Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
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+Important notes:
+ * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
+ conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
+ from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
+ title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
+ * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
+ - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
+ By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
+ - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
+ By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
+ - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
+ --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
+ --http-crl (optional CRL).
+ * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
+ Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
+
Important changes for packagers:
* The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
* The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
* The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
-
Core:
* Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
* Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
* New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
* Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
+ * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
+ * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
+ The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
+ * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
* Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
+ * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
+ * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
+ * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
+ * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
Demuxers:
* New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
- * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
- * Ogg seeking improvements
+ * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
* Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
* Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
* New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
* Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
+ * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
+ * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling
Interfaces:
* Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
* Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
and important cleanups and optimisations
* ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
+ * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output
* Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
* Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
* Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
* Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
+ * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
+ * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
* The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
* dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
* dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
* webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
+ * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
Video Output:
* New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
chroma conversion
* New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
* Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
+ * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which requires a Quartz Extreme capable Mac
Audio Output:
* New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
* New audio output in memory (amem)
* Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
* New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
+ * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
Video Filter:
* New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
* upnp: use upnp_intel
* removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
* removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
- * remove of the noise filter
+ * removal of the noise filter
+ * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
+ * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
+ removed in Growl's next release, too.
Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
projects / vlc / blobdiff