its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
- * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
+ * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
* The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
* OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
+ * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
+ Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
* The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
* The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
Core:
* Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
- x11 (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
+ x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
* Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
* Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
* Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
* Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
* QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
+ * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
Codecs:
* You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
* Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
* Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
- * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
- The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
+ * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
Demuxers:
- * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
- * Ogg seeking improvements
+ * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
* C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
+ * Ogg seeking improvements
+ * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
+ * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
+ * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
Interfaces:
* Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
* Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
* Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
* The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
+ * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
+ * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
Video Output:
* New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
* Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
* Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
* Various vmem improvements
+ * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
+ chroma conversion
+ * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
Audio Output:
* New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
* New audio output in memory (amem)
+ * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
+ * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
Video Filter:
* New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
* removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
+Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
+---------------------------------
+
+Windows and Mac OS X:
+ * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
+ * Fix for various crashes and small issues
+
+Demuxer:
+ * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
+
+Audio output:
+ * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
+
+Win32 port:
+ * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
+
+Miscellaneous fixes in:
+ * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
+ * Qt interface
+ * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
+ * RTP output and XML export
+ * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
+ * v4l2 access
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
+ Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
+ Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
+ * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
+
+
Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
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