2012-04-25, 08:32
Well folks - time for an update 
Sorry it's been a while. We've been going full tilt on a variety of features, bug-fixes, performance improvements and stability enhancements. A ton of sleep has been lost, spouses ignored and an HDD lost on the process (mine dammit lol).
As a direct result, I'm happy to announce that AE has now been submitted for team review, with an eye to hitting the May merge window for inclusion in the master branch. This is big news, both for users and us working on development. For users who build their own or use nightlies AE will automatically be part of XBMC master. For the devs of AE it will mean no more rebasing code to stay current, worrying about master commits affecting a future merge, or maintaining seperate projects. For everyone on Team XBMC it means that they can more easily fix bugs or add features to AE, making it available for all the Team to enhance, and this is good for everyone.
It also marks a year and a half of work by gnif, the main developer of AE, and he should be very proud of it. It is the single biggest internal project to merge with master yet, and a massive piece of code in it's own right. Other devs have worked on the code including Gimli and Memphiz for OSx, FneuFneu for BSD, and myself for Windows, to name a few, but this has been gnif's baby and it's been a pleasure working with him even though we're on opposite sides of the earth. We've managed to have a few laughs along the way
In the past two weeks we've added automatic enumeration of system device capabilites, fixed a lot of buffering and delay calculation issues, DTS parsing issues for some of the odder formats like 14bit and big-endian encoding, improved performance of CPU usage, got DirectSound fully functional, and numerous other changes.
With the merge submission date approaching it's been a lot of work, and though there's still much more planned, it's finally come to the stage where it was felt "ready" enough to submit to the Team. From there other team members are welcome to review, propose changes, question code methods and make suggestions, but with an eye to inclusion into master.
I'll be putting up a build tomorrow - likely the last or second-last before merging, depending on how the review process goes. The build will be based on the latest pull from master so it includes things added post-Eden like the long-awaited ffmpeg updates and some other nice goodies.
I'll also try answer some of your posts from the last week, including what we found/fixed for some of the samples you guys have been good enough to post!
So check in late tomorrow (North American time) and the latest work with further comments will be uploaded.
Cheers,
Damian
Sorry it's been a while. We've been going full tilt on a variety of features, bug-fixes, performance improvements and stability enhancements. A ton of sleep has been lost, spouses ignored and an HDD lost on the process (mine dammit lol).
As a direct result, I'm happy to announce that AE has now been submitted for team review, with an eye to hitting the May merge window for inclusion in the master branch. This is big news, both for users and us working on development. For users who build their own or use nightlies AE will automatically be part of XBMC master. For the devs of AE it will mean no more rebasing code to stay current, worrying about master commits affecting a future merge, or maintaining seperate projects. For everyone on Team XBMC it means that they can more easily fix bugs or add features to AE, making it available for all the Team to enhance, and this is good for everyone.
It also marks a year and a half of work by gnif, the main developer of AE, and he should be very proud of it. It is the single biggest internal project to merge with master yet, and a massive piece of code in it's own right. Other devs have worked on the code including Gimli and Memphiz for OSx, FneuFneu for BSD, and myself for Windows, to name a few, but this has been gnif's baby and it's been a pleasure working with him even though we're on opposite sides of the earth. We've managed to have a few laughs along the way
In the past two weeks we've added automatic enumeration of system device capabilites, fixed a lot of buffering and delay calculation issues, DTS parsing issues for some of the odder formats like 14bit and big-endian encoding, improved performance of CPU usage, got DirectSound fully functional, and numerous other changes.
With the merge submission date approaching it's been a lot of work, and though there's still much more planned, it's finally come to the stage where it was felt "ready" enough to submit to the Team. From there other team members are welcome to review, propose changes, question code methods and make suggestions, but with an eye to inclusion into master.
I'll be putting up a build tomorrow - likely the last or second-last before merging, depending on how the review process goes. The build will be based on the latest pull from master so it includes things added post-Eden like the long-awaited ffmpeg updates and some other nice goodies.
I'll also try answer some of your posts from the last week, including what we found/fixed for some of the samples you guys have been good enough to post!
So check in late tomorrow (North American time) and the latest work with further comments will be uploaded.
Cheers,
Damian
