X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=721920e9bd60a3249053fe6d7f469ce3aa6de321;hb=addf17f0887177964c56bd27856f88de3f0e3509;hp=453b97d4b8a83d70da09050ae62c443e3731b939;hpb=518ec8337ff510523c54d761aa4c3795a8c872ad;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 453b97d4b8..721920e9bd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,48 +1,247 @@ -Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-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currently) + +Codecs + * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc + +Demuxers: + * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).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), + example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3, + venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{ + access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8, + 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. Important changes for packagers: * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be - generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the + generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to launch each time. + * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses + - xproto, + - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb), + - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils), + - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support. + * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically + required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback. Access: - * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB * Support for the sftp protocol * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port + * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory + * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp:// + * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0 - * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory - * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams Decoders: - * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support - * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray - * Invmem module improvements - * Support for Atrac1 audio codec - * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities - * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA * 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 decoder using OpenMAX IL components - * Support for Indeo5 video codec - * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms + * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP + + * 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 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 - * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) - (Full disc support is NOT present yet) * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files * Various EGP improvements * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files + * Metadata and cover art improvements Playlist: - * WPL playlist support - * ZPL playlist support + * WPL and ZPL playlist support * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image * Podcast images are now displayed @@ -61,8 +260,7 @@ Video Output: Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX) Extensions: - * new content extensions lua framework - * IMDb extension + * New content extensions lua framework Audio filters: * Chorus/Flanger audio filter @@ -73,12 +271,11 @@ 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: * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings @@ -87,6 +284,7 @@ Encoders: * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required + * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported Stream output: * New smem module, streaming to memory @@ -97,6 +295,10 @@ Interfaces: * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet and oldhttp. * 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 @@ -105,6 +307,7 @@ Mac OS X Port: by Andy Matuschak et al. * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit) + * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote Windows port: * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar @@ -113,34 +316,71 @@ Windows port: Maemo port: * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900 - * Improvements to the maemo interface + * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface Misc: * new sqlite module * --save-config command line option not supported anymore. * Fixed and reenabled netsync module. + * Improved Solaris port Bindings: * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp + * phonon-VLC backend is now usable Removed modules: - * csri codec. Use the libass module instead. - * galaktos. Use the new projectM module instead. - * showintf. Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X - * transrate - * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use the new XCB modules instead. - * HAL. Use libudev instead. + * csri codec: use the libass module instead. + * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead. + * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X + * transrate: broken since too long + * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead. + * HAL: Use libudev instead. * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces - * opie, qte and qte_main - * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one. - * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead. - * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead. - * opengllayer. Use macosx_video instead. - * cddax. Use cdda instead. + * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces + * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one. + * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead. + * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead. + * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead. + * cddax: use cdda instead. * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs. - * realaudio codecs are removed in favor of libavcodec + * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec * access_file removed in favor of filesystem + * RTMP input and output: use avio module + + +Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6: +-------------------------------- + +Access: + * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path + +Decoders/Packetizers: + * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support + +Demuxers: + * Update LUA script for Youtube pages + * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files + * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives + * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin + * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist + +X11 port: + * Partial Xlib threading fixes + More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update! + +Interfaces: + * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks + * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist + +Translations: + * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish + and Walloon translations updated + * Sinhala translation started + +Removed modules: + * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update + to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed. Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5: