X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=710c844c3555b7307d711cffb195eae16e1a3466;hb=14ec07cd2d74eac4cb658db97bf127ba77e141e1;hp=d25d36ec07d220799367283af16252bd2d9ceb65;hpb=066564714d0fe322f81b3f250b3efa52612f102a;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d25d36ec07..710c844c35 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,166 @@ $Id$ +Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2-svn: +----------------------------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Rewrite of the playlist + +Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: +----------------------------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available) + * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface) + +Windows port: + * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0) + * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input + * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen + +WinCE port: + * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output). + +Audio Output: + * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements + +Video Output: + * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available + +Demuxers: + * Fixed crash with ODML avi files + * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files + +Stream Output: + * Encoders: + * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module + * 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 + * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...) + * New plugins cache to speed up launch time + * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item + * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background) + * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem + +Input: + * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X + (Stream your desktop) + * Improved DVD support: + - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support + - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming) + * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it ) + * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams + * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access + (selection of titles/chapters). + +Demuxers: + * Support for iTunes Music Store previews + * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams) + * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support + * Windows Media Server RTSP support + * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets) + * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) + * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface) + * Improved Ogg demuxer + * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video. + * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams + +Codecs: + * G.726 audio support + * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support + * MPEG-4 text support + * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743) + * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering + * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska + +Stream Output: + Encoders: + * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on, + everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well + * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder + * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output) + * Frame rate selection in the transcoder + * DVB subtitles encoder + * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame + * Improved vorbis/theora encoding + Muxers: + * Text track muxing for mp4 + * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser + * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS + * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) + * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS. + * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio) + * Improved ASF muxer + Misc: + * H.263 RTP streaming support + * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now + * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental) + +Audio Output: + * New audio equalizer filter + * Very trivial volume normalizer + * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo + * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect + * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19 + +Video Output: + * Roku HD1000 Video output + * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X) + with support for effects. + * Improved filter and subpictures support : + - New filters can be streamed. + - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video + - Centralized scaling and blending + * New filters : + - "time", to display current time + - "marq", to display a marquee + +Interfaces: + * OSD sliders for volume and postition information + * OSD icons for Play and Pause + * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows) + * A few skins2 improvements + * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface + * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface + * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets + * Improved CORBA control module + +Mac OS X port: + * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem + * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output + * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video + +Linux port: + * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible) + * Experimental SVG rendering module + * Support for DVB CAM modules. + +Windows port: + * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3) + * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder + * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak + * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering + * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode) + +WinCE port: + * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output). + +Mozilla plugin: + * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality + * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc. + +Misc: + * Server/client network synchronization module + * VBrick streams fully supported + * Cisco IP/TV streams supported + * VLM enhancements + Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: -------------------------------- @@ -16,6 +177,7 @@ Codecs: * 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 @@ -25,10 +187,13 @@ Input: * 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. + * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream + (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television) 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. @@ -55,29 +220,35 @@ VideoLAN manager: * HTTP interface for vlm. Interfaces: - * Skins II + * Skins II (Windows and Linux only) - Ability to embed video output. - Support for bitmap fonts. - Lots of improvements. - * wxWindows + * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface) - New design and set of icons. - Ability to embed video output. + - Support for hotkeys. + - Support for bookmarks. * 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. + * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a). + * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device. + * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested). Win32 port: * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices. * Disable monitor power down when watching movies. + * Improved Windows installer. Linux port: * PowerPC fixes. Misc: - * Improvements to the GOOM visualisation plugin. + * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin. * Roku HD1000 audio output. Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a: