-Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-pre1:
+Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.2.0-git:
------------------------------------
+
+Access
+ * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
+
+Codecs
+ * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
+
+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
+ 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:
* Support for the sftp protocol
* Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
- * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
+ * 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
Decoders:
* 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
+ * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage
- * Support for HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment
+ * 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
- * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
- * Support for Indeo5 video 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 always used with H.264 in avcodec module
- * Partial Support for MPEG-4 ALS
+ * 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 .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
* Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
* 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
Extensions:
* New content extensions lua framework
- * IMDb extension
Audio filters:
* Chorus/Flanger audio filter
* Service discoveries can now be written in lua
* Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
* Service discovery based on libudev
- * Shoutcast Service discovery is now removed
+ * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
Encoders:
* x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
* 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
* 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
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
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
+ * 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:
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