X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9018683918905b48a283b8327d3a0b5f6a98f25a;hb=6ee1e193fd896ab9a4729fde14f009d9ce629815;hp=2960c96dfd79b1ed3ab2d435ae3cd67c1a6a35dd;hpb=6243c3942475a9bc25caa0598443e18390708986;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2960c96dfd..9018683918 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,33 +1,193 @@ $Id$ -Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet) +Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet): ------------------------------------------------------- +Important notes: +---------------- + * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default. + If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to + edit the ".hosts" file. + - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts + If you're using the old http interface, it's located in + /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts + - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and + C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts + - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts + and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts + * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This + interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6: + - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced + by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these + features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6 + - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a + later point + * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default. + * 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: @test marq-marquee Goodbye + These new commands are also available in the telnet interface. + +Changes: +-------- + Playlist: * Vastly improved playlist support: * Media library support * "Live search" * Shoutcast TV listings - * Audioscrobbler / last.fm support + * 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 + * 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 + * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support + * Raw video support Decoders: - * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs) - * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support + * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support + * MKV USF subtitles support + * 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 sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels) + * 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 + * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters + * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters + +Audio output and filters + * Replay gain support. + * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ). + * New spatializer audio filter. -Video output: - * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splited into Wave, Ripple, Gradient - and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed +Stream output: + * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation Interfaces: * Windows/Linux * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit - * OS X - * Support for Apple Remote control - * Right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs * All * Improved user interaction + * Improved mouse gestures + * Unix + * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface. + * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS + (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control + interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when + finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces . + * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal + +Linux Port: + * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6 + http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html + (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore) + +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 0.8.5 and 0.8.6 +Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b: +---------------------------------- + +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 + +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: +--------------------------------- + +CDDA / VCDX plugins: + * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701) + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Fullscreen controller improvements + + +Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6: -------------------------------- Playlist: @@ -37,32 +197,66 @@ Input: * Support for RTSP authentication * Support for adding subtitles on the fly * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation - * ATSC support for DVB + * ATSC support for DVB input + * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings + * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat + * Improved support for Flash Video files Decoders: - * Native WMV3 / VC-1 support + * Native WMV9/VC-1 support * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs) - + * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61) + * The True Audio Lossless codec support + * Matroska WavPack support + * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF) + * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures + * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles + Video output: * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...) + * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :) * Improved libcaca support Interfaces: - * New hotkeys for crop and zoom - * Systray support in skins (Windows only) - * Support for Apple Remote control - * Notifications using notification-daemon on Linux - * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface + * All + * New hotkeys for crop and zoom + * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface + * Windows + * Systray support in skins + * OS X + * Support for Apple Remote control + * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen) + * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen) + * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs + * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode + * Linux + * Notifications using notification-daemon + +Windows port: + * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above) + Windows 9x/ME users: + - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported + - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the + Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location: + http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx + Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder + C:\Windows\System + * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side + * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output) Localization: * Add Czech + * Add Slovak + * Add Malay + * Add Slovenian Developers: * Updates to the libvlc API + * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5 ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...) @@ -144,6 +338,7 @@ Developers: * Java bindings * A bit more automatic testing + Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a: --------------------------------- @@ -168,6 +363,7 @@ 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: -------------------------------- @@ -250,6 +446,7 @@ Translations: The following languages were re-added: * Swedish + Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2: -------------------------------- @@ -384,7 +581,7 @@ Translations: Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: ------------------------------------------------------ +-------------------------------- Core support: * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available) @@ -415,8 +612,9 @@ 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 @@ -539,6 +737,7 @@ Misc: * Cisco IP/TV streams supported * VLM enhancements + Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: -------------------------------- @@ -629,6 +828,7 @@ Misc: * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin. * Roku HD1000 audio output. + Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a: --------------------------------- @@ -638,7 +838,7 @@ 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. @@ -681,8 +881,9 @@ 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. @@ -793,8 +994,9 @@ 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. @@ -825,8 +1027,9 @@ 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. @@ -852,8 +1055,9 @@ 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. @@ -901,7 +1105,7 @@ Miscellaneous: Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core Support: * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated) @@ -978,8 +1182,9 @@ 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