X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=966108d7b70272dd320ee02d9e6acb8379a6365b;hb=fe23407aad8ab865001c80a86fd29f4ee0180409;hp=92cb3f6c948ceebc1621fd89d8a6196ad32054a3;hpb=264724a45dc475a23dadc6a3de56676c64aba4cb;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 92cb3f6c94..966108d7b7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,52 +1,168 @@ $Id$ -Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.7.3: --------------------------------- +Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2-svn: +----------------------------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Rewrite of the playlist + +BeOS port: + * Support for single-buffered overlay + +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 funtionality - * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems + * 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 - * Fix crash with deinterlace switching * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item - * Daemon mode + * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background) + * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem -Demux: - * Support iTunes Music Store previews +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: - * text track muxing for mp4 - * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS - * H.263 RTP streaming support + 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: - * added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface - * added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface * OSD sliders for volume and postition information * OSD icons for Play and Pause - * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces + * 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. + * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality + * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc. Misc: - * Roku HD1000 Video output - * Experimental network synchronization module - * Experimental SVG rendering module + * Server/client network synchronization module * VBrick streams fully supported - * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported * Cisco IP/TV streams supported + * VLM enhancements Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: --------------------------------