X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=9f1a21f9bb057f3f85158e92b9c59610408ef76f;hb=f6ba5119dfbedd245129493fd64a18bc8770701d;hp=1f3bfc8c08f699133fd0a9fa53e837b51a8cf93a;hpb=a84e47ee35d99724f41d8d1bf3f4a1ff980b2c0c;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1f3bfc8c08..9f1a21f9bb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,41 +1,52 @@ Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git: -------------------------------- -Important changes for packagers: +Important changes: + * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ + * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs + VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually. - * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ 3rd party libraries (contrib): - * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib + * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib Core: * Audio core rewrite - * Fix support for .001, .00x splitted files on Windows + * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows + * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode + * Partial support for Windows Store App -Codecs: +Decoders: * Support for OPUS via libopus. * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec. - * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec + * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec * Support for Ulead DV audio * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen, - Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) + Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2) * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles + * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux + * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder Encoders: * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264 Access: - * Screen: add support for OS X Lion, remove support for previous OS releases + * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later, + remove support for previous OS X releases * Major improvements in DASH support * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names - * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developped by Viotech.net + * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices + * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode + * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode + * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track + vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001 Demuxers: * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4 @@ -52,43 +63,59 @@ Demuxers: Audio output: * Windows Audio Session API audio output support * OpenBSD sndio audio output support - * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module + * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module * Android AudioTrack audio output support + * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts + * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4 + * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices + This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH + distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.). + * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X) Audio Filters: - * new remapping channel filter - * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect - * new VSXu visualization plugin + * New remapping channel filter + * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect + * New VSXu visualization plugin + * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter Video Outputs: + * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards + * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions + * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS + * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules + Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management Video Filters: - * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in + * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images. * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits) * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters + * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters Stream Output: * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI * Options support for AVIO output module + * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist + * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist + * Livehttp stream encryption support Interfaces: * configurable password for the HTTP server. * .hosts removed from the HTTP server. - * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows. + * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows. * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows * Hotkey support for TS program selection * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface -Mac OS X Port: - * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs - * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now +Services discovery: + * UPnP A/V subtitles + * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item -Mac OS X Interface: +OS X Interface: * add support for multiple video outputs * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen controller @@ -103,6 +130,7 @@ Mac OS X Interface: selection and to manage the list of presets * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters + * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote @@ -113,6 +141,13 @@ Mac OS X Interface: * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time * add an option to play videos as a desktop background * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side + * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target + * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit + * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings + when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through + 3rd party applications + * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application + handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are deprecated now @@ -121,13 +156,23 @@ Qt: * Menus modifications and improvements * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view * Streaming output wizard rewrite + * Add bitrate graph in information panels + * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor + * EPG display fixes and improvements + * Add SD pixmap sources + * Preferences hotkeys management fixes + * Display playlist total duration + * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI * Numerous fixes libVLC: * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname and libvlc_audio_output_device_id + * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks + * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the + media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated. Removed modules: * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead @@ -139,6 +184,61 @@ Removed modules: * Hildon GUI * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0) * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0) + * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin + * Broken crop video filter + * Switcher module + * OSD parser and menu + * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver + * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems + + +Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5: +-------------------------------- + +Access: + * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection + +Audio Output: + * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio + (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist) + * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems + +Demuxers: + * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts + * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser + * Fix koreus lua parser + * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras + * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer + * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links + * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files. + +Video filters: + * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts + * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases + +Encoders: + * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization + +Mac OS X: + * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names + * Fix crash with local statistics disabled + * Fix Time counter UI look + * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5 + +Win32: + * Fix https streaming + +libVLC: + * Fix audio and video track selection: + The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously + incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks. + +Translations: + * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, + Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew, + Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese, + Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations + * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4: @@ -208,6 +308,7 @@ Translations: Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish, Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations + * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3: