X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9de74b509fde820319797732b0009a3fe111edc0;hb=9ad4af7c881e8ebbc5d6127a48e54c9514b133df;hp=ea2f4500276e003cb6b4b2fe073c3988550515dd;hpb=2dab7ce64c1397bddf5a20f38f770d62b688041a;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ea2f450027..9de74b509f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,11 +1,100 @@ $Id$ -Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5-svn (not yet released): --------------------------------------------------------- +Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet) +------------------------------------------------------- + +Playlist: + * Vastly improved playlist support: + * Media library support + * "Live search" + * Shoutcast TV listings + * Audioscrobbler / last.fm support + +Decoders: + * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support + * WavPack + +Video output: + * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splited into Wave, Ripple, Gradient + and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed + +Interfaces: + * Windows/Linux + * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit + * All + * Improved user interaction + + +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 + * Partial support for DVR-ms recordings + * Partial support for MXF and GXF fileformat + +Decoders: + * Native WMV9/VC-1 support + * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs) + * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support + * The True Audio Lossless codec support + * WavPack support + * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc) + +Video output: + * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...) + * 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 + * new playmode buttons + * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs + * Main Menu keeps accessible 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 + +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) @@ -21,8 +110,9 @@ Decoders: * Cook (Real audio) support Playlist / Services discovery: - * XSPF playlist support [ not included in 0.8.5-test1 ] + * XSPF playlist support * Podcast support + * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing Audio output: * New JACK audio output @@ -49,12 +139,14 @@ Interfaces: - 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)