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-Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.7.3:
-This version is in development and not yet released.
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+Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2-test2:
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Rewrite of the playlist
+ - Tree structure
+ - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
+ - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
+ * Preferences improvements:
+ - New organization, designed to improve usability
+ - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
+ * XML parsers
+ * Core image manipulation support
+ * Client-side SSL/TLS support
+ * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
+ * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
+ * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
+ * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
+ * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
+ * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
+ now seperated by ':' instead of ','
+ * Access filter architecture
+ * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
+ * Zsh autocompletion for vlc's arguments
+ * Many bugfixes...
+
+Input/Demuxers:
+ * Support for SOCKS proxy
+ * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
+ * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
+ * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
+ * Better support for Kasenna streams
+ * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
+ * Massive Matroska improvements
+ * Support for XA and VOC audio files
+ * TiVo demuxer
+ * Samba (Windows shares) access module
+ * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
+ * Fixes to Linux DVB support
+ * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
+ * Support for FTP over IPv6
+
+Decoders / Encoders:
+ * Dirac decoder and encoder
+ * PNG decoder/encoder
+ * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
+ * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
+
+Access filters:
+ * New Record and Timeshift filters
+
+Services discovery:
+ * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
+ * Brand new SAP module
+ * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
+ the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
+ ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
+ * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
+ * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
+ * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
+ * Shoutcast
+
+Audio output:
+ * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
+
+Video output:
+ * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
+ * Image file video output (png)
+ * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
+ * Improvements to wall video filter
+ * Support for font color and opacity
+
+Stream output:
+ * Muxers
+ - ASF improvements
+ * VLM / VoD
+ - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
+ - Seeking support in VoD streams
+ * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
+
+Interfaces:
+ * wxWidgets
+ - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
+ - Improved preferences
+ - Improvements to the wizard
+ - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
+ * MacOS X
+ - Redesigned playlist
+ - Improved preferences
+ * Skins
+ - Support for multiple actions
+ - Fixes
+ * HTTP
+ - Support for the new playlist system
+ * Lirc
+ - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
+
+Windows port:
+ * Screensaver disabling fix
+ * DirectShow tuner configuration
+ * Support for no-decoration windows
+
+MacOS X port:
+ * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
+ * The OpenGL video output is back
+ * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
+ - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
+ - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
+ is not yet available in the new module
+ - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
+
+BeOS port:
+ * Support for single-buffered overlay
+
+Pocket PC port:
+ * Many fixes
+ * New interface
+ * New video output
+
+Mozilla Plugin:
+ * Javascript fixes
+ * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
+
+IE Plugin:
+ * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
+
+Translations:
+ The following languages were added
+ * Catalan
+ * Danish
+ * Greek
+ * Hindi
+ * Pashto
+ * Burmese
+ * Tetum
+ * Tagalog
+ * Bengali
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
+ * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
+
+Windows port:
+ * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
+ * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
+ * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
+
+WinCE port:
+ * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
+
+Video Output:
+ * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
+ * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
+ * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
+
+Stream Output:
+ * Encoders:
+ * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
+ * 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
- * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems
+ * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
* New plugins cache to speed up launch time
- * Fix crash with deinterlace switching
* New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
- * Daemon mode
- * Technical improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
+ * 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
(selection of titles/chapters).
Demuxers:
- * Support iTunes Music Store previews
+ * 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 skin2 is the current interface)
+ * 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
* 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
* 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)
- * Experimental WAV muxer
+ * 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
+ * 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
+ * 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
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)
* 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:
- * Roku HD1000 Video output
* Server/client network synchronization module
* VBrick streams fully supported
- * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported
* Cisco IP/TV streams supported
- * Experimental OpenGL video output for X11 and win32
+ * VLM enhancements
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
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