1 CasparCG 2.1.0 (w.r.t 2.0 Stable)
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8 o Major code refactoring:
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9 + Mixer abstraction so different implementations can be created. Currently
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10 CPU mixer and GPU mixer (previously the usage of the GPU was ) exists.
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11 + Flattened folder structure for easier inclusion of header files.
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12 + Old Windows specific AsyncEventServer class has been replaced by platform
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13 independent implementation based on Boost.Asio.
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14 + Pimpl classes are now stack allocated with internal shared_ptr to
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15 implementation, instead of both handle and body being dynamically
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16 allocated. This means that objects are now often passed by value instead
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17 of via safe_ptr/shared_ptr, because they are internally reference counted.
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18 + Protocol strategies are now easier to implement correctly, because of
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19 separation of state between different client connections.
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21 o Data files are now stored in UTF-8 with BOM. Latin1 files are still
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22 supported for backwards compatibility
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23 o Commands written in UTF-8 to log file but only ascii characters to console.
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24 o Added supported video formats:
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25 + 720p2398 (not supported by decklink)
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26 + 720p2400 (not supported by decklink)
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29 + 720p30 (not supported by decklink)
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30 + 720p29.976 (not supported by decklink)
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35 o Technical information about the current state of the server is published via
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36 the OSC protocol via different subjects.
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37 o Examples of information published:
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38 + Different performance metrics.
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40 + Producer specific information
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42 + Consumer specific information.
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47 o CLK protocol implementation can now serve more than one connection at a time
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49 o Added timeline support to the CLK protocol.
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50 o Refactored parts of the CLK parser implementation.
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55 o Consumers on same channel now invoked asynchronously to allow for proper
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56 sync of multiple consumers.
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57 o System audio consumer:
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58 + No longer provides sync to caspar.
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59 + Pushes data to openal instead of being callbacked by SFML when data is
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62 + Support for multiple screen consumers on the same channel
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63 + No longer spin-waits for vsync
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64 + Now deinterlaces to two separate frames so for example 50i will no longer
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65 be converted to 25p but instead to 50p for smooth playback of interlaced
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71 o Image scroll producer:
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72 + Field-rate motion instead of frame-rate motion with interlaced video
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73 formats. This can be overridden by giving the PROGRESSIVE parameter.
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74 + SPEED parameter now defines pixels per frame/field instead of half pixels
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75 per frame. The scrolling direction is also reversed so SPEED 0.5 is the
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76 previous equivalent of SPEED -1. Movements are done with subpixel accuracy
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77 + Fixed incorrect starting position of image.
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78 + Rounding error fixes to allow for more exact scrolling.
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79 + Added support for motion blur via a new BLUR parameter
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80 + Added PREMULTIPLY parameter to support images stored with straight alpha.
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85 o DATA STORE now supports creating folders of path specified if they does not
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87 o DATA REMOVE command was added.
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89 CasparCG 2.0 Stable (w.r.t Beta 3)
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90 ==================================
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95 o Misc stability and performance fixes.
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101 + Changed semantics to more closely follow ffmpeg (see forums).
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102 + Added options, -r, -acodec, -s, -pix_fmt, -f and more.
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104 + Added vsync support.
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106 CasparCG 2.0 Beta 3 (w.r.t Beta 1)
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107 ==================================
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113 + Both encoding and decoding.
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115 + Updated audio-pipeline for native NTSC support. Previous implementation
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116 did not fully support NTSC audio and could cause incorrect behaviour or
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122 o File Consumer added
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123 + See updated wiki or ask in forum for more information.
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124 + Should support anything ffmpeg supports. However, we will work mainly with
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125 DNXHD, PRORES and H264.
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126 - Key-only is not supported.
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127 o Bluefish Consumer
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128 + 24 bit audio support.
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129 - Embedded-audio does not work with Epoch cards.
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130 o Decklink Consumer
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131 + Low latency enabled by default.
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132 + Added graphs for driver buffers.
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134 + Changed screen consumer square PAL to the more common wide-square PAL.
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135 + Can now be closed.
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136 + Fixed interpolation artifacts when running non-square video-modes.
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137 + Automatically deinterlace interlaced input.
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142 o Decklink Producer
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143 + Improved color quality be avoiding uneccessary conversion to BGRA.
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145 + Fixed missing alpha for (RGB)A formats when deinterlacing.
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146 + Updated buffering to work better with files with long audio/video
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148 + Seekable while running and after reaching EOF. CALL 1-1 SEEK 200.
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149 + Enable/disable/query looping while running. CALL 1-1 LOOP 1.
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150 + Fixed bug with duration calculation.
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151 + Fixed bug with fps calculation.
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152 + Improved auto-transcode accuracy.
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153 + Improved seeking accuracy.
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154 + Fixed bug with looping and LENGTH.
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155 + Updated to newer ffmpeg version.
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156 + Fixed incorrect scaling of NTSC DV files.
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157 + Optimized color conversion when using YADIF filters.
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159 + Release flash-player when empty.
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160 + Use native resolution template-host.
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161 + Template-hosts are now choosen automatically if not configured. The
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162 template-host with the corresponding video-mode name is now chosen.
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163 + Use square pixel dimensions.
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168 o When possible, commands will no longer wait for rendering pipeline. This
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169 reduces command execution latencies, especially when sending a lot of
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170 commands in a short timespan.
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171 o Fixed CINF command.
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172 o ADD/REMOVE no longer require subindex,
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173 e.g. "ADD 1 SCREEN" / "REMOVE 1 SCREEN" instead of "ADD 1-1 SCREEN" / ...
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174 o PARAM is renamed to CALL.
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175 o STATUS command is replaced by INFO.
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176 o INFO command has been extended:
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177 + INFO (lists channels).
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178 + INFO 1 (channel info).
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179 + INFO 1-1 (layer info).
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180 + INFO 1-1 F (foreground producer info).
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181 + INFO 1-1 B (background producer info).
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182 + INFO TEMPLATE mytemplate (template meta-data info, e.g. field names).
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183 o CG INFO command has been extended.
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184 + CG INFO 1 (template-host information, e.g. what layers are occupied).
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189 o Fixed alpha with blend modes.
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190 o Automatically deinterlace for MIXER FILL commands.
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195 o SET MODE now reverts back to old video-mode on failure.
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200 o Improved graphs and added more status information.
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201 o Print configuration into log at startup.
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202 o Use the same log file for the entire day, instead of one per startup as
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204 o Diagnostics window is now closable.
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211 CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (w.r.t Alpha)
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212 =================================
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214 o Blending Modes (needs to be explicitly enabled)
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219 o Added additive keyer in addition to linear keyer.
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220 o Image adjustements
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229 o Support for ffmpeg-filters such as (ee http://ffmpeg.org/libavfilter.html)
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230 + yadif deinterlacer (optimized in CasparCG for full multi-core support)
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235 o 32-bit SSE optimized audio pipeline.
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236 o Decklink-Consumer uses external-key by default.
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237 o Decklink-Consumer has 32 bit embedded-audio support.
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238 o Decklink-Producer has 32 bit embedded-audio support.
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239 o LOADBG with AUTO feature which automatically playes queued clip when
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240 foreground clip has ended.
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241 o STATUS command for layers.
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242 o LOG LEVEL command for log filtering.
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243 o MIX transitation work with transparent clips.
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244 o Freeze on last frame.
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245 o Producer buffering is now configurable.
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246 o Consumer buffering is now configurable.
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247 o Now possible to configure template-hosts for different video-modes.
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248 o Added auto transcoder for ffmpeg-producer which automatically transcodes
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249 input video into compatible video format for the channel.
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250 + interlacing (50p -> 50i)
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251 + deinterlacing (50i -> 25p)
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252 + bob-deinterlacing (50i -> 50p)
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253 + bob-deinterlacing and reinterlacing (w1xh150i -> w2xh250i)
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254 + doubling (25p -> 50p)
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255 + halfing (50p -> 25p)
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256 + field-order swap (upper <-> lower)
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257 o Screen consumer now automatically deinterlaces when receiveing interlaced
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259 o Optimized renderer.
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260 o Renderer can now be run asynchronously with producer by using a
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261 producer-buffer size greater than 0.
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262 o Improved error and crash recovery.
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263 o Improved logging.
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264 o Added Image-Scroll-Producer
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265 o Key-only has now near zery performance overhead.
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266 o Reduced memory requirements
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267 o Removed "warm up lag" which occured when playing the first media clip after
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268 the server has started.
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269 o Added read-back fence for OpenGL device for improved multi-channel
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271 o Memory support increased from standard 2 GB to 4 GB on 64 bit Win 7 OS.
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272 o Added support for 2* Decklink cards in FullHD.
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273 o Misc bugs fixes and performance improvements.
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274 o Color producer now support some color codes in addition to color codes, e.g.
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275 EMPTY, BLACK, RED etc...
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276 o Alpha value in color codes is now optional.
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277 o More than 2 Decklink cards might be possible but have not yet been tested.
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279 CasparCG 2.0 Alpha (w.r.t 1.8)
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280 ==============================
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285 o Mayor refactoring for improved readability and mainainability.
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286 o Some work towards platorm-independence. Currently the greatest challenge for
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287 full platform-independence is flash-producer.
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288 o Misc improved scalability.
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289 o XML-configuration.
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291 + Support for multiple decklink-cards.
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296 o Multiple producers per video_channel.
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297 o Multiple consumers per video_channel.
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298 o Swap producers between layers and channels during run-time.
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299 o Support for upper-field and lower-field interlacing.
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300 o Add and remove consumers during run-time.
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301 o Preliminary support for NTSC.
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306 o Query flash and template-host version.
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307 o Recursive media-folder listing.
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313 o Animated tween transforms.
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315 + Fully GPU accelerated (all features listed below are done on the gpu),
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316 + Layer composition.
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317 + Colorspaces (rgba, bgra, argb, yuv, yuva, yuv-hd, yuva-hd).
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319 + Per-layer image-transforms:
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326 + Per-layer and per-sample audio-transforms:
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328 + Fully internal audio-mixing. Single output-video_channel.
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333 o Decklink-Consumer
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337 o Bluefish-Consumer
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338 + Drivers are loaded on-demand (server now runs on computers without
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339 installed bluefish-drivers).
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341 + Allocated frames are no longer leaked.
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346 o Decklink-Producer
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352 + Asynchronous file IO.
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353 + Parallel decoding of audio and video.
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354 + Colorspace transform are moved to gpu.
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355 o Transition-Producer
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356 + Fully interlaced transition (previsously only progressive, even when
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357 running in interlaced mode).
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358 + Per-sample mixing between source and destination clips.
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359 + Tween transitions.
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361 + DirectDraw access (sligthly improved performance).
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362 + Improved time-sync. Smoother animations and proper interlacing.
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364 + Support for various imageformats through FreeImage library.
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369 o Graphs for monitoring performance and events.
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370 o Misc logging improvements.
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371 o Seperate log-file for every run of the server.
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372 o Error logging provides full exception details, instead of only printing that
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373 an error has occured.
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374 o Console with real-time logging output.
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375 o Console with AMCP input.
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380 o Registry-configuration (replaced by XML-Configuration).
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381 o TGA-Producer (replaced by Image-Producer).
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382 o TGA-Scroll-Producer
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