February 5th, 2012· Playback has been optimised by tweaking audio settings.
· A regression in the backup has been fixed.
· A floating point fps bug for mkv decoder has been fixed.
· External window capturing has been rewritten, and now works with Compiz.
· An (experimental) openGL playback plugin has been added.
· Minor GUI fixes have been made.
· Recording of external audio during playback has been implemented.
· Clip names no longer get squashed in sets.
· Further code cleanup has been carried out, and there are updated translations to Ukranian, Finnish, and UK English.
December 9th, 2011· Support for v4l2loopback output has been added.
· Instant opening of WebM / Matroska clips and a Youtube download tool have been implemented.
· Fixes were made for crash recovery for virtual clips, and a possible crash when showing preview frame in multitrack.
· Memory allocation has been optimized for multiplanar images.
· A compilation problem from the last release has been fixed.
November 28th, 2011· Optimizations were made for resizing for virtual clips, threading in colour conversions, image rescaling, and PNG loading.
· Letterbox mode has been implemented for fullscreen playback and encoding.
· Playback start may now be triggered by joystick or MIDI.
· Bugs were fixed in append_audio, undo/redo effect in multitrack, and other places.
· New mencoder formats flv and wmv2/wma were added.
· There is initial language support for Uyghur and updated translations for Chinese (Simplified), Finnish, Japanese, Slovak, Spanish, Telugu, Ukranian, and Uzbek.
July 25th, 2011· Instant opening of some .flv files, a new fade video in/out effect, and a new startup option (-tmpdir) were added.
· Bugs were fixed to stop PAL formats reverting to NTSC in the x264 encoder, to add fewer blank lines to the ~/.lives file, to prevent showing of the "Loaded subtitles" message when subtitles are not loaded, and to move the correct pointer (start or end) when the timeline is clicked in very long clips.
· Frames were sometimes being cut after applying effects in virtual clips; this has also been fixed.
· The code for rendered effects post-processing and dynamic menu building was cleaned up.
June 13th, 2011· Fix important bug with audio shifting when leaving/rentering multitrack mode. *
· Add support for spacial multithreading in effects plugins.
· Fix antialias option in Preferences (regression). *
· Fix buttons in Frame Calculator (regression). *
· Fix updating of parameters with fileread textfields. *
· Add new oggstream playback plugin.
· Add new realtime effects: RGB_delay, YUV_delay and mask_overlay.
· Updated translations to Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian and Ukranian.
February 21st, 2011· New encoder formats were added - H.264/AAC/MP4 super high quality and DivX Plus HD.
· X264/Blu-Ray was updated, as were the ffmpeg and transcode encoders.
· Auto-transition in multitrack, unicap device support, drag and drop of media files to the GUI, and audio caching for the JACK audio player were added.
· Possible crashes when loading the default keymap, when recording parameters were set from a parameter window, and after a failed encoding were fixed.
· New OSC commands were added.
· A -fxmodesmax startup option was added, and -debug was fixed.
· Support for the FREIOR_PATH environment variable was added.
· There were various minor fixes and updates.
September 20th, 2010· This version fixes a crash (regression) in multi-track rendering.
· It updates the Ukrainian translation.
September 16th, 2010· This release fixes a possible crash on startup.
September 16th, 2010· This version fixes a possible crash on startup from 1.3.5, 1.3.6 and 1.3.7.
· Other changes are: further audio insert/delete optimizations, a fix for a bug that affected audio rendering after a preview, quantization of audio rendering to output frame rate, and the addition of a "w" key to show A/V sync statistics.
September 14th, 2010· This version fixes an audio insertion error from 1.3.5 and 1.3.6. Anyone using those versions is advised to upgrade.
September 13th, 2010· A regression in the yuv4mpeg stream loader was fixed.
· Data loss bugs in undo resample and insert with downsampling were also corrected.
· Paste as New now has a cancel button, and a -nothreaddialog startup option was added.
· This version also fixes some problems from 1.3.5.
July 5th, 2010· Minor a/v sync fixes.
· Add more formats to x264 encoder (needs testing).
· Add experimental webm encoding support in ffmpeg_encoder.
· Fix crash when right clicking in mt with no clips loaded.
· Const correctness in code (Penkov)
· Fix possible crash in rendered generators, and add them to crash recovery.
· Thread context fix for gtk+ 2.22 and higher.
· Fix startup mplayer png/alpha test.
· Fix end image size problem (regression).
· Updates to decoder plugins (make threadsafe).
· Add plugin decoder support for ogg/dirac files.
· Faster seeking in ogg/theora files.
· Apply theming to the Preferences dialog (A. Kolga)
· Move weed palette definitions into weed-palettes.h
· Code cleanup - use enums instead of #defines where possible.
· Add new scribbler plugin (Penkov)
· Initial translation to Croatian.
· Updated translations to Hebrew, Polish, Turkish, Russian and Italian.
May 10th, 2010· Crashes after splitting/moving blocks in multitrack, and with threading issues and effect previews were fixed. Inserting and playing in multitrack have been optimised. Full jack timebase client has been implemented as well as improved a/v sync. Multitrack/mixer GUI improvements were made. Video is now played back during "record external audio to selection". CPU usage is reduced when paused in effects or encoding. Image overlay effect was added into core rendered effects. There is a new preferences layout and an "advanced" tab for TV card/webcam input.
March 22nd, 2010· Fix jack/pulse audio breakage in multitrack.
· Add (experimental) support for firewire and TV card inputs
· Faster, lossless recording of generators/inputs
· Implement record pause when disc is low (user definable)
· Some interface improvements for translated versions.
· (Translators - please see: http://lives.sourceforge.net/TRANS-README.txt)
· Fix multi_encoder file permissions
· Fix minor problem with post encoding cleanup *
· Fix crash in multitrack "remove first gaps" *
· Fix for audio block gravity *
· Fix mt auto backup thread concurrency problem
· Update OSC control to work better with puredata.
· Implement new player transport
· Add "Gravity: Right" in multitrack
· Change default extension for ogg video from "ogg" to "ogv"
February 27th, 2010· Fixes a bug in 1.2.0 which could cause a crash when ogg/theora files were loaded with "resize preview to fit interface" enabled.
February 21st, 2010· GUI updates for multitrack mode.
· Implement drag and drop effects in multitrack mode.
· Allow continuous mouse movement on multitrack timeline.
· Allow timecode to be edited in multitrack mode.
· Switching to->from multitrack mode maintains the layout in memory.
· Allow startup in mt mode.
· Better scrolling of tracks in multitrack.
· Implement progressive image loading.
· Change multitrack "snap mode" to "gravity left" / "gravity normal"
· Allow jack transport to set play start position.
· Add option of resizing frames to fit in clip editor interface.
· Removed "File/Encode" ("File/Encode as" is safer)
· New startup wizard for first time users.
· Added Help/Troubleshoot.
· Faster frame generation for realtime generators.
· Add python 3 support to multi_encoder.
· Add OSC commands /clip/close,/clip/copy,/clip/selection/copy,/clip/selection/cut,/clip/selection/delete,/clipboard/paste,/clipboard/insert_before,/clipboard/insert_after.
· Fixed a possible bootstrap issue with weed plugins.
· Fixed an encoder/png problem.
· Fixed image loading (regression).
· Fixed problem with crash recovery restoring a file twice.
· Fixed some minor memory leaks.
· Handle SIGABRT correctly.
· Initial translations to Telugu, Ukranian and Romanian. Updated translations to Arabic, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, Uzbek and others.
December 29th, 2009· This version fixes a bug from the last release which broke encoding, so all users of 1.1.7 should upgrade.
December 28th, 2009· Set encoder output format correctly on first startup.
· Fix problems when mt compositor/transition has 0 input frames.
· Add sox to startup button group.
· Allow use of png for internal image format.
· Optimise frame pump for virtual clips/rendered effects.
· Fix some audio conversion inaccuracies.
· Update all encoders to current versions of externals.
· Resample/undo resample was leaving extra frames in clip.
· Minor compilation updates for OSX and others.
· Fix some very rare crash conditions.
· Initial translations to Arabic, Catalan, Estonian, Galician and Uzbek.
· Updated translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Spanish.
November 16th, 2009· Make keyboard more responsive in fs mode.
· Fix hang/crash in pulse audio player with pa 0.9.19.
· Fix -aplayer startup opts (regression).
· Stop blocks from moving when they are double clicked in mt window.
· Fix audio channel mismatch when reloading mt auto backup.
· Allow setting of start and end frames for clips in the mt window.
· Fix warnings from gcc 4.4 *
· Fix crash when recording with audio gets activated during silent clip. *
· Fix compilation with ENABLE_JACK undefined. (thanks Holgero and others). *
· Add new realtime transitions: iris rectangle, iris circle, 4 way split, dissolve.
· Add -debug startup option to help analyse crash situations.
· Updated translations for Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish.
October 28th, 2009· Fix libvisual startup crash.
· Fix memory leak in pulse audio player.
· Fix memory leak in rendered effect preview.
· Fix handling of characters " and \ in string parameters.
· Fix set locking with symlinked executable.
· Fix rt effect to key mapping (regression).
· Fix jack startup for new users.
· New aspect/blocksize algorithm for more succesful encoding.
· Show encoder debugging info within the application.
· Add multi core support for mjpegtools_encoder.
· Always show Tools->Generators submenu.
· Plug some minor memory leaks.
· Fixes for Darwin compilation.
· Updates for Finnish, German and Spanish translations.
October 18th, 2009· Auto backup of multitrack layouts.
· Allow mouse scroll to switch clips.
· Allow selection of aspect ratio for custom mjpegtools format. (Thanks Doug).
· Fix for solaris patch.
· Transfer focus between clip editor and multitrack.
· Fade audio out was skipping last frame in selection.
· Fix several small memory leaks.
· Improved handling of locale filenames.
· Call weed_desetup() when unloading weed plugins.
· libweed: add missing weed_deinit_f to weed.h
· libweed: fix for free and copy 0 length data
· Fix a crash when autoreloading layouts.
· Do not remove recovery files for other users.
· Set correct filename in "File -> Save..." (regression).
· Fade audio in/out should not be active with no file loaded.
· Updated translations to Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovak, and Spanish.
September 28th, 2009· Increase gtk+ level to gtk+ 2.14 or higher.
· Add support for pulse audio.
· Improve the help menu.
· Make disk cleanup more vigorous.
· Show list of sets in File -> Reload clip set.
· Show event list for selected time only.
· Fix a bug relating to reloading of multitrack audio tracks.
· Fix radix issue in mjpegtools encoder.
· Fix multitrack audio mixer (regression).
· Fixes for building on solaris.
· Undoing load new audio should restore original audio.
· Fix build error for BSD.
· Initial translation to Finnish.
· Updated translations for Brazilian Portuguese, Hebrew, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
September 12th, 2009· Fix startup crash when loading frei0r plugins.
· Fix hang/crash in rfx builder rebuild.
· Increase gtk+ level to gtk+ 2.12 or higher.
· Update "about" dialog.
· Update volume button.
· Fix strange error message when cancelling "load device map".
September 10th, 2009· Fix crash when loop continuous is pressed with no file loaded.
· Fix MIDI/js device load/save for 64 bits.
· Reduce external control latency to 4 ms.
· Fix possible crash in MIDI/js learner.
· Add alsa-midi support. (thanks ORL)
· Fix MIDI note on/note off (were swapped).
· Allow cycling of effect key mode via MIDI/js.
· Add startup option -devicemap. (thanks ORL)
· Fix controller matching bug in MIDI/js learner.
· Fix oversized constants in jack connection timeout.
· Fix occasional freeze in background clip.
· Encoder pixel block size bugfix.
· Fix broken audio in encode selection.
· Fix some file open checks in omc-learn.c
· Correctly show effect keys > 10 in effect mapper.
· Updated config.guess and autogen.sh
· ACX_PTHREAD config.
· Updated gettext to 0.17
· Remove ancient debian and redhat files.
· Initial translation to en_GB (thanks Harry Rickards and Helen McCall).
· Updated translations for Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Hungarian, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
July 23rd, 2009· Fixes for joystick/MIDI learner.
· Fixed crash after recording audio for selection.
· Fixed crash after deleting then replacing audio.
· Fix breakage in encoding a selection.
· Mt GUI and theme refinements.
· Initial translation to Hebrew.
· Updated translations to Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Japanese and Slovak.
July 8th, 2009· Fix Tools/Resize (regression).
· Fix crash when clicking anchor in multitrack (regression).
· Allow opening of dv files > 2GB.
· Fix for a/v sync problem in large dv files.
· Add preference to create symlinks only in /tmp (required for dynebolic).
· Fix encoding error in mencoder_encoder (regression).
· Fix layout memory estimation error (was causing crash in mt undo/redo).
· New theme (crayons) for 1.0
· Suppress error when no theme is selected (regression)
· Complete fix for non-C locale encoding.
· Initial translation to Slovak (thanks Milboy).
· Updated Japanese, German, Spanish, Russian, Czech, and Italian translations.
June 16th, 2009· Fix resampling bug (regression).
· Fix some problems with inserting selections in mt, and with inserting audio
· after playback.
· Fix potential crash in multitrack playback.
· Fixed numerous layout loading bugs.
· Trim frames/add border should resize to the border size.
· Play back at correct speed when switching between files (regression) (relnote).
· Allow mixing of background and foreground generators.
· Allow setting of generator target fps.
· More robust gtk+ startup.
· Splash screen.
· Many minor fixes and updates.
· Initial translation to Simplified Chinese (thanks Yinghua Wang)
· Updated translations to Italian, Japanese and Polish.
June 1st, 2009· Implement realtime mixing of audio in multitrack mode.
· Fix rendering of frames on layers >0 (regression).
· Correct various bugs with realtime audio recording/rendering.
· Fix incorrect reporting of affected layout frames.
· Add initial Russian translation (thanks to Andrey Staravoitov and Xen).
· Much improved Italian translation (thanks to Guybrush88).
March 29th, 2009· Fix MIDI device autodetection.
· Fix "force single monitor" bug.
· Correct audio synch when encoding a selection (regression).
· Small cleanups in OSC and event_list code.
· Add OMC command "/clip/encode_as".
· Created LiVES batch processing tool (/tools/batchproc).
· Add "livetext" effect/generator.
· When recording, record changes made in the realtime fx window, and via OSC.
· Do not reinitialise effects when entering rte mapping window (regression).
· Ensure all libweed files are LGPL 3 or higher.
· Add OMC command "/clip/retrigger".
· Implement real time textmode.
· More accurate recording with generators.
· Initial Polish translation (thanks to jeremiPL).
· Minor GUI cleanups.
February 8th, 2009· External control of VJ features (e.g. with MIDI or joystick) has been implemented.
· Regressions in single image preview and rendered generators were fixed.
· Keyboard support for some alternate keyboards was added.
· Slow opening for ogg/theora files with no audio was fixed.
· A crash when opening ogg/theora files with odd height has also been fixed.
· Initial Spanish and Italian translations were contributed.
December 16th, 2008· This release offers improved multi-head support.
· Stretching of fullscreen playback across multiple monitors can also be done.
· A dataloss bug in the frame calculator was fixed.
· The program now allows setting of width, height, and FPS at encode time.
· More OMC commands were added, and debugging output from the dv_decoder has been silenced.
December 7th, 2008· Implement instant opening for dv and ogg/theora.
· Fix breakage in ogg theora encoder (regression).
· Fixes for shrink/expand and shift_vertical effects (thanks to Brian S. Julin)
· Fix various issues for ubuntu.
· Fix saving/loading of realtime fx defaults (regression).
· Fix textfun effect for 16 bit charsets (regression).
· Correct fix for sox version 14+ (regression).
· Support auto-deinterlacing for some file types (dv).
· Fix locale support for the multi_encoder, mjpegtools_encoder and RFX effects (needs testing).
· Advise user when more multitrack backup space is required.
· Do not reposition cursor on multitrack insert if playback is paused.
· Improvements to the dv/hdv grab window.
· Various small bugfixes.
October 1st, 2008· Noisy output in the jack audio player was fixed.
· Multitrack "insert gap" now inserts gaps in audio tracks.
· A possible crash in multitrack audio playback is avoided.
· Creation of test RFX scripts works again.
· Utilities no longer show "generate to clipboard...".
· The window title is updated after changing clip speed.
· Initial parameter values are now never ignored.
· The "textfun" effect has been further optimized.
September 18th, 2008· Fixes were made for older versions of sox.
· A bug in aspect ratio calculation was corrected.
· flv and flv-youtube formats were added to ffmpeg_encoder.
· Support was added for unclamped YUV.
· Improvements were made to audio rendering.
· (Basic) multitrack audio rendering is implemented in the multitrack editor.
· GUI consistency fixes were applied.
· Small fixes for dynebolic 2 compatibility were added.
· Custom effects menu entries are shown again (regression).
· A simple audio mixer was added in multitrack mode.
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