6 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is 0.6.
7 This is a maintenance release to address some bugs that appeared
8 this far in the 0.5.x series. Beyond that it a few enhancements:
10 * Added interpolation to the affine transition and filter.
11 * Added multi-track audio encoding to avformat consumer.
12 * Added interlaced field rendering to kdenlivetitle producer.
17 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r21322.
18 This is another maintenance release to address some bugs that appeared
19 this far in the 0.5.x series. Beyond that it adds two things that only
20 very specific users will see:
22 * Added C# (ECMA CLR) binding (not enabled by default).
23 * Linsys SDI consumer now configures itself from MLT profile.
28 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r21322.
29 This is a minor maintenance release, but it is interesting because it now
30 enables usage of libswscale as the default choice for image scaling,
31 image format conversion, and color space conversion. That gives better
32 quality and performance. In addition, there are some improvements in the
33 sdl_preview consumer to make it suitable for use in OpenShot 1.1. Other
36 * Fixed mlt++/MltFilteredProducer
37 * Fixed playing to the end in Kdenlive (mantis bug 1207)
38 * Fixed crash load uncompressed video
39 * Fixed compiling yadif for non-sse2 builds
44 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r21322.
45 This is an enhancement release, confined mainly to the modules rather than
46 the framework. In particular, this adds support for VDPAU, YADIF, and HD-SDI
49 configure: added --disable-sse2
52 * mlt_cache: added mlt_cache_set_size()
53 * mlt_filter: added data property "service" - set when attached
56 - added "previous frame" and "next frame" data properties - available
57 when its producer has _need_previous_next=1
58 * mlt_playlist: added support for negative out point same as length-1
60 - added mlt_service_cache_purge()
61 - added "_need_previous_next" handling in mlt_service_get_frame()
62 - added firing event "service-changed" in mlt_service_attach()
66 - added decoding H.264 with NVIDIA VDPAU
67 Requires FFmpeg built with vdpau.
68 This is automatically detected and enabled. You can disable this by
69 setting environment variable MLT_NO_VDPAU=1 or property novdpau=1.
70 - added caching of FFmpeg contexts and decoded images
71 This allows large numbers of clips in a project avoiding limitations
72 with number of threads and file descriptors permitted per process.
73 You can disable image caching with property noimagecache=1.
74 - added variant of producer named avformat-novalidate
75 - restored support for video4linux(2)
76 * avformat consumer: added apre, fpre, and vpre preset properties
77 * crop filter: added center_bias integer property
78 * deinterlace filter: added the excellent YADIF as a method
79 * kdenlivetitle producer: added text outlining
80 * linsys/sdi consumer:
81 - added support for HD-SDI
82 - changed name from "linsys_sdi" to just "sdi"
83 * oldfilm filter: added "uneven development" effect
84 * xml producer: add support for unspecified out points
87 * added several missing ATSC (HD) profiles
88 * change descriptions from using Hz to fps
93 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r19873.
94 This is "hotfix" for the 0.4.8 release that fixes a couple of regression
95 bugs introduced just before the release.
100 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r19873.
101 This is mainly a maintenance release. Besides bug fixes here are other
106 - refactored producer to use much less properties
107 - added support for audio_index=all for linsys_sdi consumer
108 - added force_fps property (does yet not adjust duration)
109 * core/crop: added "center" property to crop filter
111 - added support for >2 audio channels
112 - added property meta.map.audio.<N>.channels=<integer>
113 - added property meta.map.audio.<N>.start=<integer>
114 * qimage/kdenlivetitle: add typewriter effect
119 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r19873.
120 This release is an enhancement release along with numerous build, A/V synch,
121 concurrency, and other bug fixes.
123 configure: new option --avformat-svn-version
126 * avformat: much improved seeking on H.264/MPEG2-TS (AVCHD) (Ivan Schreter)
127 * core: new imageconvert and audioconvert filters (framework refactorization)
128 * linsys: new SDI consumer (Broadcast Centre Europe)
129 * qimage: new kdenlivetitle producer (J.B. Mardelle and Marco Gittler)
130 * sdl: new audio_only consumer for OS X
132 mlt++ and swig: update bindings
135 * refactored image format conversion
137 - added convert_image() virtual function
138 - added mlt_image_format_name()
139 - removed many mlt_convert_ and scaling/padding functions
140 * refactored audio format conversion
142 - mlt_get_audio() virtual function parameters changed
143 - added convert_audio() virtual function
144 - mlt_frame_get_audio() parameters changed
145 - added mlt_frame_set_audio()
146 - added mlt_audio_format_name()
148 - deprecated mlt_audio_pcm
149 - added mlt_audio_s16
150 - added mlt_audio_s32
151 - added mlt_audio_float
156 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is 0.5.0.
157 This release is a minor maintenance update to the 0.4.2 - just build and
160 * new configure script options:
165 * added man page for melt (not installed)
166 * added invert property to composite transition
167 * added frei0r plugin blacklist, currently only contains facedetect
168 * added Lua binding via SWIG
173 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is 0.5.0.
174 This release is a minor maintenance update to the 0.4.0 - just build and
180 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is 0.5.0.
182 This release is primarily a reorganization of the mlt and mlt++ projects.
184 * "inigo" was renamed "melt"
185 * "westley" is no longer the XML file extension and root element - they are
187 * mlt++ is included with mlt and no longer a separate project
188 * miracle, valerie, and humperdink were moved to a new, separate project
189 For details: http://www.mltframework.org/twiki/bin/view/MLT/ExtremeMakeover
191 avformat producer improvements:
192 * improve audio synchronization
193 * improve reliability of video playback with FFmpeg newer than v0.5.0
194 * improve seeking performance of DNxHD and HuffYUV
199 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r17923.
201 This almost entirely a bugfix release to coincide with the Kdenlive 0.7.3
202 release. See the ChangeLog (SVN log) for details.
205 * added mlt_cache API
206 * improved doxygen documentation comments
207 * added some 15 fps profiles
208 * improved color property handling (support web-style '#' color value)
209 * add const qualifier to many string parameters
212 * core: improved brightness filter
213 * core: added image crop filter
214 * frei0r: added support for producer/source plugins
215 * frei0r: added support for color parameters
216 * sdl: added window_background color property
221 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r16849.
223 This almost entirely a bugfix release to coincide with the Kdenlive 0.7.2
224 release. See the ChangeLog (SVN log) for details.
227 * added mlt_log logging API
228 * improved doxygen documentation comments
231 * consumer: report list of muxers when f=list and codecs when acodec=list or
233 * consumer: added support for an=1 or acodec=none and vn=1 or vcodec=none
234 * producer: list available demuxers and decoders when constructor arg is like
235 f-list[[,]acodec-list][[,]vcodec-list]
240 The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r16313.
242 This almost entirely a bugfix release. See the ChangeLog (SVN log) for details.
243 There are a few notes:
246 * improved doxygen documentation comments (work in progress)
247 published docs are at http://mltframework.org/doxygen/
250 * added support for AVOption parsing to producer
251 * added filter_swscale as alternative rescaler
252 * added recommended FFmpeg revision to configure option --help
253 * use recommended FFmpeg revision with --avformat-svn on release versions
254 * added configure option --avformat-no-codecs
255 * added configure option --avformat-no-filters
258 * new profile atsc_1080i_50
259 * added --disable-sse option to configure script
260 * improved build for OS X and x86-64 and improved handling of mmx/sse
265 In addition to bug fixes detailed in the ChangeLog, here is a list of
269 * deprecated mlt-config; use pkg-config instead
270 * added more HD profiles
273 * sdl: added fullscreen property
274 * sox: sox v14.1.0 compatibility
275 * gtk: added force_reload property to producer_pixbuf
276 * frei0r: added support for YAML Tiny metadata
277 * frei0r: added keyframe support on double and boolean parameters
278 * oldfilm: added keyframe support for filter_vignette
279 * kdenlive: added filter_freeze
282 * added -version, -silent, and -progress options
283 * improved output of usage information
284 * removed realtime process scheduling
290 * fix bugs with introduction of mlt_profile in v0.2.4
291 * added versioning to libs
292 * remove module registry and add dynamic module loading:
293 added mlt_repository_register, mlt_repository_consumers,
294 mlt_repository_filters, mlt_repository_producers, mlt_repository_transitions
295 * new module metadata system based on YAML Tiny:
296 added mlt_repository_register_metadata, mlt_repository_metadata,
297 mlt_repository_languages, mlt_properties_is_sequence,
298 mlt_properties_parse_yaml, mlt_properties_serialise_yaml, and
299 added metaschema.yaml Kwalify schema file
300 * mlt_consumer: added threaded, non-lossy processing when real_time=-1
301 * added autoclose property to mlt_playlist for sequential processing
302 of very large playlists (prevents resource exhaustion)
303 * mlt_factory_init now returns the global mlt_repository
304 * change mlt_repository_fetch to mlt_repository_create
305 * change mlt_factory_prefix to mlt_factory_directory
306 * added mlt_field_disconnect_service
309 * move all modules from $datadir to $libdir
310 * new oldfilm module by Marco Gittler
311 * new frei0r module by Marco Gittler
312 * new dgraft module by Dan Dennedy for inverse telecine (not ready yet)
313 * avformat: added support for multi-threaded encoding and decoding
314 * consumer_avformat: added support for AVOption to support all ffmpeg options
315 using ffmpeg-style property names
316 * consumer_avformat: added support for dual pass encoding
317 * qimage: added support for Qt4
318 * sox: added support for sox v14.0.0
319 * transition_composite: added animatable geometry-type "pan" property to crop
320 and pan instead of automatic down-scale
323 * added -query option to lookup module metadata
324 * added -profile option and support for progress=1 for kdenlive
329 * framework: new extensible profiles system to replace MLT_NORMALISATION
330 * module avformat: interlaced coding support for ffmpeg/libavcodec
331 * module avformat: build improvements for --avformat-svn
332 * new effectv module with BurningTV video filter
333 * module qimage: added support for psd, xcf and exr images
339 * Addition of kdenlive module
340 * Support for ffmpeg from subversion
341 * Support for ffmpeg libswscale
342 * Copyright and license cleanup
347 * Prepared specifically for the kdenlive 0.3 release.
348 * Contains some patches to support rgb24a output for the gdk-pixbuf and qimage
349 producers as well as some minor bugfixes.
354 * Many improvements since initial releases due to development of Shotcut and
355 Jahshaka editing interfaces.
360 * Minor modifications and bug fixes from the previous release. Better
361 ffmpeg/avformat integration and more reliable playback.
366 * First official release