From: Felix Paul Kühne Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:44:02 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * couple of NEWS updates and typo fixes here and there X-Git-Tag: 0.9.0-test0~3851 X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=63e066369803c46da28c7487396e045c3b770d99;p=vlc * couple of NEWS updates and typo fixes here and there --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bf4e9701e8..b520607dbd 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ Important notes: - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This - interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6: + interface lacks a few features that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6: - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these - features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6 + features, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a later point - * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default. + * The behavior of --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default. * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They now require a target name as their first argument. Example: vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ Important notes: Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}' New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}' * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable - EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. + EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set + of options is available to m3u playlists. Changes: -------- @@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ Input/Demuxers: * JACK audio input support * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support * Input run time option (improved live stream recording) - * Fixed aiff stereo file + * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files * Fixed audio glitch on seek * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data) * AAC tags support @@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ Input/Demuxers: * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support * Raw video support * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support - * Tivo Series 2 support + * TiVo Series 2 support * v4l2 access module support * CD+G karaoke Files support * MXF files support @@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ Input/Demuxers: Decoders: * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support * MKV USF subtitles support - * HTML based subtitles support + * HTML-based subtitles support * Flash Screen Video support * CamStudio Screen Video support * DosBox Capture support @@ -85,17 +86,18 @@ Decoders: * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts) * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files: Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ... - * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, Tivo, DVB/ATSC) + * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC) * H.264 PAFF support * DNxHD / VC-3 support * NellyMoser ASAO support - * APE ( Monkey audio ) support + * APE (Monkey audio) support * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support Encoders: * Flash Screen Video support Video output and filters: + * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only) * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed * New puzzle video output filter @@ -104,7 +106,7 @@ Video output and filters: video) * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels) * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video) - * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML + * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*. * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). @@ -112,13 +114,13 @@ Video output and filters: was previously part of the mosaic module. * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter. * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter - * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters - * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters + * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters + * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters Audio output and filters - * Replay gain support. - * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ). - * New spatializer audio filter. + * Replay gain support + * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet) + * New spatializer audio filter Stream output: * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams @@ -136,7 +138,13 @@ Interfaces: * All * Improved user interaction * Improved mouse gestures + * Fastly improved Update checker * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info + * ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters + when using an UTF-8 locale. + * Mac OS X + * Improved video output features + * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC * Unix * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface. * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS @@ -144,10 +152,8 @@ Interfaces: interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces . * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal - * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters - when using an UTF-8 locale. * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl - * Fix VLM schedule time on Linux. + * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux Linux Port: * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6 @@ -156,24 +162,25 @@ Linux Port: Mac OS X Port: * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party - applications. (Google Summer Of Code Student project). + applications (Google Summer of Code Student project) + * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard LibVLC: - * Event management and various improvement in libvlc. - (Part of a Google Summer Of Code Student project). + * Event management and various improvements in libvlc + (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project) Capture: * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows -Localisations: +New Localizations: * Finnish * Persian * Polish Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d: ----------------------------------------------------------- +---------------------------------- Various bugfixes: * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows