Important changes for packagers:
* The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
+ * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
3rd party libraries (contrib):
* /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
-Codecs:
+Core:
+ * Audio core rewrite
+ * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
+
+Decoders:
* Support for OPUS via libopus.
* Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
* Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
* Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
* Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
* Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
+ * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
+ * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
Encoders:
* high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
Access:
- * Screen: add support for OS X Lion, remove support for previous OS releases
+ * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
+ remove support for previous OS X releases
* Major improvements in DASH support
* Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
* Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
* HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
- * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developped by Viotech.net
+ * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
+ * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
Demuxers:
* MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
* Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
* AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
* Support for more MJPEG streams
+ * Add support for liveleak streams
Audio output:
* Windows Audio Session API audio output support
* OpenBSD sndio audio output support
- * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
+ * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
* Android AudioTrack audio output support
+ * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
+ * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
+ * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
+ This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
+ distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
+ * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
Audio Filters:
* new remapping channel filter
* new VSXu visualization plugin
Video Outputs:
+ * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards
* OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
+ * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
* Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
Video Filters:
Stream Output:
* Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
+ * Options support for AVIO output module
+ * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
+ * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
+ * Livehttp stream encryption support
Interfaces:
* configurable password for the HTTP server.
* .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
- * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
+ * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
* Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
* Hotkey support for TS program selection
+ * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
-Mac OS X Port:
+Services discovery:
+ * UPnP A/V subtitles
+ * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
+
+OS X Port:
* Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
* VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
-Mac OS X Interface:
+OS X Interface:
* add support for multiple video outputs
* add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
controller
* add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
* add an option to play videos as a desktop background
* add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
+ * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
+ * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
+ * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
+ when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
+ 3rd party applications
+ * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
+ handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
* The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
deprecated now
* new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
+ * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
* new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
+ * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
+ media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
Removed modules:
* portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
* Hildon GUI
* MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
* Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
+ * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
+ (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
+ * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
+ * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
+ * Fix koreus lua parser
+ * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
+ * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
+ * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
+ * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
+
+Video filters:
+ * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
+ * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
+
+Encoders:
+ * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
+ * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
+ * Fix Time counter UI look
+ * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
+
+Win32:
+ * Fix https streaming
+
+libVLC:
+ * Fix audio and video track selection:
+ The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
+ incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
+ Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
+ Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
+ Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
+ * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
+ * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
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