[videolan-announce] [RELEASE] libdvbpsi-0.2.0

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Dear libdvbpsi users and packagers,

The last libdvbpsi release was done 1 years ago and proved to be a
stable release used by many application among which VLC.
In the last year a few bug fixes and new features were added to
libdvbpsi hence a new release.

The most prominent change is the license change from GPLv2 to LGPL v2.1.
This changes is marked further by a version jump from 0.1.7 to 0.2.0. The API
is retained for now, but a massive API change is being prepared for
1.0.0 release.
But let us focus on this release:

The libdvbpsi developers brings to you version 0.2.0.

Libdvbpsi features:

    * Bouquet Association Table (BAT), decoder and generator.
    * Conditional Access Table (CAT), decoder and generator.
    * EPG Information Table (EIT), decoder and generator.
    * Network Information Table (NIT), decoder and generator.
    * Program Association Table (PAT), decoder and generator.
    * Program Map Table (PMT), decoder and generator.
    * Section Description Table (SDT), decoder and generator.
    * Splice Information Section Table (SIS), decoder and generator.
    * TOT Table (TOT), decoder and generator.
    * All MPEG 2 descriptors, decoders and generators.
    * Supported platforms GNU/Linux, *BSD, Windows and MacOS X.
    * Version 0.2.0 and up have LGPL v2.1 license for easy integration
in applications.
    * Versions prior to 0.2.0 are released under GPLv2.

New in 0.2.0 wrt 0.1.7

  * License change of libdvbpsi from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1
  * bump version number to 0.2.0 (skipping 0.1.8 and 0.1.9) to indicate
    GPL -> LGPL license change
  * new CUE Identifier descriptor support (0x8a)
  * new Splice Information Section table support (0xFC) (SCTE 35 2004)
  * new BAT table (decoder and generator)
  * new descriptor 0x44
  * depreceated all API's in preparation for 1.0.0 release with reworked API
    packagers and application developers should anticipate:
    - structure renames dvbpsi_handle to dvbpsi_t
    - prototype changes
    - removal of printf for message printing
    - message callback function
    For more information see changes in libdvbpsi-ng branch.

You can download libdvbpsi 0.2.0 via HTTP or FTP :

     http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvbpsi/0.2.0/

 * Tarballs are available.
 * Binary builds are not available.

More information about libdvbpsi can be found here:
http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvbpsi.html

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On behalf of the libdvbpsi developers:

Jean-Paul Saman