X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=940c854cd5acf471f8ba21033ea054043a059ee4;hb=81333241d6421f53c968e0cd02ea4c1cb262505c;hp=e405bfafaf1baa3a812b24098403eb137a1e2add;hpb=11aaa3f7ef4fb312bb08438f42e9e998b185738e;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e405bfafaf..940c854cd5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,146 @@ -$Id: NEWS,v 1.76 2003/11/23 16:02:56 zorglub 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 and Linux. + +Codecs: + * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts + (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html) + * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output + * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles + +Playlist: + * Internal improvments + * Improved import/export + +Input: + * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm) + container formars. + * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many + small and strange formats. + * New PVA demux. + * New MOD audio demux. + * 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. + +Mac OS X port: + * New opengl video output plugin. + +Win32 port: + * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin. + * Fixed ipv6 name resolution. Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0: --------------------------------- @@ -10,7 +152,8 @@ Core support: * Video outputs are recycled if possible. This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files. * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters. - * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more. + * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for + subtitle files at the core, and much much more. Playlist: * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over. @@ -26,13 +169,14 @@ Input: * Reworked DVB tuning. * Better Icecast support. * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer. + * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer. Codecs: * Support for Theora video encoding. * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding. * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support. * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs). - * Support for AAC + SBR. + * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering. * MPEG 2.5 audio support. * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio). @@ -57,6 +201,7 @@ Interface: - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons). - Improvements and help in preferences - New streaming wizard + - Revised Disc Open menu * HTTP - Improvements of the standard pages - Support for new commands @@ -86,12 +231,14 @@ Mac OS X port: * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental). Win32 port: - * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams...). + * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...). * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service. * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface. * Support for 3F2R in audio output. * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC. * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental). + * Multimonitor support (untested). + * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems. Linux port: * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.