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-Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.7.3:
+Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
This version is in development and not yet released.
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Core support:
- * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added funtionality
+ * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
* Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems
* New plugins cache to speed up launch time
* Fix crash with deinterlace switching
* New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
* Daemon mode
+ * Technical improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
Input:
- * New screen capture input plugin for X11 and Win32
+ * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
+ (Stream your desktop)
* Improved DVD support:
- uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
- uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
- * Experimental --input-slave option to start playing with multi-input
+ * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
* Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
+ * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
+ (selection of titles/chapters).
-Demux:
+Demuxers:
* Support iTunes Music Store previews
* Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
* Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
* Windows Media Server RTSP support
* Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
* Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- * Skin2 .vlt file loader (only when skin2 is the current interface)
+ * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skin2 is the current interface)
+ * Improved Ogg demuxer
Codecs:
* G.726 audio support
* Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
Stream Output:
- * Text track muxing for mp4
- * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
- * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
+ Encoders:
+ * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
+ everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
+ * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
+ * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
+ * DVB subtitles encoder
+ * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
+ * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
+ Muxers:
+ * Text track muxing for mp4
+ * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
+ * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
+ * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
+ * Experimental WAV muxer
+ * Improved ASF muxer
+ Misc:
* H.263 RTP streaming support
- * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- * Experimental WAV muxer
+ * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
Audio Output:
* New audio equalizer filter
* Very trivial volume normalizer
Interfaces:
- * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
- * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
* OSD sliders for volume and postition information
* OSD icons for Play and Pause
* New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces
* A few skins2 improvements
+ * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
+ * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
* The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
* Improved CORBA control module
Mac OS X port:
* Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
- * The MacOSX interface is no longer required to display video
+ * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
+ * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
Linux port:
* New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
Windows port:
* DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
+ * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
* Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
- * Fixed problem with CPU useage with subtitles rendering
+ * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
* Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
Mozilla plugin:
projects / vlc / blobdiff