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-Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
+Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
-------------------------------------------------------
+Important notes:
+----------------
+ * On Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due
+ to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions.
+ * 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.
+ - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
+ If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
+ /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
+ - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
+ 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 a few features that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6:
+ - "Streaming wizard". These features will be replaced
+ by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
+ features, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6
+ * The behavior of --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
+ * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
+ now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
+ vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
+ You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
+ These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
+ * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
+ Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
+ Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
+ New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
+ * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
+ 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
+
+Changes:
+--------
+
Playlist:
* Vastly improved playlist support:
* Media library support
* "Live search"
* Shoutcast TV listings
- * Audioscrobbler / last.fm support
+ * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
+ * Album art support
+ * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
+ (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
+ * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
+ share/luameta/README.txt
+
+Input/Demuxers:
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
+ * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
+ * Proxy support for MMSH stream
+ * JACK audio input support
+ * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
+ * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
+ * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
+ * Fixed audio glitch on seek
+ * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
+ * AAC tags support
+ * APEv1/2 tags support
+ * Improved ID3v2 tags support
+ * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
+ * Raw video support
+ * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
+ * TiVo Series 2 support
+ * v4l2 access module support
+ * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
+ * CD+G karaoke Files support
+ * MXF files support
Decoders:
- * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
- * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
+ * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
+ * MKV USF subtitles support
+ * HTML-based subtitles support
+ * Flash Screen Video support
+ * CamStudio Screen Video support
+ * DosBox Capture support
+ * Karl Morton's Video support
+ * limited atrac3 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
+
+Encoders:
+ * Flash Screen Video support
+
+Video output and filters:
+ * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
+ * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
+ Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
+ * New puzzle video output filter
+ * Rewrite motion detection video filter
+ * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
+ video)
+ * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
+ * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
+ * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML
+ tags
+ * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
+ * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
+ * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
+ was previously part of the mosaic module.
+ * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
+ * 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
+
+Audio output and filters
+ * Replay gain support
+ * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
+ * New spatializer audio filter
+ * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
-Video output:
- * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splited into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
- and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
+Stream output:
+ * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
+ * New RTP payload formats:
+ * Speex voice audio codec
+ * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
+ * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
+ * DCCP transport for RTP
+ * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
Interfaces:
* Windows/Linux
* Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
- * OS X
- * Support for Apple Remote control
- * Right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
* All
* Improved user interaction
+ * Improved mouse gestures
+ * Fastly improved Update checker
+ * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
+ * Ncurses:
+ * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale, if libncursesw is available (not by default on MacOSX)
+ * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
+ * Mac OS X
+ * Improved video output features
+ * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
+ * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
+ * Unix
+ * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
+ * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
+ (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
+ interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
+ finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
+ * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
+ * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
+ * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
+
+Linux Port:
+ * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
+ http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
+ (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
+ applications (Google Summer of Code Student project)
+ * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
+
+LibVLC:
+ * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
+ (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
+
+New Localizations:
+ * Finnish
+ * Persian
+ * Polish
+
+TODO: Add 0.8.6e changelog here
+
+Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
+ * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
+ * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
+ * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
+ * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
+
+Windows and Mac OS Binaries
+ * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
+
+Active X plugin:
+ * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
+
+Mac OS X Interface & Port:
+ * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
+ * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
+ * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
+ * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
+ * Support for current Ogg file formats
+ NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
+
+Encoders:
+ * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
+
+Other changes:
+ * The automatic updating facility was removed
+ * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
+ EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
+ * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes, notably:
+ * Windows Vista compatibility
+ * Cropping in Direct3D
+ * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
+ * RSS filter string overflow
+ * Few memory leaks
+ * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
+
+CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
+ * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
+
+Decoders:
+ * Updated FLAC API compatibility
+
+Input:
+ * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
+
+Localisation:
+ * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
-Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
+
+Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes, notably:
+ * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
+ * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
+ * Mac OS X Interface crashes
+ * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
+ * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
+ * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
+
+Decoders:
+ * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
+ * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
+
+Webbrowser plugins:
+ * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
+
+Mac OS X Interface & Port:
+ * Diverse usability improvements
+ * New wizard option to embed subtitles
+ * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
+ * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
+---------------------------------
+
+CDDA / VCDX plugins:
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Fullscreen controller improvements
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
--------------------------------
Playlist:
* Support for RTSP authentication
* Support for adding subtitles on the fly
* Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
- * ATSC support for DVB
+ * ATSC support for DVB input
+ * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
+ * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
+ * Improved support for Flash Video files
Decoders:
- * Native WMV3 / VC-1 support
+ * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
* WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
-
+ * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
+ * The True Audio Lossless codec support
+ * Matroska WavPack support
+ * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
+ * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
+ * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
+
Video output:
* Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
+ * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
* Improved libcaca support
Interfaces:
- * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
- * Systray support in skins (Windows only)
- * Support for Apple Remote control
- * Notifications using notification-daemon on Linux
- * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
+ * All
+ * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
+ * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
+ * Windows
+ * Systray support in skins
+ * OS X
+ * Support for Apple Remote control
+ * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
+ * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
+ * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
+ * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
+ * Linux
+ * Notifications using notification-daemon
+
+Windows port:
+ * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
+ Windows 9x/ME users:
+ - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
+ - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
+ Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
+ http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
+ Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
+ C:\Windows\System
+ * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
+ * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
Localization:
* Add Czech
+ * Add Slovak
+ * Add Malay
+ * Add Slovenian
Developers:
* Updates to the libvlc API
+ * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
* Java bindings
* A bit more automatic testing
+
Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
---------------------------------
* Mac OS X
- fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
+
Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
--------------------------------
The following languages were re-added:
* Swedish
+
Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
--------------------------------
Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
* Stream output:
* Support of playlist group announcement
+
Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
* Cisco IP/TV streams supported
* VLM enhancements
+
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
--------------------------------
* Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
* Roku HD1000 audio output.
+
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
---------------------------------
Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
* A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
* Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
+
Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
* Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
* libcaca video output (colored ascii)
+
Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
* Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
mpeg1/2 videos.
+
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
* Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
mpeg1/2 videos.
+
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core Support:
* Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
* A few new keyboard shortcuts
* New full-featured Preferences window
+
Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core Support:
* fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines