-Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-git:
-------------------------------------
+Changes between 0.9.9 and 1.0.0-pre2:
+-------------------------------------
+
+Important notes:
+----------------
+ * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
+ See 'Access:' for more info.
Playback:
* Instantaneous pausing
* Frame-by-Frame playback
- * Timeshift for all medias
+ * Finer speed control
+ * Timeshift for most medias
* On-the-fly recording for all medias
* RTSP trickplay support
* Blu-Ray Linear PCM
* QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
* Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
+ * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
+ * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
Demuxers:
- * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
+ * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
* Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
- * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files
+ * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
Encoders:
* Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
+ * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
Access:
* RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
* New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
* DVB scanning on linux
+ * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
+ * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
+ * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
+ * MTP device access on Unix
+ * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
Inputs:
* Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
Playlist:
* Export the playlist in HTML
* Lua script for BBC radio playback
+ * Better metadata handling and reading
Linux/Windows interface:
+ * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
+ * Various fixes for skins2 interface
* Recently played items list
- * Interface customizations
- * Global Hotkeys on Windows
+ * Interface toolbar customizations
+ * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
+ - More menus actions
+ - Finer speed slider
+ - Improvements on many dialogs
+ - New dialog for plugins listing
+ - Fixed-size mode for videos
+ - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
+ * Better integration in GTK environments
Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
* Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
+ * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
+ * Additional usability improvements
Stream output:
* Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
* Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
* bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
* Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
+ * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
Maemo Port:
* New Maemo port with:
Windows CE Port:
EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
+ * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
+
Audio output:
* Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
* Surround support for PulseAudio
Video output:
* Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
+ * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
+ * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'. The old image video output has been removed.
Miscellanous:
* Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
+Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
+---------------------------------
+
+Decoders:
+ * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Various fixes related to real demuxer
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
+ - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
+ instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
+ main controller window.
+ * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
+
+New Localizations:
+ * Indonesian
+ * Bengali
+ * Updates of other localizations
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
+ * Lots of small bugfixes.
+ * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
+ * Telnet fixes on Windows
+ * Resampling fixes when transcoding
Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
---------------------------------