-$Id: NEWS,v 1.34 2003/04/06 15:43:02 massiot Exp $
+$Id: NEWS,v 1.69 2003/10/22 21:08:15 gbazin Exp $
+
+Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.6.3:
+---------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
+ This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
+ * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when these are used.
+ * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
+ * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
+
+Stream output:
+ * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
+ * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
+ * Improved Ogg muxing and added theora, speex and subtitles support.
+ * Theora video encoding.
+ * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
+
+Input:
+ * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 audio in DVB streams.
+ * Fixed seeking support in FLAC files.
+ * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo.
+ * Reworked DVB tuning.
+ * Better Icecast support.
+
+Codecs:
+ * Support for Speex audio.
+ * Support for AAC + SBR.
+ * MPEG 2.5 support.
+ * removed old a52, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio codecs, since we are using others now.
+
+Interface:
+ * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
+ * Bug fixes / improvements in the skins (eg. "stay on top" option).
+ * Improvements to the wxwindows playlist (Sort,Search, mode buttons).
+ * Help in the preferences window.
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
+ * Save playlist.
+ * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
+
+Win32 port:
+ * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams...).
+ * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
+ * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
+ * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
+ * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
+
+Subtitles:
+ * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
+ * Text subtitles autodetection.
+ * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
+ * Text subtitles for videofiles. Result may vary.
+ * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
+ * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
+ * Spanish and Portugese Brazilian translations.
+ * SAP now supports HTTP streams.
+
+Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
+---------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
+
+Stream output:
+ * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
+ * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
+
+Access input:
+ * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
+ * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
+
+UNIX ports:
+ * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
+ * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
+
+Win32 port:
+ * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
+
+iPaq port:
+ * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
+ * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
+ mpeg1/2 videos.
+
+Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
+---------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
+ * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
+ after a pause.
+
+Stream output:
+ * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
+ * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
+ * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
+ * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
+ * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
+
+Win32 port:
+ * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
+ * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
+ * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
+
+UNIX ports:
+ * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
+ * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
+ use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
+
+iPaq port:
+ * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
+ * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
+ * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
+ * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
+ * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
+ * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
+ * A new CORBA control plugin.
+
+Input demux:
+ * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * Improved build system.
+ * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
+ * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
+ * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
+ Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
+
+
+Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
+---------------------------------
+
+Core Support:
+ * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
+
+Input access:
+ * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
+ * Fixed large file support on Windows
+ * Video 4 Linux support
+ * CD Digital Audio support
+ * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
+
+Input demux:
+ * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
+ * Support for OpenDML avi files
+ * More complete .mp4/.mov support
+ * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
+
+Codecs:
+ * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
+ * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
+ * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
+ * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
+ * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
+ * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
+ * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
+
+Interfaces:
+ * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
+ * New HTTP remote control interface
+
+Stream output:
+ * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
+ * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
+ * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
+ * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * New reset option for the preferences
+ * You can set your language in the prefences
+ * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
+ * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
+ * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
+ * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
+
+UNIX ports:
+ * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
+ * New skinable interface ported to X11.
+ * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
+ * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
+ * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
+ * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
+ * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
+ * New icons by Davor Orel.
+ * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
+ * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
+ * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
+ * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
+
+Win32 port:
+ * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
+ * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
+ * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
+ * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
+ * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
+ * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
+ * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
+
+BeOS port:
+ * Interface localization
+ * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
+ * A few new keyboard shortcuts
+ * New full-featured Preferences window
Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
---------------------------------
* fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
* support for skins at the interface level
* new OSD module using Freetype2
+ * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
+ * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
+ input level before dropping out of date frames.
+ * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
Input access:
* fixed HTTP redirects
Codecs:
* support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
- * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' files
+ * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
+ * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
* support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
* better SSA4 subtitles recognition
* new codec for raw I420 video
+ * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
+
+Interfaces:
+ * improvements to wxWindows based interface
+ (although it still misses some important features)
+ * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
Stream output:
* new HTTP output support
UNIX ports:
* the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
- * skeleton for a GTK2 plug-in
Mac OS X port:
* reorderable playlist
* fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
* fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
* support for mono audio output devices
- * reset the device to its default mode before quitting VLC
+ * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
* fixed several cosmetic issues
* you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
* the messages window remembers more lines
- * delay and fps can now be overriden with subtitles files
+ * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
+ * http and ogg stream output options
* Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
Win32 port:
* new skinnable interface
+ * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
iPAQ familiar Linux port:
* support for FLAC audio format
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