X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=aa223ae3f6a98a2b6e34a2602e17aae099e4d62b;hb=6c648e41cf3abade4732daf9d7cf56989d042e65;hp=acb490cadc899825a5b20590f952547c21baba91;hpb=fb1dcab36e7c3a49d49562334045e4f87980ac03;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index acb490cadc..aa223ae3f6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,11 +4,16 @@ Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git: Important changes for packagers: * 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licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ 3rd party libraries (contrib): * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib -Codecs: +Core: + * Audio core rewrite + * Fix support for .001, .00x splitted files on Windows + +Decoders: * Support for OPUS via libopus. * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec. * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec @@ -17,16 +22,22 @@ Codecs: Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) * 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 Encoders: * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264 Access: - * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion + * 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) developed by Viotech.net + * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices Demuxers: * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4 @@ -38,11 +49,19 @@ Demuxers: * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras * Support for more MJPEG streams + * Add support for liveleak streams 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 + * Mac 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 @@ -50,6 +69,7 @@ Audio Filters: * new VSXu visualization plugin Video Outputs: + * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management @@ -63,6 +83,7 @@ Video Filters: Stream Output: * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI + * Options support for AVIO output module Interfaces: * configurable password for the HTTP server. @@ -70,30 +91,43 @@ Interfaces: * fixed 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 + +Services discovery: + * UPnP A/V subtitles + * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item Mac OS X Port: * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now Mac OS X Interface: + * add support for multiple video outputs * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen controller * add a GUI to manage podcasts + * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time. * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of VLC's internal volume level + * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current + 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 + * 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 * add an option to show next / previous buttons * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description, - date and language. + date and language * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time * add an option to play videos as a desktop background - * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming - * allow the OS to turn off the screen(s) when playing audio-only media while the user - is idle. + * 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 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are deprecated now @@ -108,6 +142,7 @@ 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 Removed modules: @@ -122,6 +157,125 @@ Removed modules: * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0) +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: +-------------------------------- + +Audio Output: + * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio. + * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF"). + * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X + * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows. + * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged + during playback on Mac OS X + +Access: + * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes + * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly + * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake + +Codecs: + * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files + * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries + * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding + * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files + * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding + +Demuxers: + * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets + * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files + * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers + * Support Youtube live streams + +Windows: + * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8 + +Qt: + * Fix media info dialog update + * Fix random/repeat preferences saving + * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist + * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP + * Fix album art display at start + +Mac OS X: + * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior + * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard + * Fix menus display and behavior + * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons, + streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller + * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles + * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is + allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback. + * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application + * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter + +Miscellaneous: + * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock. + * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules + * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support + * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI + * Codec and other 3rd party library updates + * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio + * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP + * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments + * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates + +Translations: + * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional + 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: --------------------------------