X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=940c854cd5acf471f8ba21033ea054043a059ee4;hb=37173af1147160774a9a5687d4dc2c11911f5042;hp=0910ed07533351a2126e5551acce5cae2d5e1e20;hpb=dcc4cf2f726510a85cd35bbb6248ea205ecf68e6;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0910ed0753..940c854cd5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,109 @@ -$Id: NEWS,v 1.83 2004/02/10 17:36:45 gbazin Exp $ +$Id$ + +Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: +-------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias. + * Support for video output embedded in interfaces. + * Improved HTTP daemon. + * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options. + +Codecs: + * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec. + (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html) + * New H.261 video decoder using openmash. + * 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 + file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few + fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 ) + * Improved directory access module. + * 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. + * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path. + * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys. + +Stream output: + * Improved session announcement system. + * Minimize threads usage by default. + * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output. + * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer. + * Improved MPEG TS muxer. + * Improved transrater. + * Meta info options used by the muxers. + * New configuration system. + * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding. + +VideoLAN manager: + * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch + and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC. + * Supports live streams and VoD. + * Supports scheduling. + * Telnet interface for vlm. + * HTTP interface for vlm. + +Interfaces: + * Skins II (Windows and Linux only) + - Ability to embed video output. + - Support for bitmap fonts. + - Lots of improvements. + * 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 FLAC encoder. + * 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. + * Roku HD1000 audio output. + +Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a: +--------------------------------- + +Mac OS X: + * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug + * Playing MOD files is working now. + + Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1: --------------------------------- Core support: * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times. - * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP + * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux. Codecs: * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts @@ -23,13 +122,15 @@ Input: small and strange formats. * New PVA demux. * New MOD audio demux. - * Support for DTS wav files. - * Support for DTS audio CD. + * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files. + * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD. * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav). + * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer. Stream output: * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...). * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer. + * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...). Service discovery: * Fixed sdp in SAP. @@ -39,6 +140,7 @@ Mac OS X port: Win32 port: * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin. + * Fixed ipv6 name resolution. Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0: ---------------------------------