-Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
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+Changes between 1.2.x and 1.3.0:
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+Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.2.0:
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Important notes:
* Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
* The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
+ * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
+ Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
Important changes for packagers:
* The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
* The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
* OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
- * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
- Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
- * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
- * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
+ * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
Core:
* Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
* Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
* Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
* Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
+ * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
Access:
* Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
* Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
* QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
+ * QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices
* X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
+ * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
Codecs:
* You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
* EIA-608 closed captions improvements
* Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
* Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
+ * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
Demuxers:
* New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
* New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
* Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
* Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
- * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling
+ * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
+ * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
+ * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
+ * Improved support of tracker files
Interfaces:
- * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
* Qt: effects dialogs rework
* Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
* Qt: port to MacOS X platform
+ * Qt: small look improvements
+ * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
* Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
and important cleanups and optimisations
- * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
- * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output
+ * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
* Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
* Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
* Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
* Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
* Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
* The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
+ * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
* dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
* dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
* webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
* webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
* webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
+ * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
+ * Qt: preferences are now searchable
Video Output:
* New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
chroma conversion
* New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
* Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
- * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which now requires a
- Quartz Extreme capable machine
+ * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
+ * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
-Audio Output:
+Audio Output and Filters:
* New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
* New audio output in memory (amem)
* Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
* New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
+ * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
* New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
+ * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
+ * New simplistic Karaoke filter
+ * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
+ * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
Video Filter:
* New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
* New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
* New anti-flickering filter
* New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
+ * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
* Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
- blackbox and customizable shadow
- - The freetype module is used by default on the Mac now in favor of
- quartztext, which can still be enabled manually
-
-Audio Filter:
- * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
- * New simplistic Karaoke filter
+ blackbox and customizable shadow.
+ NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
+ the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
+ The Win32 font selection was improved too.
Stream output:
* New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
Access:
* Add extra caching for files on network shares
- * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
+ * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
+ DZCORE Labs, Algeria
Decoders:
* Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
Windows port:
* The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
-Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
+Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
+Lithuanian
Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
* Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
Input access:
- * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
+ * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
+ (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
* Fixed large file support on Windows
* Video 4 Linux support
* CD Digital Audio support
* New HTTP remote control interface
Stream output:
- * 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.
+ * 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.
* The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
* Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
* SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)