X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9b9e86064aaa621a0ba1f61f20f3b11e92a0f9f9;hb=1b76f4d5b6e247ebc1f3f1786c99eef1f0510c73;hp=0debf914ae71819ff1e512bb25b2660eaed0a8b3;hpb=0cf16ba2e69629a45df43aa7bda5fd870de2d027;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 0debf914ae..9b9e86064a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,19 +1,414 @@ -Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-test: +Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.2.0-git: ------------------------------------ + +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 + not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. + Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions. + * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment + variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed. + * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz + + * 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 + +Access + * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files + * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices + * DVB-S scanning support + * DVB-C scanning scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed + * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection + * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders + * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray + * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support + * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently) + * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux) + * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format + in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now + +Codecs + * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc + * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV + * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards + * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger + The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one + +Core: + * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore + * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites + * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded + +Demuxers: + * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib) + * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm + * Ogg seeking improvements + * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2 + +Interfaces + * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one + * 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 + * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support + and important cleanups and optimisations + * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface + +Video Output: + * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update) + * New video output for iOS platform + * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL + * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1 + * Various vmem improvements + +Video Filter: + * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering + * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality + * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors + * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels + * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos + +Audio Output: + * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS + +Audio Filter: + * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor + +Stream output: + * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output + example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3, + venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{ + access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8, + index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames}, + dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}" + * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora + * Major rework of VoD support + * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming: + #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard... + * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming: + #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std... + * 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{...} + +Services Discovery: + * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces + +libVLC: + * New capabilities for 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 + +Removed modules: + * asademux: use libass only + * fake: use the new image demuxers + * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules + * id3tag: use taglib + * upnp: use upnp_intel + + +Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7: +-------------------------------- + +Linux port: + * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs + #234484 and #260719. + +Mac OS X port: + * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams + * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed + and stability reasons + +Demuxers: + * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability. + VideoLAN-SA-1102 + +Translations: + * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations + + +Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1: +---------------------------------- + +Source: + * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux + + +Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6: +--------------------------------- + +Audio output: + * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output + PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22. + Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE) + and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin. + +Access: + * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows + +Decoders: + * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working) + * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X + * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries + * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101 + +Demuxers: + * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007 + * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe + * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24) + +Subtitles and renderer: + * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles + * Mark more freetype options as safe + * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation + * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable, + discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522 + +Visualization: + * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales + * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows + * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now + * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X + +Interfaces: + * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes + * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements + +Miscellaneous fixes: + * KDE device solid actions + * XDG screensaver + * Transcode integer overflow + * HTTP Icy metadata reading + * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers + +Translations: + * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician, + Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch, + Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish + + +Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5: +---------------------------------- + +Security: + * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives, + VideoLAN-SA-1006 + +Access: + * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL + +Services Discovery: + * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com + +Demuxers: + * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API + * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues + * Playback of live http .Webm streams + * Taglib thread-safety fix + +Decoders: + * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from + "Puget Systems" + +Skins: + * Add an icon to VLC on Linux + +Video Output: + * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB + +Interfaces: + * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration + * fixes on luatelnet and luarc + +Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and + TS-mux, Qt) + +libLVC: + * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64) + * Miscellaneous fixes + +Translations: + * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch, + Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician, + French and Ukrainian + * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek + * New Asturian translation + + +Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1: +---------------------------------- + +Mac OS X: + * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible + by 16 + * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider + +Demuxer: + * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams + +Qt interface: + * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files + * Various fixes for Windows + +Translations: + * New Armenian translation + * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk, + Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon + + +Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4: +-------------------------------- + +Win32: + * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules, + See VideoLAN-SA-1005 + * Fix folders opening from the interface + +Translations: + * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian + Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician + + +Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3: +-------------------------------- + +Access and demuxers: + * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support + * fix for podcasts parsing + * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks + +Taglib: + * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab, + CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004 + +Playlist: + * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played + * fix m3u playlists exports + +Skins2: + * fix video autoresize behaviour + +Translations: + * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali + +Windows and Mac: + * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed + +Mac: + * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates + +BSD: + * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc + + +Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2: +-------------------------------- + +Demuxers: + * Avformat fps displaying fix + * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too) + +Audio filters: + * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback + of mono streams, especially on Windows + +Windows: + * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video + playback with overlay (YUV->RGB) + * fix console output encoding + +Interface and extensions: + * Youtube and other scripts updates + * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface + + +Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1: +-------------------------------- + +libVLC: + * New capabilities for libVLC: + * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable, + libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue, + libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma + * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas + libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it. + * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some + protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and + the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters. + * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing + video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the + ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions. + See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example. + * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay + between audio and video/subpictures for the current input. + * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were + called early + +Decoders/Demuxers: + * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards + You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7 + * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T + * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules + * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds + +Stream output: + * Fix h264 streaming in ts + +Interfaces: + * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour + * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders + * Http: fix fullscreen toggle + +Linux: + * Fix pulse closing + * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection + +MacOS: + * Multiple interface and crash fixes + * Deinterlace selection is repaired + * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes + +Windows: + * Activation of DEP on XP SP3 + * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists + * Fix crash when My Document isn't available + * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video + +Translations: + * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer, + Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician + + +Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0: +-------------------------------- + Important changes for users: + * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output. + Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead. Important changes for packagers: * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be - generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the + generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to launch each time. + * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses + - xproto, + - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb), + - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils), + - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support. + * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically + required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback. Access: * Support for the sftp protocol * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port - * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory + * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp:// * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0 @@ -21,31 +416,34 @@ Access: Decoders: * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux - * Audio/Video decoder using OpenMAX IL components + * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP - * Support for HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray + * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment * Invmem module improvements * Support for Atrac1 audio codec - * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities - * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA - * Support for Indeo5 video codec - * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms + * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs + * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA + * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port + * Support for Indeo5 video codec * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support) - * Direct rendering is always used with H.264 in avcodec module + * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module + * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec + * Support for VP8 codec + * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio Demuxers: - * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) - (Full disc support is NOT present yet) + * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format + * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet) * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files * Various EGP improvements * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files + * Metadata and cover art improvements Playlist: - * WPL playlist support - * ZPL playlist support + * WPL and ZPL playlist support * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image * Podcast images are now displayed @@ -65,7 +463,6 @@ Video Output: Extensions: * New content extensions lua framework - * IMDb extension Audio filters: * Chorus/Flanger audio filter @@ -76,14 +473,11 @@ Audio filters: * NEON assembly audio converter module * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input -Visualization: - * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries - Service discovery: * Service discoveries can now be written in lua * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories * Service discovery based on libudev - * Shoutcast Service discovery is now removed + * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed Encoders: * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings @@ -92,6 +486,7 @@ Encoders: * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required + * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported Stream output: * New smem module, streaming to memory @@ -102,6 +497,10 @@ Interfaces: * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet and oldhttp. * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system. + * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist + +Visualization: + * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries Mac OS X Port: * Vastly improved VLCKit framework @@ -110,6 +509,7 @@ Mac OS X Port: by Andy Matuschak et al. * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit) + * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote Windows port: * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar @@ -118,35 +518,71 @@ Windows port: Maemo port: * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900 - * Improvements to the maemo interface + * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface Misc: * new sqlite module * --save-config command line option not supported anymore. * Fixed and reenabled netsync module. + * Improved Solaris port Bindings: * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp + * phonon-VLC backend is now usable Removed modules: - * csri codec. Use the libass module instead. - * galaktos. Use the new projectM module instead. - * showintf. Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X - * transrate - * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use the new XCB modules instead. - * HAL. Use libudev instead. + * csri codec: use the libass module instead. + * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead. + * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X + * transrate: broken since too long + * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead. + * HAL: Use libudev instead. * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces - * opie, qte and qte_main - * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one. - * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead. - * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead. - * opengllayer. Use macosx_video instead. - * cddax. Use cdda instead. + * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces + * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one. + * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead. + * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead. + * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead. + * cddax: use cdda instead. * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs. - * realaudio codecs are removed in favor of libavcodec + * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec * access_file removed in favor of filesystem - * RTMP input and output + * RTMP input and output: use avio module + + +Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6: +-------------------------------- + +Access: + * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path + +Decoders/Packetizers: + * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support + +Demuxers: + * Update LUA script for Youtube pages + * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files + * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives + * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin + * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist + +X11 port: + * Partial Xlib threading fixes + More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update! + +Interfaces: + * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks + * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist + +Translations: + * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish + and Walloon translations updated + * Sinhala translation started + +Removed modules: + * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update + to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed. Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5: