UltraGrid 1.9.1-rc1

Built 2024-03-20T13:22+00:00

Changes:

• added basic nvdec support
• added Pipewire screen capture
• added Pipewire generic video capture & display
• added Pipewire audio capture & display
• GUI: Don't block whole interface when querying UG capabilities
• GUI: Better handling of UG crash during capability query
• GUI: vuMeter: Redesigned to allow variable channel count
• GUI: vuMeter: Added maximum recent peak indicator
• swmix: Optionaly specify a custom config file path
• holepunch: New 'bind_ip' option
• improved deinterlacing quality and performance; support for higher than 8 bit pixel formats
• added new deinterlace filters (linear, bob)
• added support for Vuikan on macOS (utilizing MoltenVK)
• improved support for HW accelerated encoding with QuickSync for Intel GPUs (mainly for higher bit-depth formats)
• improved support for AMD GPUs (encoding with AMF, VDPAU decoding, VA-API)
• improved Windows screen capture (automaticaly register filter)
• Reed-Solomon: support for multiple tiles (notably 3D)
• improved AV1 performance by tweaking parameters
• video switcher: support for embedded audio switching
• added file (libavformat-backed) output
• supported >8 bit transcoding in hd-rum-transcode and resize filter
• improved DShow capture compatibility with new pixfmts + convert to RGB
• added official mac arm64 build

Fixes since last release:

1.9.1

• CI build fixes
• fixed libavcodec conversion
• fixed testcard:size=4k (option parse)

Full changelog: https://github.com/MartinPulec/UltraGrid/commits/v1.9.1-rc1

UltraGrid 1.9-rc3

Built 2024-02-12T15:49+00:00

Changes:

• added basic nvdec support
• added Pipewire screen capture
• added Pipewire generic video capture & display
• added Pipewire audio capture & display
• GUI: Don't block whole interface when querying UG capabilities
• GUI: Better handling of UG crash during capability query
• GUI: vuMeter: Redesigned to allow variable channel count
• GUI: vuMeter: Added maximum recent peak indicator
• swmix: Optionaly specify a custom config file path
• holepunch: New 'bind_ip' option
• improved deinterlacing quality and performance; support for higher than 8 bit pixel formats
• added new deinterlace filters (linear, bob)
• added support for Vuikan on macOS (utilizing MoltenVK)
• improved support for HW accelerated encoding with QuickSync for Intel GPUs (mainly for higher bit-depth formats)
• improved support for AMD GPUs (encoding with AMF, VDPAU decoding, VA-API)
• improved Windows screen capture (automaticaly register filter)
• Reed-Solomon: support for multiple tiles (notably 3D)
• improved AV1 performance by tweaking parameters
• video switcher: support for embedded audio switching
• added file (libavformat-backed) output
• supported >8 bit transcoding in hd-rum-transcode and resize filter
• improved DShow capture compatibility with new pixfmts + convert to RGB
• added official mac arm64 build

Full changelog: https://github.com/MartinPulec/UltraGrid/commits/v1.9-rc3

UltraGrid 1.9-rc2

Built 2024-02-09T11:49+00:00

Changes:

• added basic nvdec support
• added Pipewire screen capture
• added Pipewire generic video capture & display
• added Pipewire audio capture & display
• GUI: Don't block whole interface when querying UG capabilities
• GUI: Better handling of UG crash during capability query
• GUI: vuMeter: Redesigned to allow variable channel count
• GUI: vuMeter: Added maximum recent peak indicator
• swmix: Optionaly specify a custom config file path
• holepunch: New 'bind_ip' option
• improved deinterlacing quality and performance; support for higher than 8 bit pixel formats
• added new deinterlace filters (linear, bob)
• added support for Vuikan on macOS (utilizing MoltenVK)
• improved support for HW accelerated encoding with QuickSync for Intel GPUs (mainly for higher bit-depth formats)
• improved support for AMD GPUs (encoding with AMF, VDPAU decoding, VA-API)
• improved Windows screen capture (automaticaly register filter)
• Reed-Solomon: support for multiple tiles (notably 3D)
• improved AV1 performance by tweaking parameters
• video switcher: support for embedded audio switching
• added file (libavformat-backed) output
• supported >8 bit transcoding in hd-rum-transcode and resize filter
• improved DShow capture compatibility with new pixfmts + convert to RGB

Full changelog: https://github.com/MartinPulec/UltraGrid/commits/v1.9-rc2

UltraGrid 1.9-rc1

Built 2024-02-09T10:17+00:00

Changes:

• added basic nvdec support
• added Pipewire screen capture
• added Pipewire generic video capture & display
• added Pipewire audio capture & display
• GUI: Don't block whole interface when querying UG capabilities
• GUI: Better handling of UG crash during capability query
• GUI: vuMeter: Redesigned to allow variable channel count
• GUI: vuMeter: Added maximum recent peak indicator
• swmix: Optionaly specify a custom config file path
• holepunch: New 'bind_ip' option
• improved deinterlacing quality and performance; support for higher than 8 bit pixel formats
• added new deinterlace filters (linear, bob)
• added support for Vuikan on macOS (utilizing MoltenVK)
• improved support for HW accelerated encoding with QuickSync for Intel GPUs (mainly for higher bit-depth formats)
• improved support for AMD GPUs (encoding with AMF, VDPAU decoding, VA-API)
• improved Windows screen capture (automaticaly register filter)
• Reed-Solomon: support for multiple tiles (notably 3D)
• improved AV1 performance by tweaking parameters
• video switcher: support for embedded audio switching
• added file (libavformat-backed) output
• supported >8 bit transcoding in hd-rum-transcode and resize filter
• improved DShow capture compatibility with new pixfmts + convert to RGB

Full changelog: https://github.com/MartinPulec/UltraGrid/commits/v1.9-rc1

UltraGrid 1.8.7-3

Built 2024-01-26T07:48+00:00

Changes:

• added Reed-Solomon for audio
• added support for RPI4 hw. acceleration
• added holepunching support for where both hosts are behind NAT
• added experimental echo canceller support
• added unix_sock display for passing video frames to other processes via unix sockets
• added audio filter 'delay' for delaying audio on sender
• added audio filter 'playback' for monitoring audio on sender
• testcard (audio) - file playback now respects bps from --audio-capture-format
• converting sound samples to a lower bit depth now uses dithering
• transcoding reflector - ports with same the compression now reuse compressed frames instead of doing the same work
• conference mode now automatically sends back video to all participants
• improve H.265 recovery from packet drops (enabled constrained-intra)
• improve svt-av1 compatibility
• GUI: preview now uses unix sockets instead of shared memory
• GUI: should now behave correctly when running multiple instances
• GUI: added RTCP receiver report based RTT and packet loss indicator
• GUI: added send bandwidth indicator
• GUI: separate vuMeters for send/receive
• GUI: don't show crash dialog if UltraGrid crashed when exiting
• added dynamical scaler for DeckLink audio to eliminate clock drift
• support for libsoxr resampler (16/32 bits), added 32-bit support to SpeexDSP + use multiple threads
• encryption - added + made default encryption in AES GCM mode (+ support for WolfSSL)
• added Vulkan display

Fixes since last release:

1.8.1

• CI build fixes
• fixed lavc QSV initialization fail
• fixed AVFoundation device order instability
• [Vulkan] fixed 16-bit RGB display
• fixed GUI crash
• double-framerate vo postprocess fixes
• Vulkan is now enabled in Linux builds; macOS builds link with MoltenVK, so that Vulkan works there as well

1.8.2

• build fixes
• fixed lavc subsampling option parsing
• fixed inaccurate rendering of some codecs with Vulcan (R10k, UYVY, Y416)
• fixed inability to run portaudio + decklink at the same time in Windows
• fixed PortAudio default devce selection and capture channel count

1.8.3

• build fixes
• fixed libavcodec compression of videos with very small resolution
• [GPUJPEG] fixed parsing of q=/restart= options
• Reed-Solomon - support for multiple tiles
• [dshow] fixed indexing of devices in help
• fixed reflector address overflow + conference participant removal
• fixed DeckLink incorrectly displaying interlaced video

1.8.4

• build fixes
• fixed frame drop during RTP wrap-around
• file video capture - detect interlacing

1.8.5

• fixed audio mixer segfault
• fixed file capture initialized from switcher
• fixed switcher with excl_init
• fixed holepunch

1.8.6

• fixed zfec (Reed-Solomon) crash due to upstream changes
• build fixes
• show HW acceleration checkbox in GUI

1.8.7

• target macOS build to macOS 12
• fixed Reed-Solomon crashes due to upstream changes
• fixed Spout crashes due to upstream changes
• fixed incorrect v210 rendering with OpenGL in Win

Full changelog: https://github.com/MartinPulec/UltraGrid/commits/v1.8.7-3

UltraGrid 1.8.7-2

Built 2024-01-25T16:00+00:00

Changes:

• added Reed-Solomon for audio
• added support for RPI4 hw. acceleration
• added holepunching support for where both hosts are behind NAT
• added experimental echo canceller support
• added unix_sock display for passing video frames to other processes via unix sockets
• added audio filter 'delay' for delaying audio on sender
• added audio filter 'playback' for monitoring audio on sender
• testcard (audio) - file playback now respects bps from --audio-capture-format
• converting sound samples to a lower bit depth now uses dithering
• transcoding reflector - ports with same the compression now reuse compressed frames instead of doing the same work
• conference mode now automatically sends back video to all participants
• improve H.265 recovery from packet drops (enabled constrained-intra)
• improve svt-av1 compatibility
• GUI: preview now uses unix sockets instead of shared memory
• GUI: should now behave correctly when running multiple instances
• GUI: added RTCP receiver report based RTT and packet loss indicator
• GUI: added send bandwidth indicator
• GUI: separate vuMeters for send/receive
• GUI: don't show crash dialog if UltraGrid crashed when exiting
• added dynamical scaler for DeckLink audio to eliminate clock drift
• support for libsoxr resampler (16/32 bits), added 32-bit support to SpeexDSP + use multiple threads
• encryption - added + made default encryption in AES GCM mode (+ support for WolfSSL)
• added Vulkan display

Fixes since last release:

1.8.1

• CI build fixes
• fixed lavc QSV initialization fail
• fixed AVFoundation device order instability
• [Vulkan] fixed 16-bit RGB display
• fixed GUI crash
• double-framerate vo postprocess fixes
• Vulkan is now enabled in Linux builds; macOS builds link with MoltenVK, so that Vulkan works there as well

1.8.2

• build fixes
• fixed lavc subsampling option parsing
• fixed inaccurate rendering of some codecs with Vulcan (R10k, UYVY, Y416)
• fixed inability to run portaudio + decklink at the same time in Windows
• fixed PortAudio default devce selection and capture channel count

1.8.3

• build fixes
• fixed libavcodec compression of videos with very small resolution
• [GPUJPEG] fixed parsing of q=/restart= options
• Reed-Solomon - support for multiple tiles
• [dshow] fixed indexing of devices in help
• fixed reflector address overflow + conference participant removal
• fixed DeckLink incorrectly displaying interlaced video

1.8.4

• build fixes
• fixed frame drop during RTP wrap-around
• file video capture - detect interlacing

1.8.5

• fixed audio mixer segfault
• fixed file capture initialized from switcher
• fixed switcher with excl_init
• fixed holepunch

1.8.6

• fixed zfec (Reed-Solomon) crash due to upstream changes
• build fixes
• show HW acceleration checkbox in GUI

1.8.7

• target macOS build to macOS 12
• fixed Reed-Solomon crashes due to upstream changes
• fixed Spout crashes due to upstream changes
• fixed incorrect v210 rendering with OpenGL in Win

Full changelog: https://github.com/MartinPulec/UltraGrid/commits/v1.8.7-2

UltraGrid 1.8.9-rc1

Built 2024-01-23T08:00+00:00

Changes:

• added basic nvdec support
• added Pipewire screen capture
• added Pipewire generic video capture & display
• added Pipewire audio capture & display
• GUI: Don't block whole interface when querying UG capabilities
• GUI: Better handling of UG crash during capability query
• GUI: vuMeter: Redesigned to allow variable channel count
• GUI: vuMeter: Added maximum recent peak indicator
• swmix: Optionaly specify a custom config file path
• holepunch: New 'bind_ip' option
• improved deinterlacing quality and performance; support for higher than 8 bit pixel formats
• added new deinterlace filters (linear, bob)
• added support for Vuikan on macOS (utilizing MoltenVK)
• improved support for HW accelerated encoding with QuickSync for Intel GPUs (mainly for higher bit-depth formats)
• improved support for AMD GPUs (encoding with AMF, VDPAU decoding, VA-API)
• improved Windows screen capture (automaticaly register filter)
• Reed-Solomon: support for multiple tiles (notably 3D)
• improved AV1 performance by tweaking parameters
• video switcher: support for embedded audio switching
• added file (libavformat-backed) output
• supported >8 bit transcoding in hd-rum-transcode and resize filter

Full changelog: https://github.com/MartinPulec/UltraGrid/commits/v1.8.9-rc1

UltraGrid 1.8.7-rc1

Built 2023-11-20T08:25+00:00

Changes:

• added Reed-Solomon for audio
• added support for RPI4 hw. acceleration
• added holepunching support for where both hosts are behind NAT
• added experimental echo canceller support
• added unix_sock display for passing video frames to other processes via unix sockets
• added audio filter 'delay' for delaying audio on sender
• added audio filter 'playback' for monitoring audio on sender
• testcard (audio) - file playback now respects bps from --audio-capture-format
• converting sound samples to a lower bit depth now uses dithering
• transcoding reflector - ports with same the compression now reuse compressed frames instead of doing the same work
• conference mode now automatically sends back video to all participants
• improve H.265 recovery from packet drops (enabled constrained-intra)
• improve svt-av1 compatibility
• GUI: preview now uses unix sockets instead of shared memory
• GUI: should now behave correctly when running multiple instances
• GUI: added RTCP receiver report based RTT and packet loss indicator
• GUI: added send bandwidth indicator
• GUI: separate vuMeters for send/receive
• GUI: don't show crash dialog if UltraGrid crashed when exiting
• added dynamical scaler for DeckLink audio to eliminate clock drift
• support for libsoxr resampler (16/32 bits), added 32-bit support to SpeexDSP + use multiple threads
• encryption - added + made default encryption in AES GCM mode (+ support for WolfSSL)
• added Vulkan display

Fixes since last release:

1.8.1

• CI build fixes
• fixed lavc QSV initialization fail
• fixed AVFoundation device order instability
• [Vulkan] fixed 16-bit RGB display
• fixed GUI crash
• double-framerate vo postprocess fixes
• Vulkan is now enabled in Linux builds; macOS builds link with MoltenVK, so that Vulkan works there as well

1.8.2

• build fixes
• fixed lavc subsampling option parsing
• fixed inaccurate rendering of some codecs with Vulcan (R10k, UYVY, Y416)
• fixed inability to run portaudio + decklink at the same time in Windows
• fixed PortAudio default devce selection and capture channel count

1.8.3

• build fixes
• fixed libavcodec compression of videos with very small resolution
• [GPUJPEG] fixed parsing of q=/restart= options
• Reed-Solomon - support for multiple tiles
• [dshow] fixed indexing of devices in help
• fixed reflector address overflow + conference participant removal
• fixed DeckLink incorrectly displaying interlaced video

1.8.4

• build fixes
• fixed frame drop during RTP wrap-around
• file video capture - detect interlacing

1.8.5

• fixed audio mixer segfault
• fixed file capture initialized from switcher
• fixed switcher with excl_init
• fixed holepunch

1.8.6

• fixed zfec (Reed-Solomon) crash due to upstream changes
• build fixes
• show HW acceleration checkbox in GUI

1.8.7

• target macOS build to macOS 12
• fixed Reed-Solomon crashes due to upstream changes
• fixed Spout crashes due to upstream changes
• fixed incorrect v210 rendering with OpenGL in Win

Full changelog: https://github.com/MartinPulec/UltraGrid/commits/v1.8.7-rc1

UltraGrid 1.8.6-rc4

Built 2023-10-20T12:05+00:00

Changes:

• added Reed-Solomon for audio
• added support for RPI4 hw. acceleration
• added holepunching support for where both hosts are behind NAT
• added experimental echo canceller support
• added unix_sock display for passing video frames to other processes via unix sockets
• added audio filter 'delay' for delaying audio on sender
• added audio filter 'playback' for monitoring audio on sender
• testcard (audio) - file playback now respects bps from --audio-capture-format
• converting sound samples to a lower bit depth now uses dithering
• transcoding reflector - ports with same the compression now reuse compressed frames instead of doing the same work
• conference mode now automatically sends back video to all participants
• improve H.265 recovery from packet drops (enabled constrained-intra)
• improve svt-av1 compatibility
• GUI: preview now uses unix sockets instead of shared memory
• GUI: should now behave correctly when running multiple instances
• GUI: added RTCP receiver report based RTT and packet loss indicator
• GUI: added send bandwidth indicator
• GUI: separate vuMeters for send/receive
• GUI: don't show crash dialog if UltraGrid crashed when exiting
• added dynamical scaler for DeckLink audio to eliminate clock drift
• support for libsoxr resampler (16/32 bits), added 32-bit support to SpeexDSP + use multiple threads
• encryption - added + made default encryption in AES GCM mode (+ support for WolfSSL)
• added Vulkan display

Fixes since last release:

1.8.1

• CI build fixes
• fixed lavc QSV initialization fail
• fixed AVFoundation device order instability
• [Vulkan] fixed 16-bit RGB display
• fixed GUI crash
• double-framerate vo postprocess fixes
• Vulkan is now enabled in Linux builds; macOS builds link with MoltenVK, so that Vulkan works there as well

1.8.2

• build fixes
• fixed lavc subsampling option parsing
• fixed inaccurate rendering of some codecs with Vulcan (R10k, UYVY, Y416)
• fixed inability to run portaudio + decklink at the same time in Windows
• fixed PortAudio default devce selection and capture channel count

1.8.3

• build fixes
• fixed libavcodec compression of videos with very small resolution
• [GPUJPEG] fixed parsing of q=/restart= options
• Reed-Solomon - support for multiple tiles
• [dshow] fixed indexing of devices in help
• fixed reflector address overflow + conference participant removal
• fixed DeckLink incorrectly displaying interlaced video

1.8.4

• build fixes
• fixed frame drop during RTP wrap-around
• file video capture - detect interlacing

1.8.5

• fixed audio mixer segfault
• fixed file capture initialized from switcher
• fixed switcher with excl_init
• fixed holepunch

1.8.6

• fixed zfec (Reed-Solomon) crash due to upstream changes
• build fixes
• show HW acceleration checkbox in GUI

Full changelog: https://github.com/MartinPulec/UltraGrid/commits/v1.8.6-rc4

UltraGrid 1.8.6-rc3

Built 2023-10-20T11:27+00:00

Changes:

• added Reed-Solomon for audio
• added support for RPI4 hw. acceleration
• added holepunching support for where both hosts are behind NAT
• added experimental echo canceller support
• added unix_sock display for passing video frames to other processes via unix sockets
• added audio filter 'delay' for delaying audio on sender
• added audio filter 'playback' for monitoring audio on sender
• testcard (audio) - file playback now respects bps from --audio-capture-format
• converting sound samples to a lower bit depth now uses dithering
• transcoding reflector - ports with same the compression now reuse compressed frames instead of doing the same work
• conference mode now automatically sends back video to all participants
• improve H.265 recovery from packet drops (enabled constrained-intra)
• improve svt-av1 compatibility
• GUI: preview now uses unix sockets instead of shared memory
• GUI: should now behave correctly when running multiple instances
• GUI: added RTCP receiver report based RTT and packet loss indicator
• GUI: added send bandwidth indicator
• GUI: separate vuMeters for send/receive
• GUI: don't show crash dialog if UltraGrid crashed when exiting
• added dynamical scaler for DeckLink audio to eliminate clock drift
• support for libsoxr resampler (16/32 bits), added 32-bit support to SpeexDSP + use multiple threads
• encryption - added + made default encryption in AES GCM mode (+ support for WolfSSL)
• added Vulkan display

Fixes since last release:

1.8.1

• CI build fixes
• fixed lavc QSV initialization fail
• fixed AVFoundation device order instability
• [Vulkan] fixed 16-bit RGB display
• fixed GUI crash
• double-framerate vo postprocess fixes
• Vulkan is now enabled in Linux builds; macOS builds link with MoltenVK, so that Vulkan works there as well

1.8.2

• build fixes
• fixed lavc subsampling option parsing
• fixed inaccurate rendering of some codecs with Vulcan (R10k, UYVY, Y416)
• fixed inability to run portaudio + decklink at the same time in Windows
• fixed PortAudio default devce selection and capture channel count

1.8.3

• build fixes
• fixed libavcodec compression of videos with very small resolution
• [GPUJPEG] fixed parsing of q=/restart= options
• Reed-Solomon - support for multiple tiles
• [dshow] fixed indexing of devices in help
• fixed reflector address overflow + conference participant removal
• fixed DeckLink incorrectly displaying interlaced video

1.8.4

• build fixes
• fixed frame drop during RTP wrap-around
• file video capture - detect interlacing

1.8.5

• fixed audio mixer segfault
• fixed file capture initialized from switcher
• fixed switcher with excl_init
• fixed holepunch

1.8.6

• fixed zfec (Reed-Solomon) crash due to upstream changes

Full changelog: https://github.com/MartinPulec/UltraGrid/commits/v1.8.6-rc3