X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4963748ec714836bea0c333a6c302ebe8dcc33f4;hb=a594eb836f1c4afccad74621fa4429a3dd69697b;hp=c213b034120a4fcf17535ff6a9e71b645c28356e;hpb=5b3639fab0bb7163cfbcd3a5f1b41ecd8f077436;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c213b03412..4963748ec7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ Important notes: * 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: marq-marquue test Goodbye + You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye + These new commands are also available in the telnet interface. Changes: -------- @@ -31,24 +32,58 @@ Playlist: * "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 protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) 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 Decoders: - * VP60/VP61 codecs support - * Teletext subtitles (telx) support + * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support * MKV USF subtitles support - -Video output: - * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient - and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed + * HTML based subtitles support + * Flash Screen Video support + * CamStudio Screen Video support + * DosBox Capture support + * Karl Morton's Video support + * limited atrac3 support + * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...) + +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 extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a + video) * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels) - * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML tags + * 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 + +Audio output + * Replay gain support. + * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ) Stream output: * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation @@ -58,17 +93,73 @@ Interfaces: * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit * All * Improved user interaction + * Improved mouse gestures + * Unix + * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface (experimental). + * D-Bus Interface (experimental) implements the MPRIS + (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control + interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when + finished. + * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal + +Capture: + * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft + Windows + +Localisations: + * Persian + + +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: +---------------------------------- -Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6-bugfix (not yet released): ------------------------------------------------------------ -Various bugfixes notably: - * out-of-bound read in demuxers - * demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256) +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 -Mac OS X Interface: - * further usability improvements +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: @@ -149,9 +240,8 @@ Developers: * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins - Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5 ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...) @@ -233,6 +323,7 @@ Developers: * Java bindings * A bit more automatic testing + Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a: --------------------------------- @@ -257,6 +348,7 @@ 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: -------------------------------- @@ -339,6 +431,7 @@ Translations: The following languages were re-added: * Swedish + Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2: -------------------------------- @@ -473,7 +566,7 @@ Translations: Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: ------------------------------------------------------ +-------------------------------- Core support: * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available) @@ -504,8 +597,9 @@ 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 @@ -628,6 +722,7 @@ Misc: * Cisco IP/TV streams supported * VLM enhancements + Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: -------------------------------- @@ -718,6 +813,7 @@ Misc: * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin. * Roku HD1000 audio output. + Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a: --------------------------------- @@ -727,7 +823,7 @@ 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. @@ -770,8 +866,9 @@ 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. @@ -882,8 +979,9 @@ 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. @@ -914,8 +1012,9 @@ 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. @@ -941,8 +1040,9 @@ 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. @@ -990,7 +1090,7 @@ Miscellaneous: Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core Support: * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated) @@ -1067,8 +1167,9 @@ 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