X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=970794106ed2239ecb11b6d568a9b50673a46e08;hb=4c9e1a93079d23a38d57770b94b9b8c50858ca0e;hp=a9532b5b2f1bf7b2930971a77df7953a783aeea8;hpb=423241d4d7bc44854605a15dfa6b18cf9f697c5e;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a9532b5b2f..970794106e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git: ------------------------------------ Important notes: + * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix + conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD + from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd + title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized: - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1". By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used. @@ -60,17 +64,25 @@ Codecs: * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl) * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding - * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP + * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger + The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one + * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story + * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec + * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits + * EIA-608 closed captions improvements + * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries + * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android Demuxers: * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm - * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2 - * Ogg seeking improvements + * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl) * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files + * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements + * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling Interfaces: * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes @@ -80,16 +92,19 @@ Interfaces: * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support and important cleanups and optimisations * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface + * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion + * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML + * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri Video Output: * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update) @@ -101,7 +116,8 @@ Video Output: chroma conversion * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output - * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which requires a Quartz Extreme capable Mac + * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which now requires a + Quartz Extreme capable machine Audio Output: * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS @@ -123,6 +139,8 @@ Video Filter: * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting blackbox and customizable shadow + - The freetype module is used by default on the Mac now in favor of + quartztext, which can still be enabled manually Audio Filter: * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor @@ -143,8 +161,9 @@ Stream output: * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std... * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track - #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio} - #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...} + #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio} + #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...} + * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming Services Discovery: * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces @@ -155,7 +174,8 @@ libVLC: ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the list of available audio and video filters - ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks + ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, + libvlc_audio_set_callbacks allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time. Removed modules: @@ -169,6 +189,30 @@ Removed modules: * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp * removal of the noise filter * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs + * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be + removed in Growl's next release, too. + * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one + + +Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12: +---------------------------------- + +Audio outputs: + * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF) + including support for OS X Lion + * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support + * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0 + +Unix port: + * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 + +Misc: + * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X + * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler + * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface) + +Translations: + * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11: