X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=8b85a6fbbb39775e01813b49692583ca4b088eb9;hb=cc116115681a9c484ee23592ef16d724f843ae70;hp=bb6c5cf8cb4953b1f54061cfab42b50a99c5016e;hpb=55a03066e5bcafb013cab151b18a462760e22e89;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bb6c5cf8cb..8b85a6fbbb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,41 +7,70 @@ Core: Access: * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.) * New SMB access module using libdsm + * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including + MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles + * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...) * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items, domain / path matching, Secure cookies) + * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA + * Support depayloading Opus from RTP + * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL + * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions Decoder: * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL - * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration - * Support for ARIB B24 subtitles + * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration + * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles * Support for Daala video * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements + * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123 + * New BPG decoder based on libbpg + * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding + * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune) + * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX Demuxers: * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS) * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream * Support Daala in Ogg + * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov + * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata + * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others) + * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings + * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files + * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files Stream filter: * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder +Audio output: + * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default. + It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output. + Video ouput: + * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo * Wayland shell surface window provider * Wayland shared memory video output - * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output + * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2) + NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque) + * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders + * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9 + * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes. Video filter: * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL + * New video filter to convert between fps rates Stream Output: * Chromecast output module + * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization Encoder: * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4 @@ -53,27 +82,52 @@ Muxers: Service Discovery: * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm + * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery Mac OS X Interface * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization * Port to Yosemite X.10 +Qt interface: + * Batch convert support + Skins2: * Support key accelerators +libVLC: + * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout + * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new, + libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start. + This allows to attach media events between create and start. + * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec + * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end + * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options + * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device + identifier (if there is one available) + +Logging + * Support for the SystemD Journal + * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug + messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only. + * New Android module for logging + +Misc + * remove langfromtelx + * remove ZPL playlist format + Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0: -------------------------------- Important changes: * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+, - notably the streaming output, muxers and access output ones + notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules Core: * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible - * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples - * Add extensions download from external repositories + * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies + * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples Access: * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access @@ -83,6 +137,7 @@ Access: and BD-J navigation * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs + * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data Decoder: * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding @@ -132,7 +187,7 @@ Demuxer: * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles * FLAC packets validation using CRC * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files - * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats + * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM @@ -149,7 +204,7 @@ Video Output: * New Android native window provider module * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output - * Add mmal based video output + * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi Video Filter: * New Oldmovie effect filter @@ -201,26 +256,63 @@ Interfaces: * Add record button in Qt menus * New module for core dialogs on iOS * New layout for Qt buttons customization - * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS + * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X Mac OS X Interface: + * Support for OS X Yosemite * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode * Fixes for advanced preferences + * Added 'file size' column to playlist table + * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start * Option to increase playlist font size + * Improved crash log reporting Misc: * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui + * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts + +Security: + * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers Removed modules: - * ios video output: use ios2 + * iOS video output: use ios2 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder * dirac encoder: use schroedinger Translations: - * Update of all translations + * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko, + Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic + * Update of all translations: + Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian, + Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian, + Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian + Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer, + Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish + Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German, + Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian + + +Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6: +-------------------------------- + +Audio output: + * Fix OSS stuttering + +Security: + * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter + * Fix buffer overflow in updater + * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder + * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder + * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer + * Fix SRTP integer overflow + * Fix potential crash in zip access + * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer + +Win32 installer: + * Update translations and greek encoding Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5: