-Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
+Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-pre1:
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-Important changes for packagers:
+Important changes:
+ * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
+ * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
+ VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
* The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
- * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
3rd party libraries (contrib):
- * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
+ * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
Core:
* Audio core rewrite
* Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
+ * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
+ * Partial support for Windows Store App
+ * Removed SQL support
+ * Added audio fingerprinter support
+ * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
Decoders:
* Support for OPUS via libopus.
* Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
- * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
+ * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
* Support for Ulead DV audio
* Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
- Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
+ Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
* Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
* Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
* Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
* Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
* Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
+ * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
Encoders:
* high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
* HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
* Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
* NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
+ * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
+ * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
+ * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
+ vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
+ * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
Demuxers:
* MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
* AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
* Support for more MJPEG streams
* Add support for liveleak streams
+ * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
Audio output:
* Windows Audio Session API audio output support
* OpenBSD sndio audio output support
* Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
* Android AudioTrack audio output support
- * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
+ * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
* Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
* OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
* Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
+ * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
Audio Filters:
- * new remapping channel filter
- * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
- * new VSXu visualization plugin
+ * New remapping channel filter
+ * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
+ * New VSXu visualization plugin
+ * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
Video Outputs:
- * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards
+ * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
+ * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
* OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
* OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
+ * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
+ Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
* Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
+ * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
Video Filters:
- * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
+ * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
* Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
* Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
* Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
+ * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
Stream Output:
* Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
* Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
* Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
* Livehttp stream encryption support
+ * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
+ * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
+
+Fingerprinters:
+ * Added AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
Interfaces:
* configurable password for the HTTP server.
* UPnP A/V subtitles
* Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
-OS X Port:
- * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
- * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
-
OS X Interface:
* add support for multiple video outputs
* add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
* add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
* add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
VLC's internal volume level
+ * add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
+ playback
* add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
selection and to manage the list of presets
* add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
+ * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
* add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
* add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
* add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
* add an option to show next / previous buttons
* add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
+ * add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
* add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
date and language
* add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
3rd party applications
* add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
+ (system-wide settings)
+ * add support for the Video Title option
+ * add support for the Boss Key
* The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
- deprecated now
+ deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
Qt:
* Partial support for Qt5.0
* Menus modifications and improvements
* Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
* Streaming output wizard rewrite
+ * Add bitrate graph in information panels
+ * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
+ * EPG display fixes and improvements
+ * Add SD pixmap sources
+ * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
+ * Display playlist total duration
+ * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
* Numerous fixes
+ * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
+ * Removed language preference
+ * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
+ Added new profiles.
libVLC:
* new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
* new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
* new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
+ * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support.
Removed modules:
* portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
* MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
* Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
* Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
+ * Broken crop video filter
+ * Switcher module
+ * OSD parser and menu
+ * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
+ * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
+ * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
+ * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
projects / vlc / blobdiff