-CasparCG 2.0.4 Stable (w.r.t 2.0.3 Stable)\r
-==========================================\r
+C H A N G E S\r
+\r
+CasparCG 2.0.7 Beta (as compared to 2.0.6 Stable)\r
+=================================================\r
+\r
+General\r
+-------\r
+ o FFmpeg: Upgraded to master and adapted CasparCG to FFmpeg API changes\r
+ (Robert Nagy sponsored by SVT)\r
+ o FFmpeg: Fixed problem with frame count calculation (Thomas Kaltz III)\r
+\r
+Producers\r
+---------\r
+\r
+ o New HTML producer has been created (Robert Nagy sponsored by Flemish Radio\r
+ and Television Broadcasting Organization, VRT)\r
+\r
+\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 FFmpeg: Improved seeking. (Robert Nagy and Thomas Kaltz III)\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 Fixed race condition during server shutdown.\r
+ o OSC: outgoing audio levels from the audio mixer for each audio channel is\r
+ now transmitted (pFS and dBFS). (Thomas Kaltz III)\r
+ o Stage: Fixed bug where tweened transforms were only ticked when a\r
+ corresponding layer existed.\r
+ o Screen consumer: Added borderless option and correct handling of name\r
+ option. (Thomas Kaltz III)\r
+ o AMCP: CLS now reports duration and framerate for MOVIE files were\r
+ information is possible to extract. (Robert Nagy)\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
+ (Cambell Prince)\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. (Robert Nagy sponsored by NewTek)\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. (Cambell Prince)\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. (Robert Nagy sponsored by Boffins Technologies)\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. (Robert Nagy sponsored\r
+ by Boffins Technologies)\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. (Robert Nagy sponsored by Boffins Technologies)\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
+ (Thomas Kaltz III and Jeff Lafforgue)\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
- yyyy-mm-d HH:MM:SS.ZZZ\r
- o Added support for generating thumbnails for media files. Currently only\r
- video files and images are supported. By default the media directory is\r
- scanned every 5 seconds for new/modified/removed files and thumbnails are\r
- generated/regenerated/removed accordingly.\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
+ <device>1</device>\r
+ <embedded-audio>true</embedded-audio>\r
+ </decklink>\r
+ <decklink>\r
+ <device>2</device>\r
+ <key-only>true</key-only>\r
+ </decklink>\r
+ </synchronizing>\r
+ </consumers>\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
+ o Transfer of source code and issue tracker to github. (Thomas Kaltz III)\r
\r
Layer\r
-----\r
-\r
o Fixed a problem where the first frame was not always shown on LOAD.\r
+ (Robert Nagy)\r
+\r
+Stage\r
+-----\r
+\r
+ o Support for layer consumers for listening to frames coming out of producers.\r
+ (Cambell Prince)\r
\r
Audio mixer\r
-----------\r
-\r
o Added support for a master volume mixer setting for each channel.\r
\r
+Video mixer\r
+-----------\r
+ o Added support for chroma keying. (Cambell Prince)\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 Simplified implementation of bluefish consumer, with regards to\r
- o Avoid that the ffmpeg consumer blocks the channel output when it can't keep\r
- up with the frame rate (drops instead).\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 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\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\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 separated key/fill is used).\r
\r
Producers\r
---------\r
-\r
- o Added support for playing .swf files using the flash producer.\r
+ o Added support for playing .swf files using the Flash producer. (Robert Nagy)\r
+ o Image producer premultiplies PNG images with their alpha.\r
+ o Image producer can load a PNG image encoded as base64 via:\r
+ PLAY 1-0 [PNG_BASE64] <base64 string>\r
+ o FFmpeg producer can now use a directshow input filters:\r
+ PLAY 1-10 "dshow://video=Some Camera"\r
+ (Cambell Prince, Julian Waller and Robert Nagy)\r
+ o New layer producer which directs the output of a layer to another layer via\r
+ a layer consumer. (Cambell Prince)\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
the thumbnail feature.\r
o ADD 1 FILE output.mov SEPARATE_KEY activates the separate key feature of the\r
- ffmpeg consumer creating an additional output_a.mov containing only the key.\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
-\r
-\r
-CasparCG 2.0.3 Stable (w.r.t 2.0.3 Alpha)\r
-=========================================\r
+ o Added RESTART command for shutting down the server in the same way as KILL\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:\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
+ (Cambell Prince)\r
+ o Fixed bug where MIXER FILL overrides any previous MIXER CLIP on the same\r
+ layer. The bugfix also has the side effect of supporting negative scale on\r
+ MIXER FILL, causing the image to be flipped.\r
+ o MIXER <ch> STRAIGHT_ALPHA_OUTPUT added to control whether to output straight\r
+ alpha or not.\r
+ o Added INFO <ch> DELAY and INFO <ch>-<layer> DELAY commands for showing some\r
+ delay measurements.\r
+ o PLAY 1-1 2-10 creates a layer producer on 1-1 redirecting the output of\r
+ 2-10. (Cambell Prince)\r
+\r
+\r
+OSC\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
+ (Robert Nagy sponsored by Boffins Technologies)\r
+ o /channel/[1-9]/stage/layer/[0-9]\r
+ + always /paused [paused or not]\r
+ + color producer /color [color string]\r
+ + ffmpeg producer /profiler/time [render time] [frame duration]\r
+ + ffmpeg producer /file/time [elapsed seconds] [total seconds]\r
+ + ffmpeg producer /file/frame [frame] [total frames]\r
+ + ffmpeg producer /file/fps [fps]\r
+ + ffmpeg producer /file/path [file path]\r
+ + ffmpeg producer /loop [looping or not]\r
+ + during transitions /transition/frame [current frame] [total frames]\r
+ + during transitions /transition/type [transition type]\r
+ + flash producer /host/path [filename]\r
+ + flash producer /host/width [width]\r
+ + flash producer /host/height [height]\r
+ + flash producer /host/fps [fps]\r
+ + flash producer /buffer [buffered] [buffer size]\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
Stage\r
-----\r
\r
- o Fixed dead-lock that can occur with multiple mixer tweens.\r
+ o Fixed dead-lock that can occur with multiple mixer tweens. (Robert Nagy)\r
\r
AMCP\r
----\r
\r
o DATA STORE now supports creating folders of path specified if they does not\r
- exist.\r
- o DATA REMOVE command was added.\r
+ exist. (Jeff Lafforgue)\r
+ o DATA REMOVE command was added. (Jeff Lafforgue)\r
\r
\r
-CasparCG 2.0.3 Alpha (w.r.t 2.0 Stable)\r
-=======================================\r
+\r
+CasparCG 2.0.3 Alpha (as compared to 2.0 Stable)\r
+================================================\r
\r
General\r
-------\r
\r
o Data files are now stored in UTF-8 with BOM. Latin1 files are still\r
- supported for backwards compatibility\r
- o Commands written in UTF-8 to log file but only ascii characters to console.\r
+ supported for backwards compatibility.\r
+ o Commands written in UTF-8 to log file but only ASCII characters to console.\r
o Added supported video formats:\r
- + 720p2398 (not supported by decklink)\r
- + 720p2400 (not supported by decklink)\r
+ + 720p2398 (not supported by DeckLink)\r
+ + 720p2400 (not supported by DeckLink)\r
+ 1080p5994\r
+ 1080p6000\r
- + 720p30 (not supported by decklink)\r
- + 720p29.976 (not supported by decklink)\r
+ + 720p30 (not supported by DeckLink)\r
+ + 720p29.976 (not supported by DeckLink)\r
\r
CLK\r
---\r
+ Added PREMULTIPLY parameter to support images stored with straight alpha.\r
\r
\r
-CasparCG 2.0 Stable (w.r.t Beta 3)\r
-==================================\r
+\r
+CasparCG 2.0 Stable (as compared to Beta 3)\r
+===========================================\r
\r
General\r
-------\r
---------\r
\r
o File Consumer\r
- + Changed semantics to more closely follow ffmpeg (see forums).\r
+ + Changed semantics to more closely follow FFmpeg (see forums).\r
+ Added options, -r, -acodec, -s, -pix_fmt, -f and more.\r
o Screen Consumer\r
+ Added vsync support.\r
\r
\r
-CasparCG 2.0 Beta 3 (w.r.t Beta 1)\r
-==================================\r
+\r
+CasparCG 2.0 Beta 3 (as compared to Beta 1)\r
+===========================================\r
\r
Formats\r
-------\r
\r
o File Consumer added\r
+ See updated wiki or ask in forum for more information.\r
- + Should support anything ffmpeg supports. However, we will work mainly with\r
+ + Should support anything FFmpeg supports. However, we will work mainly with\r
DNXHD, PRORES and H264.\r
- Key-only is not supported.\r
o Bluefish Consumer\r
+ Improved auto-transcode accuracy.\r
+ Improved seeking accuracy.\r
+ Fixed bug with looping and LENGTH.\r
- + Updated to newer ffmpeg version.\r
+ + Updated to newer FFmpeg version.\r
+ Fixed incorrect scaling of NTSC DV files.\r
+ Optimized color conversion when using YADIF filters.\r
o Flash Producer\r
- + Release flash-player when empty.\r
- + Use native resolution template-host.\r
- + Template-hosts are now choosen automatically if not configured. The\r
- template-host with the corresponding video-mode name is now chosen.\r
+ + Release Flash Player when empty.\r
+ + Use native resolution TemplateHost.\r
+ + TemplateHosts are now choosen automatically if not configured. The\r
+ TemplateHost with the corresponding video-mode name is now chosen.\r
+ Use square pixel dimensions.\r
\r
AMCP\r
previously.\r
o Diagnostics window is now closable.\r
\r
-Configuration\r
--------------\r
-\r
- o Simplified.\r
\r
\r
-CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (w.r.t Alpha)\r
-=================================\r
+CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (as compared to Alpha)\r
+==========================================\r
\r
o Blending Modes (needs to be explicitly enabled)\r
+ overlay\r
+ min output-level\r
+ max output-level\r
+ gamma\r
- o Support for ffmpeg-filters such as (ee http://ffmpeg.org/libavfilter.html)\r
+ o Support for FFmpeg-filters such as (ee http://ffmpeg.org/libavfilter.html)\r
+ yadif deinterlacer (optimized in CasparCG for full multi-core support)\r
+ de-noising\r
+ dithering\r
+ and many more\r
o 32-bit SSE optimized audio pipeline.\r
o Decklink-Consumer uses external-key by default.\r
- o Decklink-Consumer has 32 bit embedded-audio support.\r
- o Decklink-Producer has 32 bit embedded-audio support.\r
+ o Decklink-Consumer has 24 bit embedded-audio support.\r
+ o Decklink-Producer has 24 bit embedded-audio support.\r
o LOADBG with AUTO feature which automatically playes queued clip when\r
foreground clip has ended.\r
o STATUS command for layers.\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
producer-buffer size greater than 0.\r
o Improved error and crash recovery.\r
o Improved logging.\r
- o Added Image-Scroll-Producer\r
- o Key-only has now near zery performance overhead.\r
- o Reduced memory requirements\r
+ o Added Image-Scroll-Producer.\r
+ o Key-only has now near zero performance overhead.\r
+ o Reduced memory requirements.\r
o Removed "warm up lag" which occured when playing the first media clip after\r
the server has started.\r
o Added read-back fence for OpenGL device for improved multi-channel\r
o More than 2 Decklink cards might be possible but have not yet been tested.\r
\r
\r
-CasparCG 2.0 Alpha (w.r.t 1.8)\r
-==============================\r
+\r
+CasparCG 2.0 Alpha (as compared to 1.8)\r
+=======================================\r
\r
General\r
-------\r
o Misc improved scalability.\r
o XML-configuration.\r
o Decklink\r
- + Support for multiple decklink-cards.\r
+ + Support for multiple DeckLink cards.\r
\r
Core\r
----\r
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