X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=cc7a604ac97d53f85ddb65c300d47ae91033fdd5;hb=5e33034d87a3e3258573410053f0bfc1e7925674;hp=b9fa40ef183ac69126b49eeb4b961471aea6909e;hpb=93a2b0c8a61da5a68ad6f37b181383e47ead86f0;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b9fa40ef18..cc7a604ac9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,36 +1,94 @@ -Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git: +Changes between 1.1.0 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. + +Access + * Multiple files are supported from RAR files + +Codecs + * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc + +Demuxers: + * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib). + +Interfaces + * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one + +Video Filter: + * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering + +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}" + + +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 + 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 codec - * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities * 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 - * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA - * Audio/Video decoder using OpenMAX IL components + * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage + + * Support for 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 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 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 Demuxers: + * 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 + * Many fixes on Matroska support and support for Webm format + * 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 @@ -49,8 +107,7 @@ 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 @@ -65,16 +122,18 @@ 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 - * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.eve has, for example + * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176} * 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 @@ -85,6 +144,7 @@ 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 Mac OS X Port: * Vastly improved VLCKit framework @@ -93,6 +153,7 @@ 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 @@ -101,34 +162,71 @@ 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: