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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):
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Important notes:
- 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" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
+ 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
- - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
- later point
- * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
+ 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>
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,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
- New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
+ 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.
+ 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:
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* JACK audio input support
* MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
* Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
- * Fixed aiff stereo file
+ * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
* Fixed audio glitch on seek
* Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
* AAC tags support
* Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
* Raw video support
* Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
- * Tivo Series 2 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:
* VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
* MKV USF subtitles support
- * HTML based subtitles support
+ * HTML-based subtitles support
* Flash Screen Video support
* CamStudio Screen Video support
* DosBox Capture 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)
+ * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
* H.264 PAFF support
* DNxHD / VC-3 support
* NellyMoser ASAO support
- * APE ( Monkey audio ) 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
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, italics and some HTML
+ * 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).
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 intruction set in chroma converters
- * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
+ * 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.
- * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
- * New spatializer audio filter.
+ * Replay gain support
+ * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
+ * New spatializer audio filter
+ * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
Stream output:
* RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
* 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
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
- * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters
- when using an UTF-8 locale.
* Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
- * Fix VLM schedule time on Linux.
+ * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
Linux Port:
* VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
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).
+ applications (Google Summer of Code Student project)
+ * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
LibVLC:
- * Event management and various improvement in libvlc.
- (Part of a Google Summer Of Code Student project).
+ * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
+ (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
-Capture:
- * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
- Windows
-
-Localisations:
+New Localizations:
* Finnish
* Persian
* Polish
+TODO: Add 0.8.6e changelog here
Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
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+----------------------------------
Various bugfixes:
* Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
* FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
Active X plugin:
- * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703)
+ * 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
* 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:
* MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
- * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
+ * 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
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CDDA / VCDX plugins:
- * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
Mac OS X Interface:
* Fullscreen controller improvements