* recognize subtitles streams in avi. Now to decode them. if anyone has ANY info...

[vlc] / NEWS

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 $Id$
 
 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
-This version is in development and not yet released.
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+-----------------------------------------------------
 
 Core support:
  * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
- * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems
+ * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
  * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
- * Fix crash with deinterlace switching
  * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
- * Daemon mode
- * Technical improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
+ * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
+ * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
 
 Input:
  * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X 
@@ -25,14 +23,16 @@ Input:
     (selection of titles/chapters).
 
 Demuxers:
- * Support iTunes Music Store previews
+ * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
  * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
  * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
  * Windows Media Server RTSP support
  * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
  * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
- * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skin2 is the current interface)
+ * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
  * Improved Ogg demuxer
+ * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
+ * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
 
 Codecs:
  * G.726 audio support
@@ -40,12 +40,14 @@ Codecs:
  * MPEG-4 text support
  * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
  * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
+ * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
 
 Stream Output:
  Encoders:
   * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
      everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
   * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
+  * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
   * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
   * DVB subtitles encoder
   * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
@@ -55,20 +57,37 @@ Stream Output:
   * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
   * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
   * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
-  * Experimental WAV muxer
+  * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
+  * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
   * Improved ASF muxer
  Misc:
- * H.263 RTP streaming support
- * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
+  * H.263 RTP streaming support
+  * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
+  * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
 
 Audio Output:
  * New audio equalizer filter
  * Very trivial volume normalizer
+ * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
+ * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
+ * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
+
+Video Output:
+ * Roku HD1000 Video output
+ * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
+   with support for effects.
+ * Improved filter and subpictures support :
+       - New filters can be streamed.
+       - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video 
+       - Centralized scaling and blending
+ * New filters : 
+       - "time", to display current time 
+       - "marq", to display a marquee
 
 Interfaces:
  * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
  * OSD icons for Play and Pause
- * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces
+ * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
  * A few skins2 improvements
  * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
  * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
@@ -83,6 +102,7 @@ Mac OS X port:
 Linux port:
  * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
  * Experimental SVG rendering module
+ * Support for DVB CAM modules.
 
 Windows port:
  * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
@@ -91,17 +111,18 @@ Windows port:
  * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
  * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
 
+WinCE port:
+ * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
+
 Mozilla plugin:
  * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
  * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
 
 Misc:
- * Roku HD1000 Video output
  * Server/client network synchronization module
  * VBrick streams fully supported
- * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported
  * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
- * Experimental OpenGL video output for X11 and win32
+ * VLM enhancements
 
 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
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