+CasparCG 2.0.3 Stable (w.r.t 2.0.3 Alpha)\r
+=========================================\r
+\r
+Stage\r
+-----\r
+\r
+ o Fixed dead-lock that can occur with multiple mixer tweens.\r
+\r
+CasparCG 2.0.3 Alpha (w.r.t 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
+ o Added supported video formats:\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
+\r
+CLK\r
+---\r
+\r
+ o CLK protocol implementation can now serve more than one connection at a time\r
+ safely.\r
+ o Added timeline support to the CLK protocol.\r
+ o Refactored parts of the CLK parser implementation.\r
+\r
+Consumers\r
+---------\r
+\r
+ o Consumers on same channel now invoked asynchronously to allow for proper\r
+ sync of multiple consumers.\r
+ o System audio consumer:\r
+ + no longer provides sync to caspar.\r
+ o Screen consumer:\r
+ + Support for multiple screen consumers on the same channel\r
+ + No longer spin-waits for vsync\r
+ + Now deinterlaces to two separate frames so for example 50i will no longer\r
+ be converted to 25p but instead to 50p for smooth playback of interlaced\r
+ content.\r
+ o Decklink consumer now logs whether a reference signal is detected or not.\r
+\r
+Producers\r
+---------\r
+\r
+ o Image scroll producer:\r
+ + Field-rate motion instead of frame-rate motion with interlaced video\r
+ formats. This can be overridden by giving the PROGRESSIVE parameter.\r
+ + SPEED parameter now defines pixels per frame/field instead of half pixels\r
+ per frame. The scrolling direction is also reversed so SPEED 0.5 is the\r
+ previous equivalent of SPEED -1. Movements are done with subpixel accuracy\r
+ + Fixed incorrect starting position of image.\r
+ + Rounding error fixes to allow for more exact scrolling.\r
+ + Added support for motion blur via a new BLUR parameter\r
+ + Added PREMULTIPLY parameter to support images stored with straight alpha.\r
+\r
CasparCG 2.0 Stable (w.r.t Beta 3)\r
+==================================\r
\r
-¤ General\r
- o Misc stability and performance fixes. \r
+General\r
+-------\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
+ o Misc stability and performance fixes.\r
+\r
+Consumers\r
+---------\r
+\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
+\r
+Formats\r
+-------\r
+\r
+ o ProRes Support\r
+ + Both encoding and decoding.\r
+ o NTSC Support\r
+ + Updated audio-pipeline for native NTSC support. Previous implementation\r
+ did not fully support NTSC audio and could cause incorrect behaviour or\r
+ even crashes.\r
+\r
+Consumers\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
+ DNXHD, PRORES and H264.\r
+ - Key-only is not supported.\r
+ o Bluefish Consumer\r
+ + 24 bit audio support.\r
+ - Embedded-audio does not work with Epoch cards.\r
+ o Decklink Consumer\r
+ + Low latency enabled by default.\r
+ + Added graphs for driver buffers.\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
+\r
+ o Decklink Producer\r
+ + Improved color quality be avoiding uneccessary conversion to BGRA.\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\r
+ 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
+ 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
+ + Use square pixel dimensions.\r
+\r
+AMCP\r
+----\r
+\r
+ o When possible, commands will no longer wait for rendering pipeline. This\r
+ reduces command execution latencies, especially when sending a lot of\r
+ commands in a short timespan.\r
+ o Fixed CINF command.\r
+ o ADD/REMOVE no longer require subindex,\r
+ e.g. "ADD 1 SCREEN" / "REMOVE 1 SCREEN" instead of "ADD 1-1 SCREEN" / ...\r
+ o PARAM is renamed to CALL.\r
+ o STATUS command is replaced by INFO.\r
+ o 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
+ o CG INFO command has been extended.\r
+ + CG INFO 1 (template-host information, e.g. what layers are occupied).\r
+\r
+Mixer\r
+-----\r
+\r
+ o Fixed alpha with blend modes.\r
+ o Automatically deinterlace for MIXER FILL commands.\r
+\r
+Channel\r
+-------\r
+\r
+ o SET MODE now reverts back to old video-mode on failure.\r
+\r
+Diagnostics\r
+-----------\r
+\r
+ o Improved graphs and added more status information.\r
+ o Print configuration into log at startup.\r
+ o Use the same log file for the entire day, instead of one per startup as\r
+ previously.\r
+ o Diagnostics window is now closable.\r
+\r
+Configuration\r
+-------------\r
+\r
+ o Simplified.\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
+\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\r
+ 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\r
+ 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\r
+ content.\r
+ o Optimized renderer.\r
+ o Renderer can now be run asynchronously with producer by using a\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 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
+ 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.\r
+ EMPTY, BLACK, RED etc...\r
+ o Alpha value in color codes is now optional.\r
+ o More than 2 Decklink cards might be possible but have not yet been tested.\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
+\r
+General\r
+-------\r
+\r
+ o Mayor refactoring for improved readability and mainainability.\r
+ o Some work towards platorm-independence. Currently the greatest challenge for\r
+ full platform-independence is flash-producer.\r
+ o Misc improved scalability.\r
+ o XML-configuration.\r
+ o Decklink\r
+ + Support for multiple decklink-cards.\r
+\r
+Core\r
+----\r
+\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
+\r
+AMCP\r
+----\r
+\r
+ o Query flash and template-host version.\r
+ o Recursive media-folder listing.\r
+ o Misc changes.\r
+\r
+Mixer\r
+-----\r
+\r
+ o Animated tween transforms.\r
+ o Image-Mixer\r
+ + Fully GPU accelerated (all features listed below are done on the gpu),\r
+ + Layer composition.\r
+ + Colorspaces (rgba, bgra, argb, yuv, yuva, yuv-hd, yuva-hd).\r
+ + Interlacing.\r
+ + Per-layer image-transforms:\r
+ + Opacity\r
+ + Gain\r
+ + Scaling\r
+ + Clipping\r
+ + Translation\r
+ o Audio-Mixer\r
+ + Per-layer and per-sample audio-transforms:\r
+ + Gain\r
+ + Fully internal audio-mixing. Single output-video_channel.\r
+\r
+Consumers\r
+---------\r
+\r
+ o Decklink-Consumer\r
+ + Embedded audio.\r
+ + HD support.\r
+ + Hardware clock.\r
+ o Bluefish-Consumer\r
+ + Drivers are loaded on-demand (server now runs on computers without\r
+ installed bluefish-drivers).\r
+ + Embedded-audio.\r
+ + Allocated frames are no longer leaked.\r
+\r
+Producers\r
+---------\r
+\r
+ o Decklink-Producer\r
+ + Embedded audio.\r
+ + HD support.\r
+ o Color-Producer\r
+ + GPU accelerated.\r
+ o FFMPEG-Producer\r
+ + Asynchronous file IO.\r
+ + Parallel decoding of audio and video.\r
+ + Colorspace transform are moved to gpu.\r
+ o Transition-Producer\r
+ + Fully interlaced transition (previsously only progressive, even when\r
+ running in interlaced mode).\r
+ + Per-sample mixing between source and destination clips.\r
+ + Tween transitions.\r
+ o Flash-Producer\r
+ + DirectDraw access (sligthly improved performance).\r
+ + Improved time-sync. Smoother animations and proper interlacing.\r
+ o Image-Producer\r
+ + Support for various imageformats through FreeImage library.\r
+\r
+Diagnostics\r
+-----------\r
+\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\r
+ an error has occured.\r
+ o Console with real-time logging output.\r
+ o Console with AMCP input.\r
+\r
+Removed\r
+-------\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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+ o Registry-configuration (replaced by XML-Configuration).\r
+ o TGA-Producer (replaced by Image-Producer).\r
+ o TGA-Scroll-Producer\r