2004-02-14 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.1rc3
Menu
----
- now CD/DVD drives are slowed down by default at speed 8 unless 'SLOW=n'
is used
- added code to slow down drives even when called from the MPlayer menu
- fixed several minor bugs:
+ the editor ^X key now really quits it
+ save config now works fine for HDs
+ bootsplash is automatically turned on even when playing from within the
MPlayer menu
Scripts
-------
- added code to start a telnet daemon when 'TELNET=y' is used
- added code to run automatically the menu when loggin as root from telnet
System
------
- added telnet and login binaries
- upgraded samba to 3.0.1, nvtv to the current cvs version and viafb to
the DirectFB own cvs version
2004-02-08 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
Menu
----
- added mechanism for allowing multilingual support
- added 'MPlayer menu' entry (for remotes)
- added menu to play Radio stations (true ones, non internet ones ;-)
- fixed problem with the file editor
- added code to support subtitles for audio files in playlists
- added support to save config files in the boot device
(useful when MoviX is booted from USB pens, CF cards or NFS servers)
- added resolution to the movixrc fields
- added italian translation for ~50% of the messages
System
------
- added the 'radio' and 'smbtree' binaries
- added lirc files for 3 new remotes: Sigma RealMagic, Grundig & Kingman
Scripts
-------
- entirely re-wrote the mechanism to list CD/DVD drives
(the old one was giving the worng order and was unnecessarily complicated)
- added support for providing by hand IP, GW and DNS addresses
- all libdvdcss rpm are transparently supported now
- install.pl should now look automatically for the movix files
in the boot device
MPlayer
-------
- added a few commands to input.conf for the dxr3/h+ users
- imported 'aspect' menu item from geexbox
2004-01-11 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
Menu
----
- added to the MPlayer menu the capability to use all of the present
CD/DVD drives
2004-01-10 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
System
------
- 'pump' replaced by 'udhcpc' to eliminate 30secs of timeout
when no DHCP server is present
- added 'mkfifo' to create the MPlayer pipe
- modified rc.S to improve booting with TFTP
Scripts
-------
- added a few ALSA channel volumes adjustements imported from GeexBox
- added PlayCD option to the MPlayer menu using the cool fifo pipe
MPlayer capabilities learned from the GeexBox project
- made many changes to movix.pl to use it as script for the new 'playcd'
menu function
- added new language files under the src/movix/Language directory
to allow an internationalization of the menu - still at early stage
(by Frank Hansen)
MPlayer
-------
- added a few 'hot-keys' to input.conf mainly to allow some basic control
to DXR3/H+ users with low CPUs since they cannot use the menu
2004-01-08 Pascal Giard <evilynux@yahoo.com>
* extras/hd/linux/lilo.conf.movix:
- Lilo doesn't want vga= in append, vga= moved outside.
2004-01-05 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* src/movix/Languages/*, src/movix/movix.pl
- started adding multilingual support to movix.pl (Frank)
* src/movix/movix.pl
- added support for CD info through the cddb protocol
- fixed the MPlayer menu VCD/ACD problems introducing
a new /dev/mcd device
2004-01-05 Pascal Giard <evilynux@yahoo.com>
* src/movix/setHardware.pl:
- Region verification for DXR3/H+ isn't case sensitive anymore.
2004-01-03 Pascal Giard <evilynux@yahoo.com>
* README.fr:
- Almost synch'd to current version, still needs some translation.
2003-12-27 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.1rc2
System
------
- applied several fb patches to the kernel:
From the AdvanceMame project (advancemame.sf.net):
linux-2.4.22-aty128fb-2.4.23-pre5.diff
linux-2.4.22-atyfb-2.4.23-pre5.diff
linux-2.4.22-i740fb-20021207.diff
linux-2.4.22-i810fb-lite-0.0.23-0.0.35.diff
linux-2.4.22-i810fb-lite-0.0.23.diff
linux-2.4.22-i810fb-noclock.diff
linux-2.4.22-rivafb-0.9.4c.diff
linux-2.4.22-vmwarefb-0.6.0.diff
linux-2.4.22-vmwarefb-allowvirtual.diff
linux-2.4.22-vmwarefb-noaccel.diff
linux-2.4.22-vmwarefb-noexit.diff
For the DirectFB project (directfb.org):
savagefb-0.4.0-linux-2.4.21-rc2.patch
- added back a kernel copy with the standard vesafb for those (very few)
unfortunate who cannot use supervesafb
- ALSA drivers upgraded to 1.0.0rc2
- SysLinux upgraded to 2.08
2003-12-24 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX cvs20031224
System
------
- added tftp client
- modified rc.S to allow loading from the net movix files through tftp (Balazs)
- added libnss_resolv.so to allow dns names resolution
- added code to detect the new Radeon 9x00 cards (do not have vidix support)
- added support for hauppauge serial remotes (Jochen)
- files in izo packages are not anymore extracted and copied to /tmp during the boot:
the izo files themselves are instead copied in /tmp and then mounted and all files
are simply linked in the rootfs. This way MoviX works again with 64MB RAM PCs!
Scripts
-------
- fixed 3dfx/vesafb problem
- added grub conf file (Balazs)
- fixed (hopefully) MoviX and Savage TV-out problems (Balazs & Pascal)
- fixed (hopefully) DXR3/H+ modules
- fixed samba/nfs volumes mount problem
Menu
----
- added two Play->Net submenus to play SHOUTcast and ICEcast radios
2003-12-23 Pascal Giard <evilynux@yahoo.com>
* README.fr: - Started to synch with current version.
* src/movix/setHardware.pl:
- Should fix TV-Out problem with some Matrox cards (G200 ?).
2003-12-06 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.1rc1
System
------
- fbi upgraded to 1.28
- added a few checkboxes to Curses::UI::Dialog::Dirbrowser
- added lirc_sir module
- the vesaFB kernel has been eliminated since the SuperVesaFB
seems to work fine
Scripts
-------
- fixed a mount bug in setHardware.pl
Menu
----
- added Play->Slideshow entry to let people choose a music
background during slideshows
- added a few playback options for slideshows
- added a few playback options for the Play->Dir entries
- added V.V. Chistyakov files for the abit remote
2003-11-23 Pascal Giard <evilynux@yahoo.com>
* src/isolinux/isolinux.cfg (NVidiaTV): - Added vga=0x314.
2003-11-15 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.1pre5
System
------
- applied new patch to MPlayer to add a 'stop' call, a trivial modification
of the GeexBox "halt" patch
- added GIF and PhotoCD support to 'fbi'
- added norwegian keymap
Scripts
-------
- added B. Benz remote patch
Menu
----
- added code to take advantage of the 'stop' call: now after selecting the
MPlayer menu the system will keep that menu till it will explicitly chosen
to go back to the MoviX menu
- added 'scale' vop option to the 'sdl' vo drive when the CPU is >= 500MHz
- added code to update automatically the size used in the 'scale' parameter
when the resolution is changed
2003-11-15 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-cvs20031115
System
------
- Supervesafb patch updated to 1.1. Many thanks to the Supervesafb author
for fixing very quickly the incompatibilities with 2.4.22!
- added lirc support to the fbi package.
Scripts
-------
- improved lirc support & added support for Hauppauge serial remotes.
(patch by B. Benz)
- lircrc-menu files merged in the general lircrc files
Menu
----
- fixed a few minor bugs
2003-11-01 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.1pre4
System
------
- added kernel compiled with the normal vesafb driver since the supervesafb
fails in a few cases; currently only the default label uses supervesafb.
- added Balazs's international layouts maps in shared.izo
Scripts
-------
- SP/DIF not anymore on by default since it interferes with analog output
Menu
----
- now Play->Dir, Play->File and Play->SlideShow remember the last visited dir
and use it for the next access
- fixed the "change rez" menu
- added a few help dialogs
- fixed problem with first supermount access to a CD/DVD drive
2003-10-26 Pascal Giard <evilynux@yahoo.com>
* src/movix/movix.pl (createInfoSub, getAudioVideoFiles) :
- Added OGG subtitles.
2003-10-25 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.1pre3
System
------
- applied supervesafb patch
- applied supermount patch
- alsa drivers updated to 0.9.8
- fixed the boot mechanism from win partitions
MoviX menu
----------
- added menu for changing resolution with the vesa fb
- replaced the Play->Partition menu with the Play->Dir menu
- added F5 and F6 keys with MPlayer info
- added AC3 flag to select hw AC3 support
Scripts
-------
- added lines to unmute audio digital outout (SP/DIF)
- added special settings for Toshiba laptops audio cards and VIA audio cards
- added samples for booting from the net with the nb images mechanism
2003-10-12 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.1pre2
System
------
- added Kangur's 'exeafter' binary
- added 'scantv' binary to let users generate
their own channel list
- added libiconv to allow generation 'on the fly' of
non-latin characters with ttf
- Curses::UI package updated to 0.76_01
- applied patch to Curses::UI to allow repositioning of menus
and to introduce a new DirBrowser class
- applied little patch to fbi
- MPlayer updated to 0.92
- applied lots of patches to MPlayer:
mplayer-0.90rc3-fixfbdev.patch
mplayer-0.90rc3-fixvesa.patch
mplayer-0.92-fixmultisubs.patch
mplayer-0.92-fixsub_font.patch
mplayer-0.92-fixsub_free.patch
mplayer-0.92-tty.patch
patch-MPlayer-additional-filters
patch-MPlayer-audio-sub-sel
patch-MPlayer-bgvideo
patch-MPlayer-demuxer-control
patch-MPlayer-i420-sws
patch-MPlayer-i420-vidix
patch-MPlayer-menu
patch-MPlayer-menu-cmd
patch-MPlayer-menu-vcd-dvd-cdda
patch-MPlayer-multisub
patch-MPlayer-nopcidb
patch-MPlayer-playtree
patch-MPlayer-quote
patch-MPlayer-run
patch-MPlayer-subtitles
patch-MPlayer-switch-ratio
patch-MPlayer-vbelib
patch-MPlayer-vidix-cyberblade
patch-MPlayer-vsync
Scripts
-------
- added code to autoload nfs and samba volumes
MoviX menu
----------
- added colors
- applied Kangur's 'exeafter' patch
- fixed routine to summon the subtitles load dialog
- improved the menu to mount nfs/samba volumes
- added editor to the "Edit" menu
- fixed key bindings bug
- added menu to set subtitles font properties
- added menu to change rez when a specific FB driver is used
- added .mp4, .wav and .ogm extensions to the list of exts
automatically searched for when playing a whole CD/partition
- added SlideShow capabilities
- added code to produce automatically songs info to be displayed
when music-only files are played
- added binding to allow immediate access to the MPlayer menu
- added default '-bgvideo' to all MPlayer options
- centered all buttons
2003-09-10 Pascal Giard <evilynux@yahoo.com>
* src/isolinux/isolinux.cfg, README, README.fr,
boot-messages/fr/trblst.txt, boot-messages/en/trblst.txt:
- Added NVidiaTV boot-label.
2003-9-8 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-cvs20030908
- fixed annoying pump output bug
- applied 'exeafter' Kangur patch
- "vidix" not used anymore for Radeon 9000
- added 'exeafter' binary to bin.izo
2003-9-7 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX 0.8.1pre1
- got rid of the DHCP boot arg: now the dhcp client is always run if a NIC is found
- added Malaga and Barcelona xawtv channels lists
- isolinux downgraded to the 0.8.0rc2 one
- got rid of the ywrap FB option as suggested by Balazs
- updated setHardware.pl and movix.pl after the 0.8.0 second version changes made by Pascal
- improved the 'fbset' calls with the "FB" and "TV" labels: finally I can use
the specific Radeon FB with my Radeon VE!!!
- added mtx module for the Matrox Parhelia video card (not sure it does any good)
2003-9-3 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-cvs20030903
- kernel re-upgraded to 2.4.22: the EPIA M-10k NIC problem was due to
a bad ACPI interaction with the VIA chipset, using acpi=off fixes the
problem
- added 'if' instructions in the rc.S script to allow users disabling
the USB/FireWire modules load
- added instructions in rc.S to load the MB's IDE chipsets modules
- default mouse driver set back to 'ps2', I wonder why it was not working
just a few days ago...
2003-8-31 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-cvs20030831
- kernel downgraded to 2.4.20 for strange problems with the EPIA M-10k net card
- gpm call removed for it would hang PCs with no mouse attached
2003-8-31 Pascal Giard <evilynux@users.sf.net>
* README.fr:
- Added missing libdvdcss information.
- Other small additions.
* boot-messages/fr/*: - Updated to 0.8.0 .
2003-8-30 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-cvs20030830
- several packages upgraded:
kernel -> 2.4.22
samba -> 3.0.0rc2
alsa -> 0.9.6
Curses-UI -> 0.74
- added bootsplash support
- added support for boot from usb devices (CompactFlash cards, USB pens, HD partitions, Net)
- only system files left in the initrd.gz, all other files moved into .izo packages, so that
now MoviX can boot with as low as 32MB of RAM if a >=32MB HD swap partition is available
- added hotplug support
- added PCMCIA support
2003-8-30 Pascal Giard <evilynux@users.sf.net>
* README.fr: - Sync'd with 0.8.0.
2003-8-26 /REDACTED/
- docs
final README.it and boot-messages/it for v0.8.0
2003-8-24 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0
- all modules are now stored in gzipped format to save RAM
- lircd binaries & modules have been recompiled
- remote activation mechanism totally changed: now it is necessary to specify
a remote type. By now the tested models are Hauppauge and Logitech.
- several unused libraries have been removed to save RAM
- settings for slow PCs (<200MHz) have been improved
2003-8-8 /REDACTED/
-docs
Added README.it
2003-8-7 Pascal Giard <evilynux@users.sf.net>
* keyboard-i18n/*: - Added so users can choose their keyboard layout.
2003-7-1 Clovis Sena <csena2k2@users.sf.net>
- docs
updated README.pt-br to RC1
2003-6-29 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0rc2
- added remote support for the MoviX menu thanks to the blackkane suggestions
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=882303&forum_id=207428
- improved ISA cards module load algorithm
- improved SCSI cards module load algorithm
2003-6-25 Anthony Ricou <dreambox@users.sf.net>
- movix.pl: Load / Save alsa setting on/from floppy by Load/Save config menu
- rc.movix: copy asound.state (ALSA Mixer Setting) from cdrom/movix directory to /etc/ in memory
- setHardware.pl: Load Alsa setting on startup if found asound.state
2003-6-22 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0-cvs-20030622
- improved XCD support thanks to the K. Kohler patch
(http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=877885&forum_id=207428)
- improved TV-in support thanks to the xawtv2channel Balazs script
(http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=784341&forum_id=207427)
- improved subtitles support following the patch by Julien
(http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=878425&forum_id=207428)
- got rid of the micorosoft TrueType fonts for copyright problems
- added 2 OpenSource TrueType fonts
- replaced the dxr3 modules with the Ricardo Espinoza ones
- replaced the old lircd daemon with a new one compiled with supoprt for all possible remotes
2003-6-12 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0-rc1
- DVD interface completed (Max Weninger)
- VCD & AudioCD interfaces implemented (trivial deformation of Max DVD interface)
- Added ACPI kernel support as suggested by Ra1n
- Added menu entry for filing bug reports
- Added Spanish translation (Adrian15)
- Added automatic activation of Linux swap partitions
- Fixed DXR3 modules call (thanks to Bjorgvin Ragnarsson & Ricardo Espinoza)
- Implemented new DXR3 menu
- Improved partitions/net volumes menus
- Samba package made smaller
- fixed the "DETECT=all" procedure
- lirc calls moved to rc.lirc
- added support fot TrueType fonts
- added menu entry for XCDs
- added Chinese fonts (hopefully :-)
2003-5-25 Pascal Giard <evilynux@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0-cvs20030525:
Added README.translation in order to, hopefully, improve the translators comprehension.
Fixed COPYING in order to be GNU standart compliant.
Updated mkmovixiso.sh and mkmvxiso.bat to 0.8.0pre6.
2003-5-15 Clóvis Sena <csena2k2@users.sf.net>
Docs
- updated README.pt-br and README.pt-br.html to reflect pre6.
2003-5-9 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0-pre6
Scripts
-------
- added bind to ESCAPE key to the menu
- updated the dvd calls according to the new MPlayer syntax
- got rid of the dvd_read function to speed up the menu
Docs
----
- added spanish partial README translation and full boot messages
- improved colored boot messages (by Anthony RICOU)
2003-5-7 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0-cvs20030507
System
------
- updated rc.S with SCSI probe of all possible modules
- added atitvout
- updated ALSA to 0.9.3
- added Aural audio cards modules
- added IEEE1934 support
- got rid of the joe editor to save RAM
- added "central europe" new subtitles font sets
Scripts
-------
- fixed CD slow down [now it is permanent]
- fixed floppy problems with load/save config & bugReport.sh
- fixed Dxr3 support
- improved DVD support (by Max Weninger)
- fixed loadModules function
- fixed TV-out support
- fixed subs fonts bug for low RAM PCs
- audio driver def is now "auto"
- added support for multiple AUDIO card after eMoviX Balazs patch
- fixed USB support
- setHardware.pl now uses "strict" perl module
- fixed NFS mount support
- fixed partitions mount support
- fixed audio volumes after Balazs suggestion
2003-5-1 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0pre5
System
------
- upx compression is not used anymore in initrd.gz: the initrd.gz size is more or less
the same anyway but upx wastes precious RAM MBs!
- Dxr3 modules have been replaced with [hopefully] working ones and the em8300setup
utility has been added.
Scripts
-------
- Video card detection seems now finally correctly fixed.
- MPlayer's cache is now automatically reduced when RAM is very low.
This should allow users with as low as 64MB of RAM to use MoviX.
- DMA problem fixed [now the -u and -X flags are not anymore used].
- memory bounds for the use of Win Codecs has been raised to be sure saving enough RAM
for the system.
2003-4-29 Clovis Sena <csena2k2@users.sf.net>
docs:
- updated README.pt-br to pre4
2003-4-23 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0pre4
System
------
MPlayer:
Added faad support (to play the audio of the latest Matrix trailer ;-)
Added Real support (but it needs non-redistributable codecs from the RP8 Linux package!)
Kernel:
Added Intel i815 FB support (tested on an Acer laptop)
Automatic DMA use has been disabled to allow booting on buggy MBs
Busybox:
Added support for rpm2cpio & cpio
Scripts
-------
movix.pl&setHardware.pl:
fixed the instructions that identify the video card
2003-4-22 Clovis Sena
Docs:
- added Portuguese version of README
2003-4-21 Max Weninger
Scripts:
Added support for SCSI CD-ROMS
2003-4-20 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0cvs20030420
System:
MPlayer upgraded to 0.90
Added epiafb & tvout for EPIA MBs and lsdvd for retrieving DVD info
Modified Czech subtitles fonts with the Vlastimil Pospichal ones
MPlayer fonts are now stored in src/mplayer and are copied in the /tmp dir
Win Codecs are now stored in src/mplayer/codecs
MPlayer is not linked anymore to libxvid since that library is used only for encoding
Mplayer is not compiled anymore with mpdvdkit support because of the DeCSS legal problems:
now it links libdvdread so that crypted DVDs will be read only if the user
adds his own copy of libdvdcss
Scripts:
Fixed sw rescaling lines
Added a menu for "-vop" options
Applied Max Weninger DVD info patch
Added instructions for EPIA MBs
Subtitle fonts list is now dynamically created to allow users adding their ones
Sw rescaling now is activated from 290MHz
Added support for using all possible Win32 DLLs (if there is enough RAM)
Fixed a few important typos
Play CD/Play part. menus now play files in alphabetic order
2003-3-26 Pascal Giard <evilynux@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0cvs20030326
TV-Out: Fixed broken TV-Out for other than PAL modes. REGION paramater
is effective now.
2003-3-16 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0pre3
System:
ALSA drivers updated to 0.9.1.
Samba 2.2.3a added to the distro for mounting samba volumes.
Scripts:
Added checks to avoid consuming too much RAM. This way QT DLLs, samba
and/or MPlayer character sets won't be loaded if the free RAM is not
enough.
Fixed the samba mount problem and the update on-the-fly of the mounted
volumes in the menu.
2003-3-12 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0pre2.
Mplayer: upgraded to 0.90rc3.
System: added patch for Matrox TV-out; added support for all possible
SCSI controllers and all USB devices.
Scripts:
added code for hw autodetection after a nice suggestion by Edmunt Pienkowsky
and a nice patch by William Daniau;
added routines for TV-out (taken from eMoviX);
added support for loading/saving movixrc config file;
fixed support for nfs/smbfs mount;
added routines to play whole CD/HD partitions audio/video contents;
a few minor updates to the MPlayer default options;
added support for dhcp [from a patch & binaries by William Daniau];
added back support for OSS audio modules, so now it is possible to
choose between ALSA [default] and OSS [patch by William Daniau]
Boot: added TV label and a good number of boot args.
System files: now rc.S should try to load all SCSI modules.
Binaries: added matrox and savage TV-out binaries, added a "true" find
binary to use the "-iname" option, added a few binaries provided by
William Daniau (pump,rexima,joe). The biggest binaries have been
squeezed with upx.
2002-12-26 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.8.0pre1.
Mplayer: upgraded to 0.90rc2 - added support for the new "menu" feature
and QuickTime videos.
System: OSS replaced with ALSA - added limited lirc support - added
support for all SCSI and NET cards supported by kernel 2.4.20.
Scripts: fixed many movix.pl bugs; added support for saving/loading
mplayer&movix options in/from a file.
System files: inittab starts now 3 consoles, the first with movix.pl,
the second with alsamixer and the third with a shell.
Boot: syslinux.cfg contains now 3 different labels for 3 different
vesaFB resolutions.
Binaries: added nvtv for NVidia TV-out.
2002-12-3 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.7.0: the movix.pl script has been almost completely
re-written to include a console menu (the original MoviX package
is now called eMoviX) and part of it has been moved in the new
setHardware.pl script [to make it similar to the MoviX2 model].
Perl has been upgraded to 5.8.0 and the Curses and Curses::UI
have been added. The kernel has been upgraded to 2.4.20.
2002-11-21 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.6.1pre2: mplayer updated to 0.90pre10. SDL, arts, lirc, TV
and straming support has been added to it. SDL&arts libraries and TV
modules have been added but net modules&net support is not yet
available. New boot labels "vesaFB" and "sdl" have been added.
2002-11-05 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.6.1pre1: nmixer has been substituted with a working copy.
"-double" option added to mplayer options to avoid subtitles blinking.
2002-11-01 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.6.0: MPlayer and SysLinux have been updated to versions 0.90pre9
and 2.00 respectively. A console mixer [nmixer] has been added. Support
for DVD, wmv & asf formats and for playlists has been added to mplayer.
Now mkmovixiso takes all files to include as last arg without any flag.
Several small fixes have been made to mkmovixiso and movix.pl.
Many mplayer parameters have been added for the "aa" label.
Boot parameters LIST, VO_DRIVER and MP_OPTIONS have been added.
The ".mplayer" dir that was used to contain the distro fonts has been
renamed "mplayer" to avoid problems with Nero.
Added a few log messages in the debug script.
2002-10-20 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.6pre3: MPlayer has been recompiled with smarter flags and using gcc 3.2
as suggested by Jeff Moe and with a little help by Arpi [mplayer creator].
MPlayer now should take advantage of specific CPU flags [mmx, 3dnow, sse etc]
detecting them automatically, so that sw acceleration should be much more effective
now. Support for Dxr3/H+ cards and for the "aa" (ascii-art) driver has been added.
MoviX MPlayer configuration flags are available in the src directory.
Also the kernel configuration has been modified to make vmlinuz as small as possible
(so now all FB except the vesa one are loaded as modules) to make possible to produce
a MoviX floppy bootdisk. The kernel config used for MoviX is available in the src dir.
A stupid bug in mkmovixcd concerning isolinux.bin has been fixed.
A patch for Rage128 has been applied to mplayer so maybe now it will display again
movies in full colors.
The movix.pl script has been updated to take care of all the new stuff.
2002-10-13 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.6pre2: An autoconf/automake mechanism has been finally built to install
easily the MoviX package.
A new Perl script called "mkmovixiso" has been created to make easier
the creation of a MoviX isoimage; the only documentation available up to now
is available running "mkmovixiso --help" after the installation.
Many little but significant fixes and improvements were made thanks to Jose' Fandinho.
In particular a debug script has been added to make easier putting lots of
important system info in a floppy & now the movix script is able to select the
AGP card in systems where an AGP and a PCI cards are present at the same time.
For easy reading, a copy of the movix script has been put in the "src" directory.
2002-10-11 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.6: trying to add SCSI support. MoviX should now be able to support CDROMs
connected to SCSI cards with the following chipsets: Acard, Adaptec AIC7xxx and
SYM53C8XX. MoviX MPlayer now has been compiled with specific support for 3Dfx Voodoo*.
2002-10-8 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.5.1: made a few fixes in movix.pl: recent Matrox cards now should visualize
through the "mga" driver and CD-ROM speeds are limited to 12X to reduce noise.
Support for i810/815 has been added in the MoviX kernel but I could not verify yet
whether it really works or not. Got rid of the annoying "MPlayer" green label on top
of the screen when using the "vesa" driver (hope MPlayer developers won't get upset,
but when you watch a movie you want to see only the movie ;).
2002-10-3 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.5: finally the number of kernels has been brought to one; now it is the
script that chooses the right driver for the video card, so hopefully nobody will
have anymore to use any label.
In any case two labels have been left to allow the user to force the use of the
"vesa" driver and of specific FB drivers, if any.
To improve the customizability of MoviX a directory ".mplayer" has been left out from
the initrd image. It contains the font directory, so that the user can substitute
his own fonts to the default ones before making the iso image. In the same directory
it is possible to insert an mplayer config file to customize mplayer's behaviour.
A couple of option to optimize playback quality and speed have been added to the
movix script after suggestions by Jose' Fandinho.
The directory isolinux has been moved with all others MoviX ingredients inside
the dir "src".
Last but not least, now at the end of the movie a note will give instructions to the
user on how play another movie without rebooting.
2002-09-30 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.4.1: this is mainly a bug-fixing release. The booting labels have been
simplified respect to 0.4 and the choice between hardware or software driver (i.e.
whether or not vidix must be activated in mplayer) is again done inside the movix.pl
script (so GeForce again works with the default boot label). Optimization for CD
playback have been added to movix.pl and a "-cache 8192" mplayer option has been added
following a suggestion by Jose' Fandinho.
Many thanks also to Krzysztof Kajkowski for providing a set of eastern fonts that
should work with both iso-8859-2 and WINDOWS-1250 encodings!
Finally, ogg/vorbis support has been added to mplayer.
2002-09-28 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.4: first of all, mplayer version has been updated from 0.90pre6 to 0.90pre8.
Now besides the FB interface is also available the Vesa MPlayer
interface, that should allow more cards to work. Besides, support for eastern
languages has been added (but I still have to find out how to add more languages
at the same time: after trying hard to make hebrew & polish coexist I gave up...)
and the movix.pl script has been changed a lot, making finally mplayer play
sequencially all movie files on the CD!
Finally, Matrox support has been enhanced through the mga mplayer interface.
2002-09-21 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.3:
- added support for nvidia and sis chipsets (but they need to be checked!);
- added search routine for the cdrom drive containing the movix cd;
- fixed the routine that sets mplayer "-vo" flag depending on the video chipset;
- redirected to /tmp/mplayer.log and /tmp/mplayer.err the output of mplayer
for easier debugging;
- eliminated the reboot command in case of audio/video problems (the movie will be
played even if no audio card has been recognized)
2002-09-06 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.2: just a few minor fixes. Mainly, to avoid mplayer playing failures with
old cards (S3, G100, Millennium II) now the video codec called from mplayer is by
default "fbdev" unless the card has one of the following chips (in which case the
codec is "fbdev:vidix"):
Matrox G200/400/450/550, Ati Mach64, Ati Rage128, Ati Radeon, NVidia.
The old logo has been superseded by a new nice logo by ScriptaManent.
2002-09-02 Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
* MoviX-0.1: first public version of MoviX.