X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=370aaacd3fe7ff2539982cc14f5e9ee97cdbff33;hb=1f1f7a8220f8f36f427690c462739e9086400a29;hp=1274ceee631850067ff415a1187fccbafbb0c82a;hpb=6bac5d0123713f5cb2cd5944fda6c082a39e6aa4;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1274ceee63..370aaacd3f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,358 @@ -$Id: NEWS,v 1.53 2003/06/22 18:07:23 gbazin Exp $ +$Id$ + +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. + +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 + - Ability to embed video output. + - Support for bitmap fonts. + - Lots of improvements. + * wxWindows + - New design and set of icons. + - Ability to embed video output. + - Support for hotkeys. + * 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. + +Win32 port: + * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices. + * Disable monitor power down when watching movies. + +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 and Linux. + +Codecs: + * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts + (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html) + * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output + * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles + +Playlist: + * Internal improvments + * Improved import/export + +Input: + * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm) + container formars. + * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many + small and strange formats. + * New PVA demux. + * New MOD audio demux. + * 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...). + * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer. + * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...). + +Service discovery: + * Fixed sdp in SAP. + +Mac OS X port: + * New opengl video output plugin. + +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. + Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins. + * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available). + * Video outputs are recycled if possible. + This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files. + * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters. + * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for + subtitle files at the core, and much much more. + +Playlist: + * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over. + * Playlist sorting + +Input: + * RTP/RTSP support. + * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages). + * Support for Flac in Ogg files. + * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams. + * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer. + * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only) + * Reworked DVB tuning. + * Better Icecast support. + * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer. + * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer. + +Codecs: + * Support for Theora video encoding. + * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding. + * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support. + * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs). + * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering. + * MPEG 2.5 audio support. + * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio). + +Stream output: + * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer. + * New transrating module for MPEG2 video. + * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams. + * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams. + * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding. + * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support. + * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio. + * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input. + * Preliminary RTP support. + * Fixes to SAP announces. + +Interface: + * Skins: + - Bugfixes + - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option). + * New standardized and customizable hotkeys. + * wxWindows + - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons). + - Improvements and help in preferences + - New streaming wizard + - Revised Disc Open menu + * HTTP + - Improvements of the standard pages + - Support for new commands + * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ). + +Service discovery: + * Many fixes to the SAP module + * SAP now supports HTTP streams + +Subtitles: + * Text subtitles now have a black outline. + * Text subtitles autodetection. + * Text subtitles charset autodetection. + * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary. + * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially. + * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles. + * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support. + * Support for subtitles in Matroska files. + * Support for subtitles in DVB streams. + +Mac OS X port: + * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com + * Save playlist. + * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem. + * Support for Panther. + * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk. + * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental). + +Win32 port: + * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...). + * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service. + * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface. + * Support for 3F2R in audio output. + * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC. + * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental). + * Multimonitor support (untested). + * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems. + +Linux port: + * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input. + * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges. + * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface. + +iPaq port: + * Brand new Gtk 2 interface + +Miscellaneous: + * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random). + * Audio visual effects filter using goom. + * 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. + +Stream output: + * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better. + * Improved MPEG TS muxer. + +Access input: + * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels. + * Few fixes to the VCD navigation. + +Interfaces: + * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface. + +UNIX ports: + * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested. + * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity. + +Win32 port: + * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines. + +iPaq port: + * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated). + +Miscellaneous: + * Text subtitles now centered on the picture. + * 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. + * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock + after a pause. + +Stream output: + * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming. + * Added vorbis audio transcoding support. + * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame). +UNIX ports: + * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested. + * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity. + +Win32 port: + * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines. + +iPaq port: + * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated). + +Miscellaneous: + * Text subtitles now centered on the picture. + * 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. + * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock + after a pause. + +Stream output: + * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming. + * Added vorbis audio transcoding support. + * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame). + * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers. + * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now. + +Win32 port: + * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss + * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards. + * Fixed sound on Windows NT. + +UNIX ports: + * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output. + * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now + use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus. + +iPaq port: + * Gtk+2 interface called PDA + * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated + * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added + * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode) + * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law). + +Interfaces: + * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface. + * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages. + * A new CORBA control plugin. + +Input demux: + * Improved support for the Matroska container format. + +Miscellaneous: + * Improved build system. + * New video filter plugin to overlay logos. + * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files. + * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size. + Should also work with languages like russion for instance. + Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0: --------------------------------- @@ -36,7 +390,7 @@ Stream output: * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time. * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly. * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content. - * SAP (Session Announcement Protocol) support. + * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6) Miscellaneous: * New reset option for the preferences @@ -44,6 +398,7 @@ Miscellaneous: * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own + * SAP/SDP IPv6 support UNIX ports: * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension. @@ -341,33 +696,6 @@ Miscellaneous: * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any format that VLC can play * new swedish translation - * updated french, german, dutch and italian translations - -GNU/Linux, *BSD & misc. UNIX ports: - * OSS and ALSA audio output modules support A/52 over S/PDIF output - * OSS support for multi-channel (up to 6) analog sound cards - -Mac OS X port: - * localization support via GNU gettext software - * completely revamped Cocoa interface - * new preferences panel - * new open panel with full features - * video output screen can be chosen in the Video menu - * audio device and channels configuration can be chosen in the Audio menu - * new playlist drawer and messages windows - -Win32 port: - * preferences dialog box redesigned - * waveout module supports multi-channel audio output and A52 over S/PDIF - * support for VCDs - * new dialog box to select avi subtitles - * some new shortcuts (in particular to play/pause or stay on top) - * new menu entry to spawn another interface - * rc interface is partly fixed and useable - -BeOS port: - * new settings window for adjusting post-processing, brightness, - contrast, etc * enhancements of the playlist window * new messages window to see debug info * fixed a few crashes