X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=aac52e5ce8a6de60736a6f6af0a5517d76d3e6bb;hb=3bc410784e8d63794bcd7ab2a582dac67ee70629;hp=f75f604a5aaa5ba68e9db2da970504ec83fef26a;hpb=9d699ba6debbf0c702593b7016cc0f27aa7bc839;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f75f604a5a..aac52e5ce8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,22 +1,133 @@ -Changes between 0.9.4 and 1.0.0-git: +Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-git: ------------------------------------ +Playback: + * Instantaneous pausing + * Frame-by-Frame playback + * Timeshift for all medias + * On-the-fly recording for all medias + * RTSP trickplay support + +New Decoders: + * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) + * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) + * True HD/MLP + * Blu-Ray Linear PCM + * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) + * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 + * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer + * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard + +Demuxers: + * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files + * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb) + * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files + +Encoders: + * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS) + * Shine mp3 fixed point encoder + +Access: + * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server + * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows) + * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives + * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows + * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support + OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed. + * DVB scanning on linux + * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc Folder support + * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file) + Inputs: * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules - * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on - windows. + * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on + Windows. -Decoders: - * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support - * E-AC3 (A/52b) support +Playlist: + * Export the playlist in HTML + * Lua script for BBC radio playback + +Linux/Windows interface: + * Recently played items list + * Interface customizations + * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items. Stream output: * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module. * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible. * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream. + * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module. + +Maemo Port: + * New Maemo port with: + - an interface based on Hildon framework. + - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library. + +Windows CE Port: + EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done. + +Audio output: + * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins + * Surround support for PulseAudio + +Video output: + * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output + * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders + +Miscellanous: + * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications + + +Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a: +--------------------------------- + +Security update: + * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276) + +Bunch of small bugfixes. + + +Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6: +-------------------------------- +New Localizations: + * Ukranian + +Security updates: + * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032) + * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036) + + +Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5: +-------------------------------- +Security updates: + * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654) + * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds + +Features: + * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2 + +Various bugfixes: + * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks + * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local) + +Windows port: + * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys + * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access + +Qt Interface: + * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states + * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled + * Various fixed in playlist + +Access: + * MMAP module is now deactivated by default + +Translations: + * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation -Mac OS X Interface: - * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4: ------------------------------------