Winamp 5.57 Beta Preview

[DJ Egg]

Winamp 5.57 Beta, Build 2765

Winamp 5.57 Beta Full (Multi-national installer)*
Winamp 5.57 Beta Full (US English MP3 Bundle version)**
Winamp 5.57 Beta Pro (Multi-national installer, asks for key during install)*
Winamp 5.57 Beta Pro (US English version, asks for key during install)
Winamp 5.57 Beta Lite (basic 2.x-style mp3/cd player)
* (French, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese & Romanian)
** (Includes 5 mp3's downloaded from Nullsoft server at end of installation)

Winamp 5.57
* New: MPEG-4 video support for in_mp4 & in_flv (Winamp Pro only)
* New: [in_avi] Native AVI video support (MPEG-4 = Winamp Pro only)
* New: [in_mkv] Matroska MKV video support (MPEG-4 = Winamp Pro only)
* New: [ml_addons] Browser for discovering new skins & plugins
* New: Winamp detection browser plugins for IE & FF
* Improved: Direct3D video rendering
* Improved: Filetype association handling on Vista & Windows 7
* Improved: New fullscreen video OSD
* Improved: Preamp adjustment for files with ReplayGain (previously .ini only)
* Improved: VU meter (beat vis) optimizations
* Improved: [gen_ff] Multithreaded <AlbumArt/> object
* Improved: [in_flac/in_vorbis] Tag support for Organization field as Publisher
* Improved: [in_flv] AAC, aacPlus & ADPCM audio support in FLV files
* Improved: [in_mp4] Support for aacPlus parametric stereo in mp4 container
* Improved: [in_nsv] Native h.264 decoding (Winamp Pro only)
* Improved: [in_wave] Unicode filename handling
* Improved: [ml_history] Play Offset feature for resuming playback of podcasts
* Improved: [ml_local] Director & Producer fields & columns for videos
* Improved: [ml_local] Row cache for NDE to vastly speed up queries
* Improved: [ml_online] Right-click option to open service in new window
* Improved: [ml_wire] feed:// pcast:// and winamp:// protocol support
* Improved: [ml_wire] Option to automatically download 'x' most recent episodes
* Improved: [ml_wire] Redesigned Podcast Directory view
* Improved: [vis_milk2] Milkdrop2 updated to use ns-eel2 (thanks Justin)
* Fixed: Custom mldb info reverts to filename on Alt+3 for in_dshow, flv & swf
* Fixed: HeapSetInformation not located in kernel32 error under Win2k
* Fixed: Shuffle feature broken under limited user profiles
* Fixed: [gen_ml] Bold text in Local Media views on some systems
* Fixed: [gen_tray] Compact mode not working on 64-bit OS
* Fixed: [in_flac] Playback freezing before end of some corrupted files
* Fixed: [in_flv] Sync issue where video lags behind audio on some flv files
* Fixed: [in_flv] Various h.263-related crash issues
* Fixed: [in_mod] Heap overflow security vulnerability (thanks Dyon Balding, Secunia)
* Fixed: [in_mod] Some s3m files crashing on load
* Fixed: [in_mp4] Various transcoding issues
* Fixed: [in_wm] Main window & taskbar menu blocked after closing DRM browser
* Fixed: [jpeg.w5s/png.w5s] Security vulnerability fixes (thanks Nicolas Joly, VUPEN)
* Fixed: [ml_local] Remove missing files broken in full rescan
* Fixed: [ml_wire] feeds.xml sometimes being destroyed
* Fixed: [vis_avs] Compile issues causing some presets to not load properly or crash
* Misc: Improved Windows 7 compatibility, including alt+tab & taskbar icon integration
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations
* Misc: New info page for lang pack developers in About Winamp dialog
* Misc: New MPEG-4 video support adds h263.w5s, h264.w5s & mp4v.w5s
* Misc: Renamed nsvdec_vp6.dll to vp6.w5s
* Misc: Removed gen_dropbox from the installer, for now...
* Misc: Right-click to close Notifier in Bento skin
* Misc: Some keyboard accelerator fixes (new Ctrl+Alt+B for Add current to bookmarks)
* Misc: Various installer improvements (including new DirectX version checker)
* Updated: aacPlus decoder 8.2.2, encoder 8.2.0
* Updated: Gracenote CDDB/MusicID v2.6.101
* Updated: libpng 1.2.40
* Updated: [in_vorbis] libvorbis 1.2.3 & libogg 1.1.4

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Notes:

Video Support:

The D3D Renderer requires DirectX9 or higher
(The installer will upgrade DirectX on Win2k/XP, if required)

The fullscreen OSD requires d3dx9_24.dll or higher on Win2k/XP and d3dx9_32.dll or higher on Win7
(the installer will download/install these, if required)

The fullscreen OSD is not set in stone and is liable to change (eg. width/position/look/features/etc),
if not for 5.57F then maybe for forthcoming releases... though all comments/criticisms are welcome :-)

Supported Formats:

in_mp4 supports:
video: h.264 (avc), h.263, mp4v2 (simple/advanced), jpeg (slideshow)
audio: mp3, aac (lc/he), 3gp, ac3, pcm/u-law

in_mkv supports:
video: h264 (avc), h263, mp4v2
(theora support hopefully to come later, mpeg-1 & 2 not supported)
audio: mp3, aac, ac3, vorbis
(dts not currently supported / video-only files might not play)

in_flv supports:
video: h263, h264 (avc), vp6
audio: mp3, aac, adpcm

in_avi supports:
video: h264 (avc), divx4, divx5, xvid, vp6, Techsmith (TSCC/Camtasia screen capture/RGB555/RGB565), RLE (16bpp & 8bpp compressed bitmaps), UYVY, Motion JPEG (M-JPEG)
audio: mp3, aac, ac3, pcm (wav, a-law, u-law, etc), ms-adpcm, ima adpcm, dsp truespeech

-Old/unsupported AVI formats (eg. divx3, cinepack, ms-video-1, cram, ms-mpeg4/mp42/mp43, etc) will be passed on to DirectShow instead.

-Techsmith, UYVY & RLE video support is via bmp.w5s

-MJPEG slideshow support is via jpeg.w5s

-For non-Pro installations, mpeg-4 (h263, h264, divx, xvid, mp4v, etc) video handling will be the same as in 5.56, i.e. in_avi will pass on all videos with mpeg-4 content to in_dshow, and in_mp4 (and now also in_mkv) will play audio-only.

-To re-enable old 5.56 behaviour, remove in_avi.dll & in_mkv.dll, remove MP4 and M4V from in_mp4 config, and re-add all of AVI, MKV, MP4 & M4V to in_dshow config extension list....

-The AC3 decoder (for AVI, MKV & MP4) is in the Winamp Essentials pack (see below)
(as is the H.263 decoder, like before).
Though both are included in the beta builds (but won't be in the Final build).

-Re: Native h.264 decoder for in_nsv
Non-Pro users will still be able to use the 3rd-party h.264 decoder for in_nsv.
w5s files/decoders take precedence over dll's, so Pro users can even keep the 3rd-party decoder present
(which won't be used unless you remove h264.w5s... which isn't recommended...)


Other:

Re: Improved: [ml_wire] Redesigned Podcast Directory view:
This will not be going live until 5.57 Final release,
so for now, you'll still see the old view in Media Library -> Podcast Directory.

Likewise for the new Orgler login dialog, which is all mainly serverside code,
though the Winamp & AOL logins should hopefully be working in the next day or so
(until then you'll probably just get a "No login providers available" error message).

The Winamp Application Detect browser plugins for IE & Firefox basically allow winamp.com and other participating sites (shoutcast.com, spinner.com, etc) to detect Winamp presence & version and deliver appropriate content
(eg. to determine whether the installed version supports the new winamp:// protocol).
The plugins do not collect/send any other data whatsoever. Infact, you won't even notice that they're there....


Undocumented:

New commandline switches for manipulating ml playlists:

winamp.exe /ADDPLAYLIST "x:\path\to\playlist.m3u" "playlist name" {GUID}
winamp.exe /CREATEPLAYLIST "Playlist Name" {GUID}
winamp.exe /APPENDPLAYLIST {GUID} filename.mp3

where {GUID} is a unique GUID as created by eg. Windows SDK GUID Generator.
For /APPENDPLAYLIST you would need to use the corresponding existing GUID as designated by Winamp
(see %appdata%\winamp\plugins\ml\playlists.xml)

feed:// & pcast:// & winamp:// protocol handler commandline switch:
"x:\path\to\winamp.exe" /HANDLE %1


Accelerator (keyboard shortcuts/hotkeys) changes:

Open Playlist (Ctrl+O) & Save Playlist (Ctrl+S) now work globally;
Added Ctrl+Alt+B for "Add current to bookmarks" (note, old Alt+I still works in Classic skin and also in WA-Modern pledit,
but can never work in Bento because Alt+I is the global shortcut for the View menu);
Changed "Load EQ Preset" from Ctrl+S to Ctrl+Alt+S (Classic EQ only).


Localization improvements:

Winamp can now load extra .lng files from <LANGDIR>\<language-identifier>\*.lng
e.g. c:\program files\winamp\lang\ru-ru\gen_3rdparty.lng

Re: New info page for lang pack developers in About Winamp dialog:
More Info


nsutil:

nsutil.dll in the Winamp root dir is a new shared library for common functions, such as 8-bit to 16-bit conversion,
float-to-pcm conversion, alpha premultiplying, FFT, infinite impulse response, VU meter calc, and more.
Do not delete it, or bad things are likely to happen...

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Reporting Bugs:

Please report any issues with the beta in this thread only!
Make sure your report is complete, according to the sticky threads in Bug Reports, ie.
Clean install, no 3rd-party plugins, list of plugins, full step-by-step method of reproduction, relevant system specs,
exact error messages, screenshots, which skin (one of Classic, Modern, or Bento only, or all three), links to sample files, etc.
If error reports, screenshots, sample files, etc are smaller than 200kb, then please attach them to your post here. Otherwise, please upload to one of stashbox.org, mediafire.com, or sendspace.com and post the url here (no rapidshare or imageshack or similar links please).

Please do not report script errors in online services, info viewer, etc.
Script errors are enabled in the beta builds for debugging purposes, but are disabled in final builds.

For problems with AVI, MKV & MP4/M4V videos, be sure to also tell us what the video & audio codecs are...
Relevant info can be found via the "View File Info" (Alt+3) dialog
(if attaching a screenshot for AVI/MKV, be sure to make Codec ID/Name columns wide enough first).

Note that incomplete/lame bug reports may be totally ignored.

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Known Bugs/Issues:

-The installer takes longer than before to unpack *

-The installer might appear to freeze on older/slower systems during the "Optimizing..." phase towards the end.
- Please be patient. It hasn't frozen, and will get there eventually... *

-Winamp Application Detect is always checkmarked on the Choose Components page of the Installer Options

-If unchecked, the installer may still create an empty "%ProgramFiles%\Winamp Detect" folder *

-in_avi.dll & in_mkv.dll aren't removed by the uninstaller *

-Video Prefs aren't fully hooked up yet... some options don't work... expect changes for 5.57 Final

-Subtitle support isn't implemented yet (.srt for AVI; Sub Station Alpha/Advanced SSA for MKV)

-File info & length/metadata detection for streaming (http) avi isn't implemented yet

-h.263 inside MP4 container still needs a lot of work

-MP4 video http streaming is buggy and not properly implemented yet...

-Seeking forward with the right keyboard cursor might be a bit funky with some AVI & MKV files *

-The new RG Preamp slider in Prefs -> Playback also controls Gain for files without RG applied!

-Winamp doesn't appear on mouse hover over Win7 taskbar thumbnail if Winamp is minimized to taskbar
- when a freeform skin (Bento, WA Modern, etc) is in use (works ok for Classic skins)

-The Win7 win+tab image is small (due to a limitation of the Windows API in drawing the image for multiple windows) *

-The Win7 alt/win+tab image might show an empty ml or pledit at times, and also doesn't update in real-time

-Aero Shake & Snap support aren't implemented (note, Snap might never be)

-The llama logo shows in Modern skin Notifier for tracks without albumart

-The new Dimension & Codec columns for videos in Local Media views might not populate on upgrades
- (ie. you'll need to use rt-click -> 'read metadata on selected items') *

-The Fullscreen OSD might not show at all on systems with the Intel r82945g express chipset, if using Intel drivers v6.13.
- Upgrading the drivers to v6.14 solves the problem. *

* = Fixed for 5.57F
* = non-issues or won't/can't be changed

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Updates & Extras:

Winamp Essentials Pack 5.57 Beta

Color Editor for 5.57
Brand new installer by Koopa & Egg (note: will only install on 5.57)

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[Koopa]

Winamp Essentials Pack v5.57 Beta

Download | Mirror1 | Mirror2

Winamp Essentials Pack 5.56/5.57:

* New: [a52.w5s] Nullsoft AC3 decoder
* New: [alac.wbm] As part of new 5.55 WBM system for lazy-loading of *.w5s files
* Improved: [Installer] added Winamp version check to installer (big thanks to Pawel)
* Improved: [Installer] added an additional Winamp installation check
* Improved: [Installer] new, re-designed, Winamp style like Welcome page
* Improved: [Installer] new installer graphics and icons for a more professional look (thanks Martin)
* Updated: [gen_ffod] 'Find File on Disk' to v2.0 (thanks DrO)
- fully translatable now
- now does multiple selections correctly across multiple folders & now always able to mark the last selected file
* Updated: [alac.w5s] Apple Lossles Audio Codec to v1.3
* Updated: [enc_vorbis] Nullsoft Vorbis Encoder to v1.3
- updated to aoTuV b5.7 and libOGG to v1.1.4
* Updated: [in_wv] WavPack Decoder to v2.7a
- this adds support for embedded Album Art
* Updated: [in_wav] Nullsoft Waveform Wrapper to v1.0.4
- u-law type handling disabled as (should be) correctly handled in in_wave
* Updated: [Installer] to NSIS 2.45.1 (Unicode)
* Updated: [Installer] English, German, Italian, Polish, PortugueseBR, Spanish, Turkish, Russian & Japanese installer language files
* Fixed: [Installer] Playlist Sidecar wasn't working on Winamp 5.56+
* Fixed: [Installer] formatting issues in license file on Win7
* Misc: [Installer] removed obsolete FFOD translation via installer, made installer cleans up winamp.ini
* Misc: [Installer] pressing 'Abort' if a running Winamp instance was detected, now aborts installation again
* Misc: [enc_flake] removed Nullsoft Flake encoder
* Misc: More general tweaks, improvements, fixes and optimizations

Notes:

Winamp Version Check for Essentials Pack & Color Editor:

- Minimum Winamp version for installation is Winamp 5.57
- Installer provides a message and will abort, if minimum Winamp version isn't installed on the system
- I'll just increase the minimum version number in future, if a plug-in/component really requires it
- if Winamp couldn't be detected on the system in general, installer provides an info message and will abort

Flake encoder removal

- Winamp already ships a working flac encoder, so it wasn't really essential
- users really should use the tested & approved libflac for creating .flac files

Localization:

- updated example language file v1.14 available
- incomplete translations were disabled due compatibility issues
- translators still have time to provide updated language files for final

You can find more infos & the example language file in the Essentials Pack Localization Thread

--
Enjoy,
Chris

[DrO]

Language Pack Author Recognition:
-------------------------------------
There are two ways of showing people that you are the author of the language pack you have created.

The first is via a readme.txt file in the root of the wlz (like in the example wlz) which is shown on the localisation preferences page and can display any sensible message / information you require.

The second introduced as of the 5.57 client is to add a new dialog resource to your winamp.lng with an id of 1378 which will then be shown in Winamp's "About" dialog. The dialog resource will need to be the same size as the existing dialogs used for this and you're able to place anything you'd like. There are also string resource id 65532 & 65533 which can contain a paypal url or homepage link which will be activated when a button on the dialog with the same resource id is clicked by the user. (*)

The aim of this dialog is to allow you as the author to get a more noticeable credit for the work done with creating a language pack as we all know too well that it is not a quick process to do.

(*) Some of official language packs already have this implemented and can be used as a reference

[ujay]

A few left overs.

Clicking the notifier can crash.
Notifications > 'Open Now Playing on click' should be disabled/greyed out if ml_nowplaying is not installed.

XP - Fresh installs only, something still looking for NSCRT at start up. Can be safely ignored.

Task bar integration http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....45#post2551645 is broken in win7 and may crash(e.g. Open file from Windows Explorer).
Please don't report any bugs here if you have it installed.
In fact, best uninstalled until the author has a chance to update.

UJ

[net-cruizer]

SWEET!!! That's all I can say. Always lookin forwar to new Winamp!!

[Chris000001]

Flac files still ignore the 'Fading' 'on first start' setting (not surprising since the change log doesn't say that it's fixed.) This is just a reminder that it's broken.

[Zero2FiftyIn4]

Sweet I was going through update withdrawal. Others may complain about a lot of updates but I'm not in that group.

[DigitalDJ]

Dear god I hope this fixes the video CPU usage in Windows 7. Fingers crossed.

Edit: Yes! Goodbye VLC, Hello Winamp!

[MrX_1980]

Hello

Thanks for all the new features and bug fixes!


a) If I start Winamp without admin rights I can't enter the Pro Registration Code.
I get then a message "Registration key wrong" (or similar).
After I started Winamp with admin rights it works.
Either the user should get a warning message that he/she is not a admin or if possible it should work without admin rights.

Clean installation on PC_A (signature)

b) Look at the time at the picture (red rectangle)



c) Sometimes I get this after a few seconds/minutes


d) Settings seams to be only saved if Winamp is closing.
If Winamp crashes the taked settings are gone.

[Edit -> Mod] English error translation:

e)
Description
As result of a problem, this application cannot communicate with Windows anymore.

Path of wrong application: C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\winamp.exe

Error signature
Error event name: AppHangB1
application name: winamp.exe
application version: 5.5.7.2765
application time stamp: 4b1eeb66
crash signature: a9ee
crash type: 517
Operating system: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
CodePage-ID: 1031
Additional crash signature 1: a9ee7bdd3b7d7a120f1413092cd34f1b
Additional crash signature 2: b4ed
Additional crash signature 3: b4edcddf9996a2247df4210042fa6a49
Additional crash signature 4: a9ee
Additional crash signature 5: a9ee7bdd3b7d7a120f1413092cd34f1b
Additional crash signature 6: b4ed
Additional crash signature 7: b4edcddf9996a2247df4210042fa6a49

Additional infos related to the problem
Bucket-ID: 861875249



... to be continued

[DJ Egg]

@MrX_1980

Thanks for the report...

Re: a) Invalid Registration Key error

Are you getting that error when trying to enter the reg key via: Winamp -> Prefs -> Winamp Pro -> Enter Reg Key?
Or only with the prompt which comes at the end of the Pro installation?

If the former, then have you disabled UAC on your system?

We'll debug it later (entering reg key when UAC is disabled)
but for me, when UAC is enabled, I always get the UAC prompt first when trying to enter the reg key or adjusting any settings (eg. Prefs -> File Types) which require registry-write privileges.

After clicking 'Yes' on the UAC prompt, then everything works.

I assume you aren't getting the UAC prompt, which means one of the following:

1. You must have disabled UAC, and it doesn't work if UAC is disabled
2. You've deleted Elevator.exe or elevatorps.dll from the Winamp folder, or they didn't get installed/registered properly.

Please confirm that those two files exist in the root of the Winamp installation dir.


Re: b) and c) video playback issues

Please could you attach a directX Diagnostic log (dxdiag.txt)
Start -> Run:
Type: dxdiag
Hit Enter
Wait for it to load
Click "Save all information"


Re: c)
Do you only get that weird video playback corruption for NSV files,
or also for other formats?

If only NSV, then is it just for NSV files with h.264 video
or does it also occur for NSV files with other video codecs, eg. vp6 ?


"d)" is expected behaviour.

We can't reproduce "e)"

[Koopa]

MrX_1980:

d.) Is no issue, Winamp only saves it settings on close. So if you crashed, settings are gone.

You can install Time Restore & Autoplay plug-in from the Essentials Pack, it has an option, that Winamp periodly saves the settings.

[MrX_1980]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
@MrX_1980

Thanks for the report...

Re: Invalid Registration Key error

Are you getting that error when trying to enter the reg key via: Winamp -> Prefs -> Winamp Pro -> Enter Reg Key?
Or only with the prompt which comes at the end of the Pro installation?

>>> On both

Originally posted by DJ Egg
I assume you aren't getting the UAC prompt, which means one of the following:

1. You must have disabled UAC, and it doesn't work if UAC is disabled

>>> No, I set it "one step down"

Originally posted by DJ Egg
2. You've deleted Elevator.exe or elevatorps.dll from the Winamp folder, or they didn't get installed/registered properly. Please confirm that those two files exist in the root of the Winamp installation dir.

>>> Both files are in C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp

Originally posted by DJ Egg
Re: video files

Please could you attach a directX Diagnostic log (dxdiag.txt)
Start -> Run:
Type: dxdiag
Hit Enter
Wait for it to load
Click "Save all information"

>>> Attached at next post

Originally posted by DJ Egg
Do you only get that weird video playback corruption for NSV files,
or also for other formats?
If only NSV, then is it just for NSV files with h.264 video
or does it also occur for NSV files with other video codecs, eg. vp6 ?

>>> I will try some formats. Here with VP61:

[MrX_1980]

DxDiag.txt

[Mr.Henky]

Re: Winamp 5.57 Beta Preview

Originally posted by DJ Egg
* Misc: Improved Windows 7 compatibility, including alt+tab & taskbar icon integration

What this means exactly?

[MrX_1980]

I think there is a memory leak or something else:
(Playing H.264)


After about 2 minutes and 46 seconds:



And this came after stopping this stream:
http://85.17.213.140:8028;stream.nsv


(All on PC_A)