-$Id: NEWS,v 1.86 2004/03/02 23:49:38 hartman Exp $
+$Id$
+
+Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1-svn:
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Include TLS/SSL API
+ * SSL support in the HTTP daemon
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixed a VLC crash with OpenDML avi files
+
+Windows port:
+ * Fixed multichannel audio support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
+ * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
+ * Spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen fixed
+
+Stream Output:
+ Encoders:
+ * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
+
+Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
+ * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
+ * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
+ * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
+ * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
+ * Major 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 for 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 skins2 is the current interface)
+ * Improved Ogg demuxer
+ * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
+ * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
+
+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
+ * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
+
+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
+ * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
+ * 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)
+ * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
+ * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
+ * Improved ASF muxer
+ Misc:
+ * H.263 RTP streaming support
+ * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
+ * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
+
+Audio Output:
+ * New audio equalizer filter
+ * Very trivial volume normalizer
+ * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
+ * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
+ * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
+
+Video Output:
+ * Roku HD1000 Video output
+ * 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 :
+ - "time", to display current time
+ - "marq", to display a marquee
+
+Interfaces:
+ * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
+ * OSD icons for Play and Pause
+ * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
+ * 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
+ * Support for DVB CAM modules.
+
+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)
+
+WinCE port:
+ * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
+
+Mozilla plugin:
+ * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
+ * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
+
+Misc:
+ * Server/client network synchronization module
+ * VBrick streams fully supported
+ * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
+ * VLM enhancements
+
+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.
+ * 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.
+ * 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
+ file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
+ fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
+ * Improved directory access module.
+ * 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.
+ * 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.
+ * Minimize threads usage by default.
+ * 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:
+ * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
+ and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
+ * Supports live streams and VoD.
+ * Supports scheduling.
+ * Telnet interface for vlm.
+ * HTTP interface for vlm.
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
+ - Ability to embed video output.
+ - Support for bitmap fonts.
+ - Lots of improvements.
+ * 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:
+ * 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.
+ * Roku HD1000 audio output.
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
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