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C H A N G E S
+CasparCG 2.0.6 Stable (as compared to 2.0.4 Stable)
+===================================================
+
+General
+-------
+ o iVGA: Allow for the server to work without Processing.AirSend.x86.dll to
+ prevent a possible GPL violation. It is available as a separate optional
+ download.
+ o iVGA: Only provide sync to channel while connected, to prevent channel
+ ticking too fast.
+ o FFmpeg: Fixed bug during deinterlace-bob-reinterlace where output fields
+ were offset by one field in relation to input fields.
+ o FFmpeg: Fixed bug in ffmpeg_consumer where an access violation occurred
+ during destruction.
+ o Frontend: Only writes elements to casparcg.config which overrides a default
+ value to keep the file as compact as possible.
+ o Version bump to keep up with CasparCG Client version.
+
+
+
+CasparCG 2.0.4 Stable (as compared to 2.0.4 Beta 1)
+===================================================
+
+General
+-------
+ o Can now open media with file names that only consist of digits.
+ o Miscellaneous stability and performance improvements.
+
+Video mixer
+-----------
+ o Conditional compilation of chroma key support and straight alpha output
+ support in shader (just like with blend-modes) because of performance impact
+ even when not in use on a layer or on a channel. New element added
+ to configuration for turning on mixer features that not everybody would want
+ to pay for (performance-wise.) blend-modes also moved into this element.
+ o Fixed bug where MIXER LEVELS interpreted arguments in the wrong order, so
+ that gamma was interpreted as max_input and vice versa.
+
+Consumers
+---------
+ o Added support for NewTek iVGA, which enables the use of CasparCG Server
+ fill+key output(s) as input source(s) to a NewTek TriCaster without
+ requiring video card(s) in the CasparCG Server machine, or taking up inputs
+ in the TriCaster. element in config enables iVGA on a
+ channel.
+ o Decklink: Created custom decklink allocator to reduce the memory footprint.
+ o Replaced usage of SFML for with PortAudio, because of
+ problems with SFML since change to static linkage. Also PortAudio seems to
+ give lower latency.
+
+Producers
+---------
+ o FFmpeg: Added support for arbitrary FFmpeg options/parameters
+ in ffmpeg_producer.
+ o Flash: Flash Player 11.8 now tested and fully supported.
+ o Flash: No longer starts a Flash Player to service CG commands that mean
+ nothing without an already running Flash Player.
+ o Flash: globally serialize initialization and destruction of Flash Players,
+ to avoid race conditions in Flash.
+ o Flash: changed so that the Flash buffer is filled with Flash Player
+ generated content at initialization instead of empty frames.
+
+OSC
+---
+ o Performance improvements.
+ o Never sends old values to OSC reveivers. Collects the latest value of each
+ path logged since last UDP send, and sends the new UDP packet (to each
+ subscribing OSC receiver) with the values collected.
+ o Batches as many OSC messages as possible in an OSC bundle to reduce the
+ number of UDP packets sent. Breakup into separate packages if necessary to
+ avoid fragmentation.
+ o Removed usage of Microsoft Agents library (Server ran out of memory after a
+ while) in favour of direct synchronous invocations.
+
+
+
CasparCG 2.0.4 Beta 1 (as compared to 2.0.3 Stable)
===================================================
General
-------
o Front-end GUI for simplified configuration and easy access to common tasks.
- o Added support for video and images file thumbnail generation. By default the media
- directory is scanned every 5 seconds for new/modified/removed files and thumbnails
- are generated/regenerated/removed accordingly.
- o Support for new video modes: 2k2398, 2k2400, 2k2500, 4k2398, 4k2400, 4k2500,
- 4k2997 and 4k3000.
- o Experimental ATI graphics card support by using static linking against SFML
+ o Added support for video and images file thumbnail generation. By default the
+ media directory is scanned every 5 seconds for new/modified/removed files
+ and thumbnails are generated/regenerated/removed accordingly.
+ o Support for new video modes: 1556p2398, 1556p2400, 1556p2500, 2160p2398,
+ 2160p2400, 2160p2500, 2160p2997 and 2160p3000.
+ o Experimental ATI graphics card support by using static linking against SFML
instead of dynamic. Should improve ATI GPU support, but needs testing.
o Added support for playback and pass-through of up to 16 audio channels. See
http://casparcg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1453 for more information.
@@ -22,6 +98,7 @@ General
o Improved audio playback with 720p5994 and 720p6000 channels.
o An attempt to improve output synchronization of consumers has been made. Use
for example:
+
@@ -34,55 +111,49 @@ General
-
- ...to instruct both DeckLink consumers to stay in sync with each other.
- Consider this experimental, so don't wrap everything in
- unless synchronization of consumer outputs is needed. For synchronization to
- be effective all synchronized cards must have genlock reference
- signal connected.
+
+ ...to instruct the server to keep both DeckLink consumers in sync with each
+ other. Consider this experimental, so don't wrap everything in
+ unless synchronization of consumer outputs is needed. For
+ synchronization to be effective all synchronized cards must have genlock
+ reference signal connected.
Layer
-----
-
o Fixed a problem where the first frame was not always shown on LOAD.
-
Audio mixer
-----------
-
o Added support for a master volume mixer setting for each channel.
-
Video mixer
-----------
-
o Added support for chroma keying.
o Fixed bug where MIXER CONTRAST set to < 1 can cause transparency issues.
o Experimental support for straight alpha output.
Consumers
---------
-
o Avoid that the FFmpeg consumer blocks the channel output when it can't keep
up with the frame rate (drops frames instead).
o Added support for to create a separate key and fill file when recording with
the FFmpeg consumer. Add the SEPARATE_KEY parameter to the FFmpeg consumer
- parameter list. The key file will get the _A file name suffix to be picked up by the
- separated_producer when doing playback.
- o The image consumer now writes to the media folder instead of the data folder.
- o Fixed bug in DeckLink consumer where we submit too few audio samples to the driver
- when the video format has a frame rate > 50.
+ parameter list. The key file will get the _A file name suffix to be picked
+ up by the separated_producer when doing playback.
+ o The Image consumer now writes to the media folder instead of the data
+ folder.
+ o Fixed bug in DeckLink consumer where we submit too few audio samples to the
+ driver when the video format has a frame rate > 50.
o Added another experimental DeckLink consumer implementation where scheduled
playback is not used, but a similar approach as in the bluefish consumer
- where we wait for a frame to be displayed and then display the next frame.
- It is configured via a consumer element. The benefits of
- this consumer is lower latency and more deterministic synchronization
- between multiple instances (should not need to be wrapped in a
- element when separate key-fill is used).
+ where we wait for a frame to be displayed and then display the next frame.
+ It is configured via a consumer element. The benefits of
+ this consumer is lower latency and more deterministic synchronization
+ between multiple instances (should not need to be wrapped in a
+ element when separated key/fill is used).
Producers
---------
-
o Added support for playing .swf files using the Flash producer.
o Image producer premultiplies PNG images with their alpha.
o Image producer can load a PNG image encoded as base64 via:
@@ -92,7 +163,6 @@ Producers
AMCP
----
-
o The master volume feature is controlled via the MASTERVOLUME MIXER
parameter. Example: MIXER 1 MASTERVOLUME 0.5
o THUMBNAIL LIST/RETRIEVE/GENERATE/GENERATE_ALL command was added to support
@@ -101,12 +171,13 @@ AMCP
FFmpeg consumer creating an additional output_a.mov containing only the key.
o Added KILL command for shutting down the server without console access.
o Added RESTART command for shutting down the server in the same way as KILL
- except that the return code from caspar is 5 instead of 0, which can be used
- by parent process to take other actions. The casparcg_auto_restart.bat
- script restarts the server if the return code is 5.
+ except that the return code from CasparCG Server is 5 instead of 0, which
+ can be used by parent process to take other actions. The
+ 'casparcg_auto_restart.bat' script restarts the server if the return code is
+ 5.
o DATA RETRIEVE now returns linefeeds encoded as an actual linefeed (the
- single character 0x0a) instead of the previous two characters \ followed by
- n.
+ single character 0x0a) instead of the previous two characters:
+ \ followed by n.
o MIXER CHROMA command added to control the chroma keying. Example:
MIXER 1-1 CHROMA GREEN|BLUE 0.10 0.04
o Fixed bug where MIXER FILL overrides any previous MIXER CLIP on the same
@@ -117,9 +188,9 @@ AMCP
o Added INFO DELAY and INFO - DELAY commands for showing some
delay measurements.
+
OSC
---
-
o Support for sending OSC messages over UDP to either a predefined set of
clients (servers in the OSC sense) or dynamically to the ip addresses of the
currently connected AMCP clients.
@@ -159,6 +230,7 @@ AMCP
o DATA REMOVE command was added.
+
CasparCG 2.0.3 Alpha (as compared to 2.0 Stable)
================================================
@@ -214,6 +286,7 @@ Producers
+ Added PREMULTIPLY parameter to support images stored with straight alpha.
+
CasparCG 2.0 Stable (as compared to Beta 3)
===========================================
@@ -232,6 +305,7 @@ Consumers
+ Added vsync support.
+
CasparCG 2.0 Beta 3 (as compared to Beta 1)
===========================================
@@ -371,7 +445,7 @@ CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (as compared to Alpha)
o Producer buffering is now configurable.
o Consumer buffering is now configurable.
o Now possible to configure template-hosts for different video-modes.
- o Added auto transcoder for ffmpeg-producer which automatically transcodes
+ o Added auto transcoder for FFmpeg producer which automatically transcodes
input video into compatible video format for the channel.
+ interlacing (50p -> 50i)
+ deinterlacing (50i -> 25p)
@@ -403,6 +477,7 @@ CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (as compared to Alpha)
o More than 2 Decklink cards might be possible but have not yet been tested.
+
CasparCG 2.0 Alpha (as compared to 1.8)
=======================================