X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=17d8522474d221d842fc455a9aed2ea0049150e4;hb=999535678a808b26f24495a949ff3dd92094ee2a;hp=cc7a604ac97d53f85ddb65c300d47ae91033fdd5;hpb=63f6d064b52301a3979c76e5df05786123651fb0;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cc7a604ac9..17d8522474 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,25 +1,47 @@ -Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.2.0-git: +Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git: ------------------------------------ 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 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. + * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz Access * Multiple files are supported from RAR files + * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices + * DVB-S scanning support + * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection + * Support for VDR recordings + * Blu-Ray integration with libbluray + * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently) Codecs * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc + * Encode support for DVD LPCM Demuxers: * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib). + * Ogg seeking improvements Interfaces * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one + * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements + * Qt: port to Mac platform + +Video Output: + * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update) + +Audio Output: + * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS + +Audio Filter: + * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor Video Filter: * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering + * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality + * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors Stream output: * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff), @@ -29,9 +51,140 @@ Stream output: index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames}, dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}" +Translations: + * New Armenian translation + +libVLC: + * New capabilities for libVLC: + ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation + + +Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4: +-------------------------------- + +Win32: + * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules, + See VideoLAN-SA-1005 + * Fix folders opening from the interface + +Translations: + * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian + Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician + + +Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3: +-------------------------------- + +Access and demuxers: + * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support + * fix for podcasts parsing + * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks + +Taglib: + * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab, + CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004 + +Playlist: + * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played + * fix m3u playlists exports + +Skins2: + * fix video autoresize behaviour + +Translations: + * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali + +Windows and Mac: + * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed + +Mac: + * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates + +BSD: + * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc + + +Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2: +-------------------------------- + +Demuxers: + * Avformat fps displaying fix + * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too) + +Audio filters: + * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback + of mono streams, especially on Windows + +Windows: + * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video + playback with overlay (YUV->RGB) + * fix console output encoding + +Interface and extensions: + * Youtube and other scripts updates + * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface + + +Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1: +-------------------------------- + +libVLC: + * New capabilities for libVLC: + * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable, + libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue, + libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma + * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas + libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it. + * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some + protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and + the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters. + * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing + video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the + ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions. + See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example. + * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay + between audio and video/subpictures for the current input. + * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were + called early + +Decoders/Demuxers: + * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards + You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7 + * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T + * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules + * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds + +Stream output: + * Fix h264 streaming in ts + +Interfaces: + * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour + * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders + * Http: fix fullscreen toggle + +Linux: + * Fix pulse closing + * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection + +MacOS: + * Multiple interface and crash fixes + * Deinterlace selection is repaired + * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes + +Windows: + * Activation of DEP on XP SP3 + * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists + * Fix crash when My Document isn't available + * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video + +Translations: + * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer, + Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician + Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0: -------------------------------- + Important changes for users: * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output. Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead. @@ -62,29 +215,30 @@ Access: Decoders: * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux - * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage + * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP - * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray + * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment * Invmem module improvements * Support for Atrac1 audio codec * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA - * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms + * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port * Support for Indeo5 video codec * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support) * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec * Support for VP8 codec + * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio Demuxers: + * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet) * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files * Various EGP improvements * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files - * Many fixes on Matroska support and support for Webm format * Metadata and cover art improvements Playlist: @@ -118,12 +272,10 @@ Audio filters: * NEON assembly audio converter module * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input -Visualization: - * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries - Service discovery: * Service discoveries can now be written in lua * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories + * Service discovery based on libudev * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed Encoders: @@ -146,6 +298,9 @@ Interfaces: * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system. * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist +Visualization: + * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries + Mac OS X Port: * Vastly improved VLCKit framework * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface