X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1aefbaa0df9962185bff895fb704ba7aa537b0a4;hb=f0251c53bd46a47a96563aece4054399c450f7ba;hp=1f76d6e778d20b902482f0ecf50f8bbbe1cb1dc4;hpb=f982997d88c3e7fbe8194df75cc8c63ecb985962;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1f76d6e778..1aefbaa0df 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,202 @@ -$Id: NEWS,v 1.84 2004/02/22 00:15:33 gbazin Exp $ +$Id$ + +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: +-------------------------------- + +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 + * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux. Codecs: * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts @@ -26,6 +218,7 @@ Input: * 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...).