v0.6.0 released
Jan 2, 2011
There were quite a few enhancements and changes including a minor interface change. Therefore, this release gets a jump in the versioning.
Framework
- mlt_profile
- Added (Y'CbCr) colorspace attribute.
- Added mlt_profile_clone().
- Added mlt_consumer_position() and Mlt::Consumer::position().
- Added Mlt::Properties::wait_for(string).
- Added a version API: mlt_version_get_int() and others.
- Added Mlt::Producer::pause().
- Added mlt_frame_write_ppm() for debugging.
Melt
- Added automatic detection of profile from first input when profile not specified.
- Now exits with error result when consumer fails fatally.
Modules
- Added swfdec producer for Flash files including variables support. (Does not support audio.)
- Added consumer for Blackmagic Design DeckLink SDI and Intensity HDMI.
- Added Y'CbCr colorspace conversion and option to use full luma range.
- Added (de)serialization of profile to XML.
- Added support for #frame# variable to the data_show filter.
- Added support for frei0r string parameters.
- Make FFmpeg formats and codecs available as properties (not just stderr).
- Try to load .xml file as MLT XML.
- Added a consumer-sdl-paused event to sdl_preview.
- Added a consumer-fatal-error event to avformat.
- Change composite transition to default to progressive rendering; field-based rendering available only explicitly.
sfwdec plugin available
Nov 9, 2010
I just added a swfdec plugin to decode Flash SWF movies. It supports transparent backgrounds so you can composite it over video. Good animation tools are hard to come by, and a lot of people know and like Adobe Flash Builder. If you, a friend, or colleague likes to use Flash Builder or After Effects to design motion graphics, now you can easily use their animations. Also, the Qt-based animation tool
Pencil can export to SWF, which you may find more manageable than an image sequence.
Black Magic Design Decklink output
Nov 9, 2010
I just added a consumer (output plugin) for DeckLink SDI and HDMI cards. Some of their cards have analog connections as well, and I think it works with those too. The way this is integrated, it can be enabled and built by default by your distribution (version after 0.5.10) such that if you get a card, you can just install the driver and library, and it will be ready to work with MLT. This means you can get an open source SDI playout solution for Linux for less than $300!
v0.5.10 released
Sep 14, 2010
This is a quick followup to the 0.5.8 release to address an issue I want to address immediately. I noticed an extra unconditional colorspace conversion to and from RGB was added for all YCbCr (YUV) video sources. In addition, I have enabled the avcolor_space filter on OS X since it works now.
v0.5.8 released
Sep 13, 2010
This is a maintenance release to address some bugs that appeared
thus far in the 0.5.x series. Beyond that is a few enhancements:
- Added EXIF-based auto-rotation of images to pixbuf and qimage producers.
- Improved quality of libswscale-based image conversion and scaling.
- Added channelswap and panner audio filters; panner also does balance.
- Improve audio waveform and add audiowave video filter.
- Enhanced luma filter to work with animated filters such as affine.
- Automatically crop 8 bottom lines of 1088 source in a 16:9 project
(common in Canon EOS digital cameras).
- Added support for inline images in kdenlivetitler.
