X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4743c124213e58376d9d55c9871bfb318e2fef76;hb=ac1c121e0057e3353ec079ce6b7f6749d3a1032b;hp=c41d4e1068cb64babbb2d24ab41557d8d7340fad;hpb=093bcba4f29c91f96e8e45534d0f447120756dcb;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c41d4e1068..4743c12421 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ Important changes for packagers: 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 + * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed. * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation. + * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later. + Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported. * 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 @@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ Important changes for packagers: Core: * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite: Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs - x11 (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs. + x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs. * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source @@ -45,13 +47,16 @@ 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 + * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl) + * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding Demuxers: - * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm - * Ogg seeking improvements + * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2 + * Ogg seeking improvements + * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files + * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing + * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl) Interfaces: * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes @@ -66,6 +71,7 @@ Interfaces: * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org + * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery Video Output: * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update) @@ -75,10 +81,14 @@ Video Output: * Various vmem improvements * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for chroma conversion + * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface + * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output Audio Output: * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS * New audio output in memory (amem) + * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output + * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android Video Filter: * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering @@ -90,6 +100,9 @@ Video Filter: * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay * New anti-flickering filter + * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing + * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting + blackbox and customizable shadow Audio Filter: * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor @@ -134,6 +147,41 @@ Removed modules: * upnp: use upnp_intel * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp + * remove of the noise filter + + +Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10: +--------------------------------- + +Windows and Mac OS X: + * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB + * Fix for various crashes and small issues + +Demuxer: + * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser + +Audio output: + * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one + +Win32 port: + * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module + +Miscellaneous fixes in: + * Windows 7 taskbar buttons + * Qt interface + * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer + * RTP output and XML export + * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows + * v4l2 access + +Translations: + * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda, + Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish, + Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations + * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9: