-Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
+Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.2.0-git:
------------------------------------
Important changes for packagers:
not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
* The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
+ * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
+ * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
+
Access
- * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
+ * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
* BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
* DVB-S scanning support
* DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
+ * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
+ * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
+ * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
+ * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
+ * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
+ in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
Codecs
* You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
+ * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
+
+Core:
+ * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
+ * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
+ * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
Demuxers:
- * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
+ * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
+ * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
* Ogg seeking improvements
+ * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
Interfaces
* The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
- * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements
- * Qt: port to Mac platform
+ * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
+ * Qt: effects dialogs rework
+ * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
+ * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
+ * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
Video Output:
* New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
-
-Audio Filter:
- * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
+ * New video output for iOS platform
+ * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
+ * Various vmem improvements
Video Filter:
* New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
* Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
+ * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
+ * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
+ * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
+
+Audio Output:
+ * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
+
+Audio Filter:
+ * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
Stream output:
- * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
+ * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
+ * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
+ * Major rework of VoD support
+
+Services Discovery:
+ * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
+
+libVLC:
+ * New capabilities for libVLC:
+ ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security:
+ * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
+ VideoLAN-SA-1006
+
+Access:
+ * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
+
+Services Discovery:
+ * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
+ * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
+ * Playback of live http .Webm streams
+ * Taglib thread-safety fix
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
+ "Puget Systems"
+
+Skins:
+ * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
+
+Video Output:
+ * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
+
+Interfaces:
+ * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
+ * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
+
+Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
+ TS-mux, Qt)
+
+libLVC:
+ * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
+ * Miscellaneous fixes
+
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
+ Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
+ French and Ukrainian
+ * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
+ * New Asturian translation
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
+----------------------------------
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
+ by 16
+ * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
+
+Demuxer:
+ * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
+
+Qt interface:
+ * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
+ * Various fixes for Windows
+
+Translations:
+ * New Armenian translation
+ * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
+ Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
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