-$Id: NEWS,v 1.71 2003/11/07 13:31:26 massiot Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 1.72 2003/11/17 06:31:22 hartman Exp $
Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.6.3:
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* Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when these are used.
* New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
* Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
- * Improved playlist core.
-
-Stream output:
- * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
- * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
- * Improved Ogg muxing and added theora, speex and subtitles support.
- * Theora video encoding.
- * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
- * RTP output mixer
Input:
* MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 audio in DVB streams.
* Fixed seeking support in FLAC files.
- * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo.
+ * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
* Reworked DVB tuning.
* Better Icecast support.
- * Support for framerate setting in Video4Linux
- * PVR input now supports all video connection types
-
-Demuxers:
- * ID3 tag parsing
- * Vobsub subtitles support
- * SSA decoding
- * DVB Subtitles decoder
+ * rtp/rtsp support.
Codecs:
* Support for Speex audio.
* Support for AAC + SBR.
* MPEG 2.5 support.
- * Support for I422 chroma
* removed old a52, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio codecs, since we are using others now.
-Interface core:
- * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
- * Hotkeys support
-
-Skins interface
- * Bug fixes
- * Stay on top option
-
-WxWindows interfae:
+Interface:
+ * Bug fixes / improvements in the skins (eg. "stay on top" option).
* Improvements to the wxwindows playlist (Sort,Search, mode buttons).
- * Help in the preferences window.
-
-HTTP Interface:
- * Stream seeking, playlist sorting and fullscreen support
- * Improved default pages
-
+ * Help in the wxwindows preferences window.
+ * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
+ * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
+ * Improvements to the Web interface.
+ * Fixes of the SAP interface.
Mac OS X port:
- * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
+ * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
* Save playlist.
* Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
- * Use XCode
+ * Support for Panther.
+ * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
+ * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
Win32 port:
* New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams...).
* VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
+ * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
* Support for 3F2R in audio output.
* New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
* Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
-iPaq port:
- * Improvements in the GTK2 interface
+Stream output:
+ * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
+ * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
+ * Improved Ogg muxing and added theora, speex and subtitles support.
+ * Theora video encoding.
+ * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
+ * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
+ * Preliminary rtp support.
+ * Fixes to SAP announces.
Subtitles:
* Text subtitles now have a black outline.
* Text subtitles autodetection.
* Text subtitles charset autodetection.
- * Text subtitles for videofiles. Result may vary.
+ * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
+ * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
* Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
+ * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
+ * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
+ * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
Miscellaneous:
* Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
* Audio visual effects filter using goom.
- * Spanish and Portugese Brazilian translations.
+ * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
* SAP now supports HTTP streams.
- * VLC can now stream from the Dreambox.
+ * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
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Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
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+Core support:
+ * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
+ * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
+ after a pause.
+
+Stream output:
+ * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
+ * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
+ * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
+UNIX ports:
+ * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
+ * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
+
+Win32 port:
+ * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
+
+iPaq port:
+ * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
+ * 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.
* VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
* Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
format that VLC can play
* new swedish translation
- * updated french, german, dutch and italian translations
-
-GNU/Linux, *BSD & misc. UNIX ports:
- * OSS and ALSA audio output modules support A/52 over S/PDIF output
- * OSS support for multi-channel (up to 6) analog sound cards
-
-Mac OS X port:
- * localization support via GNU gettext software
- * completely revamped Cocoa interface
- * new preferences panel
- * new open panel with full features
- * video output screen can be chosen in the Video menu
- * audio device and channels configuration can be chosen in the Audio menu
- * new playlist drawer and messages windows
-
-Win32 port:
- * preferences dialog box redesigned
- * waveout module supports multi-channel audio output and A52 over S/PDIF
- * support for VCDs
- * new dialog box to select avi subtitles
- * some new shortcuts (in particular to play/pause or stay on top)
- * new menu entry to spawn another interface
- * rc interface is partly fixed and useable
-
-BeOS port:
- * new settings window for adjusting post-processing, brightness,
- contrast, etc
* enhancements of the playlist window
* new messages window to see debug info
* fixed a few crashes
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