X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=2799d770a93629c6de74c71e262f4a2cc0ee7a30;hb=cf1a26480ab872d894dd20aa9d444b54369c0211;hp=2ad318c73b7e3d45b31b44eab9e363367cf093cb;hpb=353c96f3291889a7fd1d55d15fbde727bc0753f4;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2ad318c73b..2799d770a9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,38 +1,170 @@ -Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.1.0-git: +Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.1.0-git: ------------------------------------ Access: * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB + * Support for the sftp protocol + * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on Windows version + * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0 + * New memory input module to feed VLC from data in memory + +Decoders: + * Support for Atrac1 + * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support + * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray + * Invmem module improvements + * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities Demuxers: * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet) - -Mac OS X Interface: - * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008) + * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) files + * Various EGP improvements Playlist: * WPL playlist support * ZPL playlist support + * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios + * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image + * Podcast images are now displayed Audio filters: * Chorus/Flanger audio filter + * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter + * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler, + linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and + * NEON assembly audio converter module Encoders: * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings + * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example + #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176} + * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, + uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP + * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required Video Output: + * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks. + * New x11 and xv modules based on XCB + * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2) + * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output Visualisation: * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries +Service discovery: + * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories + * Service discovery based on libudev + +Stream output: + * New smem module, streaming to memory + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008) + +Windows port: + * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar + +Maemo port: + * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency + Removed modules: * csri * galaktos * showintf + * transrate + * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo (use XCB instead) + * HAL (use libudev instead) + * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces + + +Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3: +-------------------------------- + +Video outputs: + * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to + regressions in most popular drivers + * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms + +Decoders: + * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it + didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2 + * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks + +Encoders: + * x264 has profile-limitter, like: + #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..} + +Input: + * Update for appletrailers lua script + * Fixes on the RAR stream filter + * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams + * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2 + * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer + +Service discovery: + * New udev module for linux + +Qt4 interface: + * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels + +Translations: + * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates + + +Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2: +-------------------------------- + +Decoders: + * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls + * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones + * Various fixes on theora and ogg + +Demuxers: + * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer + * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers + +Access: + * Fixes for v4l2 devices + * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning + +Qt Interface: + * Fix some playlist sorting issues + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Fixed a crash when updating VLC + * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only) + * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave) + * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature + +Mac OS X Port: + * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary + with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit + * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 + - no support for Goom and SDL + - limited text rendering support + - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release. + +Encoders: + * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed + * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults. + * x264 rc-behaviour fixes: + - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used + - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used + - otherwise ABR-mode is used + * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these: + - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate + - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps) + + +Playlist: + * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback + +Unix builds: + * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1: @@ -202,6 +334,8 @@ Video output: Miscellaneous: * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications +New Localization: + * Mongolian Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a: ---------------------------------