X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ad98f1da4ac266311bf5495afceaaf46659e8ccb;hb=f4195d95f9f9c6e0dbe8188f543801fc308c1b85;hp=80e81220036f0447cb2d57f71c4f9ae0e8156265;hpb=59045c47174a5f33d80d38df4680e21eefbbb845;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 80e8122003..ad98f1da4a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,51 +1,302 @@ -Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git: +Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git: ------------------------------------ Important changes for packagers: * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. + Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions. + * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment + variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed. * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz + * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git + * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git + Access - * Multiple files are supported from RAR files + * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices * DVB-S scanning support + * DVB-C scanning scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection - * Support for VDR recordings + * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders + * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray + * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support + * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently) + * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux) + * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format + in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now Codecs * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc + * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV + * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards + * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger + The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one + +Core: + * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore + * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites + * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded Demuxers: - * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib). + * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib) + * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm * Ogg seeking improvements + * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2 Interfaces * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one - * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements - * Qt: port to Mac platform + * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes + * Qt: effects dialogs rework + * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist + * Qt: port to MacOS X platform + * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support + and important cleanups and optimisations + * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface Video Output: * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update) - -Audio Filter: - * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor + * New video output for iOS platform + * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL + * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1 + * Various vmem improvements Video Filter: * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality + * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors + * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels + * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos + +Audio Output: + * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS + +Audio Filter: + * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor Stream output: - * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff), + * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3, venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{ access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8, index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames}, dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}" + * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora + * Major rework of VoD support + * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming: + #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard... + * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming: + #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std... + * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on + a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std... + * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track + #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio} + #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...} + +Services Discovery: + * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces + +libVLC: + * New capabilities for libVLC: + ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation + ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the + list of available audio and video filters + +Removed modules: + * asademux: use libass only + * fake: use the new image demuxers + * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules + * id3tag: use taglib + * upnp: use upnp_intel + + +Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8: +-------------------------------- + +Mac OS X Interface: + * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert + +Interfaces: + * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows + * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes + * Qt and Mac OS X fixes + * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins + +Encoder: + * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one + +Access/Demuxers/Codecs: + * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files + * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes + * mp4 demuxer improvements + * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes + * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3 + * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection + * fix a crash in malformed ape files + +Miscellaneous fixes in: + * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards + * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows + * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons + See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276 + * Configure and build system improvements + * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated + +Translations: + * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian, + Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew + * New icelandic translation + + +Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7: +-------------------------------- + +Linux port: + * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs + #234484 and #260719. + +Mac OS X port: + * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams + * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed + and stability reasons + +Demuxers: + * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability. + VideoLAN-SA-1102 + +Translations: + * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations + + +Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1: +---------------------------------- + +Source: + * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux + + +Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6: +--------------------------------- + +Audio output: + * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output + PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22. + Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE) + and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin. + +Access: + * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows + +Decoders: + * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working) + * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X + * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries + * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101 + +Demuxers: + * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007 + * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe + * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24) + +Subtitles and renderer: + * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles + * Mark more freetype options as safe + * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation + * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable, + discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522 + +Visualization: + * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales + * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows + * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now + * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X + +Interfaces: + * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes + * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements + +Miscellaneous fixes: + * KDE device solid actions + * XDG screensaver + * Transcode integer overflow + * HTTP Icy metadata reading + * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers + +Translations: + * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician, + Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch, + Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish + + +Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5: +---------------------------------- + +Security: + * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives, + VideoLAN-SA-1006 + +Access: + * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL + +Services Discovery: + * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com + +Demuxers: + * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API + * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues + * Playback of live http .Webm streams + * Taglib thread-safety fix + +Decoders: + * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from + "Puget Systems" + +Skins: + * Add an icon to VLC on Linux + +Video Output: + * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB + +Interfaces: + * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration + * fixes on luatelnet and luarc + +Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and + TS-mux, Qt) + +libLVC: + * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64) + * Miscellaneous fixes + +Translations: + * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch, + Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician, + French and Ukrainian + * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek + * New Asturian translation + + +Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1: +---------------------------------- + +Mac OS X: + * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible + by 16 + * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider + +Demuxer: + * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams + +Qt interface: + * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files + * Various fixes for Windows Translations: * New Armenian translation + * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk, + Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon + Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4: --------------------------------