Hello, Thank you for those good news :-)
Did you get a chance to build a .deb package as you did for 0.9.2-2 ? Thanks for this new release, Jef On 08 Sep 2010, at 09:41, David Baelde wrote: > Dear users, > > I am proud to announce two new releases of liquidsoap. > > First, 0.9.3 will be the last 0.9.x release: it is a bugfix of the > snapshot release 0.9.2. It is meant to help people who put 0.9.2 in > production, and give a last chance to avoid the transition to 1.0.0. > Of course, snapshots are not meant to have bugfix releases, but it > turns out that many people didn't notice that 0.9.2 wasn't meant for > production. This is mostly our fault, we have learned our lesson > and will have better version numbers in the future. > > Second, and most exciting, the 1.0.0 beta is finally out after almost > a year of deep changes. We have all the features that we want to see > in liquidsoap 1.0.0, and we hope that many people will try this beta > version to help us find bugs, optimize it, document it and straighten > out a few details. > > The two releases are available as usual on our sourceforge page > http://sf.net/projects/savonet, and the changelogs for each release > can be found by the end of this message. > > > MIGRATING FROM 0.9.x > > Moving from earlier releases to the beta version involves a few simple > changes. I described it earlier on savonet-users [1]: essentially, > you just need to adapt encoded outputs (icecast, file,etc) by using > encoding formats: > http://savonet.sourceforge.net/doc-svn/encoding_formats.html > In some rare cases you might have to understand a little bit about > heterogeneous stream contents and clocks: > http://savonet.sourceforge.net/doc-svn/stream_content.html > http://savonet.sourceforge.net/doc-svn/clocks.html > > > HELP US > > I'll say it one last time, the beta shouldn't be too risky. I expect > most bugs to be fixed quickly, at least concerning old features. By > switching to the beta version, you'll help us reach a solid, polished > 1.0 version that we can start supporting for production use. Here are > a few things where we're particularly looking for improvement, and > where feedback could help. > > > *** Enhance the documentation, build a better website, promote external > projects > > Ideas and contributions to our documentation are welcome. As the > community builds up, I'm starting to dream of external documentation > initiatives. An easy start (hint!) would be to enhance the wikipedia > page for liquidsoap -- and it would really make more sense that we > don't do it ourselves. Beyond documentation, we plan to give front > page visibility to all projects liquidsoap-related. > > *** Blocking input/output, buffers and clocks > > As can be read on (http://savonet.sourceforge.net/doc-svn/clocks.html) > most blocking I/O operators now force their own clock by default. The > idea is that it tells you what is in sync with what: ALSA is in sync > with ALSA, not necessarily with Jack. When two I/O operators are not > in the same clock, an explicit buffer operator should be used... At > least, that's the ideal picture I have in mind, but I'm not sure yet > how well it'll work. > > Currently, blocking I/O operators still have a bufferized mode, which > doesn't fit that picture, and I even left it to true for safety. > Please try your script with bufferize=false, possibly by compensating > with a separate buffer() operator, and tell us how it works for you. > This could help us simplify our code, making it much more > maintainable. > > Also note that output.icecast, which is slightly blocking especially > on problematic network connections, doesn't put any constraints on > clocks. If you encounter such problematic cases, you'll have to do it > by hand. If it happens to often, we'll have to do change the default. > > *** Stream content conversions (mono from/to stereo, drop audio, mux video, > etc) > > By default you'll find your single(), playlist() and related sources > decode only stereo audio. To change that, wrap them in > audio_to_stereo(): they'll decode any kind of audio as before, and the > wrapper will convert everything to stereo. Currently, there is a > slight inefficiency in doing that by default, so I didn't do it. Plus, > I rarely need it. > > *** Find reasonable and fun uses of video and midi, thereby finalizing > and optimizing the corresponding API > > Generally, tell us what kind of fun or useful stuff you can do > involving various stream contents, what needs to be optimized quickly, > and what you'd like to do. > > *** Finalize the clock API > > For those of you who'll hack seriously with the clocks, you may be > able to help us design a more intuitive and complete API. > > > This is it. We hope you'll enjoy it! > -- > David for the Savonet team > > [1] > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01814.html > > Changelog: > > 1.0.0 beta1 (06-09-2010) > ======================== > This beta version introduces two major new features: heterogeneous stream > types and clocks. > New: > - Different sources can carry different types of content. > - Encoding formats have been introduced to help infer stream content types. > This brings static checking for bounds in encoding parameters. > - Introduce conversions between stream contents (mono, stereo, drop > audio, video, etc) and muxing. > - Allow explicit type annotations in scripts. > - Introduce clocks, cleanly allowing for the coexistence of different > time flows, and avoiding inconsistencies that can result from it. > Soundcard I/O and cross-based operators notably make use of it. > - Remove root.sync, replaced by attaching a source s to clock(sync=false,s). > - Enable dynamic source creation and source.shutdown(). > - Extend and adapt MIDI and video operators. > - Introduce purely metadata streams (audio=video=midi=0 channels) and > metadata stream decoder. > - Support WAV streams in input.http/harbor(). > - Introduce static image decoder using SDL image. > - Remove bound of request identifies (RID). > - Experimental: source.dynamic() for advanced dangerous hacking. > - Make path relative to script in %include "PATH", and introduce > %include <...> where path is relative to liquidsoap library directory. > - Add channels_matrix parameter to output.ao(). > - Add on_(dis)connect hooks in input.harbor(). > Cleanup and fixes: > - Lots of cleanup and fixes as with all major code rewriting. > - Optimize video and stabilize it a little bit... still not perfect. > - Rewrite stream and file decoding API, as well as file format detection. > - Enhance shutdown and error message reporting, notably for icecast > and request-based sources. > - Avoid quasi-infinite loop in failed request resolving. > > > 0.9.3 (04-09-2010) > ================== > This release is a bugfix of the latest snapshot (0.9.2). > It will be the last bugfix before 1.0. > Bugs fixed: > - Add "audio/mpegurl" to the list of mime-type for basic playlist parsing. > - Decode arguments passed to input.harbor. > - Use Camomile framework to try to recode arguments and user/password > passed to input.harbor. > - Support Theora 1.1 API via ocaml-theora 0.2.0. > - Fixed input.lastfm. > - Fixed SDL output. > - Allow magic file type detection to follow symlinks. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > Savonet-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. 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