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+CasparCG 2.0 Stable (w.r.t Beta 3)\r
+\r
+¤ General\r
+ o Misc stability and performance fixes. \r
+\r
+¤ Consumers\r
+ o File Consumer\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
+CasparCG 2.0 Beta 3 (w.r.t Beta 1)\r
+\r
+¤ Formats \r
+ o ProRes Support \r
+ + Both encoding and decoding.\r
+ \r
+ o NTSC Support \r
+ + Updated audio-pipeline for native NTSC support. Previous implementation did not fully support NTSC audio and could cause incorrect behaviour or even crashes.\r
+ \r
+¤ Consumers\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 DNXHD, PRORES and H264.\r
+ - Key-only is not supported.\r
+ \r
+ o Bluefish Consumer\r
+ + 24 bit audio support.\r
+ - Embedded-audio does not work with Epoch cards.\r
+ \r
+ o Decklink Consumer\r
+ + Low latency enabled by default.\r
+ + Added graphs for driver buffers.\r
+ \r
+ o Screen Consumer\r
+ + Changed screen consumer square PAL to the more common wide-square PAL.\r
+ + Can now be closed.\r
+ + Fixed interpolation artifacts when running non-square video-modes.\r
+ + Automatically deinterlace interlaced input.\r
+ \r
+ ¤ Producers\r
+ \r
+ o Decklink Producer\r
+ + Improved color quality be avoiding uneccessary conversion to BGRA.\r
+ \r
+ o FFMPEG Producer\r
+ + Fixed missing alpha for (RGB)A formats when deinterlacing.\r
+ + Updated buffering to work better with files with long audio/video interleaving.\r
+ + Seekable while running and after reaching EOF. CALL 1-1 SEEK 200.\r
+ + Enable/disable/query looping while running. CALL 1-1 LOOP 1.\r
+ + Fixed bug with duration calculation.\r
+ + Fixed bug with fps calculation.\r
+ + Improved auto-transcode accuracy.\r
+ + Improved seeking accuracy.\r
+ + Fixed bug with looping and LENGTH.\r
+ + Updated to newer ffmpeg version.\r
+ + Fixed incorrect scaling of NTSC DV files.\r
+ + Optimized color conversion when using YADIF filters.\r
+ \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 template-host with the corresponding video-mode name is now chosen.\r
+ + Use square pixel dimensions.\r
+ \r
+ o AMCP\r
+ + When possible, commands will no longer wait for rendering pipeline. This reduces command execution latencies, especially when sending a lot of commands in a short timespan.\r
+ + Fixed CINF command.\r
+ + ADD/REMOVE no longer require subindex, e.g. "ADD 1 SCREEN" / "REMOVE 1 SCREEN" instead of "ADD 1-1 SCREEN" / ...\r
+ + PARAM is renamed to CALL.\r
+ + STATUS command is replaced by INFO.\r
+ + INFO command has been extended:\r
+ + INFO (lists channels).\r
+ + INFO 1 (channel info).\r
+ + INFO 1-1 (layer info).\r
+ + INFO 1-1 F (foreground producer info).\r
+ + INFO 1-1 B (background producer info).\r
+ + INFO TEMPLATE mytemplate (template meta-data info, e.g. field names).\r
+ + CG INFO command has been extended.\r
+ + CG INFO 1 (template-host information, e.g. what layers are occupied).\r
+ \r
+ o Mixer\r
+ + Fixed alpha with blend modes.\r
+ + Automatically deinterlace for MIXER FILL commands.\r
+ \r
+ o Channel\r
+ + SET MODE now reverts back to old video-mode on failure.\r
+ \r
+ o Diagnostics\r
+ + Improved graphs and added more status information.\r
+ + Print configuration into log at startup.\r
+ + Use the same log file for the entire day, instead of one per startup as previously.\r
+ + Diagnostics window is now closable.\r
+ \r
+ o Configuration\r
+ + Simplified.\r
+ \r
+CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (w.r.t Alpha)\r
+\r
+ o Blending Modes (needs to be explicitly enabled)\r
+ + overlay\r
+ + screen\r
+ + multiply\r
+ + and many more.\r
+ o Added additive keyer in addition to linear keyer.\r
+ o Image adjustements\r
+ + saturation\r
+ + brightness\r
+ + contrast\r
+ + min input-level\r
+ + max input-level\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
+ + yadif deinterlacer (optimized in CasparCG for full multi-core support)\r
+ + de-noising\r
+ + dithering\r
+ + box blur\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 LOADBG with AUTO feature which automatically playes queued clip when foreground clip has ended.\r
+ o STATUS command for layers.\r
+ o LOG LEVEL command for log filtering.\r
+ o MIX transitation work with transparent clips.\r
+ o Freeze on last frame.\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 input video into compatible video format for the channel.\r
+ + interlacing (50p -> 50i)\r
+ + deinterlacing (50i -> 25p)\r
+ + bob-deinterlacing (50i -> 50p)\r
+ + bob-deinterlacing and reinterlacing (w1xh150i -> w2xh250i)\r
+ + doubling (25p -> 50p)\r
+ + halfing (50p -> 25p)\r
+ + field-order swap (upper <-> lower)\r
+ o Screen consumer now automatically deinterlaces when receiveing interlaced content. \r
+ o Optimized renderer.\r
+ o Renderer can now be run asynchronously with producer by using a 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 Removed "warm up lag" which occured when playing the first media clip after the server has started.\r
+ o Added read-back fence for OpenGL device for improved multi-channel performance.\r
+ o Memory support increased from standard 2 GB to 4 GB on 64 bit Win 7 OS.\r
+ o Added support for 2* Decklink cards in FullHD.\r
+ o Misc bugs fixes and performance improvements. \r
+ o Color producer now support some color codes in addition to color codes, e.g. EMPTY, BLACK, RED etc...\r
+ o Alpha value in color codes is now optional.\r
+ \r
+ * More than 2 Decklink cards might be possible but have not yet been tested.\r
+----------------------------------------------------------\r
+CasparCG 2.0 Alpha (w.r.t 1.8)\r
+\r
+¤ General:\r
+ o Mayor refactoring for improved readability and mainainability.\r
+ o Some work towards platorm-independence. Currently the greatest challenge for full platform-independence is flash-producer.\r
+ o Misc improved scalability.\r
+ o XML-configuration.\r
+¤ Core:\r
+ o Multiple producers per video_channel.\r
+ o Multiple consumers per video_channel.\r
+ o Swap producers between layers and channels during run-time.\r
+ o Support for upper-field and lower-field interlacing.\r
+ o Add and remove consumers during run-time.\r
+ o Preliminary support for NTSC.\r
+¤ AMCP:\r
+ o Query flash and template-host version.\r
+ o Recursive media-folder listing.\r
+ o Misc changes.\r
+¤ Mixer\r
+ o Animated tween transforms.\r
+¤ Image-Mixer:\r
+ o Fully GPU accelerated (all features listed below are done on the gpu),\r
+ o Layer composition.\r
+ o Colorspaces (rgba, bgra, argb, yuv, yuva, yuv-hd, yuva-hd).\r
+ o Interlacing.\r
+ o Per-layer image-transforms:\r
+ o Opacity\r
+ o Gain\r
+ o Scaling\r
+ o Clipping\r
+ o Translation\r
+¤ Audio-Mixer\r
+ o Per-layer and per-sample audio-transforms:\r
+ o Gain\r
+ o Fully internal audio-mixing. Single output-video_channel.\r
+¤ Decklink\r
+ o Support for multiple decklink-cards.\r
+¤ Decklink-Consumer\r
+ o Embedded audio.\r
+ o HD support.\r
+ o Hardware clock.\r
+¤ Decklink-Producer\r
+ o Embedded audio.\r
+ o HD support.\r
+¤ Bluefish-Consumer\r
+ o Drivers are loaded on-demand (server now runs on computers without installed bluefish-drivers).\r
+ o Embedded-audio.\r
+ o Allocated frames are no longer leaked.\r
+¤ Color-Producer\r
+ o GPU accelerated.\r
+¤ FFMPEG-Producer\r
+ o Asynchronous file IO.\r
+ o Parallel decoding of audio and video.\r
+ o Colorspace transform are moved to gpu.\r
+¤ Transition-Producer\r
+ o Fully interlaced transition (previsously only progressive, even when running in interlaced mode).\r
+ o Per-sample mixing between source and destination clips.\r
+ o Tween transitions.\r
+¤ Flash-Producer\r
+ o DirectDraw access (sligthly improved performance).\r
+ o Improved time-sync. Smoother animations and proper interlacing.\r
+¤ Image-Producer\r
+ o Support for various imageformats through FreeImage library.\r
+¤ Diagnostics\r
+ o Graphs for monitoring performance and events.\r
+ o Misc logging improvements.\r
+ o Seperate log-file for every run of the server.\r
+ o Error logging provides full exception details, instead of only printing that an error has occured.\r
+ o Console with real-time logging output.\r
+ o Console with AMCP input.\r
+\r
+¤ Removed\r
+ o Registry-configuration (replaced by XML-Configuration).\r
+ o TGA-Producer (replaced by Image-Producer).\r
+ o TGA-Scroll-Producer
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+======================================================================================================\r
CasparCG Video and Graphics Playout Server\r
-===============================================\r
+======================================================================================================\r
\r
Thank you for your interest in CasparCG. The included software\r
is provided as-is by Sveriges Televison AB.\r
\r
+Please note that while the current CasparCG Client (version 1.8) will\r
+continue to work with CasparCG Server 2.0, you won't be able to\r
+trigger many of the new features. Please use the provided AIR app to\r
+try out the new functionality or add the new features to you \r
+control application (you can find the documentation on the wiki or ask in the forums). \r
+\r
+======================================================================================================\r
+INSTALLATION\r
+======================================================================================================\r
+\r
+You can place the CasparCG Server 2.0 folder anywhere you like, and even move it.\r
+\r
+If you don't already have Flash installed, use the bundled version in the Flash folder\r
+\r
+======================================================================================================\r
+CONFIGURATION\r
+======================================================================================================\r
+\r
+By default, CasparCG Server will look in the media folder \r
+for videos, audio and images files. Flash templates are stored in the\r
+templates folder. If you want to change the location (for example to a faster disk)\r
+you just change the paths in the casparcg.config file.\r
+\r
+* How to enable Screen consumer\r
+\r
+Open casparcg.config and use the following node for consumers:\r
+\r
+<consumers>\r
+ <screen/>\r
+</consumers>\r
+\r
+* How to enable a DeckLink card and how to get video in and key output.\r
+\r
+Open casparcg.config and use the following node for consumers:\r
+\r
+<consumers>\r
+ <decklink/>\r
+</consumers>\r
+\r
+# Tip:\r
+\r
+At the bottom of the casparcg.config file you will find comments which document additional settings.\r
+\r
+======================================================================================================\r
LICENSING\r
-================================================\r
+======================================================================================================\r
CasparCG is distributed under the GNU General Public \r
License GPLv3 or higher, see the file COPYING.TXT for details. \r
More information, samples and documentation at: \r
\r
CasparCG uses boost (http://www.boost.org/) under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.\r
\r
+======================================================================================================\r
AUTHORS - People who have developed the CasparCG Server Software (sorted alphabetically by last name).\r
-================================================\r
+======================================================================================================\r
\r
Niklas Andersson (Server 1.0-1.8)\r
Andreas Jeansson (Template-Host)\r
Robert Nagy (Server 1.7-2.x)\r
\r
+==================================================================================================\r
CREDITS - People who have contributed to the CasparCG Project (sorted alphabetically by last name).\r
-================================================\r
+==================================================================================================\r
\r
Niklas Andersson \r
Jonas Hummelstrand (jonas.hummelstrand@svt.se)\r
Andreas Jeansson (andreas.jeansson@svt.se)\r
Peter Karlsson (peter.p.karlsson@svt.se)\r
- Robert Nagy (robert.nagy@svt.se)\r
- Wincent Persson (wincent.persson@svt.se)\r
- Andreas Andersson (andreas.p.andersson@svt.se)\r
+ Robert Nagy (ronag89@gmail.com)\r
Olle Soprani \r
Thomas R. Kaltz III \r
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