Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
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+Important changes for users:
+
+Important changes for packagers:
+ * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
+ generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
+ later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
+ by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
+ can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
+ launch each time.
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
* HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
* PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
* Invmem module improvements
- * Support for Atrac1 codec
+ * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
* Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
+ * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
* 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
+ * Audio/Video decoder using OpenMAX IL components
+ * Support for Indeo5 video codec
+ * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
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
+ * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi 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 x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
* New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
* New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
+ * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
+ Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
+ Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
+ MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
+ Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
+
+Extensions:
+ * new content extensions lua framework
+ * IMDb extension
+
+Audio filters:
+ * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
+ * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
+ * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
+ resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
+ and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
+ * NEON assembly audio converter module
+ * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
-Visualisation:
- * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
+Visualization:
+ * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
Service discovery:
* 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 same way as x264.exe 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:
and oldhttp.
* rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
-Mac OS X Interface:
- * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
-
Mac OS X Port:
* Vastly improved VLCKit framework
* A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
* Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
by Andy Matuschak et al.
* New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
+ * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
Windows port:
* Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
Maemo port:
* Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
+ * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
+ * Improvements to the maemo interface
Misc:
* new sqlite module
* --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
+ * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
+
+Bindings:
+ * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
Removed modules:
- * csri codec. Use libass module instead.
- * galaktos. Use new projectM module instead.
- * showintf. Useless in qt and mac os X
+ * csri codec. Use the libass module instead.
+ * galaktos. Use the new projectM module instead.
+ * showintf. Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
* transrate
- * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use new XCB modules instead.
+ * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use the new XCB modules instead.
* HAL. Use libudev instead.
* gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
* WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
* linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
* XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
* MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
- * opengllayer
- * cddax. Use cdda instead
+ * opengllayer. Use macosx_video instead.
+ * cddax. Use cdda instead.
* cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
- * realaudio codecs is remove in favour of avcodec
+ * realaudio codecs are removed in favor of libavcodec
+ * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
+
+Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
+--------------------------------
+
+Decoders:
+ * SubRip extra styles improvements
+ * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
-Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 (not yet released):
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Mac OS X Interface:
* Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
+Windows port:
+ * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
+ increase performance and fix x264 issues
+
+Translations:
+ * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
+ Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
+ Russian, Slovak translation updates
+ * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
+
Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
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