What's new in GNOME Mplayer 0.9.5
Mar 13, 2009
- Translation updates, general bug fixes. So hot key changes for example playlist is now F9, to be more compatible with other Gnome Apps
- New features: gnome-mplayer now includes a property page in Nautilus that displays media info. To use restart nautilus after installing and then select a media file and choose properties, you should see an Audio/Video tab and you can view the properties that mplayer knows there. If you have totem installed you might see two pages.
New in GNOME Mplayer 0.9.4 (Feb 4, 2009)
- Compatibility with Free/Open/NetBSD
- Updated translations
- New commandline option "--showsubtitles" defaults to 1, set to 0 to
- prevent subtitles from showing by default.
- Cleanup glib/gtk assertions
- Fix window resize issues
- Better handling of initial video playback window, should cause fewer resizes
- Fix crashes when HOME is not set
- Fix some realplayer emulation issues, may not be entirely fixed as
- problem site is not accessible at my location
- Stability improvements
- Compatibility with libgpod 0.7 (API change between 0.6 and 0.7)
- Mixer option is only used when the ALSA ao is selected
New in GNOME Mplayer 0.9.3 (Jan 2, 2009)
- Several internal changes that improve the way the application works.
- Updated translations.
- Improved subtitle and audio track selections.
New in GNOME Mplayer 0.9.2 (Nov 21, 2008)
- Fix problematic playlist loading
- libgpod support, will load tracks off of ipods using ipod database
- Rework the track loading method, store more metadata internally so we
- don't have to refetch it
- If you have libmusicbrainz3 and libcurl installed album cover art will
- be loaded from the net. Use --disable_cover_art_fetch to work offline
- (also a preference setting)
- Rework the alsa stuff, add --mixer command line option and preference to
- choose the mixer you want to use. If no mixer specified it defaults to
- Master
- Use XDG .config and .cache directories (gnome-mplayer.conf in non-gconf2
- setup has moved from $HOME/.mplayer to $XDG_CONFIG_DIR/gnome-mplayer.
- Usually in $HOME/.config/gnome-mplayer.
- Packagers please note that you make want to check your libraries.
New in GNOME Mplayer 0.9.1 (Nov 2, 2008)
- Fixes compile issues and a minor bug over 0.9.0
New in GNOME Mplayer 0.9.0 (Oct 31, 2008)
- gnome-mplayer features full GIO support (works best when gvfs-fuse is installed) when compiled with a glib that includes gio.
- The optional usage of gconf, will fall back to glib keyfiles.
- Inclusion of a status icon on the tray
- Inclusion of libnotify support
- Several GUI improvements
- And several bug fixes
- If using a current SVN of mplayer (after Oct 1,08), gnome-mplayer will take advantage of some of those newer features if they are detected.
- Features include proper chapter support in MKV files and better pause support.
New in GNOME Mplayer 0.8.0 (Sep 29, 2008)
- This release adds a "recently used file" menu, updated translations, and GUI enhancements.