X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=bb6c5cf8cb4953b1f54061cfab42b50a99c5016e;hb=396436191c55a7e9ce6e88f9e6e70fe4a4fbaa40;hp=f1e6256eef1c02e8cd9b2a55b7a9b38a5b959ea5;hpb=2f5e62451f03709827a4a5e0191fc7ff20ebf1a5;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f1e6256eef..bb6c5cf8cb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,21 +1,62 @@ Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git: -------------------------------- +Core: + * Support wayland surface type + Access: * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.) * New SMB access module using libdsm + * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...) - * Improvements of cookie handling (domain / path matching, Secure cookies) + * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items, + domain / path matching, Secure cookies) Decoder: * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration + * Support for ARIB B24 subtitles + * Support for Daala video + * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI + * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec + * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements + +Demuxers: + * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS) + * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream + * Support Daala in Ogg + * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov + * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files + * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov + +Stream filter: + * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder + +Video ouput: + * Wayland shell surface window provider + * Wayland shared memory video output + * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output + +Video filter: + * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL + +Stream Output: + * Chromecast output module + +Encoder: + * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4 + +Muxers: + * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer + * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream + * Daala in Ogg Service Discovery: * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm Mac OS X Interface * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization + * Port to Yosemite X.10 Skins2: * Support key accelerators @@ -25,20 +66,21 @@ Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0: -------------------------------- Important changes: - * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ + * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+, + notably the streaming output, muxers and access output ones Core: + * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples * Add extensions download from external repositories - * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies Access: - * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access. - New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes. + * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access + New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes * MMS audio selection on split audio streams * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection - and navigation + and BD-J navigation * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs @@ -73,13 +115,15 @@ Encoder: * New png image encoder using libpng Demuxer: - * New CAF format module + * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking, streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking, synchronization and tracks exclusion * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps + * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio + and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion * Support Opus in MKV * Support VP8 in OGG * Basic support for WebVTT @@ -93,19 +137,11 @@ Demuxer: * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec - * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio - and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms) * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files -Muxers: - * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton - * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect - * Support VP8 in OGG - * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS - Video Output: * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins @@ -131,6 +167,12 @@ Audio Output: * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules +Muxers: + * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton + * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification + * Support VP8 in OGG + * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS + Streaming: * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers @@ -142,7 +184,7 @@ Streaming: * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour with --no-sout-all - * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump + * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP @@ -177,6 +219,46 @@ Removed modules: * OpenMash H.261 video decoder * dirac encoder: use schroedinger +Translations: + * Update of all translations + + +Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5: +-------------------------------- + +Core: + * Fix compilation on OS/2 + +Access: + * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module + +Mac OS X audio output: + * Fix channel ordering + * Increase the buffersize + +Decoders: + * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces + * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams + * Fix PGS alignment in MKV + +Qt Interface: + * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Correctly support video-on-top + * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays + * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side + +Streaming: + * Fix transcode when audio format changes + +Security contents: + * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466) + * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333) + +Translations: + * Update British English + Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4: --------------------------------