X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=14ac28655abb38e2b642dd1b59f732ebe2644b4a;hb=0507661cfa1c539ebbbd0fc02002f57176d42382;hp=cdde7cf40050f419937a0a5b0600530cfeaf06e6;hpb=03062ad358ccd03a1597d07860ae3020ed45e05d;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cdde7cf400..14ac28655a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,25 +1,52 @@ Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git: -------------------------------- -Important changes for packagers: +Important changes: + * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ + * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs + VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually. 3rd party libraries (contrib): - * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib + * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib -Codecs: +Core: + * Audio core rewrite + * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows + * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode + * Partial support for Windows Store App + +Decoders: + * Support for OPUS via libopus. * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec. - * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec + * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec * Support for Ulead DV audio + * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen, + Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2) + * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless + * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder + * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec + * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles + * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux + * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder Encoders: - * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264 + * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264 Access: - * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion + * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later, + remove support for previous OS X releases * Major improvements in DASH support * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support + * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module + * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names + * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net + * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices + * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode + * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode + * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track + vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001 Demuxers: * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4 @@ -28,45 +55,259 @@ Demuxers: * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio * Support for total number of tracks in major container + * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV + * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras + * Support for more MJPEG streams + * Add support for liveleak streams Audio output: * Windows Audio Session API audio output support * OpenBSD sndio audio output support + * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module + * Android AudioTrack audio output support + * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts + * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4 + * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices + This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH + distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.). + * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X) Audio Filters: - * new remapping channel filter - * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect - * new VSXu visualization plugin + * New remapping channel filter + * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect + * New VSXu visualization plugin + * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter + +Video Outputs: + * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards + * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video + * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions + * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS + * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules + Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module + * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management Video Filters: - * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in + * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images. * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits) + * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats + * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters + * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters + +Stream Output: + * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI + * Options support for AVIO output module + * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist + * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist + * Livehttp stream encryption support Interfaces: * configurable password for the HTTP server. * .hosts removed from the HTTP server. - * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows. + * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows. * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows + * Hotkey support for TS program selection + * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface -Mac OS X Interface: - * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally - * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of +Services discovery: + * UPnP A/V subtitles + * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item + +OS X Interface: + * add support for multiple video outputs + * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen + controller + * add a GUI to manage podcasts + * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming + * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally + - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time. + * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content + * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of VLC's internal volume level - * added an option to show next / previous buttons - * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons - * added optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description, - date and language. + * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current + selection and to manage the list of presets + * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep + multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters + * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC + * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts + * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface + * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote + * add an option to show next / previous buttons + * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons + * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description, + date and language + * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time * add an option to play videos as a desktop background + * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side + * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target + * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit + * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings + when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through + 3rd party applications + * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application + handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams + * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are + deprecated now + +Qt: + * Partial support for Qt5.0 + * Menus modifications and improvements + * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view + * Streaming output wizard rewrite + * Add bitrate graph in information panels + * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor + * EPG display fixes and improvements + * Add SD pixmap sources + * Preferences hotkeys management fixes + * Display playlist total duration + * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI + * Numerous fixes + +libVLC: + * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions + to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname + and libvlc_audio_output_device_id + * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated + * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks + * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the + media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated. Removed modules: - * portaudio audio output + * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd) * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd) + * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead * Hildon GUI + * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0) + * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0) + * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin + * Broken crop video filter + * Switcher module + * OSD parser and menu + * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver + + +Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5: +-------------------------------- + +Access: + * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection + +Audio Output: + * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio + (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist) + * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems + +Demuxers: + * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts + * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser + * Fix koreus lua parser + * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras + * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer + * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links + * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files. + +Video filters: + * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts + * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases + +Encoders: + * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization + +Mac OS X: + * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names + * Fix crash with local statistics disabled + * Fix Time counter UI look + * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5 + +Win32: + * Fix https streaming + +libVLC: + * Fix audio and video track selection: + The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously + incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks. + +Translations: + * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, + Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew, + Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese, + Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations + * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua + + +Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4: +-------------------------------- + +Audio Output: + * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio. + * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF"). + * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X + * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows. + * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged + during playback on Mac OS X + +Access: + * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes + * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly + * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake + +Codecs: + * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files + * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries + * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding + * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files + * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding + +Demuxers: + * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets + * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files + * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers + * Support Youtube live streams + +Windows: + * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8 + +Qt: + * Fix media info dialog update + * Fix random/repeat preferences saving + * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist + * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP + * Fix album art display at start + +Mac OS X: + * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior + * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard + * Fix menus display and behavior + * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons, + streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller + * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles + * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is + allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback. + * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application + * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter + +Miscellaneous: + * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock. + * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules + * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support + * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI + * Codec and other 3rd party library updates + * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio + * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP + * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments + * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates + +Translations: + * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional + Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish, + Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish + Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations + * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3: