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mplayer has security updates - v1.00pre8. It is possible this package could be updated please? Thankyou.

changelog: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

"MPlayer 1.0pre8: "NeuTeam strikes back"

Security:
* support for compilation with non-executable stack
* fix the major issues caught by Coverity's static analysis runs

Documentation:
* environment variables documentation started
* interactive control fully documented
* improved encoding guide
* new technical encoding guide in DOCS/tech/encoding-guide.txt which is to be merged into the existing guide
* encoding tips for x264 and XviD
* how to set up MEncoder for x264 support
* new advanced audio usage guide with surround sound instructions
* Hungarian XML documentation translation finished
* Czech documentation translation finished
* French MPlayer documentation synced
* German man page synced
* Hungarian man page synced
* Italian man page synced
* Chinese console messages synced
* misc improvements all over the place
* AIX port documentation added
* all XviD options documented
* CONFIGURATION FILES section added to the man page
* Doxygen comments added to configuration parser and OpenGL video out driver

Drivers:
* JACK audio output rewritten without bio2jack
* OpenAL audio output - unfinished, can only do mono output
* OpenGL video output modules support -geometry and -wid options
* for -vo gl manyfmts is now default (since it is a lot faster), use -vo gl:nomanyfmts if it does not work for you
* streaming textures for -vo gl, much faster if supported (use -dr)
* hardware YUV to RGB conversion for -vo gl and -vo gl2, see yuv suboption
* support for custom fragment programs for -vo gl (see TOOLS/*.fp)
* support for bicubic hardware scaling in -vo gl, see lscale suboption
* use libvbe from vesautils as VESA video driver
* several fixes for the GGI video output driver
* fall back on next video output driver if vo_3dfx failed to initialize
* improved XvMC library detection (disabled by default)
* DPI (Print-Resolution) and Pixel-Aspect support in vo_jpeg
* ALSA audio output: several small fixes and improvements
* removed experimental mmap suboption from the ALSA driver
* YUY2 and back end scaling for S3 Virge chips on fbdev (-vo s3fb)

Decoders:
* Indeo2 (RT21) support via lavc
* Fraps video decoder via binary DLL
* support for 8-bit PNGs with palette
* support for dmb1 MJPEG files with ffmjpeg
* support for musepack audio (WARNING: when seeking you might get ear- and speaker-breaking noises). If you hear clipping, use -af volume.
* experimental speex support via libspeex
* On2 VP7 video decoder via binary DLL
* Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) support via lavc
* support FLX and DTA extensions for flic files
* QDM2 audio decoding via lavc
* cook audio decoding via lavc
* TrueSpeech audio decoding via lavc
* CamStudio video decoder via lavc
* hwmpa pass-through MPEG audio codec
* tremor updated to libogg 1.1.2
* PNG decoding via libavcodec
* removed native RealAudio codecs (ported to lavc)
* Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder via lavc and binary DLL
* support for QuickTime in24/in32/fl32 PCM audio
* internal libfaad updated to CVS 20040915+MPlayer patches
* RTJpeg decoder from lavc is preferred
* bug fix for lavc WMA v2 decoder, now all files should be playable
* -vc mpeg12 resizes the window when aspect ratio changes
* Smacker audio and video decoding via lavc
* Windows Media VC1 video decoder via binary DLL
* Flash Screen video decoder via lavc

Demuxers:
* simultaneous audio capture/playback (-tv immediatemode=0) fixed in v4l2
* PVR support
* AAC ADTS demuxer
* libdvdread updated to v0.9.4
* support for some more MythTV NUV files
* modularization of demuxer code
* MPEG in GXF container support with extension-based detection
* faster MPEG and much faster GXF demuxing
* more user-friendly demuxer forcing
* MPEG Layer 1 and 2 demuxing fixed
* properly pass Vorbis extradata from Matroska container
* DVR format support
* H.264 ES high profile support
* TV channel cycling
* DVD subtitle and audio stream mappings fixed
* fixed RealAudio demuxing, now all files should have correct A/V sync
* partial support for QuickTime sound atom version 2
* improved handling of text subs in Matroska files
* DVD subtitles disabled by default
* support sipr codec in old RealAudio files
* fixed framerate detection of interlaced H.264 in raw/PS/TS streams
* support for variable framerate Ogg/OGM files
* made demux_ogg.c work with ffvorbis decoder
* fixed playback of RealVideo in Matroska files on PPC
* added support for Vorbis in MOV/MP4

Streaming:
* fix streaming of RealAudio files over HTTP
* show SHOUT/Icecast metadata while playing
* ultravox (unsv://) streaming support
* stream code ported to new modular API, massive code cleanup
* bandwidth selection for Real RTSP streams (for faster stream dumps)

FFmpeg/libavcodec:
* Snow bug fixes and speedup on x86, x86-64 and AltiVec
* MPEG-1/2/4 and H.264 decoder speedup
* Indeo2 (RT21) video decoder
* Fraps video decoder (v0 & v1, v2 not yet supported)
* Vorbis audio decoder
* RV20 fixes
* VP3 decoder fixes and speedup
* countless bug fixes all over the place
* vstrict=-1 is default, Snow, ffv1 etc. need vstrict=-2
* skiploopfilter/skipidct/skipframe decoder options for very fast H.264 decoding
* D-Cinema audio demuxer and decoder support
* Duck/On2 TrueMotion2 (TM20) decoder
* FLX and DTA extensions for flic
* QDM2 audio decoder
* cook audio decoder
* TrueSpeech audio decoder
* WMA2 audio decoder fixed, now all files should play correctly
* JPEG-LS decoder (unfinished)
* CamStudio video decoder
* Theora decoder
* improved MOV and QuickTime demuxer
* improved AVI muxer
* multithreaded decoding
* bitexact decoding
* DV50 encoder, decoder, muxer and demuxer
* true audio (TTA) decoder
* AIFF/AIFF-C audio format, encoding and decoding
* Creative VOC demuxing
* Zip Motion-Block Video (ZMBV) decoder
* KMVC decoder
* NuppelVideo/MythTV demuxer and RTJpeg decoder
* MP4 and MOV demuxer greatly improved to support all varieties of currently available files
* AVS demuxer and video decoder
* American Laser Games multimedia (*.mm) playback system
* Smacker demuxer and decoder
* Flash screen Video decoder
* Trellis-optimized ADPCM audio encoder
* Major improvements to Snow quality and encoding

GUI:
* skins now reside in a directory named 'skins', not 'Skin'
* ported to GTK2
* long standing upside down vpotmeter bug fixed
* don't hang on unreadable skin files
* random fixes and improvements

Filters:
* much faster version of spp filter (-vf fspp), and pp7 ("fast spp=6")
* remove_logo filter
* lavcresample now used by default (-af-adv force=0 gives old behavior)
* vf_expand and vf_dsize now support aspect and round parameters
* screenshot filter
* -af pan command line fix, now outputs the right number of channels and accepts values < 0 or > 1. Channel order had to be changed.
* -af sinesuppress to remove a sine at a certain frequency
* negative stride support in swscale
* big-endian and AltiVec fixes and performance improvements for swscaler, color conversions and post-processing
* -srate fixed
* hqdn3d: 2.5x faster temporal-only, 1.6x faster spatial-only
* new proof-of-concept karaoke (voice removal) filter
* motion compensating deinterlacer (-vf mcdeint)
* Yet Another DeInterlacing Filter (-vf yadif)

MEncoder:
* audio encoding modularized
* AAC (FAAC) audio encoding
* border processing adaptive quantization in libavcodec
* encoding zones, DivX profiles support, luminance masking, multi-threaded encoding for XviD
* raw audio muxer
* fixed various bugs in the EDL code
* x264 "turbo mode" to speed up first pass of multi-pass encoding
* x264 custom quantization matrices
* -delay allows real audio delay instead of just a delay in the header
* search for (deprecated!) frameno.avi is now disabled by default (use -frameno-file frameno.avi to enable)
* -o is now mandatory. You can add 'o=test.avi' in ~/.mplayer/mencoder to get the old behavior back.
* In multiple file encoding, either all or no files must have audio. Use -nosound to force.
* support for VBR MP2 encoding in toolame
* twolame support
* libavformat muxers support
* VBR audio in MPEG support
* muxer_mpeg: added an experimental film2pal teleciner and fixed previous bugs that could lead to desync and to wrong TFF/RFF flags being set
* rewritten muxer_mpeg.c: buffering and timing constraints will always be respected, provided that the muxrate is big enough

Ports:
* improved timer function on Mac OS X
* New Mac OS X "macosx" video output driver. Supported on OS X 10.4 and 10.3 with QuickTime 7 (requires QuickTime 7 SDK to build on 10.3)
* Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) fixes
* macosx audio output driver fixes
* preliminary support for Intel Macs
* support for playing DVDs copied to harddisk on Cygwin
* DragonFly BSD support
* liba52 ASM optimizations ported to AMD64
* configure check and compiler optimizations for VIA C3, C3-2 and Pentium-M
* configure check and compiler optimizations for AMD-64 extended
* configure can now run with cross compiling, new configure option --enable-cross-compile
* -(no)border option to get a bordered/borderless window on Windows
* Experimental AIX support
* AltiVec support fixes
* POWER5 support
* OpenGL output ported to Windows
* FreeBSD default DVD device added
* MIPS64 support
* Darwin portability fixes
* improved Debian packaging
* improved Win32 multi-monitor support
* Sun's mediaLib disabled by default on Solaris (broken and non-optimal)
* VP6 and WMVA binary codecs should now work also under FreeBSD 6

Others:
* Audio/Video synchronisation fixes
* enabled hinting for TrueType fonts
* support for file:// syntax
* -fb option removed, use the device suboption of -vo fbdev/fbdev2 instead
* full gcc 4 support
* TOOLS/vobshift.py: vobsub time-adjust tool
* TOOLS/psnr-video.sh: computes PSNR between two existing video files
* fixed auto-insertion of lavc encoder (for DXR2/3 and DVB)
* new option: -idle, to make MPlayer wait for input commands when done playing all files
* lots of new slave commands (check DOCS/tech/slave.txt)
* lots of new information provided by the -identify option
* fixed ugly looking OSD with -vo gl2 and MMX
* support for OSD localization
* -rawaudio/-rawvideo requires -demuxer rawaudio/-demuxer rawvideo
* libdvdcss updated to 1.2.9
* ~/.dvdcss is used instead of ~/.mplayer/DVDKeys for cached CSS keys
* libcdio support for CD playback
* new option -msglevel to directly control the verbosity of MPlayer modules
* -verbose option removed, use -v or "-msglevel all" instead
* -edl is now per-file in MPlayer
* new input command prefixes, "pausing_keep" and "pausing_toggle" which alter pausing state immediately after command
* environment variable MPLAYER_VERBOSE controls verbosity before the command line is parsed
* environment variable MPLAYER_HOME controls location where configuration files are searched for
* memleak fixes all over the code
* TOOLS/aconvert: allows MEncoder to encode from an audio-only file
* TOOLS/3*m_convert: D-Cinema audio and video conversion program
* TOOLS/qepdvcd.sh: anything supported to VCD/SVCD PAL/NTSC
* TOOLS/encode2mpeglight: MPEG format encoding tool using only MEncoder
* allow multiple -help clauses on the command line
* console "OSD" for audio-only files
* show total time when playing audio-only files
* support for .wpl playlists
* support for ncurses as termcap library provider
* parallel make fixed
* (improved) support for shared libav* libraries
* playback/encoding profiles support
* new property API
* new -monitorpixelaspect option to determine monitor aspect from screen resolution"