X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1aefbaa0df9962185bff895fb704ba7aa537b0a4;hb=24b9dd14ec192826028afc3ab7130ca059d321f4;hp=0196cbe5f9f21cfad57a01fad6645ab485b14693;hpb=76e67e8c53b1caf652415befb696371cb988e389;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0196cbe5f9..1aefbaa0df 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,98 @@ $Id$ +Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.7.3: +This version is in development and not yet released. +-------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added funtionality + * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems + * New plugins cache to speed up launch time + * Fix crash with deinterlace switching + * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item + * Daemon mode + * Technical 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 --input-slave option to start playing with multi-input + * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams + +Demux: + * Support 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 skin2 is the current interface) + +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 + +Stream Output: + * 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 + * H.263 RTP streaming support + * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) + * Experimental WAV muxer + * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now + * Frame rate selection in the transcoder + * Improved ASF muxer + * DVB subtitles encoder + * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder + * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame + +Audio Output: + * New audio equalizer filter + * Very trivial volume normalizer + +Interfaces: + * OSD sliders for volume and postition information + * OSD icons for Play and Pause + * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces + * 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 + +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) + +Mozilla plugin: + * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality + * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc. + +Misc: + * Roku HD1000 Video output + * Server/client network synchronization module + * VBrick streams fully supported + * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported + * Cisco IP/TV streams supported + * Experimental OpenGL video output for X11 and win32 + Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: -------------------------------- @@ -16,6 +109,7 @@ Codecs: * 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 @@ -25,6 +119,8 @@ Input: * 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. @@ -56,29 +152,35 @@ VideoLAN manager: * HTTP interface for vlm. Interfaces: - * Skins II + * Skins II (Windows and Linux only) - Ability to embed video output. - Support for bitmap fonts. - Lots of improvements. - * wxWindows + * 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. + * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin. * Roku HD1000 audio output. Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a: