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-Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.7.3:
-This version is in development and not yet released.
+Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4-svn (not yet released):
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
+ * New OSD system
+
+Video output:
+ * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
+ * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
+ * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
+
+Input:
+ * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
+ * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
+ * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
+ * GnomeVFS input module
+ * Support for RTP packet reordering
+ * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
+
+Decoders:
+ * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
+ * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
+ * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
+
+Services discovery:
+ * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
+ * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
+
+Video filters:
+ * RSS feed overlay
+
+Audio filters:
+* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
+ Mixer and Dolby Surround
+
+Stream output:
+ * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
+ * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
+ * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Mac OS X
+ - New streaming and transcoding wizard
+ - New extended controls panel
+ - New bookmarks window
+ - Fixed playlist sorting
+ - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
+ * wxWidgets
+ - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
+ - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
+ - VLC update checker
+ - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
+ - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
+ * Skins2
+ - Tree playlist
+ * HTTP
+ - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
+ - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
+ the names of files
+ - Include macro to include other files
+ - CGI 1.0 support
+
+ActiveX plugin:
+* Should now work outside IE as well
+
+Mac OS X port:
+* New script to delete the preferences automatically
+
+Windows port:
+* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
+
+Translations:
+ The following languages were added:
+ * Korean
+ * Romanian
+ * Simplified Chinese
+
+Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
--------------------------------
Core support:
- * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added funtionality
- * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems
+ * Rewrite of the playlist
+ - Tree structure
+ - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
+ - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
+ * Preferences improvements:
+ - New organization, designed to improve usability
+ - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
+ * XML parsers
+ * Core image manipulation support
+ * Client-side SSL/TLS support
+ * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
+ * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
+ * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
+ * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
+ * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
+ * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
+ now separated by ':' instead of ','
+ * Access filter architecture
+ * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
+ * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
+ * Many bugfixes...
+
+Input/Demuxers:
+ * Support for SOCKS proxy
+ * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
+ * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
+ * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
+ * Better support for Kasenna streams
+ * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
+ * Massive Matroska improvements
+ * Support for XA and VOC audio files
+ * TiVo demuxer
+ * Samba (Windows shares) access module
+ * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
+ * Fixes to Linux DVB support
+ * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
+ * Support for FTP over IPv6
+
+Decoders / Encoders:
+ * Dirac decoder and encoder
+ * PNG decoder/encoder
+ * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
+ * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
+
+Access filters:
+ * New Record and Timeshift filters
+
+Services discovery:
+ * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
+ * Brand new SAP module
+ * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
+ the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
+ ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
+ * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
+ * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
+ * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
+ * Shoutcast
+
+Audio output:
+ * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
+
+Video output:
+ * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
+ * Image file video output (png)
+ * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
+ * Improvements to wall video filter
+ * Support for font color and opacity
+
+Stream output:
+ * Muxers
+ - ASF improvements
+ * VLM / VoD
+ - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
+ - Seeking support in VoD streams
+ * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
+
+Interfaces:
+ * wxWidgets
+ - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
+ - Improved preferences
+ - Improvements to the wizard
+ - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
+ * MacOS X
+ - Redesigned playlist
+ - Improved preferences
+ * Skins
+ - Support for multiple actions
+ - Fixes
+ * HTTP
+ - Support for the new playlist system
+ * Lirc
+ - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
+
+Windows port:
+ * Screensaver disabling fix
+ * DirectShow tuner configuration
+ * Support for no-decoration windows
+
+MacOS X port:
+ * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
+ * The OpenGL video output is back
+ * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
+ - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
+ - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
+ is not yet available in the new module
+ - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
+
+BeOS port:
+ * Support for single-buffered overlay
+
+Pocket PC port:
+ * Many fixes
+ * New interface
+ * New video output
+
+Mozilla Plugin:
+ * Javascript fixes
+ * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
+
+IE Plugin:
+ * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
+
+Translations:
+ The following languages were added:
+ * Catalan
+ * Danish
+ * Turkish
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
+ * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
+
+Windows port:
+ * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
+ * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
+ * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
+
+WinCE port:
+ * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
+
+Video Output:
+ * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
+ * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
+ * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
+
+Stream Output:
+ * Encoders:
+ * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
+ * Stream output:
+ * Support of playlist group announcement
+
+Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
+ * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
* New plugins cache to speed up launch time
- * Fix crash with deinterlace switching
* New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
- * Daemon mode
+ * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
+ * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
Input:
- * New screen capture input plugin for X11
+ * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
+ (Stream your desktop)
* Improved DVD support:
- uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
- uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
- * Experimental --input-slave option to start playing with multi-input
+ * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
* Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
+ * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
+ (selection of titles/chapters).
-Demux:
- * Support iTunes Music Store previews
+Demuxers:
+ * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
* Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
* Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
* Windows Media Server RTSP support
* Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
* Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- * Skin2 .vlt file loader (only when skin2 is the current interface)
+ * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
+ * Improved Ogg demuxer
+ * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
+ * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
Codecs:
* G.726 audio support
* MPEG-4 text support
* Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
* Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
+ * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
Stream Output:
- * Text track muxing for mp4
- * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
- * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
- * H.263 RTP streaming support
- * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- * Experimental WAV muxer
+ Encoders:
+ * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
+ everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
+ * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
+ * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
+ * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
+ * DVB subtitles encoder
+ * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
+ * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
+ Muxers:
+ * Text track muxing for mp4
+ * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
+ * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
+ * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
+ * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
+ * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
+ * Improved ASF muxer
+ Misc:
+ * H.263 RTP streaming support
+ * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
+ * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
Audio Output:
* New audio equalizer filter
* Very trivial volume normalizer
+ * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
+ * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
+ * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
+
+Video Output:
+ * Roku HD1000 Video output
+ * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
+ with support for effects.
+ * Improved filter and subpictures support :
+ - New filters can be streamed.
+ - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
+ - Centralized scaling and blending
+ * New filters :
+ - "time", to display current time
+ - "marq", to display a marquee
Interfaces:
- * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
- * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
* OSD sliders for volume and postition information
* OSD icons for Play and Pause
- * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces
+ * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
* A few skins2 improvements
+ * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
+ * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
+ * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
+ * Improved CORBA control module
Mac OS X port:
* Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
- * The MacOSX interface is no longer required to display video
+ * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
+ * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
Linux port:
* New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
* Experimental SVG rendering module
+ * Support for DVB CAM modules.
Windows port:
* DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
+ * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
* Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
- * Fixed problem with CPU useage with subtitles rendering
+ * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
* Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
+WinCE port:
+ * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
+
Mozilla plugin:
* Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
* Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
Misc:
- * Roku HD1000 Video output
* Server/client network synchronization module
* VBrick streams fully supported
- * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported
* Cisco IP/TV streams supported
- * Experimental OpenGL video output for X11 and win32
+ * VLM enhancements
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
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