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- 2003-9-4 Pascal Giard <evilynux@users.sf.net> & Roberto De Leo <peggish@users.sf.net>
- * MoviX-0.8.0 re-released
- - NVidia TV-out improved
- - modules & kernel replaced with the 0.8.0rc2 ones
- - fixed subtitles bug for <=64MB PC
- - added bootrc parameters acquisition in movix.pl
- - replaced isolinux.bin with the 0.8.0rc2 one
-
- 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 Walter Sammarchi <waltere@libero.it>
- - 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 Walter Sammarchi <waltere@libero.it>
- -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 Cl≤vis 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.
-