-Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-git:
+Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.1.0-git:
------------------------------------
+Access:
+ * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
+ * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
+ (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
+
+Playlist:
+ * WPL playlist support
+ * ZPL playlist support
+ * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
+
+Audio filters:
+ * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
+
+Encoders:
+ * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
+ * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
+
+Video Output:
+ * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
+ desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
+ * New x11 and xv modules based on XCB
+
+Visualisation:
+ * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
+
+Windows port:
+ * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
+
+Removed modules:
+ * csri
+ * galaktos
+ * showintf
+ * transrate
+ * x11, xvideo, xvid
+
+
+Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
+--------------------------------
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
+ * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
+ * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
+ * Fix Dailymotion access script
+ * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
+ * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
+
+Access:
+ * Add extra caching for files on network shares
+ * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
+ * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
+ * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
+
+Muxers:
+ * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
+
+Qt Interface:
+ * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
+ * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
+ * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
+ * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
+ * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
+ * More reliable Information and Messages panels
+ * Fix various crashes
+
+Windows port:
+ * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
+
+Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
+---------------------------------
+
+Important notes:
+----------------
+ * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
+ See 'Access:' for more info.
+ * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
+
Playback:
- * Instant pausing
- * Frame-By-Frame Support
- * Timeshift support
+ * Instantaneous pausing
+ * Frame-by-Frame playback
+ * Finer speed control
+ * On-the-fly recording for all medias
+ * Timeshift for most medias
* RTSP trickplay support
+ * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
+
+Decoders:
+ * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
+ * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
+ * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
+ * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
+ * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
+ * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
+ * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
+ * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
+ * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
+ * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
+ * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
+ * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
+ * Metadata for mod files are supported
+ * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
+ * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
+ * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
+
+Encoders:
+ * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
+ * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
Access:
* RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
+ * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
+ * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
+ * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
+ * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
+ OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
+ * DVB scanning on linux
+ * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
+ * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
+ zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
+ zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
+ * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
+ * MTP device access on Unix
+ * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
+ * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
Inputs:
* Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
- * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
- Windows.
+ * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
+ Windows and Mac OS X.
-Decoders:
- * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
- * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) support
- * True HD/MLP support
- * Blu-Ray Linear PCM support
- * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) support
-
-Encoders:
- * Dirac encoding support using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
-
-Stream output:
- * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
- * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
- * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
+Playlist:
+ * Export the playlist in HTML
+ * Lua script for BBC radio playback
+ * Better metadata handling and reading
Linux/Windows interface:
+ * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
+ * Various fixes for skins2 interface
* Recently played items list
+ * Interface toolbar customizations
+ * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
+ - More menus actions
+ - Finer speed slider
+ - Improvements on many dialogs
+ - New dialog for plugins listing
+ - Fixed-size mode for videos
+ - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
+ * Better integration in GTK environments
Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
* Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
+ * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
+ * Additional usability improvements
+
+Stream output:
+ * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
+ * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
+ * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
+ * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
+ * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
Maemo Port:
* New Maemo port with:
Windows CE Port:
EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
-Playlist:
- * support to Export the playlist in HTML
- * Lua script for BBC radio playback
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
+ * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
+ * Support for latest iSight models
Audio output:
* Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
* Surround support for PulseAudio
+Video output:
+ * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
+ * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
+ (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
+ * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
+ The old image video output has been removed.
+ * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
+ withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
+---------------------------------
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
+ * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
+---------------------------------
+
+Decoders:
+ * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Various fixes related to real demuxer
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
+ - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
+ instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
+ main controller window.
+ * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
+
+New Localizations:
+ * Indonesian
+ * Bengali
+ * Updates of other localizations
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
+ * Lots of small bugfixes.
+ * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
+ * Telnet fixes on Windows
+ * Resampling fixes when transcoding
Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
---------------------------------
if libncursesw is available.
* Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
* Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
- share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
+ share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
* Unix
* Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
* D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
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