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-CasparCG 2.0.4 Stable (w.r.t 2.0.3 Stable)
-==========================================
+C H A N G E S
+
+CasparCG 2.0.6 Stable (as compared to 2.0.4 Stable)
+===================================================
General
-------
+ o Allow for the server to work without Processing.AirSend.x86.dll to prevent a
+ possible GPL violation.
+ 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: 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.
+ o Optimizations in AMCP protocol implementations for large incoming messages,
+ for example base64 encoded PNG images.
o Logging output now includes milliseconds and has modified format:
- yyyy-mm-d HH:MM:SS.ZZZ
- o Added support for generating thumbnails for media files. Currently only
- video files and images are supported. By default the media directory is
- scanned every 5 seconds for new/modified/removed files and thumbnails are
- generated/regenerated/removed accordingly.
+ YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.zzz
+ o Improved audio playback with 720p5994 and 720p6000 channels.
+ o An attempt to improve output synchronization of consumers has been made. Use
+ for example:
+
+
+
+
+ 1
+ true
+
+
+ 2
+ true
+
+
+
+
+ ...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 Simplified implementation of bluefish consumer, with regards to
- o Avoid that the ffmpeg consumer blocks the channel output when it can't keep
- up with the frame rate (drops instead).
+ 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 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
+ 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.
+ 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 separated key/fill is used).
Producers
---------
-
- o Added support for playing .swf files using the flash producer.
+ 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:
+ PLAY 1-0 [PNG_BASE64]
+ o FFmpeg producer can now use a directshow input filters:
+ PLAY 1-10 "dshow://video=Some Camera"
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
the thumbnail feature.
- o ADD 1 FILE output.mov SEPARETE_KEY activates the separate key feature of the
- ffmpeg consumer creating an additional output_a.mov containing only the key.
+ o ADD 1 FILE output.mov SEPARATE_KEY activates the separate key feature of the
+ FFmpeg consumer creating an additional output_a.mov containing only the key.
o Added KILL command for shutting down the server without console access.
-
-CasparCG 2.0.3 Stable (w.r.t 2.0.3 Alpha)
-=========================================
+ o Added RESTART command for shutting down the server in the same way as KILL
+ 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.
+ 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
+ layer. The bugfix also has the side effect of supporting negative scale on
+ MIXER FILL, causing the image to be flipped.
+ o MIXER STRAIGHT_ALPHA_OUTPUT added to control whether to output straight
+ alpha or not.
+ 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.
+ o /channel/[1-9]/stage/layer/[0-9]
+ + always /paused [paused or not]
+ + color producer /color [color string]
+ + ffmpeg producer /profiler/time [render time] [frame duration]
+ + ffmpeg producer /file/time [elapsed seconds] [total seconds]
+ + ffmpeg producer /file/frame [frame] [total frames]
+ + ffmpeg producer /file/fps [fps]
+ + ffmpeg producer /file/path [file path]
+ + ffmpeg producer /loop [looping or not]
+ + during transitions /transition/frame [current frame] [total frames]
+ + during transitions /transition/type [transition type]
+ + flash producer /host/path [filename]
+ + flash producer /host/width [width]
+ + flash producer /host/height [height]
+ + flash producer /host/fps [fps]
+ + flash producer /buffer [buffered] [buffer size]
+ + image producer /file/path [file path]
+
+
+
+CasparCG 2.0.3 Stable (as compared to 2.0.3 Alpha)
+==================================================
Stage
-----
@@ -65,8 +220,10 @@ AMCP
exist.
o DATA REMOVE command was added.
-CasparCG 2.0.3 Alpha (w.r.t 2.0 Stable)
-=======================================
+
+
+CasparCG 2.0.3 Alpha (as compared to 2.0 Stable)
+================================================
General
-------
@@ -75,12 +232,12 @@ General
supported for backwards compatibility
o Commands written in UTF-8 to log file but only ascii characters to console.
o Added supported video formats:
- + 720p2398 (not supported by decklink)
- + 720p2400 (not supported by decklink)
+ + 720p2398 (not supported by DeckLink)
+ + 720p2400 (not supported by DeckLink)
+ 1080p5994
+ 1080p6000
- + 720p30 (not supported by decklink)
- + 720p29.976 (not supported by decklink)
+ + 720p30 (not supported by DeckLink)
+ + 720p29.976 (not supported by DeckLink)
CLK
---
@@ -119,8 +276,10 @@ Producers
+ Added support for motion blur via a new BLUR parameter
+ Added PREMULTIPLY parameter to support images stored with straight alpha.
-CasparCG 2.0 Stable (w.r.t Beta 3)
-==================================
+
+
+CasparCG 2.0 Stable (as compared to Beta 3)
+===========================================
General
-------
@@ -131,13 +290,15 @@ Consumers
---------
o File Consumer
- + Changed semantics to more closely follow ffmpeg (see forums).
+ + Changed semantics to more closely follow FFmpeg (see forums).
+ Added options, -r, -acodec, -s, -pix_fmt, -f and more.
o Screen Consumer
+ Added vsync support.
-CasparCG 2.0 Beta 3 (w.r.t Beta 1)
-==================================
+
+
+CasparCG 2.0 Beta 3 (as compared to Beta 1)
+===========================================
Formats
-------
@@ -154,7 +315,7 @@ Consumers
o File Consumer added
+ See updated wiki or ask in forum for more information.
- + Should support anything ffmpeg supports. However, we will work mainly with
+ + Should support anything FFmpeg supports. However, we will work mainly with
DNXHD, PRORES and H264.
- Key-only is not supported.
o Bluefish Consumer
@@ -185,14 +346,14 @@ Producers
+ Improved auto-transcode accuracy.
+ Improved seeking accuracy.
+ Fixed bug with looping and LENGTH.
- + Updated to newer ffmpeg version.
+ + Updated to newer FFmpeg version.
+ Fixed incorrect scaling of NTSC DV files.
+ Optimized color conversion when using YADIF filters.
o Flash Producer
- + Release flash-player when empty.
- + Use native resolution template-host.
- + Template-hosts are now choosen automatically if not configured. The
- template-host with the corresponding video-mode name is now chosen.
+ + Release Flash Player when empty.
+ + Use native resolution TemplateHost.
+ + TemplateHosts are now choosen automatically if not configured. The
+ TemplateHost with the corresponding video-mode name is now chosen.
+ Use square pixel dimensions.
AMCP
@@ -236,13 +397,10 @@ Diagnostics
previously.
o Diagnostics window is now closable.
-Configuration
--------------
- o Simplified.
-CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (w.r.t Alpha)
-=================================
+CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (as compared to Alpha)
+==========================================
o Blending Modes (needs to be explicitly enabled)
+ overlay
@@ -259,7 +417,7 @@ CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (w.r.t Alpha)
+ min output-level
+ max output-level
+ gamma
- o Support for ffmpeg-filters such as (ee http://ffmpeg.org/libavfilter.html)
+ o Support for FFmpeg-filters such as (ee http://ffmpeg.org/libavfilter.html)
+ yadif deinterlacer (optimized in CasparCG for full multi-core support)
+ de-noising
+ dithering
@@ -278,7 +436,7 @@ CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (w.r.t 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)
@@ -309,8 +467,10 @@ CasparCG 2.0 Beta 1 (w.r.t Alpha)
o Alpha value in color codes is now optional.
o More than 2 Decklink cards might be possible but have not yet been tested.
-CasparCG 2.0 Alpha (w.r.t 1.8)
-==============================
+
+
+CasparCG 2.0 Alpha (as compared to 1.8)
+=======================================
General
-------
@@ -321,7 +481,7 @@ General
o Misc improved scalability.
o XML-configuration.
o Decklink
- + Support for multiple decklink-cards.
+ + Support for multiple DeckLink cards.
Core
----