AMCP protocol implementations for large incoming messages,\r
for example base64 encoded PNG images.\r
o Logging output now includes milliseconds and has modified format:\r
- YY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.fff\r
+ YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.zzz\r
+ o Improved audio playback with 720p5994 and 720p6000 channels.\r
o An attempt to improve output synchronization of consumers has been made. Use\r
for example:\r
+\r
<consumers>\r
<synchronizing>\r
<decklink>\r
</decklink>\r
</synchronizing>\r
</consumers>\r
- \r
- ...to instruct both DeckLink consumers to stay in sync with each other.\r
- Consider this experimental, so don't wrap everything in <synchronizing />\r
- unless synchronization of consumer outputs is needed. For synchronization to\r
- be effective all synchronized cards must have genlock reference \r
- signal connected.\r
+\r
+ ...to instruct the server to keep both DeckLink consumers in sync with each\r
+ other. Consider this experimental, so don't wrap everything in\r
+ <synchronizing /> unless synchronization of consumer outputs is needed. For\r
+ synchronization to be effective all synchronized cards must have genlock\r
+ reference signal connected.\r
\r
Layer\r
-----\r
-\r
o Fixed a problem where the first frame was not always shown on LOAD.\r
\r
-\r
Audio mixer\r
-----------\r
-\r
o Added support for a master volume mixer setting for each channel.\r
\r
-\r
Video mixer\r
-----------\r
-\r
o Added support for chroma keying.\r
o Fixed bug where MIXER CONTRAST set to < 1 can cause transparency issues.\r
o Experimental support for straight alpha output.\r
\r
Consumers\r
---------\r
-\r
o Avoid that the FFmpeg consumer blocks the channel output when it can't keep\r
up with the frame rate (drops frames instead).\r
o Added support for to create a separate key and fill file when recording with\r
the FFmpeg consumer. Add the SEPARATE_KEY parameter to the FFmpeg consumer\r
- parameter list. The key file will get the _A file name suffix to be picked up by the\r
- separated_producer when doing playback.\r
- o The image consumer now writes to the media folder instead of the data folder.\r
- o Fixed bug in DeckLink consumer where we submit too few audio samples to the driver \r
- when the video format has a frame rate > 50.\r
+ parameter list. The key file will get the _A file name suffix to be picked\r
+ up by the separated_producer when doing playback.\r
+ o The Image consumer now writes to the media folder instead of the data\r
+ folder.\r
+ o Fixed bug in DeckLink consumer where we submit too few audio samples to the\r
+ driver when the video format has a frame rate > 50.\r
o Added another experimental DeckLink consumer implementation where scheduled\r
playback is not used, but a similar approach as in the bluefish consumer\r
- where we wait for a frame to be displayed and then display the next frame.\r
- It is configured via a <blocking-decklink> consumer element. The benefits of\r
- this consumer is lower latency and more deterministic synchronization\r
- between multiple instances (should not need to be wrapped in a\r
- <synchronizing> element when separate key-fill is used).\r
+ where we wait for a frame to be displayed and then display the next frame.\r
+ It is configured via a <blocking-decklink> consumer element. The benefits of\r
+ this consumer is lower latency and more deterministic synchronization\r
+ between multiple instances (should not need to be wrapped in a\r
+ <synchronizing> element when separated key/fill is used).\r
\r
Producers\r
---------\r
-\r
o Added support for playing .swf files using the Flash producer.\r
o Image producer premultiplies PNG images with their alpha.\r
o Image producer can load a PNG image encoded as base64 via:\r
\r
AMCP\r
----\r
-\r
o The master volume feature is controlled via the MASTERVOLUME MIXER\r
parameter. Example: MIXER 1 MASTERVOLUME 0.5\r
o THUMBNAIL LIST/RETRIEVE/GENERATE/GENERATE_ALL command was added to support\r
FFmpeg consumer creating an additional output_a.mov containing only the key.\r
o Added KILL command for shutting down the server without console access.\r
o Added RESTART command for shutting down the server in the same way as KILL\r
- except that the return code from caspar is 5 instead of 0, which can be used\r
- by parent process to take other actions. The casparcg_auto_restart.bat\r
- script restarts the server if the return code is 5.\r
+ except that the return code from CasparCG Server is 5 instead of 0, which\r
+ can be used by parent process to take other actions. The\r
+ 'casparcg_auto_restart.bat' script restarts the server if the return code is\r
+ 5.\r
o DATA RETRIEVE now returns linefeeds encoded as an actual linefeed (the\r
- single character 0x0a) instead of the previous two characters \ followed by\r
- n.\r
+ single character 0x0a) instead of the previous two characters:\r
+ \ followed by n.\r
o MIXER CHROMA command added to control the chroma keying. Example:\r
MIXER 1-1 CHROMA GREEN|BLUE 0.10 0.04\r
o Fixed bug where MIXER FILL overrides any previous MIXER CLIP on the same\r
o Added INFO <ch> DELAY and INFO <ch>-<layer> DELAY commands for showing some\r
delay measurements.\r
\r
+\r
OSC\r
---\r
-\r
o Support for sending OSC messages over UDP to either a predefined set of\r
clients (servers in the OSC sense) or dynamically to the ip addresses of the\r
currently connected AMCP clients.\r
+ image producer /file/path [file path]\r
\r
\r
+\r
CasparCG 2.0.3 Stable (as compared to 2.0.3 Alpha)\r
==================================================\r
\r
o DATA REMOVE command was added.\r
\r
\r
+\r
CasparCG 2.0.3 Alpha (as compared to 2.0 Stable)\r
================================================\r
\r
+ Added PREMULTIPLY parameter to support images stored with straight alpha.\r
\r
\r
+\r
CasparCG 2.0 Stable (as compared to Beta 3)\r
===========================================\r
\r
+ Added vsync support.\r
\r
\r
+\r
CasparCG 2.0 Beta 3 (as compared to Beta 1)\r
===========================================\r
\r
o Producer buffering is now configurable.\r
o Consumer buffering is now configurable.\r
o Now possible to configure template-hosts for different video-modes.\r
- o Added auto transcoder for ffmpeg-producer which automatically transcodes\r
+ o Added auto transcoder for FFmpeg producer which automatically transcodes\r
input video into compatible video format for the channel.\r
+ interlacing (50p -> 50i)\r
+ deinterlacing (50i -> 25p)\r
o More than 2 Decklink cards might be possible but have not yet been tested.\r
\r
\r
+\r
CasparCG 2.0 Alpha (as compared to 1.8)\r
=======================================\r
\r
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