X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1ce59dfe4c4f8f23917e6df01f3154bdf089905f;hb=32daa8b95ec6fbc2b03331539845a5e3ea21f48b;hp=ea2f4500276e003cb6b4b2fe073c3988550515dd;hpb=2dab7ce64c1397bddf5a20f38f770d62b688041a;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ea2f450027..1ce59dfe4c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,11 +1,304 @@ $Id$ -Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5-svn (not yet released): --------------------------------------------------------- +Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet): +------------------------------------------------------- + +Important notes: +---------------- + * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default. + If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to + edit the ".hosts" file. + - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts + If you're using the old http interface, it's located in + /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts + - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and + C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts + - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts + and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts + * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This + interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6: + - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced + by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these + features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6 + - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a + later point + * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default. + * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They + now require a target name as their first argument. Example: + vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc + You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye + These new commands are also available in the telnet interface. + * The "rtp" access output module has been removed: + Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.: + Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}' + New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}' + +Changes: +-------- + +Playlist: + * Vastly improved playlist support: + * Media library support + * "Live search" + * Shoutcast TV listings + * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support + * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt + (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs) + +Input/Demuxers: + * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP + * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP + * Proxy support for MMSH stream + * JACK audio input support + * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support + * Input run time option (improved live stream recording) + * Fixed aiff stereo file + * Fixed audio glitch on seek + * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data) + * AAC tags support + * APEv1/2 tags support + * Improved ID3v2 tags support + * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support + * Raw video support + * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support + * Tivo Series 2 support + * v4l2 access module support + * CD+G karaoke Files support + * MXF files support + +Decoders: + * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support + * MKV USF subtitles support + * HTML based subtitles support + * Flash Screen Video support + * CamStudio Screen Video support + * DosBox Capture support + * Karl Morton's Video support + * limited atrac3 support + * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts) + * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files: + Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ... + * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, Tivo, DVB/ATSC) + * H.264 PAFF support + * DNxHD / VC-3 support + * NellyMoser ASAO support + * APE ( Monkey audio ) support + +Encoders: + * Flash Screen Video support + +Video output and filters: + * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and + Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed + * New puzzle video output filter + * Rewrite motion detection video filter + * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a + video) + * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels) + * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video) + * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML + tags + * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*. + * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). + * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This + was previously part of the mosaic module. + * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter. + * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter + * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters + * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters + +Audio output and filters + * Replay gain support. + * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ). + * New spatializer audio filter. + +Stream output: + * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams + * New RTP payload formats: + * Speex voice audio codec + * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output + * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output + * UDP-Lite transport for RTP + * DCCP transport for RTP + * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting + +Interfaces: + * Windows/Linux + * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit + * All + * Improved user interaction + * Improved mouse gestures + * Unix + * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface. + * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS + (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control + interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when + finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces . + * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal + * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters + when using an UTF-8 locale. + * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl + +Linux Port: + * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6 + http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html + (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore) + +Mac OS X Port: + * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party + applications. (Google Summer Of Code Student project). + +LibVLC: + * Event management and various improvement in libvlc. + (Part of a Google Summer Of Code Student project). + +Capture: + * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft + Windows + +Localisations: + * Finnish + * Persian + * Polish + + +Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c: +---------------------------------- + +Various bugfixes, notably: + * Windows Vista compatibility + * Cropping in Direct3D + * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X + * RSS filter string overflow + * Few memory leaks + * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking) + +CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins: + * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316) + +Demuxers: + * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI + +Decoders: + * Updated FLAC API compatibility + +Input: + * Support for new v4l2 encoder API + +Localisation: + * New localisation: Arabic, Persian + + +Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b: +---------------------------------- + +Various bugfixes, notably: + * Out-of-bound read in demuxers + * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256) + * Mac OS X Interface crashes + * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms + * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility + * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers + +Decoders: + * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60 + * Teletext subtitles (telx) support + +Webbrowser plugins: + * Rectified behaviour and improved usability + +Mac OS X Interface & Port: + * Diverse usability improvements + * New wizard option to embed subtitles + * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused + * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script + + +Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a: +--------------------------------- + +CDDA / VCDX plugins: + * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701) + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Fullscreen controller improvements + + +Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6: +-------------------------------- + +Playlist: + * Shoutcast TV listings support + +Input: + * Support for RTSP authentication + * Support for adding subtitles on the fly + * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation + * ATSC support for DVB input + * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings + * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat + * Improved support for Flash Video files + +Decoders: + * Native WMV9/VC-1 support + * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs) + * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61) + * The True Audio Lossless codec support + * Matroska WavPack support + * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF) + * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures + * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles + +Video output: + * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...) + * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :) + * Improved libcaca support + +Interfaces: + * All + * New hotkeys for crop and zoom + * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface + * Windows + * Systray support in skins + * OS X + * Support for Apple Remote control + * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen) + * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen) + * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs + * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode + * Linux + * Notifications using notification-daemon + +Windows port: + * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above) + Windows 9x/ME users: + - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported + - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the + Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location: + http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx + Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder + C:\Windows\System + * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side + * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output) + +Localization: + * Add Czech + * Add Slovak + * Add Malay + * Add Slovenian + +Developers: + * Updates to the libvlc API + * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins + + +Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5 +-------------------------------- Core support: * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...) * Support for downloading updates + * Updated strings Input: * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal) @@ -21,8 +314,9 @@ Decoders: * Cook (Real audio) support Playlist / Services discovery: - * XSPF playlist support [ not included in 0.8.5-test1 ] + * XSPF playlist support * Podcast support + * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing Audio output: * New JACK audio output @@ -49,12 +343,14 @@ Interfaces: - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...) - Drag & Drop support in the playlist * Skins2 + - New default skin - Support for Winamp 2 skins - Improved playlist handling - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ... * OS X - Embedded Video output - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature + - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...) - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled) @@ -79,6 +375,7 @@ Developers: * Java bindings * A bit more automatic testing + Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a: --------------------------------- @@ -103,6 +400,7 @@ Interfaces: * Mac OS X - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard + Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4: -------------------------------- @@ -185,6 +483,7 @@ Translations: The following languages were re-added: * Swedish + Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2: -------------------------------- @@ -319,7 +618,7 @@ Translations: Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: ------------------------------------------------------ +-------------------------------- Core support: * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available) @@ -350,8 +649,9 @@ Stream Output: * Stream output: * Support of playlist group announcement + Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0: ------------------------------------------------------ +-------------------------------- Core support: * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions @@ -474,6 +774,7 @@ Misc: * Cisco IP/TV streams supported * VLM enhancements + Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: -------------------------------- @@ -564,6 +865,7 @@ Misc: * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin. * Roku HD1000 audio output. + Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a: --------------------------------- @@ -573,7 +875,7 @@ Mac OS X: Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times. @@ -616,8 +918,9 @@ Win32 port: * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin. * Fixed ipv6 name resolution. + Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * Brand new decoder/packetizer api. @@ -728,8 +1031,9 @@ Miscellaneous: * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations. * libcaca video output (colored ascii) + Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable. @@ -760,8 +1064,9 @@ Miscellaneous: * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play mpeg1/2 videos. + Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs. @@ -787,8 +1092,9 @@ Miscellaneous: * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play mpeg1/2 videos. + Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs. @@ -836,7 +1142,7 @@ Miscellaneous: Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core Support: * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated) @@ -913,8 +1219,9 @@ BeOS port: * 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