X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0f225e7629137e94250f7913c6d771ca6fe42414;hb=629242be8991e0005db9d6b61e79e15c89b10793;hp=23301b154a88968015e70f57609b100f56fce981;hpb=f61167e75636876dac8506cc9d61358b44ecc4f7;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 23301b154a..0f225e7629 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,18 @@ Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git: ------------------------------------ +Important notes: + * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized: + - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1". + By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used. + - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers. + By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS. + - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate), + --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and + --http-crl (optional CRL). + * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly. + Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively. + Important changes for packagers: * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is @@ -17,7 +29,6 @@ Important changes for packagers: * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git - Core: * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite: Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs @@ -49,15 +60,25 @@ Codecs: * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl) * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding + * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP + * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger + The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one + * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec + * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits + * EIA-608 closed captions improvements + * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries + * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android Demuxers: * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm - * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2 - * Ogg seeking improvements + * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl) + * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files + * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements + * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling Interfaces: * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes @@ -67,14 +88,18 @@ Interfaces: * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support and important cleanups and optimisations * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface + * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection + * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion + * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery + * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML Video Output: * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update) @@ -86,12 +111,14 @@ Video Output: chroma conversion * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output + * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which requires a Quartz Extreme capable Mac Audio Output: * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS * New audio output in memory (amem) * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android + * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate) Video Filter: * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering @@ -150,7 +177,10 @@ Removed modules: * upnp: use upnp_intel * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp - * remove of the noise filter + * removal of the noise filter + * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs + * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be + removed in Growl's next release, too. Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11: