From 2f53d49924d2806ae17b28ec09163fa2e8668c3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:48:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS and THANKS. Mentions of FS controller and dropping support of old platform. --- NEWS | 28 +++++++++++++++------------- THANKS | 2 +- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 575074f188..13ae2c3f9a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet): Important notes: ---------------- + * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and MacOS X.3 (Panther) * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default. If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to edit the ".hosts" file. @@ -15,9 +16,9 @@ Important notes: C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts - 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 the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6. - It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version. + * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. + This interface has a fullscreen controller. This interface lacks the + "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6. If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6. * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default. * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They @@ -33,8 +34,8 @@ Important notes: EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683). * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead. - E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ; - udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12 + E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ; + udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules. * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the following @@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ Security updates: Playlist: * Vastly improved playlist support: - * Media library support + * Media library creation to save all your playlist items * "Live search" * Shoutcast TV listings * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support @@ -181,8 +182,6 @@ Stream output: * RTMP output Interfaces: - * Windows/Linux - * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit * All * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an end-user suitable way. @@ -190,6 +189,9 @@ Interfaces: * Improved mouse gestures * Vastly improved Update checker * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2) + * Windows/Linux + * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit + * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite) * Mac OS X * Improved video output features * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC @@ -948,12 +950,12 @@ Video Output: * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X) with support for effects. * Improved filter and subpictures support : - - New filters can be streamed. - - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video - - Centralized scaling and blending + - New filters can be streamed. + - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video + - Centralized scaling and blending * New filters : - - "time", to display current time - - "marq", to display a marquee + - "time", to display current time + - "marq", to display a marquee Interfaces: * OSD sliders for volume and postition information diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 807fb81cc1..a63b6e1e38 100644 --- a/THANKS +++ b/THANKS @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Laurent Mutricy - HTTP interface Leo Spalteholz - Qt interface design Loox Thefuture - Media key in X11 vout Lorena Gomes - Catalan translation -Lukas Durfina - qt4: full screen controller. teletext button fix. +Lukas Durfina - Qt4: full screen controller. Teletext button fix. Various fixes. Mahrazi Mohd Kamal - Malay Translation Marc Nolette - PVR support in DirectShow input Marco Munderloh - HTTP fix for Win32 to URL filenames -- 2.39.2