Announcing OpenCORE 2.06 release

[Garret]

OpenCORE 2.06 has been released and is now available on the master
branch. There is a git tag "v2.06" marking the version. Below is a
summary of the changes since the previous release. The same
information is also included in the ChangeLog file in the top-level
directory of the OpenCORE code.

New Features
- Add support for the PLS playlist file format for use with Shoutcast
- Adding code to benchmark encoding/decoding operation in the OMX
component
- Add support for junit-like XML log output to test framework
- AAC utility getaacaudioinfo - add support for adts clips parsing
- Add support in playerdriver for RTSP streaming based on an input SDP
file.
- Player engine unit test needs to support a list of test case ranges
- Add support for authoring btrt atom in mp4 composer to record
bitrate
information.
- Unit test logger option unification
- Add SetDuration capability and new command status code in the base
node
- Add build macro for turning compiler warnings into errors in
Android.mk files
- New color conversion library suite for YUV420 to YUV422 conversion;
supports
basic conversion as well as 90 and 270 degree rotation
- Add communication between OMXEncNode and Composer node for
MaxBitRate and
DecodingBufferDB
- Support PVMF_MIME_H264_RAW where decoder config info is not always
available
before the actual decoding start
- Support for YUV422 to OMX encoder components (M4V and AVC)
- Enable track selection helper to choose the OMX component used for
each track
- Changes in PlayerEngine, FMU, and source nodes to allow retrieval
of
thumbnails for protected content
- Gapless audio support at the file format and source node level

Improvements
- Change the default behavior of the local makefiles to flag compiler
warnings
as errors and provide a new flag to disable it
- AMR-NB modifications from AOSP
https://review.source.android.com/10904
https://review.source.android.com/10905
https://review.source.android.com/10906
- Eliminate memcopies of output buffers in omx components (where
possible)
- Move helper functions ( MoveCmdToCurrentQueue and
MoveCmdToCancelQueue ) to
base node
- Add logic to the OMX encoder to choose another component if one
fails
- Update the logic in the encoder node when choosing an OMX encoder
- Track selection metadata ("track-info/selected") needs to be added
in AAC/AMR
and MP3 nodes
- Code size reduction
- Ignore pause and seek for live streaming
- New player engine test content
- Add API to 2Way engine to support selection of codecs and their
preference
order
- Port OMXBaseNode, OMXVideoNode and OMXAudioNode to new Node
Interface
- Build system support for ARM_GCC_V4 from AOSP
https://review.source.android.com/9668
- Add ID3V2 metadata support in mp4 parser libary defined by 3GPP Rel
7. Move
all metadata related operations from MP4 PN to library
- Variable _mp4ErrorCode to UNSUPPORTED_FILE_TYPE for any brand type
in
mpeg4file.cpp should not be set
- Encoder nodes should be added only for uncompressed MIO in 2way
engine
- PV OMX component returns invalid supported profile/level pair
- Removing memory leaks in MDBS
- Create Generic 2Way Pause/Resume unit test
- Add insert_element() and clear() methods to OSCL linked list
- Update Player developers guide for CancelCommand and
CancelAllCommands error
return values
- Remove a check in sliding_window_process to make avc decoder
tolerate an
error condition and continue decoding
- Remove YUV buffer alignment calculations from the OMX decoder node.
This is
currently done in the OMX components
- Add the ability to report info and error events from the author
MIOs
- Modifying current command queue and cancel command queue to a single
command
in the base node
- Refactor RTSP client engine node for cleaner interfacing with
streaming
manager node
- Adding support for configuring the number of output buffers as a
part of
dynamic port reconfiguration in omx test app
- Refactor MP3FFParserNode to use the base node implementation
- Refactor DownloadManager Node to use the base node implementation
- Refactor MP4 FF Parser Node to use the base node implementation
- Add CallNativeSetSize() API for OSCL File
- Change H.263 encoding default GOB header interval to 0

Bugs Fixed
- Track IDs are huge in particular mp4 clip causing crash
- Source node's handling of CPM cmds in Reset is incorrect
- [PDL] Download resume doesn't work if server response doesn't
include the
Content-Length header.
- Android_camera_input.cpp method statusUpdate returns unhandled
exception
- Hardcoded values in mp4a atom in the composer. (2030968)
- Download manager node uses shoutcast support by default
- atom 'meta' is not skipped
- Video playback is distorted (not normal) during playback for somes
clips
- Need the ability to disable CPM in source nodes
- Crash in OsclTimer
- Nodes getting schedule extra number of times
- Update Android MIO to use authoring clock to achieve better AV sync
in
encoding
- Implementation of trick play support
- Modify player engine's QueryInterface implementation
- Not able to play InValidId3Tags.mp3 content
- Fixes for building OpenCORE on android-x86
- Streaming Manager node modification to make feature specific
plugins
dynamically loadable
- Memory leak in video telephony engine
- OsclMemPoolResizableAllocator has been modified to take into account
the
size specified via setMaxSzForNewMemPoolBuffer while expanding the
mempool
- OMX AMR component fixed to support 3 Role strings properly
- Crash in video telephony engine
- PVAuthor Developer's Guide has been updated to clarify 3GP vs MP4
file
authoring
- RTSP amr-nb streaming can not start playback, need to seek then
playback
start
- Fix the issues in Table of Contents implementation in Mp3 Parser
- Hang in one accepted/negotiated format 2way engine unit test
- Fix a problem where a node based on the base node implementation was
not
getting resheduled to process the next command when multiple commands
(RequestPort in this case) were queued.
- PVMFRecognizer improvements, including multi-pass recognition etc.
- Send correct YUV format to the VMIO instead of
PVMF_MIME_FORMAT_UNKNOWN
- By default, use current system time as creation & modification date
in MP4
composer node
- Audio issue in RTSP streaming caused by AMR decoder problem.
- Fix an issue where PVPlayerEngine::Prepare() never completes. If
server
sends OPTIONS request to the PVPlayer, PVPlayer does not send SETUP
request
to the server and PVPlayerEngine::Prepare() never completes
- Fix for reading from files using a file descriptor with an non-zero
offset
- Fix potential crash during streaming session with multiple frames
per packet
- Minor refactoring of integer datatype use
- Fix issue where an incorrect VOL header for MPEG4 video content
results in
no video playback
- Add an extra condition for the multi-line check in an HTTP response
header
- Move inlined code from header to cpp file for pvmf_event_handling
- Update the omx decoder node to reject a component if
iOMXComponentUsesFullAVCFrames is false
- Crash in video telephony engine cleanup
- Report a more appropriate failure status via the author engine when
underlying node commands fails
- Fix the fileoutput MIO to take into account the 422 UYVY format
- Fix for opening shared asset file handles multiple times
- Fileformat parser changes to support some specific mp4 content
- Limit the max size of album art to 3MB
- Changes in sending the Buffering Status
- Adding support for authoring moof clips for live sessions in mp4
composer
library
- PVPlayer crashes when trying to do Progressive Streaming of a
specific
MP4 Clip
- Incorrect mime string comparision in pv2way datapath
- Fix for memory leak in mp4 local playback at GetMetaDataValue
- Implement HandleExtensionAPICommands for OMXDecNode
- Change OMX enc node Reset() to return success even OMX comp GetState
()
fails or returns bad states
- Treat OMX_EventError with OMX_ErrorInvalidState as if OMX client get
an
OMX_EventCmdComplete indicating state transition failure
- Add CTOR in RepositionRequestStruct to init the members
- Fix for testcase 805 with local content
- Logging in PVME Test not working properly for threaded mode
- Thumbnail extraction when no sample present in stss atom
- MP3 frames may have different sampling rate or number of channels.
So,
in the omx mp3 component, logic has been added to ensure that only
decoding of
consistent frames is sent as output and silence will replace
mismatched frames
- Content truncated while seeking specific YouTube clip
- Player Engine should not fail playback if the Source node does not
support
Playback control interface
- Cleanup test input and output filenames used in 2way tests
- Error in video display while playing minimum size content (48*48)
- Valgrind error fixes
- Fix a bug in SPS length calculation
- PVME doesn't retrieve metadata properly if file has an invalid
extension
- Wrong sequence numbers from video parser node
- Using RTCP SR reports to perform AV sync once, if server does not
provide
rtp-info in PLAY response.
- Mp3 parsernode should pass source context to CPM plugins