X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=97f1388a4447957b8e573f17121f8fde13841e3b;hb=554f76adfa055ffac630de9d06bb7caae6c4c146;hp=2a5ddb48939e997cf49da73c72e12aafe68af1f4;hpb=4e3ae10688ba6d02248877ccb346773dba26cb07;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2a5ddb4893..97f1388a44 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,32 @@ 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 + * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options: + - --file-caching specifies caching for local files, + - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources, + - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and + - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media. + All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions. + * 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. + - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers. + By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS. + - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate), + --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and + --http-crl (optional CRL). + * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly. + Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively. + * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast + output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0. + * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later. + Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported. + Important changes for packagers: * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is @@ -11,13 +37,10 @@ Important changes for packagers: * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation. - * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later. - Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported. * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git - Core: * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite: Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs @@ -37,6 +60,7 @@ Access: * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently) * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux) + * PulseAudio audio input support * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control @@ -48,29 +72,50 @@ Codecs: * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV * 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 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 + * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts) Interfaces: - * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes * Qt: effects dialogs rework * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist * Qt: port to MacOS X platform + * Qt: small look improvements + * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes * 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 Windows * 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 + * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete 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) @@ -81,12 +126,17 @@ Video Output: * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for 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, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine -Audio Output: +Audio Output and Filters: * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS * New audio output in memory (amem) * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android + * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate) + * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor + * New simplistic Karaoke filter Video Filter: * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering @@ -99,9 +149,10 @@ Video Filter: * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay * New anti-flickering filter * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing - -Audio Filter: - * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor + * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting + blackbox and customizable shadow + NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of + the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually. Stream output: * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output @@ -119,8 +170,9 @@ 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 @@ -131,7 +183,8 @@ 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: @@ -143,6 +196,71 @@ Removed modules: * upnp: use upnp_intel * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI * 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: +---------------------------------- + +Security: + * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587) + and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588). + +Mac OS X: + * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted + * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API + * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface + * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB + * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling + +Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin: + * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32 + * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32 + +Demuxers/Meta Readers: + * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma + +Muxers/Output: + * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players + +Extensions: + * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues + +Qt Interface: + * Fix quitting on Linux + * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows + * Miscellaneous + +Win32 port: + * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash + +Translations: + * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10: @@ -876,7 +994,8 @@ Demuxers: Access: * Add extra caching for files on network shares - * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria + * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, + DZCORE Labs, Algeria Decoders: * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files @@ -901,7 +1020,8 @@ Mac OS X Interface: Windows port: * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support -Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian +Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, +Lithuanian Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0: @@ -2625,7 +2745,8 @@ Core Support: * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated) Input access: - * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams. + * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms + (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams. * Fixed large file support on Windows * Video 4 Linux support * CD Digital Audio support @@ -2651,7 +2772,8 @@ Interfaces: * New HTTP remote control interface Stream output: - * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time. + * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs + allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time. * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly. * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content. * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)