X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=afcb15f990d2859c7248798d2635cfe1277a8647;hb=47e1d944ba1e27a2bf85e5ab083f99418bb22dc9;hp=ec2eae6496b07f9d646898e6f5098e242de5f95e;hpb=658686029ee756fbf4beb8e0cdcc4b0bc5dd18ed;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ec2eae6496..afcb15f990 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,12 +1,345 @@ -Changes between 1.0.0-rc1 and 1.1.0-git: ----------------------------------------- +Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.2.0-git: +------------------------------------ + +Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-pre1: +------------------------------------ +Important changes for users: + +Important changes for packagers: + * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be + generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the + later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script + by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc + can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to + launch each time. + +Access: + * Support for the sftp protocol + * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port + * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory + * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp:// + * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB + * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0 + +Decoders: + * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7 + * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux + * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage + + * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment + * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray + * Invmem module improvements + * Support for Atrac1 audio codec + * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs + * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA + * Support for Indeo5 video codec + * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms + * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port + * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support) + * Direct rendering is always used with H.264 in avcodec module + * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec + +Demuxers: + * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet) + * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams + * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files + * Various EGP improvements + * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files + +Playlist: + * WPL and ZPL playlist support + * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios + * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image + * Podcast images are now displayed + +Video Output: + * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs + * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX + desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks. + * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB + * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2) + * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output + * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for + Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin) + Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one) + MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html) + Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX) + +Extensions: + * New content extensions lua framework + * IMDb extension + +Audio filters: + * Chorus/Flanger audio filter + * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter + * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited + resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF + and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API + * NEON assembly audio converter module + * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input + +Visualization: + * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries + +Service discovery: + * Service discoveries can now be written in lua + * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories + * Service discovery based on libudev + * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed + +Encoders: + * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings + * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example + #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176} + * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given, + uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP + * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required + +Stream output: + * New smem module, streaming to memory + * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like: + --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}" + +Interfaces: + * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet + and oldhttp. + * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system. + +Mac OS X Port: + * Vastly improved VLCKit framework + * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface + * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework + by Andy Matuschak et al. + * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer + * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit) + * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote + +Windows port: + * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar + * Experimental playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module + +Maemo port: + * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency + * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900 + * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface + +Misc: + * new sqlite module + * --save-config command line option not supported anymore. + * Fixed and reenabled netsync module. + +Bindings: + * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp + * phonon bindings are now usable + +Removed modules: + * csri codec: use the libass module instead. + * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead. + * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X + * transrate: broken since too long + * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead. + * HAL: Use libudev instead. + * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces + * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces + * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces + * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one. + * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead. + * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead. + * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead. + * cddax: use cdda instead. + * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs. + * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec + * access_file removed in favor of filesystem + * RTMP input and output: use avio module + + +Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5: +-------------------------------- + +Decoders: + * SubRip extra styles improvements + * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders Mac OS X Interface: - * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008) + * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote +Windows port: + * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly + increase performance and fix x264 issues -Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0-rc2: ------------------------------------- +Translations: + * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali, + Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish + Russian, Slovak translation updates + * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations + + +Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4: +-------------------------------- + +Audio outputs: + * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core + * Make PulseAudio the default output if available + +Video outputs: + * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers + * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing + +Input: + * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3 + * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm) + +Playlist: + * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U) + +Unix: + * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher + * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD + +Qt4 interface: + * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices + * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard + +Translations: + * New Walloon translation + * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates + + +Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3: +-------------------------------- + +Video outputs: + * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to + regressions in most popular drivers + * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms + +Decoders: + * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it + didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2 + * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks + +Encoders: + * x264 has profile-limitter, like: + #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..} + +Input: + * Update for appletrailers lua script + * Fixes on the RAR stream filter + * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams + * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2 + * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer + +Service discovery: + * New udev module for linux + +Qt4 interface: + * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels + +Translations: + * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates + + +Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2: +-------------------------------- + +Decoders: + * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls + * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones + * Various fixes on theora and ogg + +Demuxers: + * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer + * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers + +Access: + * Fixes for v4l2 devices + * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning + +Qt Interface: + * Fix some playlist sorting issues + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Fixed a crash when updating VLC + * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only) + * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave) + * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature + +Mac OS X Port: + * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary + with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit + * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 + - no support for Goom and SDL + - limited text rendering support + - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release. + +Encoders: + * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed + * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults. + * x264 rc-behaviour fixes: + - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used + - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used + - otherwise ABR-mode is used + * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these: + - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate + - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps) + + +Playlist: + * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback + +Unix builds: + * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD + +Translations: + * New Kazakh and Croatian translations + * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows + * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian, + Arabic and French translation updates + + +Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1: +-------------------------------- + +Demuxers: + * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop + * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format + * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326 + * Fix Dailymotion access script + * Fix crashes in xspf files handler + * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version + +Access: + * Add extra caching for files on network shares + * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria + +Decoders: + * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files + * Improve SSA subtitles rendering + * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version + +Muxers: + * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio + +Qt Interface: + * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller + * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys + * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding + * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window + * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips + * More reliable Information and Messages panels + * Fix various crashes + +Windows port: + * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support + +Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian + + +Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0: +--------------------------------- Important notes: ---------------- @@ -31,7 +364,7 @@ Decoders: * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder - * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded + * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering @@ -42,7 +375,7 @@ Demuxers: * Metadata for mod files are supported * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams - * New dirac demuxer for raw dirac streams + * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams Encoders: * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS) @@ -57,7 +390,9 @@ Access: OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed. * DVB scanning on linux * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support - * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore) + * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form + zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of + zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore) * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://' * MTP device access on Unix * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio) @@ -66,7 +401,7 @@ Access: Inputs: * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on - Windows. + Windows and Mac OS X. Playlist: * Export the playlist in HTML @@ -84,13 +419,13 @@ Linux/Windows interface: - Improvements on many dialogs - New dialog for plugins listing - Fixed-size mode for videos - - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control + - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control * Better integration in GTK environments Mac OS X Interface: * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium) * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items. - * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu + * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu * Additional usability improvements Stream output: @@ -109,8 +444,10 @@ Windows CE Port: EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done. Mac OS X Port: + * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc - * New Document icons by Dominic Spitaler + * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler + * Support for latest iSight models Audio output: * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins @@ -125,9 +462,41 @@ Video output: * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead. -Miscellanous: +Miscellaneous: * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications +New Localization: + * Khmer + * Mongolian + * Sorani + + +Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10: +-------------------------------------- + +HTTP Interface: + * Fixed default ACL + +Mac OS X: + * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups + * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences + * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed + * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models + * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio + * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window + * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi + +Various fixes to the following modules: + * access: + - HTTP, SMB + - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...) + - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, + DZCORE Labs, Algeria + * stream out: + - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge + * decoder: + - TSCC + Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a: --------------------------------- @@ -168,6 +537,7 @@ Various bugfixes: * Telnet fixes on Windows * Resampling fixes when transcoding + Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a: --------------------------------- @@ -503,7 +873,7 @@ Interfaces: if libncursesw is available. * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do) * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and - share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info. + share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info. * Unix * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface. * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS