X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4aae670d0b5c3dc19a1ad1f2281d6652b5377c6b;hb=6b53f6b72aec497a21772a1d93bec4bc66390270;hp=f31461cb30f20754273cdfee3390c6ae3b907cf9;hpb=d43cc653337e3c9e60f3f6b62baa6da1869ae2cf;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f31461cb30..4aae670d0b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,26 +1,31 @@ -Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.1.0-git: +Changes between 1.0.5 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 + * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0 - * New memory input module to feed VLC from data in memory + * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory + * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams Decoders: - * Support for Atrac1 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray * Invmem module improvements + * Support for Atrac1 codec * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities + * 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 + * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA 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) - * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) files + * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files * Various EGP improvements + * Support for embedded subtitles in .avi ODML files Playlist: * WPL playlist support @@ -29,6 +34,18 @@ Playlist: * 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 + +Extensions: + * new content extensions lua framework + * imdb extension + Audio filters: * Chorus/Flanger audio filter * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter @@ -36,6 +53,13 @@ Audio filters: linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and * NEON assembly audio converter module +Visualisation: + * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries + +Service discovery: + * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories + * Service discovery based on libudev + Encoders: * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example @@ -44,42 +68,94 @@ Encoders: 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 + * 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. Mac OS X Interface: * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008) +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 + 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 +Misc: + * new sqlite module + * --save-config command line option not supported anymore. + +Bindings: + * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp + Removed modules: - * csri - * galaktos - * showintf + * csri codec. Use libass module instead. + * galaktos. Use new projectM module instead. + * showintf. Useless in qt and mac os X * transrate - * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo (use XCB instead) - * HAL (use libudev instead) + * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use 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 * 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 + * cddax. Use cdda instead + * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs. + * realaudio codecs is remove in favour of avcodec + + +Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 (not yet released): +--------------------------------------------------- +Mac OS X Interface: + * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote + + +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: @@ -167,6 +243,12 @@ Playlist: 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: -------------------------------- @@ -209,7 +291,7 @@ Windows port: Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian -Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0: +Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0: --------------------------------- Important notes: @@ -315,6 +397,7 @@ Windows CE Port: EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done. Mac OS X Port: + * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler * Support for latest iSight models @@ -336,7 +419,37 @@ 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: --------------------------------- @@ -377,6 +490,7 @@ Various bugfixes: * Telnet fixes on Windows * Resampling fixes when transcoding + Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a: ---------------------------------