1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.64 2003/08/13 01:45:13 gbazin Exp $
3 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
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7 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
10 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
11 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
14 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
15 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
18 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
21 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
22 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
25 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
28 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
31 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
32 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
35 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
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39 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
40 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
44 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
45 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
46 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
47 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
48 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
51 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
52 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
53 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
56 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
57 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
58 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
61 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
62 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
63 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
64 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
65 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
68 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
69 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
70 * A new CORBA control plugin.
73 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
76 * Improved build system.
77 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
78 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
79 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
80 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
83 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
84 ---------------------------------
87 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
90 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
91 * Fixed large file support on Windows
92 * Video 4 Linux support
93 * CD Digital Audio support
94 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
97 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
98 * Support for OpenDML avi files
99 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
100 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
103 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
104 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
105 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
106 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
107 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
108 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
109 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
112 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
113 * New HTTP remote control interface
116 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
117 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
118 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
119 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
122 * New reset option for the preferences
123 * You can set your language in the prefences
124 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
125 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
126 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
127 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
130 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
131 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
132 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
135 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
136 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
137 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
138 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
139 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
140 * New icons by Davor Orel.
141 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
142 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
143 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
144 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
147 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
148 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
149 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
150 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
151 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
152 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
153 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
156 * Interface localization
157 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
158 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
159 * New full-featured Preferences window
161 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
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165 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
166 * support for skins at the interface level
167 * new OSD module using Freetype2
168 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
169 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
170 input level before dropping out of date frames.
171 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
174 * fixed HTTP redirects
175 * support for opening an entire directory
176 * EOF should be detected more reliably
177 * new video4linux access plug-in
178 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
181 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
182 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
183 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
186 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
187 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
188 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
189 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
190 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
191 * new codec for raw I420 video
192 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
195 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
196 (although it still misses some important features)
197 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
200 * new HTTP output support
201 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
202 * fixed AV synchronization issues
205 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
208 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
211 * reorderable playlist
212 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
213 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
214 * support for mono audio output devices
215 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
216 * fixed several cosmetic issues
217 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
218 * the messages window remembers more lines
219 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
220 * http and ogg stream output options
221 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
224 * new skinnable interface
225 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
227 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
228 * support for FLAC audio format
229 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
231 * network tab in the interface
232 * "apply" handling in preferences
235 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
236 ---------------------------------
239 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
240 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
241 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
242 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
244 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
248 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
249 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
250 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
251 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
254 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
255 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
258 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
261 * fixed the GNU-pth support
264 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
266 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
267 * rc interface is now fully useable
268 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
271 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
272 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
273 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
274 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
275 * VLC now uses the default audio device
277 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
278 * support for mouse gestures
279 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
282 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
283 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
286 * improved ID3 tag detection
287 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
288 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
289 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
291 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
294 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
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298 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
299 English was set as the preferred language
302 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
303 --------------------------------
306 * new mouse gesture interface
307 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
311 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
312 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
313 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
316 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
317 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
321 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
324 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
325 without the user consent
328 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
330 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
331 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
332 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
335 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
336 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
337 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
338 * playlist enhancements
339 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
340 * new step forward/step backward commands
341 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
342 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
343 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
346 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
347 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
348 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
351 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
352 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
355 * native video output is working again
356 * only commandline interface support
357 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
360 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
361 --------------------------------
364 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
365 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
366 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
367 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
368 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
369 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
370 and A/52 streams are supported)
371 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
376 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
377 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
378 * VCD entry points support
379 * VCD image file support
382 * support for *.asf format
383 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
384 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
385 * support for ogg encapsulation
386 * support for raw DV format
387 * support for *.wav format
388 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
391 Stream discovery & playlists:
392 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
393 * support for .m3u file format
394 * support for .asx file format
395 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
398 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
399 (only available with the .avi demux)
400 * support for ADPCM audio codec
401 * support for raw PCM data
402 * support for Cinepak video codec
403 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
404 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
405 * support for Xvid codec
406 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
407 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
408 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
410 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
412 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
415 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
418 * new WxWindows interface
419 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
420 device and the channels configuration
421 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
422 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
423 format that VLC can play
424 * new swedish translation
425 * updated french, german, dutch and italian translations
427 GNU/Linux, *BSD & misc. UNIX ports:
428 * OSS and ALSA audio output modules support A/52 over S/PDIF output
429 * OSS support for multi-channel (up to 6) analog sound cards
432 * localization support via GNU gettext software
433 * completely revamped Cocoa interface
434 * new preferences panel
435 * new open panel with full features
436 * video output screen can be chosen in the Video menu
437 * audio device and channels configuration can be chosen in the Audio menu
438 * new playlist drawer and messages windows
441 * preferences dialog box redesigned
442 * waveout module supports multi-channel audio output and A52 over S/PDIF
444 * new dialog box to select avi subtitles
445 * some new shortcuts (in particular to play/pause or stay on top)
446 * new menu entry to spawn another interface
447 * rc interface is partly fixed and useable
450 * new settings window for adjusting post-processing, brightness,
452 * enhancements of the playlist window
453 * new messages window to see debug info
454 * fixed a few crashes
457 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
458 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
459 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
460 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working