Access:
* Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
* Support for the sftp protocol
- * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on Windows version
+ * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
* Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
* New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
* New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
Decoders:
- * Support for Atrac1
* HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
* PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
* Invmem module improvements
+ * Support for Atrac1 codec
* Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
- * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 on Windows Vista and 7
- * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles, especially on Windows
+ * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
+ * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
+ * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
Demuxers:
* Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
(Full disc support is NOT present yet)
* Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
* Various EGP improvements
+ * Support for embedded subtitles in .avi ODML files
Playlist:
* WPL playlist support
* New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
* Podcast images are now displayed
-Audio filters:
- * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
- * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
- * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
- linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
- * NEON assembly audio converter module
-
-Encoders:
- * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
- * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
- #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
- * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
- uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
- * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
-
Video Output:
* Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
* Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
* New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
* New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
+Extensions:
+ * new content extensions lua framework
+ * imdb extension
+
+Audio filters:
+ * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
+ * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
+ * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
+ linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
+ * NEON assembly audio converter module
+
Visualisation:
* Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
* Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
* Service discovery based on libudev
+Encoders:
+ * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
+ * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
+ #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
+ * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
+ uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
+ * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
+
Stream output:
* New smem module, streaming to memory
+ * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
+ --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
Interfaces:
* Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
Misc:
* new sqlite module
+ * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
+
+Bindings:
+ * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
Removed modules:
* csri codec. Use libass module instead.
* Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use new XCB modules instead.
* HAL. Use libudev instead.
* gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
- * WinCE and qnx interfaces
+ * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
* opie, qte and qte_main
* linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
* XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
* opengllayer
* cddax. Use cdda instead
* cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
+ * realaudio codecs is remove in favour of avcodec
Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 (not yet released):