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-Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2-svn:
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+Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+Important notes:
+----------------
+ * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
+ If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
+ edit the ".hosts" file.
+ XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
+ * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
+ interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
+ - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
+ by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
+ features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
+ - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
+ later point
+ * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
+
+Changes:
+--------
+
+Playlist:
+ * Vastly improved playlist support:
+ * Media library support
+ * "Live search"
+ * Shoutcast TV listings
+ * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
+
+Input/Demuxers:
+ * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
+ * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
+
+Decoders:
+ * VP60/VP61 codecs support
+ * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
+
+Video output:
+ * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
+ and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
+ * New puzzle video output filter
+ * Rewrite motion detection video filter
+ * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
+ * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
+
+Stream output:
+ * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Windows/Linux
+ * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
+ * All
+ * Improved user interaction
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6-bugfix (not yet released):
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+Various bugfixes notably:
+ * out-of-bound read in demuxers
+ * demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
+ * Mac OS X Interface crashes
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * further usability improvements
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
+---------------------------------
+
+CDDA / VCDX plugins:
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Fullscreen controller improvements
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
+--------------------------------
+
+Playlist:
+ * Shoutcast TV listings support
+
+Input:
+ * Support for RTSP authentication
+ * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
+ * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
+ * ATSC support for DVB input
+ * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
+ * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
+ * Improved support for Flash Video files
+
+Decoders:
+ * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
+ * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
+ * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
+ * The True Audio Lossless codec support
+ * Matroska WavPack support
+ * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
+ * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
+ * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
+
+Video output:
+ * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
+ * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
+ * Improved libcaca support
+
+Interfaces:
+ * All
+ * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
+ * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
+ * Windows
+ * Systray support in skins
+ * OS X
+ * Support for Apple Remote control
+ * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
+ * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
+ * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
+ * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
+ * Linux
+ * Notifications using notification-daemon
+
+Windows port:
+ * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
+ Windows 9x/ME users:
+ - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
+ - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
+ Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
+ http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
+ Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
+ C:\Windows\System
+ * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
+ * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
+
+Localization:
+ * Add Czech
+ * Add Slovak
+ * Add Malay
+ * Add Slovenian
+
+Developers:
+ * Updates to the libvlc API
+ * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
+
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
+---------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
+ * Support for downloading updates
+ * Updated strings
+
+Input:
+ * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
+ * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
+ * Improvements to the Audio CD input
+ - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
+ - Support for CDDB
+ * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
+ * Improved subtitles encoding support
+ * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
+
+Decoders:
+ * Cook (Real audio) support
+
+Playlist / Services discovery:
+ * XSPF playlist support
+ * Podcast support
+ * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
+
+Audio output:
+ * New JACK audio output
+
+Video output:
+ * New video filters:
+ - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
+ - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
+ - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
+ * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
+ * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
+ * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
+
+Stream output:
+ * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
+
+Interfaces:
+ * System to inform the user and request information
+ - HTTP authentication
+ - Fatal errors
+ - ...
+ * wxWidgets
+ - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
+ - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
+ - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
+ * Skins2
+ - New default skin
+ - Support for Winamp 2 skins
+ - Improved playlist handling
+ - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
+ * OS X
+ - Embedded Video output
+ - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
+ - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
+ - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
+ - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
+ - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
+ * HTTP
+ - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
+ - A bunch of new RPN functions
+
+Windows Port:
+ * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
+
+OS X Port:
+ * Mac-Intel compatibility
+ * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
+ * Growl "Now playing" support
+
+*Nix port:
+ * Ability to log to syslog
+ * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
+
+Developers:
+ * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
+ * Java bindings
+ * A bit more automatic testing
+
+Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
+---------------------------------
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
+ * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
+
+Decoder:
+ * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
+ * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
+
+Demux:
+ * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
+
+Services Discovery:
+ * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
+ * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
+ * UPnP fixes
+ * Avahi 0.6 support
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Mac OS X
+ - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
+
+Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
+ * New OSD system
+
+Video output:
+ * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
+ * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
+ * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
+
+Input:
+ * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
+ * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
+ * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
+ * GnomeVFS input module
+ * Support for RTP packet reordering
+ * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
+
+Decoders:
+ * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
+ * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
+ * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
+
+Services discovery:
+ * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
+ * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
+
+Video filters:
+ * RSS feed overlay
+
+Audio filters:
+* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
+ Mixer and Dolby Surround
+
+Stream output:
+ * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
+ * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
+ * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
+
+Interfaces:
+- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
+ * Mac OS X
+ - New streaming and transcoding wizard
+ - New extended controls panel
+ - New bookmarks window
+ - Fixed playlist sorting
+ - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
+ * wxWidgets
+ - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
+ - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
+ - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
+ - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
+ * Skins2
+ - Tree playlist
+ * HTTP
+ - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
+ - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
+ the names of files
+ - Include macro to include other files
+ - CGI 1.0 support
+
+ActiveX plugin:
+* Should now work outside IE as well
+
+Mac OS X port:
+* New script to delete the preferences automatically
+
+Windows port:
+* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
+* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
+
+Translations:
+ The following languages were added:
+ * Galician
+ * Korean
+ * Romanian
+ * Simplified Chinese
+ The following languages were re-added:
+ * Swedish
+
+Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Rewrite of the playlist
* Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
* Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
* Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
- Multiple video filters are now seperated by ',' instead of ':'
+ * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
+ now separated by ':' instead of ','
+ * Access filter architecture
* Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
+ * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
* Many bugfixes...
Input/Demuxers:
* RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
* Massive Matroska improvements
* Support for XA and VOC audio files
+ * TiVo demuxer
* Samba (Windows shares) access module
* Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
* Fixes to Linux DVB support
* Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
+ * Support for FTP over IPv6
Decoders / Encoders:
* Dirac decoder and encoder
* Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
* Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
-Services discovery
+Access filters:
+ * New Record and Timeshift filters
+
+Services discovery:
* New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
* Brand new SAP module
+ * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
+ the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
+ ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
+ * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
* HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
* DAAP (iTunes shares) support
+ * Shoutcast
Audio output:
* Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
* Image file video output (png)
* Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
* Improvements to wall video filter
- * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
* Support for font color and opacity
- * Fixed Mac OS X OpenGL output
Stream output:
* Muxers
* VLM / VoD
- Ability to load a configuration file on startup
- Seeking support in VoD streams
-
+ * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
+
Interfaces:
- * wxWidgets
+ * wxWidgets
- Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
- Improved preferences
- Improvements to the wizard
- DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
* MacOS X
- Redesigned playlist
+ - Improved preferences
* Skins
+ - Support for multiple actions
- Fixes
* HTTP
- Support for the new playlist system
* DirectShow tuner configuration
* Support for no-decoration windows
+MacOS X port:
+ * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
+ * The OpenGL video output is back
+ * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
+ - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
+ - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
+ is not yet available in the new module
+ - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
+
BeOS port:
* Support for single-buffered overlay
Pocket PC port:
* Many fixes
* New interface
- * New video output
+ * New video output
Mozilla Plugin:
* Javascript fixes
- * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back
+ * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
IE Plugin:
* Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
Translations:
- The following languages were added
+ The following languages were added:
+ * Catalan
* Danish
- * Greek
- * Hindi
- * Pashto
- * Burmese
- * Tetum
- * Tagalog
- * Bengali
+ * Turkish
+
Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
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