X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=eacdccc3c1a113b6beb0b1257b56b8b8c7d95f45;hb=b7f7f1f3a572ad85ad76d540e5849ab68a96e25a;hp=e405bfafaf1baa3a812b24098403eb137a1e2add;hpb=11aaa3f7ef4fb312bb08438f42e9e998b185738e;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e405bfafaf..eacdccc3c1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,392 @@ -$Id: NEWS,v 1.76 2003/11/23 16:02:56 zorglub Exp $ +$Id$ + +Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2-svn: +----------------------------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Rewrite of the playlist + - Tree structure + - Input preparsing (for meta-data) + - Grouping (by artist, ...) support + * Preferences improvements : + - New organization, designed to improve usability + - New configuration types (list of modules, ...) + * XML parsers + * Core image manipulation support + * Client-side SSL/TLS support + * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track + * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin + * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track + * Track selection based on preferred language + +Input: + * Support for SOCKS proxy + * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data + * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams + * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server + * Better support for Kasenna streams + * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items) + * Fixes to Linux DVB support + +Decoders / Encoders: + * Dirac decoder and encoder + * PNG decoder/encoder + +Services discovery + * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist + * Brand new SAP module + * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery + * DAAP (iTunes shares) support + +Video output: + * Video snapshot support + * Image file video output (png or jpg) + * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions) + +Stream output: + * Muxers + - ASF improvements + * VLM / VoD + - Ability to load a configuration file on startup + - Seeking support in VoD streams + +Interfaces: + * wxWidgets + - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ... + - Improved preferences + - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons + * MacOS X + - Redesigned playlist + * Skins + - Fixes + * HTTP + - Support for the new playlist system + +Windows port: + * Screensaver disabling fix + * DirectShow tuner configuration + * Support for no-decoration windows + +BeOS port: + * Support for single-buffered overlay + +Pocket PC port : + * Many fixes + * New interface + +Mozilla Plugin: + * Javascript fixes + +IE Plugin: + * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin + +Translations: + * Danish + * Greek + * Hindi + * Pashto + * Burmese + * Tetum + * Tagalog + * Bengali + +Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: +----------------------------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available) + * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface) + +Windows port: + * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0) + * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input + * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen + +WinCE port: + * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output). + +Audio Output: + * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements + +Video Output: + * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available + +Demuxers: + * Fixed crash with ODML avi files + * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files + * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming + +Stream Output: + * Encoders: + * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module + * Stream output: + * Support of playlist group announcement + +Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0: +----------------------------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions + * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...) + * New plugins cache to speed up launch time + * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item + * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background) + * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem + +Input: + * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X + (Stream your desktop) + * Improved DVD support: + - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support + - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming) + * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it ) + * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams + * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access + (selection of titles/chapters). + +Demuxers: + * Support for iTunes Music Store previews + * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams) + * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support + * Windows Media Server RTSP support + * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets) + * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) + * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface) + * Improved Ogg demuxer + * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video. + * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams + +Codecs: + * G.726 audio support + * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support + * MPEG-4 text support + * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743) + * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering + * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska + +Stream Output: + Encoders: + * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on, + everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well + * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder + * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output) + * Frame rate selection in the transcoder + * DVB subtitles encoder + * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame + * Improved vorbis/theora encoding + Muxers: + * Text track muxing for mp4 + * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser + * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS + * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) + * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS. + * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio) + * Improved ASF muxer + Misc: + * H.263 RTP streaming support + * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now + * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental) + +Audio Output: + * New audio equalizer filter + * Very trivial volume normalizer + * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo + * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect + * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19 + +Video Output: + * Roku HD1000 Video output + * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X) + with support for effects. + * Improved filter and subpictures support : + - New filters can be streamed. + - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video + - Centralized scaling and blending + * New filters : + - "time", to display current time + - "marq", to display a marquee + +Interfaces: + * OSD sliders for volume and postition information + * OSD icons for Play and Pause + * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows) + * A few skins2 improvements + * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface + * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface + * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets + * Improved CORBA control module + +Mac OS X port: + * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem + * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output + * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video + +Linux port: + * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible) + * Experimental SVG rendering module + * Support for DVB CAM modules. + +Windows port: + * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3) + * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder + * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak + * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering + * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode) + +WinCE port: + * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output). + +Mozilla plugin: + * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality + * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc. + +Misc: + * Server/client network synchronization module + * VBrick streams fully supported + * Cisco IP/TV streams supported + * VLM enhancements + +Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: +-------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias. + * Support for video output embedded in interfaces. + * Improved HTTP daemon. + * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options. + +Codecs: + * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec. + (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html) + * New H.261 video decoder using openmash. + * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer. + * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed + (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding). + * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding). + +Input: + * --start-time and --stop-time to start and stop playing a + file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few + fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 ) + * Improved directory access module. + * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies. + * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...). + * New options to pass meta info to the input. + * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream + (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television) + +Demux: + * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support. + * mmsh streaming fixes. + * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files. + +Subtitles: + * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support. + * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path. + * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys. + +Stream output: + * Improved session announcement system. + * Minimize threads usage by default. + * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output. + * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer. + * Improved MPEG TS muxer. + * Improved transrater. + * Meta info options used by the muxers. + * New configuration system. + * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding. + +VideoLAN manager: + * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch + and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC. + * Supports live streams and VoD. + * Supports scheduling. + * Telnet interface for vlm. + * HTTP interface for vlm. + +Interfaces: + * Skins II (Windows and Linux only) + - Ability to embed video output. + - Support for bitmap fonts. + - Lots of improvements. + * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface) + - New design and set of icons. + - Ability to embed video output. + - Support for hotkeys. + - Support for bookmarks. + * Mac OS X + - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties. + - Better hotkeys handling. + +Mac OS X port: + * OpenGL video output is now the default when available. + * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a). + * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device. + * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested). + +Win32 port: + * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices. + * Disable monitor power down when watching movies. + * Improved Windows installer. + +Linux port: + * PowerPC fixes. + +Misc: + * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin. + * Roku HD1000 audio output. + +Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a: +--------------------------------- + +Mac OS X: + * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug + * Playing MOD files is working now. + + +Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1: +--------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times. + * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux. + +Codecs: + * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts + (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html) + * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output + * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles + +Playlist: + * Internal improvments + * Improved import/export + +Input: + * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm) + container formars. + * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many + small and strange formats. + * New PVA demux. + * New MOD audio demux. + * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files. + * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD. + * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav). + * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer. + +Stream output: + * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...). + * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer. + * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...). + +Service discovery: + * Fixed sdp in SAP. + +Mac OS X port: + * New opengl video output plugin. + +Win32 port: + * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin. + * Fixed ipv6 name resolution. Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0: --------------------------------- @@ -10,7 +398,8 @@ Core support: * Video outputs are recycled if possible. This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files. * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters. - * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more. + * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for + subtitle files at the core, and much much more. Playlist: * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over. @@ -26,13 +415,14 @@ Input: * Reworked DVB tuning. * Better Icecast support. * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer. + * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer. Codecs: * Support for Theora video encoding. * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding. * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support. * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs). - * Support for AAC + SBR. + * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering. * MPEG 2.5 audio support. * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio). @@ -57,6 +447,7 @@ Interface: - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons). - Improvements and help in preferences - New streaming wizard + - Revised Disc Open menu * HTTP - Improvements of the standard pages - Support for new commands @@ -86,12 +477,14 @@ Mac OS X port: * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental). Win32 port: - * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams...). + * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...). * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service. * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface. * Support for 3F2R in audio output. * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC. * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental). + * Multimonitor support (untested). + * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems. Linux port: * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.