* The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
edit the ".hosts" file.
- XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
+ - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
+ If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
+ /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
+ - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
+ C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
+ - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
+ and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
* This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
- interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
+ interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
- "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". 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
- - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
+ - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
later point
* The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
* The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
Input/Demuxers:
* UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
- * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
* Proxy support for MMSH stream
* JACK audio input support
* MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
* AAC tags support
* APEv1/2 tags support
* Improved ID3v2 tags support
+ * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
+ * Raw video support
Decoders:
* VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
was previously part of the mosaic module.
* Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
* Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
+ * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
+ * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
-Audio output
+Audio output and filters
* Replay gain support.
- * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet )
+ * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
+ * New spatializer audio filter.
Stream output:
* UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
* Improved user interaction
* Improved mouse gestures
* Unix
- * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface (experimental).
- * D-Bus Interface (experimental) implements the MPRIS
+ * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
+ * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
(Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
- finished.
+ finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
* Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
+ * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters
+ when using an UTF-8 locale.
+
+Linux Port:
+ * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
+ http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
+ (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
Capture:
* new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
* MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
- * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702)
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
Demuxers:
* Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
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