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-Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4-svn (not yet released):
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+Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6-svn (not released yet)
+--------------------------------------------------
+Core support:
+ * New playlist core
+
+Nix Port
+ * Notification plugin.
+
+Localization:
+ * Add Czech
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
+---------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
+ * Support for downloading updates
+ * Updated strings
+
+Input:
+ * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
+ * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
+ * Improvements to the Audio CD input
+ - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
+ - Support for CDDB
+ * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
+ * Improved subtitles encoding support
+ * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
+
+Decoders:
+ * Cook (Real audio) support
+
+Playlist / Services discovery:
+ * XSPF playlist support
+ * Podcast support
+ * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
+
+Audio output:
+ * New JACK audio output
+
+Video output:
+ * New video filters:
+ - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
+ - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
+ - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
+ * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
+ * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
+ * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
+
+Stream output:
+ * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
+
+Interfaces:
+ * System to inform the user and request information
+ - HTTP authentication
+ - Fatal errors
+ - ...
+ * wxWidgets
+ - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
+ - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
+ - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
+ * Skins2
+ - New default skin
+ - Support for Winamp 2 skins
+ - Improved playlist handling
+ - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
+ * OS X
+ - Embedded Video output
+ - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
+ - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
+ - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
+ - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
+ - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
+ * HTTP
+ - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
+ - A bunch of new RPN functions
+
+Windows Port:
+ * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
+
+OS X Port:
+ * Mac-Intel compatibility
+ * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
+ * Growl "Now playing" support
+
+*Nix port:
+ * Ability to log to syslog
+ * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
+
+Developers:
+ * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
+ * Java bindings
+ * A bit more automatic testing
+
+Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
+---------------------------------
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
+ * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
+
+Decoder:
+ * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
+ * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
+
+Demux:
+ * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
+
+Services Discovery:
+ * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
+ * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
+ * UPnP fixes
+ * Avahi 0.6 support
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Mac OS X
+ - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
+
+Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
Video output:
* Fixed problems with OpenGL output
- * New --monitor-aspect-ratio option
+ * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
+ * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
Input:
* Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
* IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
* IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
* GnomeVFS input module
+ * Support for RTP packet reordering
+ * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
Decoders:
* Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
+ * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
+ * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
Services discovery:
- * UPnP service discovery
- * Bonjour service discovery using avahi
+ * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
+ * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
-Video Filters:
+Video filters:
* RSS feed overlay
+Audio filters:
+* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
+ Mixer and Dolby Surround
+
Stream output:
* New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
* Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
+ * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
Interfaces:
+- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
* Mac OS X
- New streaming and transcoding wizard
- New extended controls panel
- Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
* wxWidgets
- Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
- - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
- - VLC update checker
+ - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
+ - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
+ - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
* Skins2
- Tree playlist
* HTTP
ActiveX plugin:
* Should now work outside IE as well
+Mac OS X port:
+* New script to delete the preferences automatically
+
+Windows port:
+* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
+* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
+
Translations:
The following languages were added:
+ * Galician
* Korean
* Romanian
+ * Simplified Chinese
+ The following languages were re-added:
+ * Swedish
Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
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