X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4729845cb63da1a57efea97ef236b408e0cd80e3;hb=30c9622b865da40cf50912dc2f388c0bd88e58b9;hp=c7cb4b04d6171d0567fcb26b2e487199c2a029e9;hpb=8b0468f45572bf87f2351660cfc674f95919378c;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c7cb4b04d6..4729845cb6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,822 @@ -Changes between 0.9.9 and 1.0.0-pre2: -------------------------------------- +Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git: +------------------------------------ + +Important changes for packagers: + * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for + its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is + not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. + Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions. + * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment + variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed. + * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz + + * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git + * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git + +Access + * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files + * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices + * DVB-S scanning support + * DVB-C scanning scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed + * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection + * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders + * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray + * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support + * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently) + * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux) + * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format + in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now + +Codecs + * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc + * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV + * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards + * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger + The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one + +Core: + * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore + * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites + * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded + +Demuxers: + * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib) + * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm + * Ogg seeking improvements + * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2 + +Interfaces + * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one + * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes + * Qt: effects dialogs rework + * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist + * Qt: port to MacOS X platform + * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support + and important cleanups and optimisations + * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface + +Video Output: + * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update) + * New video output for iOS platform + * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL + * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1 + * Various vmem improvements + +Video Filter: + * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering + * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality + * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors + * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels + * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos + * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator + +Audio Output: + * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS + +Audio Filter: + * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor + +Stream output: + * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output + example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3, + venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{ + access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8, + index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames}, + dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}" + * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora + * Major rework of VoD support + * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming: + #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard... + * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming: + #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std... + * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on + a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std... + * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track + #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio} + #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...} + +Services Discovery: + * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces + +libVLC: + * New capabilities for libVLC: + ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation + ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the + list of available audio and video filters + +Removed modules: + * asademux: use libass only + * fake: use the new image demuxers + * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules + * id3tag: use taglib + * upnp: use upnp_intel + + +Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8: +-------------------------------- + +Mac OS X Interface: + * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert + +Interfaces: + * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows + * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes + * Qt and Mac OS X fixes + * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins + +Encoder: + * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one + +Access/Demuxers/Codecs: + * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files + * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes + * mp4 demuxer improvements + * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes + * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3 + * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection + * fix a crash in malformed ape files + +Miscellaneous fixes in: + * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards + * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows + * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons + See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276 + * Configure and build system improvements + * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated + +Translations: + * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian, + Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew + * New icelandic translation + + +Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7: +-------------------------------- + +Linux port: + * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs + #234484 and #260719. + +Mac OS X port: + * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams + * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed + and stability reasons + +Demuxers: + * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability. + VideoLAN-SA-1102 + +Translations: + * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations + + +Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1: +---------------------------------- + +Source: + * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux + + +Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6: +--------------------------------- + +Audio output: + * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output + PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22. + Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE) + and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin. + +Access: + * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows + +Decoders: + * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working) + * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X + * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries + * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101 + +Demuxers: + * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007 + * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe + * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24) + +Subtitles and renderer: + * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles + * Mark more freetype options as safe + * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation + * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable, + discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522 + +Visualization: + * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales + * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows + * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now + * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X + +Interfaces: + * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes + * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements + +Miscellaneous fixes: + * KDE device solid actions + * XDG screensaver + * Transcode integer overflow + * HTTP Icy metadata reading + * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers + +Translations: + * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician, + Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch, + Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish + + +Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5: +---------------------------------- + +Security: + * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives, + VideoLAN-SA-1006 + +Access: + * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL + +Services Discovery: + * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com + +Demuxers: + * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API + * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues + * Playback of live http .Webm streams + * Taglib thread-safety fix + +Decoders: + * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from + "Puget Systems" + +Skins: + * Add an icon to VLC on Linux + +Video Output: + * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB + +Interfaces: + * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration + * fixes on luatelnet and luarc + +Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and + TS-mux, Qt) + +libLVC: + * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64) + * Miscellaneous fixes + +Translations: + * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch, + Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician, + French and Ukrainian + * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek + * New Asturian translation + + +Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1: +---------------------------------- + +Mac OS X: + * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible + by 16 + * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider + +Demuxer: + * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams + +Qt interface: + * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files + * Various fixes for Windows + +Translations: + * New Armenian translation + * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk, + Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon + + +Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4: +-------------------------------- + +Win32: + * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules, + See VideoLAN-SA-1005 + * Fix folders opening from the interface + +Translations: + * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian + Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician + + +Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3: +-------------------------------- + +Access and demuxers: + * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support + * fix for podcasts parsing + * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks + +Taglib: + * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab, + CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004 + +Playlist: + * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played + * fix m3u playlists exports + +Skins2: + * fix video autoresize behaviour + +Translations: + * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali + +Windows and Mac: + * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed + +Mac: + * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates + +BSD: + * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc + + +Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2: +-------------------------------- + +Demuxers: + * Avformat fps displaying fix + * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too) + +Audio filters: + * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback + of mono streams, especially on Windows + +Windows: + * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video + playback with overlay (YUV->RGB) + * fix console output encoding + +Interface and extensions: + * Youtube and other scripts updates + * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface + + +Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1: +-------------------------------- + +libVLC: + * New capabilities for libVLC: + * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable, + libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue, + libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma + * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas + libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it. + * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some + protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and + the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters. + * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing + video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the + ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions. + See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example. + * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay + between audio and video/subpictures for the current input. + * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were + called early + +Decoders/Demuxers: + * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards + You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7 + * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T + * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules + * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds + +Stream output: + * Fix h264 streaming in ts + +Interfaces: + * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour + * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders + * Http: fix fullscreen toggle + +Linux: + * Fix pulse closing + * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection + +MacOS: + * Multiple interface and crash fixes + * Deinterlace selection is repaired + * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes + +Windows: + * Activation of DEP on XP SP3 + * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists + * Fix crash when My Document isn't available + * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video + +Translations: + * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer, + Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician + + +Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0: +-------------------------------- + +Important changes for users: + * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output. + Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead. + +Important changes for packagers: + * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be + generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the + later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script + by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc + can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to + launch each time. + * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses + - xproto, + - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb), + - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils), + - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support. + * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically + required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback. + +Access: + * Support for the sftp protocol + * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port + * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory + * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp:// + * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB + * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0 + +Decoders: + * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7 + * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux + * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP + + * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray + * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment + * Invmem module improvements + * Support for Atrac1 audio codec + * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs + * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA + * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec + * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port + * Support for Indeo5 video codec + * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support) + * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module + * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec + * Support for VP8 codec + * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio + +Demuxers: + * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format + * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet) + * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams + * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files + * Various EGP improvements + * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files + * Metadata and cover art improvements + +Playlist: + * WPL and 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 + +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, glx 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 + * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for + Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin) + Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one) + MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html) + Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX) + +Extensions: + * New content extensions lua framework + +Audio filters: + * Chorus/Flanger audio filter + * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter + * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited + resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF + and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API + * NEON assembly audio converter module + * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input + +Service discovery: + * Service discoveries can now be written in lua + * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories + * Service discovery based on libudev + * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed + +Encoders: + * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings + * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe 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 + * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported + +Stream output: + * New smem module, streaming to memory + * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like: + --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}" + +Interfaces: + * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet + and oldhttp. + * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system. + * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist + +Visualization: + * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries + +Mac OS X Port: + * Vastly improved VLCKit framework + * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface + * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework + by Andy Matuschak et al. + * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer + * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit) + * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote + +Windows port: + * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar + * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module + +Maemo port: + * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency + * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900 + * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface + +Misc: + * new sqlite module + * --save-config command line option not supported anymore. + * Fixed and reenabled netsync module. + * Improved Solaris port + +Bindings: + * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp + * phonon-VLC backend is now usable + +Removed modules: + * csri codec: use the libass module instead. + * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead. + * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X + * transrate: broken since too long + * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead. + * HAL: Use libudev instead. + * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces + * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces + * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces + * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one. + * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead. + * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead. + * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead. + * cddax: use cdda instead. + * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs. + * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec + * access_file removed in favor of filesystem + * RTMP input and output: use avio module + + +Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6: +-------------------------------- + +Access: + * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path + +Decoders/Packetizers: + * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support + +Demuxers: + * Update LUA script for Youtube pages + * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files + * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives + * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin + * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist + +X11 port: + * Partial Xlib threading fixes + More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update! + +Interfaces: + * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks + * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist + +Translations: + * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish + and Walloon translations updated + * Sinhala translation started + +Removed modules: + * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update + to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed. + + +Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5: +-------------------------------- + +Decoders: + * SubRip extra styles improvements + * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote + +Windows port: + * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly + increase performance and fix x264 issues + +Translations: + * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali, + Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish + Russian, Slovak translation updates + * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations + + +Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4: +-------------------------------- + +Audio outputs: + * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core + * Make PulseAudio the default output if available + +Video outputs: + * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers + * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing + +Input: + * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3 + * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm) + +Playlist: + * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U) + +Unix: + * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher + * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD + +Qt4 interface: + * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices + * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard + +Translations: + * New Walloon translation + * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates + + +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 + +Translations: + * New Kazakh and Croatian translations + * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows + * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian, + Arabic and French translation updates + + +Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1: +-------------------------------- + +Demuxers: + * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop + * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format + * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326 + * Fix Dailymotion access script + * Fix crashes in xspf files handler + * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version + +Access: + * Add extra caching for files on network shares + * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria + +Decoders: + * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files + * Improve SSA subtitles rendering + * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version + +Muxers: + * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio + +Qt Interface: + * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller + * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys + * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding + * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window + * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips + * More reliable Information and Messages panels + * Fix various crashes + +Windows port: + * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support + +Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian + + +Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0: +--------------------------------- Important notes: ---------------- * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses. See 'Access:' for more info. + * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations Playback: * Instantaneous pausing @@ -23,7 +835,7 @@ Decoders: * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder - * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded + * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering @@ -33,7 +845,8 @@ Demuxers: * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD * Metadata for mod files are supported * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported - * A new rawaud demuxer supports raw PCM streams + * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams + * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams Encoders: * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS) @@ -48,7 +861,9 @@ Access: OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed. * DVB scanning on linux * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support - * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file) + * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form + zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of + zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore) * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://' * MTP device access on Unix * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio) @@ -57,7 +872,7 @@ Access: Inputs: * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on - Windows. + Windows and Mac OS X. Playlist: * Export the playlist in HTML @@ -75,13 +890,13 @@ Linux/Windows interface: - Improvements on many dialogs - New dialog for plugins listing - Fixed-size mode for videos - - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control + - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control * Better integration in GTK environments Mac OS X Interface: * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium) * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items. - * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu + * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu * Additional usability improvements Stream output: @@ -100,8 +915,10 @@ Windows CE Port: EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done. Mac OS X Port: - * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations + * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc + * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler + * Support for latest iSight models Audio output: * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins @@ -116,9 +933,50 @@ Video output: * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead. -Miscellanous: +Miscellaneous: * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications +New Localization: + * Khmer + * Mongolian + * Sorani + + +Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10: +-------------------------------------- + +HTTP Interface: + * Fixed default ACL + +Mac OS X: + * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups + * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences + * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed + * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models + * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio + * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window + * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi + +Various fixes to the following modules: + * access: + - HTTP, SMB + - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...) + - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, + DZCORE Labs, Algeria + * stream out: + - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge + * decoder: + - TSCC + + +Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a: +--------------------------------- + +Mac OS X: + * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port + * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs + + Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9: --------------------------------- @@ -150,6 +1008,7 @@ Various bugfixes: * Telnet fixes on Windows * Resampling fixes when transcoding + Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a: --------------------------------- @@ -485,7 +1344,7 @@ Interfaces: if libncursesw is available. * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do) * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and - share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info. + share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info. * Unix * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface. * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS