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Google Earth - Download

Google is continuing their Linux support with a release of Google Earth for both Linux and Mac OSX. First Picasa, now this. I’m pretty happy about all this, even though they use Wine to ease the porting.

Changelog, Download

Core support:

• Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
• New OSD system

Video output:

• Fixed problems with OpenGL output
• New –monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
• Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format

Input:

• Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
• IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
• IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
• GnomeVFS input module
• Support for RTP packet reordering
• Fixed syntax for FTP URLs

Decoders:

• Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
• Musepack decoder using libmpdec
• QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)

Services discovery:

• UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
• Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)

Video filters:

• RSS feed overlay

Audio filters:

• Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel Mixer and Dolby Surround

Stream output:

• New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
• Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
• Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments

Interfaces:

• new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)

• Mac OS X
  * New streaming and transcoding wizard
  * New extended controls panel
  * New bookmarks window
  * Fixed playlist sorting
  * Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist

• wxWidgets
  * Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
  * All the –wxwin-* options are now –wx-*
  * VLC update checker
  * Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
  * Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support

• Skins2
  * Tree playlist

• HTTP
  * New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
  * Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in the names of files
  * Include macro to include other files
  * CGI 1.0 support

ActiveX plugin:

• Should now work outside IE as well

Mac OS X port:

• New script to delete the preferences automatically

Windows port:

• Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming

Translations: (The following languages were added)

• Korean
• Romanian
• Simplified Chinese

(The following languages were re-added: )

• Swedish

OSx86 Project - 10.4.3 Security Broken. And we’re a little surprised…

Seems Maxxuss has managed to crack the leaked developer edition of OSx86 again, even though Apple said they’d revamped the security model of that release. This build contains a universal binary of iTunes, meaning it should run without too much emulation. Unfortunately iTunes isn’t very stable.