Important notes:
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+ * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and MacOS X.3 (Panther)
* The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
edit the ".hosts" file.
C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
- On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
- * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
- interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
- It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
+ * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
+ This interface has a fullscreen controller. This interface lacks the
+ "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
* The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
* The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
* The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
- E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
- udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
+ E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
+ udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
* The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
(or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
* The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the following
states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4, STOPPING=5,
FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and BACKWARD being
reserved for future implementations and are thus not functional atm.
+ * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
+ filter. For example:
+ transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
+ * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
+ For example:
+ transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
Changes:
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Playlist:
* Vastly improved playlist support:
- * Media library support
+ * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
* "Live search"
* Shoutcast TV listings
* Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
* TiVo Series 2 support
* CD+G karaoke Files support
* MXF files support
+ * OMA support
Decoders:
* VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
* Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
* New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
- * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
* H.264 PAFF support
* DNxHD / VC-3 support
* NellyMoser ASAO support
* APE (Monkey audio) support
- * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
* RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
Subtitles:
+ * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
+ * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
* Ogg/Kate subtitles support
* AQTitle subtitles support
* MKV USF subtitles support
* Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
* Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
* Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
+ * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
Audio outputs and filters:
* Replay gain support
* RTMP output
Interfaces:
- * Windows/Linux
- * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
* All
* New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
end-user suitable way.
* Improved mouse gestures
* Vastly improved Update checker
* Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
+ * Windows/Linux
+ * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
+ * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
* Mac OS X
* Improved video output features
* Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
* Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
with support for effects.
* Improved filter and subpictures support :
- - New filters can be streamed.
- - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
- - Centralized scaling and blending
+ - New filters can be streamed.
+ - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
+ - Centralized scaling and blending
* New filters :
- - "time", to display current time
- - "marq", to display a marquee
+ - "time", to display current time
+ - "marq", to display a marquee
Interfaces:
* OSD sliders for volume and postition information