[LAU] [ANN] xjadeo 0.8.0

Xjadeo is a video player that displays a video-clip in synchronized to an external time source (MTC, LTC, JACK-transport). http://xjadeo.sf.net/ -=- Greetings Soundtrack Designers and fellow Multimedia Artists, Xjadeo version 0.8.0 just came out and brings a lot of significant changes. Most notably: * openGL display * video-frame indexing * built-in UI / context menu With openGL, video-scaling is now performed in hardware and playback synchronized to the screen's vertical refresh (if the hardware permits that; most graphics cards do). This is the new default display and supersedes prior platform-specific video outputs (XVideo, X11/imlib2, SDL, quartz, which are still available via the --vo option and also used a fallback). Video files are now scanned and indexed on load which provides for reliable seeking to video frames for a wide variety of codecs where frame-accurate seeking was not possible with earlier versions of xjadeo. This also acts as a guard to detect and refuse broken video files early on. User interaction has been overhauled, most notably by adding a menu that facilitates discovering key-bindings. This deprecates the external control application qjadeo which previously came with xjadeo. There have been over 200 changes since the last release, the complete changelog is available at https://github.com/x42/xjadeo Other highlights include: * separate On-Screen-Display for Sync-Source and Video Timecode * self-documenting OSC API * disable screensaver * 64 bit timeline * new website Note that various command line options have changed. The seek-related -K, -k parameters are no longer needed due to the change to indexing. Letterbox is enabled by default, and it is now also possible to start xjadeo without an initial file. In short, a lot of defaults have been updated to make xjadeo more topical (despite that fact the the menu for the X11 variant is plain old toolkit-less Xlib :) Statically linked binaries are available for GNU/Linux, OSX and Windows from http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/download.html as is the source code in terms of the GPLv2. xjadeo is developed and has been tested for accuracy with ffmpeg-2.2.5 it may or may not work properly with different versions, but compiles with any version of ffmpeg >= 1.0 to date. Many thanks to Chris Goddard who provided valuable feedback and spent several weeks on quality assurance and polishing user interaction. We're far from done on the quest to 1.0, yet 0.8.0 marks a major milestone in the life of xjadeo. Cheers! robin