Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
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+Important changes for users:
+
+Important changes for packagers:
+ * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
+ generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
+ later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
+ by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
+ can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
+ launch each time.
Access:
* Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
* HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
* PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
* Invmem module improvements
- * Support for Atrac1 codec
+ * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
* Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
+ * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
* Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
* Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
- * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
* Audio/Video decoder using OpenMAX IL components
+ * Support for Indeo5 video codec
+ * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
+ * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
+ * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
Demuxers:
* Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
Extensions:
* new content extensions lua framework
- * imdb extension
+ * IMDb extension
Audio filters:
* Chorus/Flanger audio filter
- * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
- * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
- linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
- A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
+ * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
+ * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
+ resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
+ and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
* NEON assembly audio converter module
* Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
-Visualisation:
- * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
+Visualization:
+ * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
Service discovery:
* Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
Encoders:
* x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
- * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
+ * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
* x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
and oldhttp.
* rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
-Mac OS X Interface:
- * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
-
Mac OS X Port:
* Vastly improved VLCKit framework
* A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
* Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
by Andy Matuschak et al.
* New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
+ * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
Windows port:
* Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
Maemo port:
* Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
* Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
+ * Improvements to the maemo interface
Misc:
* new sqlite module
* new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
Removed modules:
- * csri codec. Use libass module instead.
- * galaktos. Use new projectM module instead.
- * showintf. Useless in qt and mac os X
+ * csri codec. Use the libass module instead.
+ * galaktos. Use the new projectM module instead.
+ * showintf. Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
* transrate
- * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use new XCB modules instead.
+ * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use the new XCB modules instead.
* HAL. Use libudev instead.
* gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
* WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
* linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
* XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
* MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
- * opengllayer
- * cddax. Use cdda instead
+ * opengllayer. Use macosx_video instead.
+ * cddax. Use cdda instead.
* cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
- * realaudio codecs is remove in favour of avcodec
+ * realaudio codecs are removed in favor of libavcodec
* access_file removed in favor of filesystem
+ * RTMP input and output
Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
increase performance and fix x264 issues
Translations:
- * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali,
+ * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
Russian, Slovak translation updates
* New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations