MLT Release Notes
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+Version 0.5.8
+
+The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is 0.6.
+This is a maintenance release to address some bugs that appeared
+thus far in the 0.5.x series. Beyond that is a few enhancements:
+
+* Added EXIF-based auto-rotation of images to pixbuf and qimage producers.
+* Improved quality of libswscale-based image conversion and scaling.
+* Added channelswap and panner audio filters; panner also does balance.
+* Improve audio waveform and add audiowave video filter.
+* Enhanced luma filter to work with animated filters such as affine.
+* Automatically crop 8 bottom lines of 1088 source in a 16:9 project
+ (common in Canon EOS digital cameras).
+* Added support for inline images in kdenlivetitler.
+
+
+Version 0.5.6
+
+The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is 0.6.
+This is a maintenance release to address some bugs that appeared
+this far in the 0.5.x series. Beyond that it a few enhancements:
+
+* Added interpolation to the affine transition and filter.
+* Added multi-track audio encoding to avformat consumer.
+* Added interlaced field rendering to kdenlivetitle producer.
+
+
+Version 0.5.4
+
+The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r21322.
+This is another maintenance release to address some bugs that appeared
+this far in the 0.5.x series. Beyond that it adds two things that only
+very specific users will see:
+
+* Added C# (ECMA CLR) binding (not enabled by default).
+* Linsys SDI consumer now configures itself from MLT profile.
+
+
+Version 0.5.2
+
+The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r21322.
+This is a minor maintenance release, but it is interesting because it now
+enables usage of libswscale as the default choice for image scaling,
+image format conversion, and color space conversion. That gives better
+quality and performance. In addition, there are some improvements in the
+sdl_preview consumer to make it suitable for use in OpenShot 1.1. Other
+things:
+
+* Fixed mlt++/MltFilteredProducer
+* Fixed playing to the end in Kdenlive (mantis bug 1207)
+* Fixed crash load uncompressed video
+* Fixed compiling yadif for non-sse2 builds
+
+
+Version 0.5.0
+
+The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r21322.
+This is an enhancement release, confined mainly to the modules rather than
+the framework. In particular, this adds support for VDPAU, YADIF, and HD-SDI
+technologies!
+
+configure: added --disable-sse2
+
+framework:
+* mlt_cache: added mlt_cache_set_size()
+* mlt_filter: added data property "service" - set when attached
+* mlt_frame:
+ - added Doxygen docs
+ - added "previous frame" and "next frame" data properties - available
+ when its producer has _need_previous_next=1
+* mlt_playlist: added support for negative out point same as length-1
+* mlt_service:
+ - added mlt_service_cache_purge()
+ - added "_need_previous_next" handling in mlt_service_get_frame()
+ - added firing event "service-changed" in mlt_service_attach()
+
+modules:
+* avformat producer:
+ - added decoding H.264 with NVIDIA VDPAU
+ Requires FFmpeg built with vdpau.
+ This is automatically detected and enabled. You can disable this by
+ setting environment variable MLT_NO_VDPAU=1 or property novdpau=1.
+ - added caching of FFmpeg contexts and decoded images
+ This allows large numbers of clips in a project avoiding limitations
+ with number of threads and file descriptors permitted per process.
+ You can disable image caching with property noimagecache=1.
+ - added variant of producer named avformat-novalidate
+ - restored support for video4linux(2)
+* avformat consumer: added apre, fpre, and vpre preset properties
+* crop filter: added center_bias integer property
+* deinterlace filter: added the excellent YADIF as a method
+* kdenlivetitle producer: added text outlining
+* linsys/sdi consumer:
+ - added support for HD-SDI
+ - changed name from "linsys_sdi" to just "sdi"
+* oldfilm filter: added "uneven development" effect
+* xml producer: add support for unspecified out points
+
+profiles:
+* added several missing ATSC (HD) profiles
+* change descriptions from using Hz to fps
+
+
+Version 0.4.10
+
+The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r19873.
+This is "hotfix" for the 0.4.8 release that fixes a couple of regression
+bugs introduced just before the release.
+
+
+Version 0.4.8
+
+The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r19873.
+This is mainly a maintenance release. Besides bug fixes here are other
+notable changes.
+
+modules:
+* avformat producer:
+ - refactored producer to use much less properties
+ - added support for audio_index=all for linsys_sdi consumer
+ - added force_fps property (does yet not adjust duration)
+* core/crop: added "center" property to crop filter
+* linsys_sdi:
+ - added support for >2 audio channels
+ - added property meta.map.audio.<N>.channels=<integer>
+ - added property meta.map.audio.<N>.start=<integer>
+* qimage/kdenlivetitle: add typewriter effect
+
+
Version 0.4.6
The recommended version of FFmpeg for use with this release is SVN r19873.
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