-Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.2.0-git:
+Changes between 1.1.4 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.
+ * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
Access
* Multiple files are supported from RAR files
+ * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
+ * DVB-S scanning support
+ * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
+ * Support for VDR recordings
+ * Blu-Ray integration with libbluray
+ * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
Codecs
* You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
+ * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback
+ * Encode support for DVD LPCM
+
+Demuxers:
+ * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
+ * Ogg seeking improvements
Interfaces
* The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
+ * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
+ * Qt: effects dialogs reordering
+ * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
+
+Video Output:
+ * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
+
+Audio Output:
+ * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
+
+Audio Filter:
+ * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
Video Filter:
* New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
+ * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
+ * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
Stream output:
* New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
+libVLC:
+ * New capabilities for libVLC:
+ ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
+----------------------------------
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
+ by 16
+ * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
+
+Demuxer:
+ * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
+
+Qt interface:
+ * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
+ * Various fixes for Windows
+
+Translations:
+ * New Armenian translation
+ * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
+ Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Win32:
+ * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
+ See VideoLAN-SA-1005
+ * Fix folders opening from the interface
+
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
+ Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access and demuxers:
+ * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
+ * fix for podcasts parsing
+ * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
+
+Taglib:
+ * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
+ CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
+
+Playlist:
+ * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
+ * fix m3u playlists exports
+
+Skins2:
+ * fix video autoresize behaviour
+
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
+
+Windows and Mac:
+ * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
+
+Mac:
+ * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
+
+BSD:
+ * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Avformat fps displaying fix
+ * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
+
+Audio filters:
+ * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
+ of mono streams, especially on Windows
+
+Windows:
+ * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
+ playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
+ * fix console output encoding
+
+Interface and extensions:
+ * Youtube and other scripts updates
+ * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
+--------------------------------
+
+libVLC:
+ * New capabilities for libVLC:
+ * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
+ libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
+ libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
+ * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
+ libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
+ * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
+ protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
+ the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
+ * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
+ video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
+ ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
+ See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
+ * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
+ between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
+ * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
+ called early
+
+Decoders/Demuxers:
+ * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
+ You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
+ * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
+ * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
+ * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
+
+Stream output:
+ * Fix h264 streaming in ts
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
+ * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
+ * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
+
+Linux:
+ * Fix pulse closing
+ * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
+
+MacOS:
+ * Multiple interface and crash fixes
+ * Deinterlace selection is repaired
+ * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
+
+Windows:
+ * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
+ * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
+ * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
+ * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
+
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
+ Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
+
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.
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 decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage
+ * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
- * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
* Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
+ * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
* 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 native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
* 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
+ * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
Demuxers:
+ * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
* 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:
* NEON assembly audio converter module
* Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
-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
* rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
* qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
+Visualization:
+ * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
+
Mac OS X Port:
* Vastly improved VLCKit framework
* A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
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