Awesome work, thanks a million. -ww
On Aug 23, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Nathan wrote: > I am very proud to announce the immediate release of AVbin 10!!! > > This is an excellent release with a boatload of fixes and improvements, > spanning 52 code commits in just under two months. I discovered no AVbin > bugs on any of the 6 platforms I tested using any of the audio test files in > three formats (mp3, ogg, aac/m4a) or using the video test file (h.264). (I > wish I could say the same about pyglet's example/media_player.py -- I'll have > to look at that). I strongly encourage anyone who is using an older version > of AVbin to upgrade immediately! > > The web-site version of the announcement is here: > http://avbin.github.com/AVbin/Home/Entries/2012/8/23_AVbin_10_Modernity_Released.html > > The installers (yes, real installers!) can be downloaded from here: > http://avbin.github.com/AVbin/Download.html > > The list of "official" issues closed is here: > https://github.com/AVbin/AVbin/issues?milestone=2&page=1&state=closed > > > This has taken the bulk of my "free" time over the last two months, so I'm > excited to switch back to my pyglet-based projects that _use_ AVbin. > > ~ Nathan > > > AVbin 10 Release Notes > > - Updated to Libav trunk as of 2012-08-12 (which finally fixed the .ogg > decoding > problems on all platforms!). > > - Added the avbin_get_info() function and removed the avbin_get_libav_commit() > and avbin_get_libav_version() functions that I tried out in AVbin 9, which I > am now pretending never got released. > > avbin_get_info() returns an _AVbinInfo struct (typedef AVbinInfo) with the > following members (all strings except where indicated): > - version > integer, same as avbin_get_version() > - version_string > potentially includes prerelease info, > for example: "10-beta1" > - build_date > %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z > - repo > Git URL > - commit > Git commit hash > - backend > "libav" or "ffmpeg" > - backend_version_string > Most recent backend version tag or trunk and > date > i.e. "v0.8.3" or "trunk (Wed Aug 22 19:58:46 > 2012 -0400)" > - backend_repo > Backend git URL > - backend_commit > Backend git commit hash > > - Added AVbinOptions typedef (struct _AVbinOptions) for use with the new > avbin_init_options() function. > > - Added avbin_init_options() to handle initialization options. avbin_init() > now > creates an AVbinOptions with default settings and calls avbin_init_options() > under the hood. Future versions of AVbin may have new AVbinOptions* structs > that you can pass to avbin_init_options(). Currently, the only option is > how > many threads you would like avbin to use for decoding (defaults to 1, using > 0 [autodetect] is recommended). > > - Updated avbin_have_features() with new features to check for. > "options" > presence of avbin_init_options(), AVbinOptions, and > multithreading > "info" > presence of avbin_get_info(), AVbinInfo > > - Adapted the underlying C code implementation to upstream API changes, as > well > as switching to more portable data types across the board. This work was > almost entirely pulled from Jernej Virag's fork, so kudos to him! > > - Implemented multithreading support inspired by Jernej's work. If you want > the library to use multiple threads, please see avbin_init_options() in the > documentation. > > - Overhauled all configure options and Makefile commands so that all six > supported platforms have very similar builds now. Bz2 and Gzip compression > is > enabled on all platforms now, for example. Every platform also had to have > configure and make options adjusted to compensate for new versions of Xcode > and OS X, new versions of Linux, and the new version of Libav. > > - Overhauled the build script. All build errors now have descriptive > messages. > The options may now be specified at any argument position. The --fast > option > now compiles with more processes at once. The --clean option now does a > better job cleaning. The libav submodule is automatically updated before > building. > > - Overhauled the dist script, which now generates binary installers for all > platforms > > - The OS X version is now a universal library containing both 32-bit and > 64-bit > code. > > - The OS X release is now a package installer, instead of a tarball. > > - The Linux release is now a compressed binary installer instead of a tarball. > > - The Windows release is now an executable installer instead of a zipfile. > > - All installers now present and require acceptance of the license. > > - Updated the Makefile for the avbin_dump example so that it compiles on Linux > > - Updated the avbin_dump example: > - Command-line arguments are now processed position-independently > - The new help argument (-h, --help) displays usage > - The new verbose argument (-v, --verbose) enables printing out information > about each packet decoded from a media file. (Previously you had to > modify > the source code and recompile to enable this). > - The verbose output now includes timestamps (in microseconds). > > - Updated the online API documentation: http://avbin.github.com/docs/ > > - Ran the repository through `git filter-branch` and eliminated all of the > ffmpeg source code, which shrinks the repo size to 528K (much better than > about 100MB!!) NOTE: If you have a pre-filter clone, you will need to > either make a new clone (easy), or rebase: > http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Rebasing > > - Configured a buildbot master. Configured buildbot slaves for each platform. > > - Resolved issues 11-17, 19, 23-33, and 36-38. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pyglet-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en.
