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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-git (not released yet):
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Important notes:
interface lacks a few features that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6:
- "Streaming wizard". 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
- * The behavior of --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
+ features, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
+ * The behavior of --sout-keep was 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>
* Shoutcast TV listings
* Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
* Album art support
- * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
+ * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
(Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
* User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
- share/luameta/README.txt
+ share/lua/meta/README.txt
Input/Demuxers:
- * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
- * DCCP transport 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 playback of AIFF stereo files
- * Fixed audio glitch on seek
- * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
- * AAC tags support
- * APEv1/2 tags support
- * Improved ID3v2 tags support
- * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
- * Raw video support
- * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
- * TiVo Series 2 support
- * v4l2 access module support
- * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
- * CD+G karaoke Files support
- * MXF files support
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
+ * DCCP transport 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 playback of AIFF stereo files
+ * Fixed audio glitch on seek
+ * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
+ * AAC tags support
+ * APEv1/2 tags support
+ * Improved ID3v2 tags support
+ * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
+ * Raw video support
+ * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
+ * TiVo Series 2 support
+ * v4l2 access module support
+ * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
+ * CD+G karaoke Files support
+ * MXF files support
+ * Re-written Screen input module for Mac OS X using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
Decoders:
* VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
* 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
+ * Re-written 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)
- * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
- * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML
- tags
+ * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
+ * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
+ (Google Summer of Code Student project)
* 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.
+ * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
+ This was previously part of the mosaic module.
+ * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
* Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
* Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
* Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
* Windows/Linux
* Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
* All
+ * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
+ end-user suitable way.
* Improved user interaction
* Improved mouse gestures
* Fastly improved Update checker
- * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
- * Ncurses:
- * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale, if libncursesw is available (not by default on MacOSX)
- * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
+ * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
* Mac OS X
* Improved video output features
* Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
* New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
+ * Ncurses:
+ * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
+ if libncursesw is available.
+ * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
+ * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
* Unix
* Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
* D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
* Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
applications (Google Summer of Code Student project)
* Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
+ * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
LibVLC:
* Event management and various improvements in libvlc
* Persian
* Polish
-TODO: Add 0.8.6e changelog here
+
+Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security updates:
+ * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
+ * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
+ * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489)
+ * Fixed cinepak integer overflow
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
+ * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
+ * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
+ * Close MMS access on network timeout
+ * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
+ * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
+
+Security updates:
+ * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
+ * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
+ * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
+ * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
+ VideoLAN-SA-0801)
+ * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
+ VideoLAN-SA-0802)
+
+Audio filter:
+ * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
+
+Access:
+ * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
+
+Stream output:
+ * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
+
+Encoders:
+ * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
+ * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
+ encoding on multi-cpu systems
+ - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
+ - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
+
+Mac OS X Interface & Port:
+ * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
+ * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
+ * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
+
+Localization:
+ * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
+
Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
----------------------------------
Various bugfixes:
* Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
* Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
- * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input
+ * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
+ in input
* Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
* Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
Mac OS X Interface & Port:
* Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
* Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
- * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
+ * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
+ Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
+ * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
+ two different movies
* Support for current Ogg file formats
- NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
+ NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
+ Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
Encoders:
* Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
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