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+Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
+This version is in development and not yet released.
+--------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * 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, 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 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).
+
+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)
+ * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skin2 is the current interface)
+ * Improved Ogg demuxer
+
+Codecs:
+ * G.726 audio support
+ * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
+ * MPEG-4 text support
+ * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
+ * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
+
+Stream Output:
+ 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
+ * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
+
+Audio Output:
+ * New audio equalizer filter
+ * Very trivial volume normalizer
+
+Interfaces:
+ * 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
+ * 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)
+ * Experimental SVG rendering module
+
+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 usage with subtitles rendering
+ * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
+
+Mozilla plugin:
+ * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
+ * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
+
+Misc:
+ * Roku HD1000 Video output
+ * Server/client network synchronization module
+ * VBrick streams fully supported
+ * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported
+ * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
+ * Experimental OpenGL video output for X11 and win32
+
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
--------------------------------
Core support:
* Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
* Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
- * Improved HTTP daemon
+ * Improved HTTP daemon.
+ * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
Codecs:
* New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
(http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
* New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
- * Packetizer interfaced between demux and codec when needed
+ * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
+ * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
(allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
+ * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
Input:
* --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
* New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
* Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
* New options to pass meta info to the input.
+ * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
+ (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
Demux:
- * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support
- * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
+ * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
* mmsh streaming fixes.
+ * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
+
+Subtitles:
+ * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
+ * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
+ * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
Stream output:
* Improved session announcement system.
* Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
* Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
* Improved MPEG TS muxer.
+ * Improved transrater.
* Meta info options used by the muxers.
+ * New configuration system.
* Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
VideoLAN manager:
* HTTP interface for vlm.
Interfaces:
- * Skins II
+ * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
- Ability to embed video output.
- Support for bitmap fonts.
- Lots of improvements.
- * wxWindows
+ * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
- New design and set of icons.
- Ability to embed video output.
+ - Support for hotkeys.
+ - Support for bookmarks.
+ * Mac OS X
+ - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
+ - Better hotkeys handling.
Mac OS X port:
- * Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
* OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
+ * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
+ * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
+ * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
Win32 port:
* DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
* Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
+ * Improved Windows installer.
+
+Linux port:
+ * PowerPC fixes.
Misc:
- * Improvements to the GOOM visualisation plugin.
+ * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
* Roku HD1000 audio output.
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a: