X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0094aad52644b5ea4b0f4c2219c0fb94c6b449f8;hb=ad69969da07b08850d7bec945f7e194897549d38;hp=577e890bb3d592a129d39f3ca8b9441849b258a6;hpb=076be835ae45e4de968ca10bfa86020601e40d31;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 577e890bb3..0094aad526 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,9 +1,474 @@ -$Id: NEWS,v 1.79 2004/01/17 13:47:57 sigmunau 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 @@ -14,9 +479,27 @@ Input: 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 + * 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: ---------------------------------