X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0094aad52644b5ea4b0f4c2219c0fb94c6b449f8;hb=7932c484508312b9eb60b2c365f35aa174994c7e;hp=8b0be5dd18610b3c75174bfabb57795974680137;hpb=e1dd3aab6b05bbe8e21382e310fd92d1f363e16a;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8b0be5dd18..0094aad526 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,676 @@ -$Id: NEWS,v 1.59 2003/07/28 18:02:06 massiot Exp $ +$Id$ + +Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4-svn (not yet released): +----------------------------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based + * New OSD system + +Video output: + * Fixed problems with OpenGL output + * New --monitor-aspect-ratio option + +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 + +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 (Linux only) + +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 + +Interfaces: + * Mac OS X + - New streaming and transcoding wizard + - New extended controls panel + - New bookmarks window + - Fixed playlist sorting + - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist + * wxWidgets + - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets. + - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-* + - VLC update checker + - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support + * Skins2 + - Tree playlist + * HTTP + - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto) + - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in + the names of files + - Include macro to include other files + - CGI 1.0 support + +ActiveX plugin: +* Should now work outside IE as well + +Mac OS X port: +* New script to delete the preferences automatically + +Translations: + The following languages were added: + * Korean + * Romanian + * Simplified Chinese + +Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2: +-------------------------------- + +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 + * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD) + * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track + * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin + * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track + * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter + * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are + now separated by ':' instead of ',' + * Access filter architecture + * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language) + * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments + * Many bugfixes... + +Input/Demuxers: + * 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 + * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support + * Massive Matroska improvements + * Support for XA and VOC audio files + * TiVo demuxer + * Samba (Windows shares) access module + * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items) + * Fixes to Linux DVB support + * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug + * Support for FTP over IPv6 + +Decoders / Encoders: + * Dirac decoder and encoder + * PNG decoder/encoder + * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder + * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec + +Access filters: + * New Record and Timeshift filters + +Services discovery: + * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist + * Brand new SAP module + * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in + the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu + ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default ) + * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed + * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery + * DAAP (iTunes shares) support + * Shoutcast + +Audio output: + * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM + +Video output: + * Video snapshot support (png or jpg) + * Image file video output (png) + * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions) + * Improvements to wall video filter + * Support for font color and opacity + +Stream output: + * Muxers + - ASF improvements + * VLM / VoD + - Ability to load a configuration file on startup + - Seeking support in VoD streams + * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system) + +Interfaces: + * wxWidgets + - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ... + - Improved preferences + - Improvements to the wizard + - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons + * MacOS X + - Redesigned playlist + - Improved preferences + * Skins + - Support for multiple actions + - Fixes + * HTTP + - Support for the new playlist system + * Lirc + - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc + +Windows port: + * Screensaver disabling fix + * DirectShow tuner configuration + * Support for no-decoration windows + +MacOS X port: + * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes + * The OpenGL video output is back + * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations. + - Supports multichannel discrete analog output + - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it + is not yet available in the new module + - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information. + +BeOS port: + * Support for single-buffered overlay + +Pocket PC port: + * Many fixes + * New interface + * New video output + +Mozilla Plugin: + * Javascript fixes + * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed) + +IE Plugin: + * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin + +Translations: + The following languages were added: + * Catalan + * Danish + * Turkish + + +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: +--------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Brand new decoder/packetizer api. + Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins. + * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available). + * 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. + +Playlist: + * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over. + * Playlist sorting + +Input: + * RTP/RTSP support. + * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages). + * Support for Flac in Ogg files. + * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams. + * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer. + * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only) + * 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 and proper multi-channel re-ordering. + * MPEG 2.5 audio support. + * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio). + +Stream output: + * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer. + * New transrating module for MPEG2 video. + * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams. + * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams. + * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding. + * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support. + * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio. + * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input. + * Preliminary RTP support. + * Fixes to SAP announces. + +Interface: + * Skins: + - Bugfixes + - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option). + * New standardized and customizable hotkeys. + * wxWindows + - 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 + * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ). + +Service discovery: + * Many fixes to the SAP module + * SAP now supports HTTP streams + +Subtitles: + * Text subtitles now have a black outline. + * Text subtitles autodetection. + * Text subtitles charset autodetection. + * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary. + * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially. + * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles. + * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support. + * Support for subtitles in Matroska files. + * Support for subtitles in DVB streams. + +Mac OS X port: + * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com + * Save playlist. + * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem. + * Support for Panther. + * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk. + * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental). + +Win32 port: + * 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. + * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges. + * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface. + +iPaq port: + * Brand new Gtk 2 interface + +Miscellaneous: + * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random). + * Audio visual effects filter using goom. + * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations. + * libcaca video output (colored ascii) + +Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2: +--------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable. + +Stream output: + * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better. + * Improved MPEG TS muxer. + +Access input: + * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels. + * Few fixes to the VCD navigation. + +Interfaces: + * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface. + +UNIX ports: + * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested. + * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity. + +Win32 port: + * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines. + +iPaq port: + * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated). + +Miscellaneous: + * Text subtitles now centered on the picture. + * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play + mpeg1/2 videos. + +Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: +--------------------------------- + +Core support: + * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs. + * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock + after a pause. + +Stream output: + * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming. + * Added vorbis audio transcoding support. + * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame). +UNIX ports: + * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested. + * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity. + +Win32 port: + * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines. + +iPaq port: + * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated). + +Miscellaneous: + * Text subtitles now centered on the picture. + * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play + mpeg1/2 videos. Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: --------------------------------- @@ -25,6 +697,13 @@ UNIX ports: * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus. +iPaq port: + * Gtk+2 interface called PDA + * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated + * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added + * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode) + * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law). + Interfaces: * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface. * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages. @@ -383,33 +1062,6 @@ Miscellaneous: * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any format that VLC can play * new swedish translation - * updated french, german, dutch and italian translations - -GNU/Linux, *BSD & misc. UNIX ports: - * OSS and ALSA audio output modules support A/52 over S/PDIF output - * OSS support for multi-channel (up to 6) analog sound cards - -Mac OS X port: - * localization support via GNU gettext software - * completely revamped Cocoa interface - * new preferences panel - * new open panel with full features - * video output screen can be chosen in the Video menu - * audio device and channels configuration can be chosen in the Audio menu - * new playlist drawer and messages windows - -Win32 port: - * preferences dialog box redesigned - * waveout module supports multi-channel audio output and A52 over S/PDIF - * support for VCDs - * new dialog box to select avi subtitles - * some new shortcuts (in particular to play/pause or stay on top) - * new menu entry to spawn another interface - * rc interface is partly fixed and useable - -BeOS port: - * new settings window for adjusting post-processing, brightness, - contrast, etc * enhancements of the playlist window * new messages window to see debug info * fixed a few crashes