1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.69 2003/10/22 21:08:15 gbazin Exp $
3 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.6.3:
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7 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
8 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
9 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when these are used.
10 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
11 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
14 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
15 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
16 * Improved Ogg muxing and added theora, speex and subtitles support.
17 * Theora video encoding.
18 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
21 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 audio in DVB streams.
22 * Fixed seeking support in FLAC files.
23 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo.
24 * Reworked DVB tuning.
25 * Better Icecast support.
28 * Support for Speex audio.
29 * Support for AAC + SBR.
31 * removed old a52, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio codecs, since we are using others now.
34 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
35 * Bug fixes / improvements in the skins (eg. "stay on top" option).
36 * Improvements to the wxwindows playlist (Sort,Search, mode buttons).
37 * Help in the preferences window.
40 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
42 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
45 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams...).
46 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
47 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
48 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
49 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
52 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
53 * Text subtitles autodetection.
54 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
55 * Text subtitles for videofiles. Result may vary.
56 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
59 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
60 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
61 * Spanish and Portugese Brazilian translations.
62 * SAP now supports HTTP streams.
64 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
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68 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
71 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
72 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
75 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
76 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
79 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
82 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
83 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
86 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
89 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
92 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
93 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
96 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
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100 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
101 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
105 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
106 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
107 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
108 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
109 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
112 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
113 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
114 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
117 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
118 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
119 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
122 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
123 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
124 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
125 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
126 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
129 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
130 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
131 * A new CORBA control plugin.
134 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
137 * Improved build system.
138 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
139 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
140 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
141 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
144 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
145 ---------------------------------
148 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
151 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
152 * Fixed large file support on Windows
153 * Video 4 Linux support
154 * CD Digital Audio support
155 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
158 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
159 * Support for OpenDML avi files
160 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
161 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
164 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
165 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
166 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
167 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
168 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
169 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
170 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
173 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
174 * New HTTP remote control interface
177 * 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.
178 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
179 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
180 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
183 * New reset option for the preferences
184 * You can set your language in the prefences
185 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
186 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
187 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
188 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
191 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
192 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
193 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
196 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
197 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
198 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
199 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
200 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
201 * New icons by Davor Orel.
202 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
203 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
204 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
205 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
208 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
209 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
210 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
211 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
212 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
213 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
214 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
217 * Interface localization
218 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
219 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
220 * New full-featured Preferences window
222 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
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226 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
227 * support for skins at the interface level
228 * new OSD module using Freetype2
229 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
230 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
231 input level before dropping out of date frames.
232 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
235 * fixed HTTP redirects
236 * support for opening an entire directory
237 * EOF should be detected more reliably
238 * new video4linux access plug-in
239 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
242 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
243 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
244 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
247 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
248 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
249 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
250 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
251 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
252 * new codec for raw I420 video
253 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
256 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
257 (although it still misses some important features)
258 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
261 * new HTTP output support
262 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
263 * fixed AV synchronization issues
266 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
269 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
272 * reorderable playlist
273 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
274 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
275 * support for mono audio output devices
276 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
277 * fixed several cosmetic issues
278 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
279 * the messages window remembers more lines
280 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
281 * http and ogg stream output options
282 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
285 * new skinnable interface
286 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
288 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
289 * support for FLAC audio format
290 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
292 * network tab in the interface
293 * "apply" handling in preferences
296 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
297 ---------------------------------
300 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
301 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
302 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
303 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
305 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
309 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
310 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
311 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
312 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
315 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
316 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
319 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
322 * fixed the GNU-pth support
325 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
327 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
328 * rc interface is now fully useable
329 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
332 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
333 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
334 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
335 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
336 * VLC now uses the default audio device
338 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
339 * support for mouse gestures
340 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
343 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
344 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
347 * improved ID3 tag detection
348 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
349 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
350 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
352 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
355 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
356 ---------------------------------
359 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
360 English was set as the preferred language
363 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
364 --------------------------------
367 * new mouse gesture interface
368 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
372 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
373 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
374 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
377 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
378 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
382 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
385 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
386 without the user consent
389 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
391 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
392 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
393 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
396 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
397 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
398 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
399 * playlist enhancements
400 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
401 * new step forward/step backward commands
402 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
403 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
404 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
407 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
408 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
409 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
412 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
413 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
416 * native video output is working again
417 * only commandline interface support
418 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
421 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
422 --------------------------------
425 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
426 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
427 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
428 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
429 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
430 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
431 and A/52 streams are supported)
432 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
437 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
438 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
439 * VCD entry points support
440 * VCD image file support
443 * support for *.asf format
444 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
445 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
446 * support for ogg encapsulation
447 * support for raw DV format
448 * support for *.wav format
449 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
452 Stream discovery & playlists:
453 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
454 * support for .m3u file format
455 * support for .asx file format
456 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
459 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
460 (only available with the .avi demux)
461 * support for ADPCM audio codec
462 * support for raw PCM data
463 * support for Cinepak video codec
464 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
465 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
466 * support for Xvid codec
467 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
468 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
469 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
471 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
473 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
476 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
479 * new WxWindows interface
480 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
481 device and the channels configuration
482 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
483 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
484 format that VLC can play
485 * new swedish translation
486 * updated french, german, dutch and italian translations
488 GNU/Linux, *BSD & misc. UNIX ports:
489 * OSS and ALSA audio output modules support A/52 over S/PDIF output
490 * OSS support for multi-channel (up to 6) analog sound cards
493 * localization support via GNU gettext software
494 * completely revamped Cocoa interface
495 * new preferences panel
496 * new open panel with full features
497 * video output screen can be chosen in the Video menu
498 * audio device and channels configuration can be chosen in the Audio menu
499 * new playlist drawer and messages windows
502 * preferences dialog box redesigned
503 * waveout module supports multi-channel audio output and A52 over S/PDIF
505 * new dialog box to select avi subtitles
506 * some new shortcuts (in particular to play/pause or stay on top)
507 * new menu entry to spawn another interface
508 * rc interface is partly fixed and useable
511 * new settings window for adjusting post-processing, brightness,
513 * enhancements of the playlist window
514 * new messages window to see debug info
515 * fixed a few crashes
518 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
519 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
520 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
521 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working