X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1274ceee631850067ff415a1187fccbafbb0c82a;hb=refs%2Ftags%2F0.6.0;hp=a1cbf33d3ea43e91d58c94b38af7710c19916517;hpb=04af7ab44eba3abcf830b3132cdd6cfb5a7c81e1;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a1cbf33d3e..1274ceee63 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,280 @@ -$Id: NEWS,v 1.6 2003/02/01 21:10:19 massiot Exp $ +$Id: NEWS,v 1.53 2003/06/22 18:07:23 gbazin Exp $ + +Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0: +--------------------------------- + +Core Support: + * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated) + +Input access: + * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams. + * Fixed large file support on Windows + * Video 4 Linux support + * CD Digital Audio support + * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX. + +Input demux: + * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files + * Support for OpenDML avi files + * More complete .mp4/.mov support + * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;) + +Codecs: + * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2 + * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg + * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content. + * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg) + * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora + * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether + * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX) + +Interfaces: + * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe + * New HTTP remote control interface + +Stream output: + * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time. + * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly. + * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content. + * SAP (Session Announcement Protocol) support. + +Miscellaneous: + * New reset option for the preferences + * You can set your language in the prefences + * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg + * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution + * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own + +UNIX ports: + * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension. + * New skinable interface ported to X11. + * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer + +Mac OS X port: + * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically. + * New about panel and revamped preferences panel. + * Fixed the deinterlace menu. + * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out. + * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities. + * New icons by Davor Orel. + * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster. + * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug) + * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application + * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD + +Win32 port: + * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface + * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version + * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4 + * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs). + * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files) + * Fixed SVCD chapters support. + * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio. + +BeOS port: + * Interface localization + * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen + * A few new keyboard shortcuts + * New full-featured Preferences window + +Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3: +--------------------------------- + +Core Support: + * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines + * support for skins at the interface level + * new OSD module using Freetype2 + * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends + * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the + input level before dropping out of date frames. + * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface + +Input access: + * fixed HTTP redirects + * support for opening an entire directory + * EOF should be detected more reliably + * new video4linux access plug-in + * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver + +Input demux: + * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders + * fix for some ogg web radio streams + * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP + +Codecs: + * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions) + * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings + * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 ) + * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete) + * better SSA4 subtitles recognition + * new codec for raw I420 video + * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder + +Interfaces: + * improvements to wxWindows based interface + (although it still misses some important features) + * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in + +Stream output: + * new HTTP output support + * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer + * fixed AV synchronization issues + +Miscellaneous: + * support for oldstyle id3 genres + +UNIX ports: + * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines + +Mac OS X port: + * reorderable playlist + * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors + * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers + * support for mono audio output devices + * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC + * fixed several cosmetic issues + * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be) + * the messages window remembers more lines + * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files + * http and ogg stream output options + * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well + +Win32 port: + * new skinnable interface + * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events. + +iPAQ familiar Linux port: + * support for FLAC audio format + * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation + * playlist + * network tab in the interface + * "apply" handling in preferences + + +Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2: +--------------------------------- + +Core support: + * advanced config options are now hidden by default + * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default + * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams + * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily + Mac OS X + * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work + * DTS S/PDIF support + +Codecs: + * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library + * support for FLAC audio through libflac + * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2 + * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks) + +Stream output: + * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS + * new --ttl option for Time To Live + +DVD support: + * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support + +UNIX ports: + * fixed the GNU-pth support + +Win32 port: + * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout + plugins + * localization support via gettext is now fully working + * rc interface is now fully useable + * fixed the MSVC project files generation + +Mac OS X port: + * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with + M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver + bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin + iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work) + * VLC now uses the default audio device + * new info panel + * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript + * support for mouse gestures + * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines + +Linupy port: + * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the + YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it + +Miscellaneous: + * improved ID3 tag detection + * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is + not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these + * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful + gestures + * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast + + +Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a: +--------------------------------- + +Mac OS X port: + * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when + English was set as the preferred language + + +Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1: +-------------------------------- + +Core support: + * new mouse gesture interface + * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is + playing + +Input access: + * various minor fixes on the network inputs + * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg) + * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing + +Input demux: + * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in + * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their + continuity counter + +Codecs: + * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams + +DVD support: + * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only + without the user consent + +UNIX ports: + * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the + popup menu + * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver) + * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1 + * ALSA: fixed mono files output + +Mac OS X port: + * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems + * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines + * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs + * playlist enhancements + * added half, normal and double video window menu items + * new step forward/step backward commands + * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode + * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support + * vlc.app is now VLC.app + +Win32 port: + * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug + * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory + * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font + +BeOS port: + * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups + * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window) + +Opie port: + * native video output is working again + * only commandline interface support + * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package + Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0: -------------------------------- @@ -8,7 +284,7 @@ Core structure: * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing S/PDIF and multi-channel support * localization support via gettext on most architectures - * new stream output architecture, allowing, using VLC to unicast, + * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast, multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4 and A/52 streams are supported) * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint @@ -18,6 +294,8 @@ Input access: * ftp:// support * stability fixes in the HTTP access * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation + * VCD entry points support + * VCD image file support Input demux: * support for *.asf format @@ -26,13 +304,14 @@ Input demux: * support for ogg encapsulation * support for raw DV format * support for *.wav format - * support for *.mp3 format * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file * raw AAC support Stream discovery & playlists: * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols * support for .m3u file format + * support for .asx file format + * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp Codecs: * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats @@ -40,11 +319,13 @@ Codecs: * support for ADPCM audio codec * support for raw PCM data * support for Cinepak video codec - * support for DV video codec via libdv + * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2 * support for Xvid codec - * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis and Tremor audio codecs - * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs + * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec + * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources) + * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling + from sources) * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263, H263i, MJPEG A/B * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec @@ -56,6 +337,11 @@ Miscellaneous: * new WxWindows interface * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio device and the channels configuration + * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect + * 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 @@ -68,13 +354,23 @@ Mac OS X port: * 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 and messages windows + * new playlist drawer and messages windows Win32 port: - * waveout modules supports multi-channel audio output + * 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 iPaq port: * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface