Gmerlin

Gmerlin is a multimedia architecture for linux. Gmerlin application consists of a set of multimedia libraries and some applications. The libraries are:

- Gavl, a library which provides basic support for uncompressed Audio, Video and Image data.
- The toolkit independent gmerlin library, which contains core application support like an xml based configuration registry, a universal player core, message queues for communication between modules and so on. Most interesting for 3rd party developers might be the plugin API. It offers access to all gmerlin plugins whith a few function calls.
- A separate gtk2 support library for generating configuration dialogs and other stuff.
- gmerlin_avdecoder, which decodes lots of media formats. The core library depends only on gavl, you don't even need gmerlin installed.

Applications, which come with gmerlin, include:

- Gmerlin player: A multiformat media player with mediatree. Type gmerlin to start this.
- Gmerlin transcoder: Feature rich Audio/Video transcoder
- Gmerlin alsamixer: An Alsa mixer with support for multiple cards and detachable mixer controls.
- Camelot: A webcam application
- Gmerlin visualizer: Run xmms visualization plugins without running xmms
- Plugin configurator: Configure gmerlin plugins for programs which can't do this themselves.

Gmerlin is released under the GPL license, so it can freely be reused by other GPL applications.

What is new in this release:

• This version adds a commandline recorder, a v4l2 output plugin, improvements for broadcasting plugins, and many bugfixes.

What is new in version 1.0.0:

• This release brings support for compressed streams in the transcoder, configuration presets and lots of minor improvements and fixes.

What is new in version 0.4.2:

• Great player simplification. Most changes are internal, but the user should notice much faster seeking. Also the GUI player now updates the video window while the seek-slider is moved.
• Simplification of the plugin configuration: In many places, where we had an extra dialog for configuring plugins, it was merged with the rest of the configuration.
• A new recorder application which records audio (with OSS, Pulseaudio, Alsa and ESound) and video (with V4L1, V4L2 or the new X11 grabber). Output can be written into files or broadcasted.
• A new encoding frontend (used by the recorder and transcoder), which allows more consistant and unified configuration of encoding setups.
• The video window of the GUI player has now a gmerlin icon and is grouped together with the other windows.
• Like always: Tons of fixes, optimizations and smaller cleanups

What is new in version 0.4.1:

• Jack audio I/O
• Better webcam support
• Support for the new parallelization features of gavl. Many video filters got parallelized as well.
• Ported the yadif deinterlacer from mplayer
• Better default visualization
• Lots of fixes

What is new in version 0.4.0:

• Lots of bugfixes
• Timecode support
• Filters for displaying and tweaking timecodes
• Timecodes can be exported into quicktime timecode tracks
• Albums can now be created from directories with the "watch directory" option. This causes the album to remain synchronized with that directory if files are added or deleted.