+C H A N G E S\r
+\r
+CasparCG 2.0.4 Stable (as compared to 2.0.4 Beta 1)\r
+===================================================\r
+\r
+General\r
+-------\r
+\r
+ o Can now open media with digit only names.\r
+ o Misc stability and performance improvements.\r
+\r
+Video mixer\r
+-----------\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/on a channel. New <mixer /> element added to\r
+ configuration for turning on mixer features that not everybody would want to\r
+ pay for (performance-wise). blend-modes also moved into this element.\r
+ o MIXER LEVELS interpretet arguments in the wrong order, so that gamma was\r
+ interpreted as max_input and vice versa.\r
+\r
+Consumers\r
+---------\r
+\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
+ o Added support for NewTek AirPlay. Enables the use of the CasparCG Server\r
+ output as an input source in a NewTek TriCaster without requiring a video\r
+ card. <newtek /> element in config enables AirPlay on a channel.\r
+ o Decklink: Created custom decklink allocator for reducing memory footprint.\r
+\r
+Producers\r
+---------\r
+\r
+ o ffmpeg: Added support for arbitrary ffmpeg options in ffmpeg_producer.\r
+ o flash: No longer starts a flash player to service CG commands that means\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
+\r
+ o Performance improvements.\r
+ o Never send old values to OSC reveivers, collect the latest value of each\r
+ path logged since last UDP send, and send the new UDP packet (to each\r
+ subscribing OSC receiver) with the values collected.\r
+ o Batch as many OSC messages as possible in an OSC bundle to reduce the number\r
+ of UDP packets sent. Breakup into separate packages if necessary to avoid\r
+ 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
CasparCG 2.0.4 Beta 1 (as compared to 2.0.3 Stable)\r
===================================================\r
\r
General\r
-------\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
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
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 Diagnostics window is now closable.\r
\r
\r
-\r
CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (as compared to Alpha)\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
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