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-Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
+Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
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Important notes:
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.
+ * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
+ now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
+ vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
+ You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
+ These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
Changes:
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* "Live search"
* Shoutcast TV listings
* Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
+ * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
+ (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
-Decoders:
- * VP60/VP61 codecs support
+Input/Demuxers:
+ * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
+ * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
+ * Proxy support for MMSH stream
+ * JACK audio input support
+ * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
+ * Input run time option ( improved live stream recording )
+ * Fixed aiff stereo file
+ * Fixed audio glitch on seek
+ * Improved FLAC demuxer ( duration / current time / meta data )
+ * AAC tags support
+ * APEv1/2 tags support
+ * Improved ID3v2 tags support
+ * Raw video support
-Video output:
- * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
- and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
+Decoders:
+ * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
+ * MKV USF subtitles support
+ * HTML based subtitles support
+ * Flash Screen Video support
+ * CamStudio Screen Video support
+ * DosBox Capture support
+ * Karl Morton's Video support
+ * limited atrac3 support
+ * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
+
+Encoders:
+ * Flash Screen Video support
+
+Video output and filters:
+ * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split 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 extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
+ video)
+ * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
+ * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
+ * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
+ tags
+ * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
+ * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
+ * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
+ was previously part of the mosaic module.
+ * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
+ * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
+ * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
+ * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
+
+Audio output
+ * Replay gain support.
+ * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet )
+
+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
+ * Improved mouse gestures
+ * Unix
+ * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
+ * D-Bus Interface (experimental) implements the MPRIS
+ (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
+ interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
+ finished.
+ * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
+
+Capture:
+ * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
+ Windows
+
+Localisations:
+ * Persian
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes, notably:
+ * Windows Vista compatibility
+ * Cropping in Direct3D
+ * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
+ * RSS filter string overflow
+ * Few memory leaks
+ * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
+
+CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
+
+Decoders:
+ * Updated FLAC API compatibility
+
+Input:
+ * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
+
+Localisation:
+ * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes, notably:
+ * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
+ * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
+ * Mac OS X Interface crashes
+ * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
+ * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
+ * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
+
+Decoders:
+ * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
+ * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
+
+Webbrowser plugins:
+ * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
+
+Mac OS X Interface & Port:
+ * Diverse usability improvements
+ * New wizard option to embed subtitles
+ * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
+ * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
+
+
+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:
* Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
-
Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
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+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
* Java bindings
* A bit more automatic testing
+
Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
---------------------------------
* Mac OS X
- fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
+
Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
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The following languages were re-added:
* Swedish
+
Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
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Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
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+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
* Stream output:
* Support of playlist group announcement
+
Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
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+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
* Cisco IP/TV streams supported
* VLM enhancements
+
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
--------------------------------
* Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
* Roku HD1000 audio output.
+
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
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Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
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+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
* A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
* Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
+
Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
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+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
* Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
* libcaca video output (colored ascii)
+
Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
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+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
* Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
mpeg1/2 videos.
+
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
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+--------------------------------
Core support:
* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
* Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
mpeg1/2 videos.
+
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
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+--------------------------------
Core support:
* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
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+--------------------------------
Core Support:
* Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
* A few new keyboard shortcuts
* New full-featured Preferences window
+
Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
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+--------------------------------
Core Support:
* fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
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