Release history

Version 1.0b1, released January 1. 2007

(does not expire)

The application binary no longer has an expiration date, and a license fee is no longer required for unlimited use of all features of the application.

Version 1.0a141, released October 17, 2006

(expires January 1, 2007)

Version 1.0a140, released September 28, 2006

(expires October 20, 2006)
(Released for Linux only)

Version 1.0a139, released May 19, 2006

(expires October 20, 2006)

Version 1.0a138, released January 20, 2006

(expires May 20, 2006)

Version 1.0a137, released September 16, 2005

(expires January 20, 2006)

Version 1.0a136, released June 21, 2005

(expires September 20, 2005)

Version 1.0a135, released March 27, 2005

(expires June 20, 2005)

Version 1.0a134, released January 30, 2005

(expires March 20, 2005)

Version 1.0a133, released December 28, 2004

(expires January 20, 2005)

Version 1.0a132, released December 14, 2004

(expires December 20, 2004)

Version 1.0a131, released October 27, 2004

(expires November 20, 2004)

Version 1.0a130, released September 27, 2004

(expires October 20, 2004)

Version 1.0a129, released September 5, 2004

(expires September 20, 2004)

Version 1.0a128, released August 5, 2004

(expires August 20, 2004)
(Released for Windows only)

Fixed a bug that might have caused a reported problem with the Windows version.

Version 1.0a127, released July 20, 2004

(expires August 20, 2004)

Version 1.0a126, released June 24, 2004

(expires July 20, 2004)

Version 1.0a125, released May 27, 2004

(expires June 20, 2004)

Fixed a problem that could cause the Windows version to fail to read MP3 files properly.

Version 1.0a124, released April 22, 2004

(expires May 20, 2004)

Version 1.0a123, released March 27, 2004

(expires April 20, 2004)

Version 1.0a122, released February 27, 2004

(expires March 20, 2004)

Version 1.0a121, released January 22, 2004

(expires February 20, 2004)

Version 1.0a120, released December 24, 2003

(expires January 20, 2004)

Version 1.0a119, released November 23, 2003

(expires December 20, 2003)

Version 1.0a118, released October 23, 2003

(expires November 20, 2003)

Version 1.0a117, released September 26, 2003

(expires October 20, 2003)

Version 1.0a116, released August 21, 2003

(expires September 20, 2003)

Version 1.0a115, released July 26, 2003

(expires August 20, 2003)

The Linux version (of "liveCaster" and "lc") is now completely statically linked, to ensure that it will run on all Linux versions.

Version 1.0a114, released June 26, 2003

(expires July 20, 2003)

Version 1.0a113, released May 26, 2003

(expires June 20, 2003)

Version 1.0a112, released April 23, 2003

(expires May 20, 2003)

Version 1.0a111, released March 31, 2003

(expires April 20, 2003)

Version 1.0a110, released March 7, 2003

(expires March 20, 2003) (Linux version only)

I think the Linux version really works now (famous last words...)

Version 1.0a109, released February 24, 2003

(expires March 20, 2003)

Version 1.0a108, released February 11, 2003

(expires February 20, 2003)
(Released for Linux only)

Backed out the previous change; it didn't work. The Linux "liveCaster" binary is now linked dynamically once again. ("lc" remains statically linked, because that seems to work OK.)

Version 1.0a107, released February 7, 2003

(expires February 20, 2003)
(Released for Linux only)

The binary is now linked statically, to avoid problems with missing library versions otherwise.

Version 1.0a106, released January 27, 2003

(expires February 20, 2003)

Version 1.0a105, released December 29, 2002

(expires January 20, 2003)

We now read the Xing header (if present) in VBR files, to more accurately report the playing time of such files.

Version 1.0a104, released November 22, 2002

(expires December 20, 2002)

Version 1.0a103, released October 20, 2002

(expires November 20, 2002)

Version 1.0a102, released September 20, 2002

(expires October 20, 2002)

Version 1.0a101, released August 20, 2002

(expires September 20, 2002)

Version 1.0a100, released July 28, 2002

(expires August 20, 2002)

Version 1.0a99, released June 27, 2002

(expires July 20, 2002)

Version 1.0a98, released May 24, 2002

(expires June 20, 2002)

Version 1.0a97, released April 20, 2002

(expires May 20, 2002)

Fixed a bug that could cause liveCaster/lc to crash when streaming ADUs with malformed MP3 headers.

Version 1.0a96, released March 20, 2002

(expires April 20, 2002)

Version 1.0a95 released February 21, 2002

(expires March 20, 2002)

Version 1.0a94, released January 21, 2002

(expires February 20, 2002)

Fixed a bug that could cause liveCaster/lc to crash if it read a corrupted MP3 header.

Version 1.0a93, released January 20, 2002

(expires February 20, 2002)

Version 1.0a92, released November 20, 2001

(expires January 20, 2002)

Version 1.0a91, released October 20, 2001

(expires November 20, 2001)

Version 1.0a90, released September 30, 2001

(expires October 20, 2001)

I think all bugs related to reading from "http://..." URLs have now been fixed. Keeping my fingers crossed...

Version 1.0a89, released September 12, 2001

(expires October 20, 2001)

Fixed a bug that prevented more than one copy of liveCaster/lc from reading from HTTP streams with the same port number

Version 1.0a88, released September 4, 2001

(expires September 20, 2001)

The previous fix didn't do the job; now virtual-hosted URL streams work OK.

Version 1.0a87, released September 3, 2001

(expires September 20, 2001)

When reading from a HTTP source, we now issue HTTP 1.1 "GET"s, rather than HTTP 1.0 "GET"s, so that virtual-hosted URL streams work OK.

Version 1.0a86, released August 19, 2001

<(expires September 20, 2001)

Version 1.0a85, released July 19, 2001

(expires August 20, 2001)

Version 1.0a84, released June 21, 2001

(expires July 20, 2001)

Fixed a bug in the previous release that would cause a fatal error message if you chose not to advertise your session using SAP.

Version 1.0a83, released June 19, 2001

(expires July 20, 2001)

liveCaster/lc now writes a ".sdp" file - containing the SDP description of the session - when it starts up. Some media players (such as RealPlayer) can read such a file to specify the session parameters.

Version 1.0a82, released June 18, 2001

(expires June 20, 2001)
(Released for Windows only)

Worked around a bug that was causing the Windows version of "liveCaster" and "lc" to chew up lots of CPU time.

Version 1.0a81, released May 18, 2001

(expires June 20, 2001)

Version 1.0a80, released April 18, 2001

(expires May 20, 2001)

Version 1.0a79, released March 17, 2001

(expires April 20, 2001)

Version 1.0a78, released March 4, 2001

(expires March 20, 2001)

Made a slight change to the computation of the time that liveCaster delays between sending each packet. (The previous computation might have led to slight increases in delay over time.)

Version 1.0a77, released March 1, 2001

(expires March 20, 2001)

Changed the generation of RTP timestamps with interleaved ADUs to match the latest "mpa-robust" Internet Draft.

Version 1.0a76, released February 25, 2001

(expires March 20, 2001)

Reorganized and cleaned up much of the "liveMedia" library

Version 1.0a75, released February 19, 2001

(expires March 20, 2001)

The "liveMedia" library was extensively cleaned up and reorganized. (This made the binary slightly smaller than before.)
Corrected the SDP advertisements for 'ADUized' sessions to use the new format name "mpa-robust/90000".

Version 1.0a74, released January 18, 2001

(expires February 20, 2001)

Version 1.0a73, released January 9, 2001

(expires January 20, 2001)

Fixed a bug noticed by Roland Paviainen: liveCaster was still including a 4-byte MPEG audio header (from RFC2250), even when outputting in "X-MP3" format.

Version 1.0a72, released December 19, 2000

(expires January 20, 2001)

Version 1.0a71, released November 21, 2000

(expires December 20, 2000)

Added a "-ssm" option to liveCaster that tells it to choose a multicast address in the "source-specific multicast" range (232/8), to specify this in any SDP advertisements that it sends, and to not expect any RTCP reception reports.

Version 1.0a70, released November 15, 2000

(expires December 20, 2000)

Fixed a bug in the ADU-streaming of MP3 frames with a CRC field

Version 1.0a69, released November 10, 2000

(expires December 20, 2000)

Fixed a couple of bugs in the ADU implementation

Version 1.0a68, released November 9, 2000

(expires December 20, 2000)

We now recognize and skip over ID3 headers at the beginning of MP3 files
Implemented the newest ADU-based MP3 RTP format (i.e., including an ADU header descriptor, and supporting interleaving). (Interleaving will be documented shortly.)
Fixed a bug that would cause the "-s" option to have no effect if it had already been used in a previous run

Version 1.0a67, released October 18, 2000

(expires November 20, 2000)

Improved the packing of MP3 frames into RTP packets. You should no longer see "insufficient buffer size..." error messages.
The IRIX and Solaris/x86 versions are no longer supported. (Those versions were being built on guest accounts on machines that are no longer available.)

Version 1.0a66, released September 25, 2000

(expires October 20, 2000)
(Released for Windows only)

We now accept more non-MP3 cruft at the start of a .mp3 file

Version 1.0a65, released September 22, 2000

(expires October 20, 2000)
(Released for Windows and Linux only)

Fixed an error message that was itself causing an error (in the Windows version)
The Linux binary, when run on OpenBSD with Linux emulation enabled, is now recognized as licenseable.

Version 1.0a63, released September 19, 2000

(expires October 20, 2000)

Newly found .mp3 files are now added to the end of the 'playlist-in-progress', rather than to the beginning.
The "-r" (remove after playing) flag now takes an optional integer argument <playlist-size>, indicating that a file, after being played, should be deleted only if the remaining playlist-in-progress would have at least <playlist-size> entries. (The default value is 0: each file is always deleted after being played.)

Version 1.0a62, released September 10, 2000

(expires October 20, 2000)
(Released for Windows only)

Version 1.0a61, released August 28, 2000

(expires September 20, 2000)
(Released for Windows only)

"lc" and "lcService" can now transmit more than one stream simultaneously. This is still experimental; details to follow...

Version 1.0a60, released August 20, 2000

(expires September 20, 2000)

Increased the buffering on HTTP MP3 sources, in response to a customer request

Version 1.0a59, released July 28, 2000

(expires August 20, 2000)

The Windows version of "lc" (the GUI-less application) is now available as a Windows NT 'Service', as well as a standalone application.

Version 1.0a58, released July 25, 2000

(expires August 20, 2000)

Fixed a bug in the previous release

Version 1.0a57, released July 25, 2000

(expires August 20, 2000)
(Released for Windows only)

The "-s" option can now take a directory name as argument. This allows the user to specify a file source directory different from that which contains the SELF.txt file. (E.g., the file source directory can now be on read-only media.)
Source arguments (given by the "-s" option) are now stored in the SELF.txt file, so they don't have to be specified again next time the program is run

Version 1.0a56, released July 19, 2000

(expires August 20, 2000)

Version 1.0a53, released June 29, 2000

(expires July 20, 2000)

Fixed a bug that was preventing liveCaster from being started in "attribute" mode
Fixed a bug that was preventing error dialogs (such as the "version expired" message) from being displayed under Windows

Version 1.0a52, released June 17, 2000

(expires July 20, 2000)

Version 1.0a51, released May 8, 2000

(expires June 20, 2000)

Made the code more robust in the face of corrupted MP3 headers

Version 1.0a50, released April 29, 2000

(expires June 20, 2000)

Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause liveCaster to stop streaming after it received RTCP reports

Version 1.0a49, released April 21, 2000

(expires May 20, 2000)

The license checking code wasn't included properly in the previous version

Version 1.0a48, released April 19, 2000

(expires May 20, 2000)

Version 1.0a47, released March 3, 2000

(expires April 20, 2000)

Fixed a bug in the handling of playlist files containing more than one entry

Version 1.0a46, released February 14, 2000

(expires March 15, 2000)

Fixed a bug in the previous version's special-case handling of "stdin" as an input file name

Version 1.0a45, released February 14, 2000

(expires March 15, 2000)

liveCaster now supports 'playlist' files - i.e., ending with ".m3u" or ".pls". Like .mp3 files, playlist files can be read either as a regular file, or as a HTTP file.
Playlist files can contain .mp3 filenames, or HTTP URLs, or even other names of other playlist files

Version 1.0a44, released January 18, 2000

(expires February 15, 2000)
(Linux version only)

The Linux version is now statically linked once again.

Version 1.0a43, released January 14, 2000

(expires February 15, 2000)

This program is now licenseable (i.e., you can now purchase a license to disable the expiration date)
Reduced the maximum allowed UDP packet size, to reduce the risk of packets getting fragmented at the IP level

Version 1.0a42, released December 13, 1999

(expires January 15, 2000)

Version 1.0a41, released November 14, 1999

(expires December 15, 1999)

We now output a warning message if the user enters an odd RTP port

Version 1.0a40, released October 4, 1999

(expires November 15, 1999)

Added a new command-line option "-a <RTP-payload-format-number>" which specifies that MP3 audio is streamed over RTP in the more loss-tolerant 'ADU-based' payload format.
Changed the audio-mode bitrate selection GUI to make it fit better on small displays

Version 1.0a39, released September 16, 1999

(expires October 15, 1999)
(Solaris/SPARC version only)

Fixed a bug in the MP3 header parsing code that would sometimes cause parts of concatenated MP3 files to be skipped if a subfile started with non-MP3 data (such as ID3v2)

Version 1.0a38, released August 30, 1999

(expires October 15, 1999)

Version 1.0a37, released July 29, 1999

(expires August 31, 1999)

The Windows version can now read its input from a HTTP server. (Previously, only the Unix versions could do this.)

Version 1.0a36, released July 1, 1999

(expires July 31, 1999)

There is now a version for Solaris/x86
Added the ability to announce your session to the "local administratively scoped SDP default" directory

Version 1.0a35, released June 30, 1999

(expires July 31, 1999)

Fixed a typo that had accidentally gotten into the IP address of the SDP default directory

Version 1.0a34, released June 26, 1999

(expires July 31, 1999)

Updated the RTCP implementation in accordance with the most recent RTP/RTCP spec. Also, we now correctly send a RTCP BYE when we exit.
We now keep a more accurate audience count estimate, and now display the maximum and average audience count, in addition to the current count.
A small LIVE555.COM logo is now displayed in the main window

Version 1.0a32, released June 1, 1999

(expires June 30, 1999)
(released for Linux only)

We now implement our own "bzero()", because some Linux installations don't have it in their installed libraries.

Version 1.0a31, released May 31, 1999

(expires June 30, 1999)

Added an optional command-line argument "-a <RTP-payload-format-#>", which specifies that the MP3 data should be packaged in RTP packets using the new "ADU-based" RTP payload format.

Version 1.0a30, released April 29, 1999

(expires May 31, 1999)

The distribution now includes a GUI-less version of the application, in addition to the usual GUI version. The GUI-less version, named "lc", takes the same command line arguments (if any) as the regular "liveCaster". For it to work, the "SELF.txt" file (created by the GUI application during the parameter setup dialog) must already exist.
Added an optional command line argument "-r", which tells liveCaster (or "lc") to delete each file after it's finished playing it. This can be useful if you're using liveCaster to simulate a jukebox.
Fixed a bug that would cause problems if you tried to switch from "attribute" mode to "audio" mode.

Version 1.0a29, released March 31, 1999

(expires April 30, 1999)

Fixed a bug that would cause an incorrect warning about using unicast addresses during the initial setup dialog

Version 1.0a28, released March 22, 1999

(expires April 15, 1999)
(for Solaris only)

The Solaris version has been reinstated

Version 1.0a27, released March 11, 1999

(expires April 15, 1999)

There is no longer a Solaris version, because the guest account that we were using to build it has been closed.
You can now specify a unicast IP address as the destination.

Version 1.0a26, released February 26, 1999

(expires March 26, 1999)

Added new command line options "-si <IP-address>" and "-ri <IP-address>" to specify the IP address of the multicast sending and receiving interfaces, respectively. This can be useful on dual-interface systems where incoming and outgoing multicast use different interfaces.

Version 1.0a25, released February 21, 1999

(expires March 20, 1999)

Removed a misguided optimization that would sometimes cause a stack overflow

Version 1.0a24, released February 15, 1999

(expires March 15, 1999)
(Unix versions only)

Made the mechanism for reading from a HTTP stream more reliable, by adding several newline characters (rather than just one) after the initial "GET" command.

Version 1.0a23, released February 14, 1999

(expires March 15, 1999)

Added basic support for RTCP. liveCaster sends out SR and SDES packets, although the SDES packets currently contain only CNAME. Also, it now displays the estimated audience (based on received RTCP SSRCs). (At present, this estimate is not aged, so it will never decrease over time.)
Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause liveCaster to crash upon initialization.

Version 1.0a22, released February 8, 1999

(expires March 9, 1999)

Fixed a minor bug in SDP/SAP announcement generation

Version 1.0a21, released February 7, 1999

(expires March 9, 1999)

Using a new '-s' option, liveCaster can now be used to stream from a single, specific source (including 'stdin'), or (for Unix versions only) from a HTTP MP3 stream (including from a 'Shoutcast' server)
Made some minor improvements to the SDP/SAP announcements

Version 1.0a20, released February 4, 1999

(expires March 7, 1999)

liveCaster now (optionally) makes SDP/SAP announcements of its session - in either the "SDP default" directory, or the "Low-Bandwidth Sessions" directory

Version 1.0a19, released February 1, 1999

(expires March 2, 1999)

Fixed a bug that was causing the MP3 transcoder to get confused if it saw a file with the "error protection" flag on

Version 1.0a18, released February 1, 1999

(expires February 28, 1999)

Made the MPEG audio parsing code more tolerant of non-MPEG headers that sometimes appear at the start of MP3 files
Minor cleanups/improvements to the audio mode setup GUI

Version 1.0a17, released January 27, 1999

(expires February 20, 1999)

Fixed a couple of bugs in the MP3 transcoder
When sorting MP3 file names (to figure out the order of playing) we now use a case-insensitive search

Version 1.0a16, released January 26, 1999

(expires February 15, 1999)

"liveCaster" can now be used to multicast "MP3" audio streams, as well as textual attributes.
As has long been promised in the documentation, liveCaster now has (optional) built-in UMTP tunneling support.

Version 1.0a15, released December 14, 1998

(expires January 15, 1999)

Version 1.0a14, released November 14, 1998

(expires December 15, 1998)

Version 1.0a13, released October 14, 1998

(expires November 15, 1998)

Version 1.0a12, released September 7, 1998

(expires October 15, 1998)

Version 1.0a10, released August 15, 1998

(expires September 15, 1998)
(Released for Linux only)

Fixed a minor bug specific to the Linux version

Version 1.0a9, released August 14, 1998

(expires September 15, 1998)

Version 1.0a8, released July 14, 1998

(expires August 15, 1998)

Version 1.0a7, released June 4, 1998

(expires July 15, 1998)

Version 1.0a6, released May 13, 1998

(expires June 15, 1998)

Version 1.0a5, released April 14, 1998

(expires May 15, 1998)

The Windows version now runs on Windows NT as well as Windows 95

Version 1.0a4, released March 14, 1998

(expires April 15, 1998)

Version 1.0a3, released February 15, 1998

(expires March 15, 1998)

We now include the directory id in the list of settable parameters, when creating a directory from scratch
Undid the 1.0a2 change; it didn't do what we wanted

Version 1.0a2, released February 5, 1998

(expires February 15, 1998)
(released for FreeBSD only)

FreeBSD version: We now statically link in libg++, in case it's not present on the user's site

Version 1.0a1, released January 28, 1998

(expires February 15, 1998)

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