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-Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
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+Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
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Important notes:
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- * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and MacOS X.3 (Panther)
+ * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
* 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.
* This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
This interface has a fullscreen controller. This interface lacks the
"Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
- If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
* The behavior of --sout-keep was 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:
* 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.
+ * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
+ with some file names. Use access://url instead.
E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
- * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
- (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
- * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the following
- states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4, STOPPING=5,
- FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and BACKWARD being
- reserved for future implementations and are thus not functional atm.
+ * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
+ avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
+ and postproc modules.
+ * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
+ following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
+ STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
+ BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
+ functional atm.
* Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
filter. For example:
transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
* Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
For example:
transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
+ * Glide video output module has been removed.
+ * Due to lack of maintainer, the Skins interface might not work properly.
Changes:
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* JACK audio input support
* Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
* BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
- * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
+ * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
* Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
- * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
+ * Experimental EyeTV access module
This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
(available as a separate download).
+ * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
* RTMP input support
* QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
- taken from all QuickTime-compatible video devices (no audio yet)
+ taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
* HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
Authentication.
* New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
* DosBox Capture support
* Karl Morton's Video support
* limited atrac3 support
+ * Fraps support
* Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
* New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
* NellyMoser ASAO support
* APE (Monkey audio) support
* RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
+ * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
Subtitles:
* Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
* Improved H.264 encoding speed
Video outputs and filters:
- * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
+ * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
* Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
* New puzzle video output filter
Audio outputs and filters:
* Replay gain support
- * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
+ * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
+ new scaletempo audio filter)
* New spatializer audio filter
* Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
* New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
* When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
* Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
+ * Simplified Extended Controls panel
* Ncurses:
* Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
if libncursesw is available.
(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
+ * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
* New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
* Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
* It is now required to compile a fully featured build
- * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
+ * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
LibVLC:
* Event management and various improvements in libvlc
* Finnish
* Persian
* Polish
+ * Punjabi
Developers:
* LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
* Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
+Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security updates:
+ * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
+ * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
+ * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
+ (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
+ SAP services discovery, http control interface)
+ * Updated Polish translation
+
+
Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
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