xine 1.2.10 release

Submitted by Release xine-lib 1.2.10, a multi-platform library for playing video and audio files, as well as a set of related plugins. The library can be used in a number of video players, among which Xine-UI, gxine, coffee.

Xine supports the work in multi-threaded mode, supports a large number of popular and little-known formats and codecs, can process both local content and multimedia streams transmitted over the network. The modular architecture allows you to easily expand functionality through plugins. There are 5 main classes of plugins: input plugins for receiving data (FS, DVD, CD, HTTP, etc.), output plugins (XVideo, OpenGL, SDL, Framebuffer, ASCII, OSS, ALSA, etc.), plugins for unpacking media containers (demuxers), plugins for decoding video and audio data, plugins for applying effects (echo suppression, equalizer, etc.).

Among the key innovationsadded in the new release:

  • Added support for the Android platform;
  • Added support for EGL and Wayland;
  • Added AV1 format decoders based on libdav1d, libaom and lavc libraries;
  • Added libpng-based decoder;
  • Multithreading is provided when using libvpx;
  • Support for the Opus format has been added to the OGG media container unpacker;
  • Support for AV1 format has been added to the MKV media container unpacker (matroska);
  • Added ivf media container unpacker;
  • Added TLS support using GnuTLS or OpenSSL;
  • Added ftp upload plugin that supports TLS (ftp:// and ftpes://);
  • Added plugin for downloading via TLS (TLS over TCP, tls://);
  • Added plugin for loading via NFS;
  • The ability to change the position in the stream when playing content via ftp or http has been implemented; support for fast forwarding has been added for scp;
  • Added support for streaming in mp4 format via HTTP;
  • Added support for HLS streaming;
  • Added support for HTTP/1.1.
  • Implemented bitrate prediction;
  • Numerous optimizations and bug fixes.

Simultaneously available new release of the xine-ui GUI 0.99.12, which introduced a fast forward mode, a setting to control the screen saver activation lock, optimized text rendering and an updated splash screen.

Source: opennet.ru

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