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Important notes:
+ * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
+ conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
+ from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
+ title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
* HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
- The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
* Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
* New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
* Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
- * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
* Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
+ * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
+ The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
+ * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
+ * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
+ * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
+ * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
+ * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
+ * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
Demuxers:
* New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
- * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
- * Ogg seeking improvements
+ * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
* Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
* Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
* New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
* Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
+ * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
+ * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling
Interfaces:
* Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
* Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
and important cleanups and optimisations
* ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
+ * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output
* Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
* Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
* Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
* Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
* Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
+ * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
* The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
* dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
* dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
* webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
* webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
+ * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
Video Output:
* New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
chroma conversion
* New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
* Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
- * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which requires a Quartz Extreme capable Mac
+ * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which now requires a
+ Quartz Extreme capable machine
Audio Output:
* New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
* New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
* Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
blackbox and customizable shadow
+ - The freetype module is used by default on the Mac now in favor of
+ quartztext, which can still be enabled manually
Audio Filter:
* New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
* New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
* New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
- #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
- #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
+ #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
+ #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
+ * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
Services Discovery:
* Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
list of available audio and video filters
- ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
+ ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
+ libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
Removed modules:
* removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
* removal of the noise filter
* removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
+ * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
+ removed in Growl's next release, too.
+ * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
+----------------------------------
+
+Audio outputs:
+ * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
+ including support for OS X Lion
+ * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
+ * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
+
+Unix port:
+ * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
+
+Misc:
+ * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
+ * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
+ * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
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