Many new things on the authoring side in this release:

• lifting of MP4Box (nicer help screens, progress reports and options cleaning). MP4Box usage is slightly different, make sure you read this first !!
• 3GPP2 tools (importers/exporters/hinters for EVRC, QCELP and SMV codecs).
• Support for ISMA E&A (ISMACryp specification) in MP4Box including hinting, and some support in players.
• More AVC/H264 (raw importer, exporter, hinter) and AVC B-slice support through ffmpeg.
• More 3GPP/MPEG-4 text support (SUB subtitles and QT TeXML import, track extraction to SRT).
• Many fixes in MP4Box hinters (AMR, MPA bandwidth signaling) and enhancement (RTP aggregation for non-MPEG-4 payloads).
• Support for AMR and AMR-WB with 3GPP floating-point code in players (much faster).
• H263 and raw MPEG-4 video (CMP/M4V) importers.
• Experimental streaming cache in osmo4 (w32 and linux) for media recording (and I do mean experimental…)
• Many, many, many fixes here, there and everywhere…

And for the first time in a year or so, Osmo4 on PocketPC (2D only) has been stabilized and is much more usable!

Many new things in this release:

• AAC-ADTS format (including internet radios), HE-AAC/AAC-SBR/aacPlus support, AMR raw format
• 3GPP timed text (encoding/decoding/playback) and streaming (RTP packetizer and reassembler). Added SRT to 3GP text conversion.
• AVC/H264 through ffmpeg along with YAIFDA (Yet Another Improved FFmpeg Demuxer Announcement).
• Playlist and browser-like navigation in Osmo4 (w32 and wx)
• MP4Box improvements:
  • MPEG-1/2 PS to MP4 and MPEG 1/2 video hinters (thanks to MPEG4IP)
  • Easy Multitrack MP4/3GP creation
  • 3GP timed text tools (conversion, extraction)
  • AAC-ADTS and raw AMR support.
• More X3D support and 3D fixes
• Reworked multichannel audio mixer, including multichannel->stereo converter
• Stream selection (when possible) in Osmo4
• PocketPC version should be usable (not entirely tested though 🙂

The GPAC Regression Tests have been updated (mainly X3D tests) and are available for download.

GPAC after a lifting… Many architectural changes since last release (GPAC core is now a shared library) but also new features:

• Support for OGG format (including icecast streams), Vorbis and Theora codecs
• Support for Shoutcast streams
• Improved ffmpeg demuxer.
• GPAC now relies on mime types for file associations.
• X3D integration (both XML and VRML formats)
• More VRML/X3D support: GZip’ed worlds, multiple URL, viewpoint addressing in URLs and Anchor
• Decoding and network stats in all GUIs

The LGPL libm4isomedia has also been updated and is available for download.

GPAC is on the road to nowhere – Come on inside. Many new things in this release:

• Stable 3D renderer supporting all common nodes between MPEG-4 and VRML 97. Overview:
  • Many 2D & 3D graphic primitives (and extruded text through hardcoded protos 🙂
  • MPEG-4 special nodes: Layer2D, Layer3D, CompositeTexture2D and CompositeTexture3D
  • Lighting, texture mapping, viewpoints & navigation
  • User interactions supported in main scene, layers and composite textures
  • User navigation supported in main scene and layer3D
  • Collision detection & gravity – still buggy, you may walk through walls or get stuck on the ground like “Le Passe Muraille”…
• Support for BT/XMTA/WRL and basic SWF in the players.
• Good VRML support, including the powerfull CreateVrmlFromString (but no compressed wrl support).
• Much more stable SDL/Linux support.
• Faster and more reliable javascript support.
• MP4Box now supports >2GB files (avi importer should also).

After several months of chaotic development, GPAC leaves the 2D world! Many new things in this release:

• Rendering plugins for 2D (stable) and 2D/3D via OpenGL (quite basic, under development). The 3D renderer supports:
  • All 2D primitives, Box/Cone/Cylinder/Sphere/IndexedFaceSet/IndexedLineSet, texture mapping and material
  • Frustum culling, basic viewpoint handling.
  • No lights (except headlight), no user interactions.
• Osmo4 now available under linux through wxWidgets 2.5.2
• MP4Box: stable avi B-Frame parser (packed and unpacked bitstreams), support for UTF-16 BT and XMT documents, simple Flash (.swf) to BT/XMT/MP4 converter.