X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=855741a76fe6cb46c06280ea1df11fb9c7ab367a;hb=d8b4df3cd6a51e7f2c17ef5dd5c86efd928e8be2;hp=1bd7efb441f1a119d9818abd9496b6330888fda2;hpb=78e9e0fb86bbb024097b5178f541a25bd0b9e55b;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1bd7efb441..855741a76f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,11 +4,16 @@ Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git: Important changes for packagers: * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually. + * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ 3rd party libraries (contrib): * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib -Codecs: +Core: + * Audio core rewrite + * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows + +Decoders: * Support for OPUS via libopus. * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec. * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec @@ -18,17 +23,21 @@ Codecs: * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec + * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles + * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux Encoders: * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264 Access: - * Screen: add support for OS X Lion, remove support for previous OS releases + * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later, + remove support for previous OS X releases * Major improvements in DASH support * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names - * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developped by Viotech.net + * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net + * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices Demuxers: * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4 @@ -40,12 +49,19 @@ Demuxers: * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras * Support for more MJPEG streams + * Add support for liveleak streams Audio output: * Windows Audio Session API audio output support * OpenBSD sndio audio output support - * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module + * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module * Android AudioTrack audio output support + * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts + * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4 + * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices + This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH + distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.). + * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X) Audio Filters: * new remapping channel filter @@ -53,7 +69,9 @@ Audio Filters: * new VSXu visualization plugin Video Outputs: + * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions + * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management Video Filters: @@ -66,19 +84,28 @@ Video Filters: Stream Output: * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI + * Options support for AVIO output module + * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist + * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist + * Livehttp stream encryption support Interfaces: * configurable password for the HTTP server. * .hosts removed from the HTTP server. - * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows. + * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows. * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows * Hotkey support for TS program selection + * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface -Mac OS X Port: +Services discovery: + * UPnP A/V subtitles + * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item + +OS X Port: * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now -Mac OS X Interface: +OS X Interface: * add support for multiple video outputs * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen controller @@ -103,6 +130,13 @@ Mac OS X Interface: * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time * add an option to play videos as a desktop background * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side + * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target + * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit + * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings + when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through + 3rd party applications + * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application + handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are deprecated now @@ -117,7 +151,10 @@ libVLC: * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname and libvlc_audio_output_device_id + * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks + * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the + media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated. Removed modules: * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead @@ -129,6 +166,56 @@ Removed modules: * Hildon GUI * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0) * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0) + * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin + + +Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5: +-------------------------------- + +Access: + * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection + +Audio Output: + * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio + (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist) + * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems + +Demuxers: + * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts + * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser + * Fix koreus lua parser + * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras + * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer + * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links + * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files. + +Video filters: + * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts + * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases + +Encoders: + * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization + +Mac OS X: + * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names + * Fix crash with local statistics disabled + * Fix Time counter UI look + * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5 + +Win32: + * Fix https streaming + +libVLC: + * Fix audio and video track selection: + The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously + incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks. + +Translations: + * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, + Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew, + Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese, + Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations + * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4: @@ -198,6 +285,7 @@ Translations: Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish, Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations + * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3: