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Office 12 to use XML for file formats

Office 12 to use XML for file formats 06/05/2005 10:53 PM
Microsoft is embracing XML as the default file format for the next version of Microsoft Office. Is that good news for competing office apps?

Office 12 to Get New File Formats

Office 12 to Get New File Formats 06/05/2005 10:58 PM
Microsoft is making XML-based file formats the default in its next-generation Office suite. Will users bite or take flight?

Mac Office 12 Will Support XML File
Formats, Too

Mac Office 12 Will Support XML File
Formats, Too 06/05/2005 10:58 PM
We haven't heard much about the next version of Mac Office, dubbed Mac Office 12. But we do know now that Microsoft is aiming to make sure it supports the same XML file formats that the company announced Thursday for the Windows version of the desktop office suite.

Pining For Open File Formats

Pining For Open File Formats 09/08/2004 04:52 AM
I still seethe over all the extra work, and silly hoops I had to jump through, because vendors feel compelled to create proprietary formats for storing information, and make it hard for other people's software to simply read and write the information to achieve whatever goals their users might be pursuing. By James Elliott, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Office 12 to Feature New XML File
Formats

Office 12 to Feature New XML File
Formats 06/05/2005 10:58 PM
On Thursday, the company is set to disclose the new XML file formats for Word, Excel and PowerPoint that will be built into the next version of Office, due out in the latter half of 2006.

Online music and file formats

Online music and file formats 10/29/2003 03:28 AM
Will the AAC file format that Apple uses for its iTunes Music Store become another file-format disaster like .DOC or .GIF? A Salon.com article explores the world of online music services and the file formats that the music is delivered in. Though Apple has based its AAC file format on an open media standard, the digital rights management part of the file format , called "FairPlay," is a closed format owned by Apple, which raises concerns that consumers could be forced to only use...

Linus Defends Proprietary File Formats

Linus Defends Proprietary File Formats 04/13/2005 02:30 PM

Okino's ‘Granite/Pack V3' Provides
Affordable Access to ACIS, IGES,
Parasolids, Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/DESKTOP,
STEP and VDA-FS CAD File Formats for
Data Translation, Viewing, Rendering &
Animation

Okino's ‘Granite/Pack V3' Provides
Affordable Access to ACIS, IGES,
Parasolids, Pro/ENGINEER, Pro/DESKTOP,
STEP and VDA-FS CAD File Formats for
Data Translation, Viewing, Rendering &
Animation 09/02/2004 02:25 AM
Okino Computer Graphics Ships Third Generation of Affordable, Precise, Solids-Based CAD Import Converters based on PTC Granite 3.0 Interoperability Kernel [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

Update: Knowledgetank 1.2

Update: Knowledgetank 1.2 07/07/2004 11:17 AM
The information manager adds Google Search and now uses Apple's WebKit to download files to KnowledgeTank and to bookmark web pages and save them with metadata and an attached PDF version.

Memsculpt intros Knowledgetank 1.0 for
Mac OS X

Memsculpt intros Knowledgetank 1.0 for
Mac OS X 03/08/2004 11:15 PM
Memsculpt today announced the release of Knowledgetank 1.0 for Mac OS X, an information management utility that helps users keep track of information such as URLs, files, projects, recipes, books, DVDs, CDs, sourcecode, and more...

Knowledgetank info management software
debuts

Knowledgetank info management software
debuts 03/08/2004 11:17 PM
Swedish developer Memsculpt has released its first Mac OS X software application, called Knowledgetank. The developer bills the new tool as information management software that helps you keep track of everything from URLs to files, projects, recipes, books, DVDs, CDs, source code and more. It can also be used as a journal.

Memsculpt updated KnowledgeTank to
version 1.1 today

Memsculpt updated KnowledgeTank to
version 1.1 today 05/04/2004 03:21 PM
SWEDEN—May 4, 2004—Memsculpt updated KnowledgeTank to version 1.1 today.

Understanding HD Formats

Understanding HD Formats 01/19/2004 08:29 AM
High-definition television (HDTV) first arrived on the national stage in the late 1980s, but even today only a minority of consumers in the United States and a much smaller minority in other industrialized nations have HDTV systems. However, high-definition (HD) production for video and film is increasing rapidly, as is the installed base of high-definition-capable displays. Consumers are demanding higher-quality content that takes advantage of these better displays. In addition to the content delivered over the airwaves, a significant amount of content will be delivered to the displays through computers. This demand will help to further drive the increasing availability of HD content.

Mac Office 12 to Get XML Formats, Too

Mac Office 12 to Get XML Formats, Too 06/05/2005 11:59 PM
Rick Shaut, a member of the Macintosh Office team, wrote in his Web log that the Macintosh version of Office 12 will also support the Office Open XML format announced Thursday for its Windows counterpart. He also admitted Microsoft Mac Business Unit had fallen behind on XML support within the Office Suite.

Take Along the Music in All Its Many
Formats

Take Along the Music in All Its Many
Formats 09/15/2004 10:58 PM
New York Times Sep 16 2004 2:44AM GMT

A survey of playlist formats

A survey of playlist formats 04/26/2004 01:14 PM
the great thing about standards is that there's so many of them to choose from.

Re-ripping CDs to new formats in iTunes

Re-ripping CDs to new formats in iTunes 06/24/2004 11:26 AM
If you want to rip a CD in AAC format, but have already ripped it in MP3 format, insert the CD in your Mac and click Import in iTunes 4. It will tell you that some songs are already in the library, and will give an option to ...

Free Culture formats

Free Culture formats 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
The free Free Culture was released as a pdf under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. Some complained about the format. Others, relying upon the freedom granted, created derivative works in other formats. So far, 36 hours after the book was released, I know of 9 versions available, including: MS-re ader, Rocke t e-Book, zippe d, iSilo , Mobip ocket, EasyR ead, PostScri pt, Pl ain Text, html. Most of these are from Blackmask, but thanks to Firas, Mike and Josh as well.

Versioning and extensibility in XML
formats

Versioning and extensibility in XML
formats 09/20/2004 12:26 PM

On the Atom-Syntax list they're talking about versioning and extensibility, two problems that are very easily solved in XML.

For versioning, define a required version attribute on the feed element, a string in the form x.y, where x and y are two numbers. X is the major version, and y is the minor version. So a version 0.3 feed would have a version attribute whose value is "0.3". A version 1.0 feed would have a version attribute of "1.0".

For extensibility, allow the format to be extended through namespaces and trust the W3C, who is the owner of the namespaces spec to tell you how to do it. Build on the works of others.

For extra credit, the format should evolve by adding new elements. A processor can tell whether it should expect the new elements or not by checking the top-level version attribute.

I honestly don't think there's another way to do it, so all the arguing and fussing is just going to end up there, so you might as well just do it. Of course this is just my opinion, I have no position re the Atom working group, or the RSS advisory board.

Open document formats

Open document formats 06/17/2004 11:33 AM
Last week Tim Bray wrote about his (and Sun's) involvement in the European Commission's investigation into the OpenOffice and Microsoft flavors of XML office documents. The upshot:

You can find the Committee's conclusions here; they're short, readable, and defy summarization. [ongoing]

The conclusions are indeed concise, and the bulleted recommendations even more so. I'll quote them here, changing only <ul> to <ol> for ease of reference:

Therefore, it is recommended that:

1. The OASIS Technical Committee considers whether there is a need and opportunity for extending the emerging OASIS Open Document Format to allow for custom-defined schemas;
2. Industry actors not currently involved with the OASIS Open Document Format consider participating in the standardisation process in order to encourage a wider industry consensus around the format;
3. Submission of the emerging OASIS Open Document Format to an official standardisation organisation such as ISO is considered;
4. Microsoft considers issuing a public commitment to publish and provide non-discriminatory access to future versions of its WordML specifications;
5. Microsoft should consider the merits of submitting XML formats to an international standards body of their choice;
6. Microsoft assesses the possibility of excluding non-XML formatted components from WordML documents;
7. Industry is encouraged to provide filters that allow documents based on the WordML specifications and the emerging OASIS Open Document Format to be read and written to other applications whilst maintaining a maximum degree of faithfulness to content, structure and presentation. These filters should be made available for all products;
8. Industry is encouraged to provide the appropriate tools and services to allow the public sector to consider feasibility and costs of a transformation of its documents to XML-based formats;
9. The public sector is encouraged to provide its information through several formats. Where by choice or circumstance only a single revisable document format can be used this should be for a format around which there is industry consensus, as demonstrated by the format's adoption as a standard.

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Bridgewater Formats GPRS

Bridgewater Formats GPRS 05/05/2004 08:28 AM
Unstrung.com May 5 2004 12:38PM GMT

New Digital Audio Formats

New Digital Audio Formats 06/13/2004 12:16 PM

Speaking of Image Formats

Speaking of Image Formats 07/22/2004 03:06 PM

The lame UNISYS LZW patent has kept GIF support out of free software for some time. The patent has now expired worldwide, so the popular GD Graphics Library now has GIF support again, after a very long absence.

gd 2.0.28 has been released. gd 2.0.28 restores support for reading and writing GIF images.

So now you can fire up PHP and render your on-the-fly 'Punch The Monkey' animated banner ads.

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Tired of being locked into formats?
Well then don't!

Tired of being locked into formats?
Well then don't! 01/18/2004 01:39 PM

I'm not a fan of OPML, I think it's a truly awful (and unnecessary) format - other people have found < FONT color=#333366>it problematic too - but I did think Dave Winer's Share Your OPML! site looked interesting, especially when there was a little SDK available. But then yesterday I read Eric's post pointing to the floater Dave had left in the pool :
If you wish to use the data for a different kind of application, or convert the data into a format other than OPML, for redistribution, it's likely we'll say yes, but you must ask first.

Anyone that's had dealings with Dave in the past will know what this means. Leigh asked (in comments) but had his request deleted. Basically Dave wants control, and he believes the formats will give him that control (remember the RSS patent application?).

I'm all for republishing, but not with strings attached. I don't want material under my copyright abused in this way. So I politely asked Dave to remove references to sites I maintain from his data. Anyhow, Dave's response was:
Do you want to make a legal case out of this?

Personally I thought that was pretty sad, but that might in part be cultural bias - being English I tend to think of etiquette before litigation. Whatever, unfortunately for Dave, and fortunately for the rest of us, formats aren't such a lever any more because the web will either ignore or work around attempts at lock-in.

I think the most sensible thing is to simply ignore Dave's site, but for purposes of demonstration, here's a workaround. The key obstacle is that Dave insists that you can't republish his data unless it's in OPML format. If it is OPML, you don't even have to ask. Ok, here is another version of the index file that points to all the others at "Share Your OPML!". This is still OPML format. Please do with it what you like. Incidentally, this new file is also valid RDF/XML.

Given that OPML is as thinly specified as it gets, and RDF/XML is designed to make it easy to make XML formats RDF compatible, it wasn't particularly difficult. Here's what RDF-compatible OPML looks like:

<opml opml:version="2.0"
xmlns="http://opml.scripting.com"
xmlns:opml="http://opml.scripting.com"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
< ;head/>
<body rdf:parseType="Resource">
<outline opml:text="John Blog" opml:ctUpdates="8" opml:type="link" opml:url="http://example.org" opml:whenLastUpdate="Wed, 14 Jan 2004 03:28:00 GMT" />
</body>
</opml>


I first had to add some attributes to the <opml> element to give the XML namespace support. That top element becomes a resource in the (stripey) RDF interpretation, with head and body as properties, their contents being other resources. To keep things simple I just ignored the contents of the <head> element, so that gets interpreted as a triple with an empty object (I must check on the semantics of that). The element itself is mandatory in OPML, so that has to stay.
The <body> in effect contains a set of resources of type outline, which is easy to express by adding the rdf:parseType="Resource" attribute on the parent. The attributes of the <outline> elements all slip neatly into being RDF properties with literal values.

Couple of points that probably need explanation - since the spec update there's been no need to include a root <rdf:RDF> element. If the consumer knows it's RDF, that's good enough (the W3C's validator has check box: "RDF is NOT enclosed in <RDF>...</RDF> tags"). Also the use of unqualified attributes has been deprecated, so it should be opml:text="..." rather than just text="...". This makes the code look a bit uglier, but if you're using a lot of namespaces it does make mistakes much less likely.

I made the changes using search and replace, but this could easily be automated using XSLT. But if you are planning on using Userland format data from anywhere else, it's probably a better bet to use something a little less generic than the approach above (stylesheets for OPML to OCS and Userland RSS to RSS 1.0 are linked in the comments here).[Raw]

Microsoft on Patenting XML Formats

Microsoft on Patenting XML Formats 01/27/2004 11:30 AM
I recently asked whether Microsoft's moves to patent the XML formats it's using in new versions of Office were, once again, a customer lock-in ploy. Here's a (slightely edited) reply from Mark Martin, who's employed by the Microsoft's PR company:

Web Page Date Formats

Web Page Date Formats 07/12/2002 10:44 AM
A general survey on date format usage.

Binary data formats? Just say NO!
(XML.org)

Binary data formats? Just say NO!
(XML.org) 06/26/2002 01:00 PM

Next-generation DVD formats rally
support

Next-generation DVD formats rally
support 01/06/2005 11:55 PM
Groups supporting competing formats build support from their latest partners.

Rival formats in a duel to the death

Rival formats in a duel to the death 04/17/2005 06:40 AM
Los Angeles Times Apr 17 2005 10:09AM GMT

Designing Extensible, Versionable XML
Formats

Designing Extensible, Versionable XML
Formats 08/04/2004 01:25 AM
Dare Obasanjo discusses what considerations you should make when versioning XML formats, as well as covering some approaches to designing extensible XML formats in a manner compatible with existing XML technologies. (23 printed pages) An XML vocabulary should be designed in such a way that the applications that process it do not break when it is inevitably changed. One of the primary benefits of using XML for building data interchange formats is that the APIs and technologies for processing XML are quite resilient additions to vocabularies. If I write an application that loads RSS feeds looking for item elements, then processes their link and title elements using any one of the various technologies and APIs for processing, such as SAX, the DOM or XSLT, it is straightforward to build the application so that it is unaffected by changes in the RSS specification or extensions as long as the link and title elements always appear in a feed.

Dying Languages, Fading Formats

Dying Languages, Fading Formats 03/20/2003 03:13 PM

On the benefits of competing audio
formats...

On the benefits of competing audio
formats... 01/27/2004 06:28 PM

There's a fascinating clump of posts going around the place at the moment about the various DRM-based digital audio solutions that you can buy at the moment. The one that kicked stuff off initially was a post on The Sobleizer (A challenge for webloggers: handling organizational difficulties) which included a chunk of stuff about why it's best for people who are going to buy music files with DRM to buy them in Windows Media format. Here's the main chunk of the argument:

When you hear DRM think "lockin." So, when you buy music off of Napster or Apple's iTunes, you're locked into the DRM systems that those applications decided on. Really you are choosing between two competing lockin schemes.

But, not all lockin schemes are alike, I learned on Friday. First, there are two major systems. The first is Apple's AAC/Fairtunes based DRM. The second is Microsoft's WMA

Let's say it's 2006. You have 500 songs you've bought on iTunes for your iPod. But, you are about to buy a car with a digital music player built into it. Oh, but wait, Apple doesn't make a system that plays its AAC format in a car stereo. So, now you can't buy a real digital music player in your car.

(I should mention at this point that Scoble works for Microsoft, but I'll say straightaway that I don't think that's particularly relevant to the argument at hand. Nonetheless, cards on the table.)

So the argument at this point is if you choose lock-in with Microsoft, then your music files will work on a wider variety of media than if you choose lock-in with Apple. Therefore you should choose lock-in with Microsoft. At which point BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow weighs in:

In this world where we have consumer choices to make, Scoble argues that our best buy is to pick the lock-in company that will have the largest number of licensees.

That's just about the worst choice you can make.

If I'm going to protect my investment in digital music, my best choice is clearly to invest in buying music in a format that anyone can make a player for. I should buy films, not kinetoscopes. I should buy VHS, not Betamax. I should buy analog tape, not DAT.

Because Scoble's right. If you buy Apple Music or if you buy Microsoft Music, you're screwed if you want to do something with that music that Apple or Microsoft doesn't like.

Cory's argument then is the fairly commercially radical proposition that we should buy only open music files, that companies should sell open music files (there is a precedent here - Bleep sells DRM-free songs from Warp Records), and even that companies like Microsoft should be using their substantial legal power to fight the record companies to be able to sell DRM-free songs online.

Now I'm not going to argue with that, although - to be fair - I think the current climate makes it pretty unlikely to happen. The various companies concerned are too neurotic about it, and frankly Microsoft has too much to lose from the proposition that intellectual property should be distributed without arcane DRM attached to it. Instead I'm going to argue that even if we're only given the choice between two DRM schemes, we should still not just automatically go for the one that plays on the most devices. Because what does this mean in the end? No more or less than yet another monopoly at the operating system level - the musical infrastructure ends up belonging to Microsoft.

The fact is we shouldn't think in those terms at this stage. We should be trying to create miscegenated musical libraries that we expect digital music manufacturers to support all of, not just some as it suits them or as it suits whichever company ends up dominating the market. We've been down this parth before - the company that owns the monopoly has the least to gain from a rapid pace of innovation, the least to gain from being standards compliant. We've seen it at the level of operating systems, internet browsers and now we're seeing attempts to own and define the one successful format in which music files could sit for the next few decades. These things are too important to be left in the hands of one company. We need to have consumer choice at the level of which DRM (or lack of DRM) we're comfortable with buying, we need variety so that different types of audio file can be released via a variety of business models, we need variety - fundamentally - because otherwise we all lose.

The examples that people cite about competing formats no longer hold true for music. It's not like VHS and Betamax - we're not talking about hardware with different sized slots that you can only fit one kind of music delivery system into. No - with music we mostly have applications on our desktop that can play dozens of different formats - whether we notice it or not. Just the other day, RealOne announced that it could now play Apple-encoded AAC files, and the rumour is that HP's deal with Apple required that the iPod should have its ability to play WMP files restored. These things can play more than one type of file and we should be doing our damnedest to make sure that continues to be the case. It should be obvious to car audio manufacturers that they should be able to play AAC tracks - that there are hundreds of thousands of people across America (and soon Europe) who are going to want to be able to do more things with their bought songs. And it should be obvious to all of us that we want a world in which new formats can be integrated into our listening without any particular effort, or at least without us having to rebuy all our old tracks to work on non-mutually functioning players.

So in the meantime, buy, steal or rip whichever tracks suit you best in whatever format you want and make it your mission to put pressure on all the players (both business players and audio players) concerned to support as many of them as possible as soon as possible. And don't listen to anyone who says that having one organisation controlling the musical infrastructure will result in greater choice. That's never been the case in the past, and I very much doubt it will be so in the future either.

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Opening Open Formats with XSLT

Opening Open Formats with XSLT 02/10/2004 02:49 AM
In Bob DuCharme's latest Transforming XML column he finds that four-year old XSLT 1.0 is solving more and more problems as more data becomes available in XML.

Microsoft Patenting Office XML Formats

Microsoft Patenting Office XML Formats 01/24/2004 07:06 AM
Slashdot Jan 24 2004 10:14AM GMT

Duel of the dual-layer DVD formats

Duel of the dual-layer DVD formats 12/30/2003 06:27 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 30 2003 5:10PM ET

Step One: Media Formats Explained

Step One: Media Formats Explained 09/08/2004 02:39 PM
G4 Tech TV Sep 8 2004 7:13PM GMT

Apple Can't Read Its Own Data Formats

Apple Can't Read Its Own Data Formats 06/13/2004 04:09 AM
Afterall, they knew that people were keeping multiple iPhoto libraries due to earlier versions of iPhoto's abysmal performance, in fact that is what iPhoto 4 was released to solve. Not including a way to merge libraries is inexcusable. By Kellan Elliott-McCrea (via MyAppleMenu)

Microsoft to Adopt XML Formats in Office
12

Microsoft to Adopt XML Formats in Office
12 06/05/2005 11:43 PM
Microsoft will use XML to make Word, Excel and PowerPoint more secure and efficient in Office 12.

Microsoft Office Formats Not Really
Being Opened

Microsoft Office Formats Not Really
Being Opened 02/01/2005 09:39 PM
Slashdot Feb 1 2005 1:14PM GMT
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CLE266 MPEG-2 decoder plugin for mplayer

CLE266 MPEG-2 decoder plugin for mplayer 07/30/2004 12:05 PM
New patch

MPlayer OS X

MPlayer OS X 12/16/2003 10:09 AM
new binaries with Xvid 1.0 b2

MPlayer-ROX

MPlayer-ROX 06/10/2004 12:58 PM
Initial release on SF.net

MPlayer-tru

MPlayer-tru 09/20/2004 08:50 AM
MPlayer-tru technique preview released

QUI for MPlayer

QUI for MPlayer 12/09/2003 10:59 PM
First beta release

MPlayer 1.0pre5

MPlayer 1.0pre5 07/19/2004 09:59 PM
A movie player for Linux.

Installing MPlayer

Installing MPlayer 07/02/2004 03:20 AM
MPlayer has set itself apart as a versatile movie player under Linux and other platforms. Whether you love or hate it, once you try it, you'll have to agree that it is very different, with its versatile keyboard control and alternative methods for handling video playback.

XMMS-MPlayer 0.5

XMMS-MPlayer 0.5 06/29/2004 10:20 PM
An MPlayer plugin for XMMS

MPlayer 1.0pre3

MPlayer 1.0pre3 12/08/2003 09:51 PM
A movie player for Linux.

Mplayer Install 1.1

Mplayer Install 1.1 04/16/2004 09:03 AM

MPlayer 1.0pre4

MPlayer 1.0pre4 04/28/2004 04:47 AM
A movie player for Linux.

Proton Mplayer 1.1

Proton Mplayer 1.1 03/16/2003 01:47 AM
A silver and shiny skin.

WMP6 Mplayer 1.2

WMP6 Mplayer 1.2 03/16/2003 01:47 AM
A Windows Media Player skin.

MPlayer shut down

MPlayer shut down 04/04/2005 06:05 AM

James Seng reports on MPlayer - an open source all formats media player - has been shut down.

MPlayer is rift with all sorts of reverse engineered, nonlicensed versions of copyrighted, proprietary software - so it doesn't surprise me. But it's official - you can't use other people's lock-in technology for unlocking.

Yah gotta start over from scratch.

Plastic Mplayer 1.1.1

Plastic Mplayer 1.1.1 03/16/2003 01:47 AM
A remote control-like skin with a plastic feeling.

MPlayer MeMPlayer.c

MPlayer MeMPlayer.c 06/28/2004 01:06 PM
c0ntex_at_open-security.org (Jun 27 2004)

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.8.2
(Stable)

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.8.2
(Stable) 11/19/2003 03:30 PM
Extensions that let you play MP3s and DivX movies with VDR.

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.2
(Development)

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.2
(Development) 06/24/2004 01:20 PM
Extensions that let you play MP3s and DivX movies with VDR.

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.3
(Development)

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.3
(Development) 07/03/2004 12:04 PM
Extensions that let you play MP3s and DivX movies with VDR.

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.1
(Development)

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.1
(Development) 06/05/2004 08:47 AM
Extensions that let you play MP3s and DivX movies with VDR.

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.5
(Development)

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.5
(Development) 09/07/2004 10:08 AM
Extensions that let you play MP3s and DivX movies with VDR.

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.0
(Development)

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.0
(Development) 05/08/2004 06:14 AM
Extensions that let you play MP3s and DivX movies with VDR.

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.7
(Development)

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.7
(Development) 09/24/2004 06:00 PM
Extensions that let you play MP3s and DivX movies with VDR.

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.10
(Development branch)

VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions 0.9.10
(Development branch) 02/07/2005 01:18 AM
The VDR MP3/MPlayer Extensions let you play MP3s with Video Disk Recorder and provide a frontend for MPlayer so you can use a DVB card to play files in formats like AVI, ASF, QT, MOV, VIVO, FLI, and FLC.

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Changes:
A huge memory leak in decoder handling has been fixed. Compatibility with VDR 1.3.18 and 1.3.19 has been improved. MPlayer resume and crashes on status display have been fixed. A new cdfs patch has been added.

MplayerXP-mplayer with extra performance

MplayerXP-mplayer with extra performance 12/30/2004 05:20 AM
MplayerXP-0.5.0 has been released

mplayer plug-in for netscape/mozilla

mplayer plug-in for netscape/mozilla 01/22/2004 11:42 AM
mplayerplug-in v1.2 released

MPlayer 1.0pre7 (Default branch)

MPlayer 1.0pre7 (Default branch) 04/17/2005 04:54 AM
MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4, DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MMX/SSE(2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim's and RealPlayer's binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It's also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.

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Changes:
Two security bugs in the MMST and RTSP code were fixed. MPEG output file support for easy VCD and DVD creation was added to MEncoder, along with multiple file encoding. The encoding documentation was greatly improved. Quite a few audio and video codecs were added, most notably snow, a next generation, wavelet-based video codec. Lots of bugfixes were made all over the code.

MPlayer Alleges KISS Technology
Violating GPL

MPlayer Alleges KISS Technology
Violating GPL 01/03/2004 10:36 AM
bfree writes "Not for the first time, the people at MPlayer think they have found their code being distributed binary only, this time in at least one of KISS ...

Los DVDs de Kiss usan mplayer y violan
la GPL

Los DVDs de Kiss usan mplayer y violan
la GPL 01/03/2004 03:27 PM

MPlayer cierra su página a causa de las
patentes

MPlayer cierra su página a causa de las
patentes 03/19/2005 02:35 AM

KnowledgeTank 1.1 opens more file formats

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