X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9d1ec831bb3a490980063399f16bd7cc3b658ba0;hb=10ee356e2279fb0526b980927fe563a2cccea749;hp=a4aee382ab7724adf694db684fcaa1411238e3f2;hpb=63cc9e77e5fc6ac8fcbf485fb6ad95e663984461;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a4aee382ab..9d1ec831bb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,340 @@ $Id$ -Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2-svn: ------------------------------------------------------ +Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet): +------------------------------------------------------- + +Important notes: +---------------- + * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default. + If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to + edit the ".hosts" file. + XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX + * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This + interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6: + - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced + by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these + features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6 + - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a + later point + * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default. + +Changes: +-------- + +Playlist: + * Vastly improved playlist support: + * Media library support + * "Live search" + * Shoutcast TV listings + * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support + +Input/Demuxers: + * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP + * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP + +Decoders: + * VP60/VP61 codecs support + * Teletext subtitles (telx) support + +Video output: + * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient + and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed + * New puzzle video output filter + * Rewrite motion detection video filter + * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video) + * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels) + +Stream output: + * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation + +Interfaces: + * Windows/Linux + * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit + * All + * Improved user interaction + + +Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6-bugfix (not yet released): +----------------------------------------------------------- +Various bugfixes notably: + * out-of-bound read in demuxers + * demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256) + * Mac OS X Interface crashes + +Mac OS X Interface: + * further usability improvements + + +Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a: +--------------------------------- + +CDDA / VCDX plugins: + * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701) + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Fullscreen controller improvements + + +Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6: +-------------------------------- + +Playlist: + * Shoutcast TV listings support + +Input: + * Support for RTSP authentication + * Support for adding subtitles on the fly + * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation + * ATSC support for DVB input + * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings + * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat + * Improved support for Flash Video files + +Decoders: + * Native WMV9/VC-1 support + * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs) + * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61) + * The True Audio Lossless codec support + * Matroska WavPack support + * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF) + * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures + * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles + +Video output: + * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...) + * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :) + * Improved libcaca support + +Interfaces: + * All + * New hotkeys for crop and zoom + * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface + * Windows + * Systray support in skins + * OS X + * Support for Apple Remote control + * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen) + * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen) + * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs + * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode + * Linux + * Notifications using notification-daemon + +Windows port: + * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above) + Windows 9x/ME users: + - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported + - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the + Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location: + http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx + Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder + C:\Windows\System + * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side + * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output) + +Localization: + * Add Czech + * Add Slovak + * Add Malay + * Add Slovenian + +Developers: + * Updates to the libvlc API + * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins + + + +Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5 +--------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...) + * Support for downloading updates + * Updated strings + +Input: + * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal) + * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input + * Improvements to the Audio CD input + - Separate playlist entries for the tracks + - Support for CDDB + * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules + * Improved subtitles encoding support + * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web + +Decoders: + * Cook (Real audio) support + +Playlist / Services discovery: + * XSPF playlist support + * Podcast support + * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing + +Audio output: + * New JACK audio output + +Video output: + * New video filters: + - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image + - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect + - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one + * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images + * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds. + * Improvements to the subtitles rendering + +Stream output: + * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams + +Interfaces: + * System to inform the user and request information + - HTTP authentication + - Fatal errors + - ... + * wxWidgets + - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel + - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...) + - Drag & Drop support in the playlist + * Skins2 + - New default skin + - Support for Winamp 2 skins + - Improved playlist handling + - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ... + * OS X + - Embedded Video output + - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature + - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing + - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...) + - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run + - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled) + * HTTP + - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard) + - A bunch of new RPN functions + +Windows Port: + * MSN messenger "Now playing" support + +OS X Port: + * Mac-Intel compatibility + * Enhanced support of various audio output devices + * Growl "Now playing" support + +*Nix port: + * Ability to log to syslog + * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root + +Developers: + * New libvlc API (not finished yet) + * Java bindings + * A bit more automatic testing + +Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a: +--------------------------------- + +Audio output: + * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa + * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu. + +Decoder: + * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg + * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263 + +Demux: + * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks + +Services Discovery: + * HAL fixes, should now work with new API + * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows + * UPnP fixes + * Avahi 0.6 support + +Interfaces: + * Mac OS X + - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard + +Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4: +-------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based + * New OSD system + +Video output: + * Fixed problems with OpenGL output + * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option + * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format + +Input: + * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band + * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP + * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support + * GnomeVFS input module + * Support for RTP packet reordering + * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs + +Decoders: + * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types + * Musepack decoder using libmpdec + * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later) + +Services discovery: + * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment) + * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only) + +Video filters: + * RSS feed overlay + +Audio filters: +* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel + Mixer and Dolby Surround + +Stream output: + * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers + * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs + * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments + +Interfaces: +- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info) + * Mac OS X + - New streaming and transcoding wizard + - New extended controls panel + - New bookmarks window + - Fixed playlist sorting + - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist + * wxWidgets + - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets. + - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-* + - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog + - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support + * Skins2 + - Tree playlist + * HTTP + - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto) + - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in + the names of files + - Include macro to include other files + - CGI 1.0 support + +ActiveX plugin: +* Should now work outside IE as well + +Mac OS X port: +* New script to delete the preferences automatically + +Windows port: +* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming +* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output + +Translations: + The following languages were added: + * Galician + * Korean + * Romanian + * Simplified Chinese + The following languages were re-added: + * Swedish + +Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2: +-------------------------------- Core support: * Rewrite of the playlist @@ -19,8 +352,11 @@ Core support: * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter - Multiple video filters are now seperated by ',' instead of ':' + * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are + now separated by ':' instead of ',' + * Access filter architecture * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language) + * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments * Many bugfixes... Input/Demuxers: @@ -32,10 +368,12 @@ Input/Demuxers: * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support * Massive Matroska improvements * Support for XA and VOC audio files + * TiVo demuxer * Samba (Windows shares) access module * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items) * Fixes to Linux DVB support * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug + * Support for FTP over IPv6 Decoders / Encoders: * Dirac decoder and encoder @@ -43,13 +381,19 @@ Decoders / Encoders: * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec -Services discovery +Access filters: + * New Record and Timeshift filters + +Services discovery: * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist * Brand new SAP module * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu + ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default ) + * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery * DAAP (iTunes shares) support + * Shoutcast Audio output: * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM @@ -59,9 +403,7 @@ Video output: * Image file video output (png) * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions) * Improvements to wall video filter - * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system) * Support for font color and opacity - * Fixed Mac OS X OpenGL output Stream output: * Muxers @@ -69,16 +411,19 @@ Stream output: * VLM / VoD - Ability to load a configuration file on startup - Seeking support in VoD streams - + * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system) + Interfaces: - * wxWidgets + * wxWidgets - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ... - Improved preferences - Improvements to the wizard - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons * MacOS X - Redesigned playlist + - Improved preferences * Skins + - Support for multiple actions - Fixes * HTTP - Support for the new playlist system @@ -90,31 +435,36 @@ Windows port: * DirectShow tuner configuration * Support for no-decoration windows +MacOS X port: + * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes + * The OpenGL video output is back + * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations. + - Supports multichannel discrete analog output + - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it + is not yet available in the new module + - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information. + BeOS port: * Support for single-buffered overlay Pocket PC port: * Many fixes * New interface - * New video output + * New video output Mozilla Plugin: * Javascript fixes - * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back + * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed) IE Plugin: * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin Translations: - The following languages were added + The following languages were added: + * Catalan * Danish - * Greek - * Hindi - * Pashto - * Burmese - * Tetum - * Tagalog - * Bengali + * Turkish + Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: -----------------------------------------------------