X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=cd280f0ac048e0b2440c11d1745b181e22c161b8;hb=e489a0531c3b03d8ea7f751736bd93f680050428;hp=7bcb022ba936eb093f1aa6d26029188e47002e47;hpb=b3da6771ce30686516269077500fb39e76cf11b0;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7bcb022ba9..cd280f0ac0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,542 @@ $Id$ -Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4-svn (not yet released): ------------------------------------------------------ +Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet): +------------------------------------------------------- + +Important notes: +---------------- + * On Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due + to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions. + * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default. + If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to + edit the ".hosts" file. + - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts + If you're using the old http interface, it's located in + /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts + - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and + C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts + - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts + and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts + * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This + interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6. + It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version. + If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6. + * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default. + * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They + now require a target name as their first argument. Example: + vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc + You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye + These new commands are also available in the telnet interface. + * The "rtp" access output module has been removed: + Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.: + Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}' + New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}' + * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable + EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set + of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683). + * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead. + E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ; + udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12 + +Changes: +-------- + +Playlist: + * Vastly improved playlist support: + * Media library support + * "Live search" + * Shoutcast TV listings + * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support + * Album art support + * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt + (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs) + * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See + share/lua/meta/README.txt + +Input/Demuxers: + * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP + * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP + * Proxy support for MMSH stream + * JACK audio input support + * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support + * Input run time option (improved live stream recording) + * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files + * Fixed audio glitch on seek + * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data) + * AAC tags support + * APEv1/2 tags support + * Improved ID3v2 tags support + * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support + * Raw video support + * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support + * TiVo Series 2 support + * v4l2 access module support + * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows + * CD+G karaoke Files support + * MXF files support + * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X using OpenGL + instead of QuickDraw + * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only) + This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app + (available as a separate download). + * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access + Authentication. + +Decoders: + * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support + * MKV USF subtitles support + * HTML-based subtitles support + * Flash Screen Video support + * CamStudio Screen Video support + * DosBox Capture support + * Karl Morton's Video support + * limited atrac3 support + * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts) + * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files: + Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ... + * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC) + * H.264 PAFF support + * DNxHD / VC-3 support + * NellyMoser ASAO support + * APE (Monkey audio) support + * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support + +Encoders: + * Flash Screen Video support + * Improved H.264 encoding speed + +Video output and filters: + * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only) + * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and + Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed + * New puzzle video output filter + * Re-written motion detection video filter + * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a + video) + * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels) + * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video) + * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags + (Google Summer of Code Student project) + * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*. + * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). + * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). + This was previously part of the mosaic module. + * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter. + * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter + * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters + * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters + +Audio output and filters + * Replay gain support + * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet) + * New spatializer audio filter + * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF + +Stream output: + * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams + * New RTP payload formats: + * Speex voice audio codec + * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output + * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output + * UDP-Lite transport for RTP + * DCCP transport for RTP + * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting + +Interfaces: + * Windows/Linux + * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit + * All + * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an + end-user suitable way. + * Improved user interaction + * Improved mouse gestures + * Fastly improved Update checker + * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2) + * Mac OS X + * Improved video output features + * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC + * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service + * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly + * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme + * Ncurses: + * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale, + if libncursesw is available. + * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do) + * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info + * Unix + * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface. + * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS + (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control + interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when + finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces . + * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal + * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl + * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux + +Linux Port: + * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6 + http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html + (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore) + +Mac OS X Port: + * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party + applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only) + * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard + * It is now required to compile a fully featured build + * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued. + +LibVLC: + * Event management and various improvements in libvlc + (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project) + +New Localizations: + * Finnish + * Persian + * Polish + + +Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f: +---------------------------------- + +Security updates: + * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681) + * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073) + * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768) + * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769) + - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803. + +Various bugfixes: + * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X + * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X + * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer + * Close MMS access on network timeout + * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer + + +Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e: +---------------------------------- + +Various bugfixes: + * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP + * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11 + +Security updates: + * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681) + * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682) + * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484) + * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296, + VideoLAN-SA-0801) + * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130, + VideoLAN-SA-0802) + +Audio filter: + * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter + +Audio output: + * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA + +Access: + * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs + +Stream output: + * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer + +Encoders: + * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones + * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264 + encoding on multi-cpu systems + - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default) + - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration) + +Mac OS X Interface & Port: + * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9 + * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel + * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing + +Localization: + * Updated Romanian and Polish translations + + +Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d: +---------------------------------- + +Various bugfixes: + * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows + * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA + * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences + in input + * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing + * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code + +Windows and Mac OS Binaries + * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows + +Active X plugin: + * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262) + +Mac OS X Interface & Port: + * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality + * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard + * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between + Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output + * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of + two different movies + * Support for current Ogg file formats + NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. + Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore. + +Encoders: + * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X + +Other changes: + * The automatic updating facility was removed + * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable + EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. + * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684). + + +Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c: +---------------------------------- + +Various bugfixes, notably: + * Windows Vista compatibility + * Cropping in Direct3D + * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X + * RSS filter string overflow + * Few memory leaks + * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking) + +CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins: + * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928) + +Demuxers: + * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI + * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468) + +Decoders: + * Updated FLAC API compatibility + +Input: + * Support for new v4l2 encoder API + +Localisation: + * New localisation: Arabic, Persian + + +Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b: +---------------------------------- + +Various bugfixes, notably: + * Out-of-bound read in demuxers + * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256) + * Mac OS X Interface crashes + * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms + * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility + * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers + +Decoders: + * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60 + * Teletext subtitles (telx) support + +Webbrowser plugins: + * Rectified behaviour and improved usability + +Mac OS X Interface & Port: + * Diverse usability improvements + * New wizard option to embed subtitles + * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused + * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script + + +Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a: +--------------------------------- + +CDDA / VCDX plugins: + * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017) + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Fullscreen controller improvements + + +Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6: +-------------------------------- + +Playlist: + * Shoutcast TV listings support + +Input: + * Support for RTSP authentication + * Support for adding subtitles on the fly + * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation + * ATSC support for DVB input + * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings + * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat + * Improved support for Flash Video files + +Decoders: + * Native WMV9/VC-1 support + * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs) + * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61) + * The True Audio Lossless codec support + * Matroska WavPack support + * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF) + * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures + * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles + +Video output: + * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...) + * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :) + * Improved libcaca support + +Interfaces: + * All + * New hotkeys for crop and zoom + * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface + * Windows + * Systray support in skins + * OS X + * Support for Apple Remote control + * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen) + * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen) + * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs + * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode + * Linux + * Notifications using notification-daemon + +Windows port: + * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above) + Windows 9x/ME users: + - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported + - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the + Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location: + http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx + Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder + C:\Windows\System + * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side + * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output) + +Localization: + * Add Czech + * Add Slovak + * Add Malay + * Add Slovenian + +Developers: + * Updates to the libvlc API + * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins + + +Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5 +-------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...) + * Support for downloading updates + * Updated strings + +Input: + * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal) + * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input + * Improvements to the Audio CD input + - Separate playlist entries for the tracks + - Support for CDDB + * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules + * Improved subtitles encoding support + * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web + +Decoders: + * Cook (Real audio) support + +Playlist / Services discovery: + * XSPF playlist support + * Podcast support + * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing + +Audio output: + * New JACK audio output + +Video output: + * New video filters: + - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image + - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect + - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one + * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images + * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds. + * Improvements to the subtitles rendering + +Stream output: + * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams + +Interfaces: + * System to inform the user and request information + - HTTP authentication + - Fatal errors + - ... + * wxWidgets + - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel + - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...) + - Drag & Drop support in the playlist + * Skins2 + - New default skin + - Support for Winamp 2 skins + - Improved playlist handling + - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ... + * OS X + - Embedded Video output + - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature + - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing + - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...) + - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run + - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled) + * HTTP + - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard) + - A bunch of new RPN functions + +Windows Port: + * MSN messenger "Now playing" support + +OS X Port: + * Mac-Intel compatibility + * Enhanced support of various audio output devices + * Growl "Now playing" support + +*Nix port: + * Ability to log to syslog + * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root + +Developers: + * New libvlc API (not finished yet) + * Java bindings + * A bit more automatic testing + + +Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a: +--------------------------------- + +Audio output: + * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa + * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu. + +Decoder: + * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg + * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263 + +Demux: + * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks + +Services Discovery: + * HAL fixes, should now work with new API + * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows + * UPnP fixes + * Avahi 0.6 support + +Interfaces: + * Mac OS X + - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard + + +Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4: +-------------------------------- Core support: * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based @@ -42,6 +577,7 @@ Stream output: * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments Interfaces: +- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info) * Mac OS X - New streaming and transcoding wizard - New extended controls panel @@ -51,7 +587,6 @@ Interfaces: * wxWidgets - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets. - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-* - - VLC update checker - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support * Skins2 @@ -71,15 +606,18 @@ Mac OS X port: Windows port: * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming +* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output Translations: The following languages were added: + * Galician * Korean * Romanian * Simplified Chinese The following languages were re-added: * Swedish + Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2: -------------------------------- @@ -214,7 +752,7 @@ Translations: Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: ------------------------------------------------------ +-------------------------------- Core support: * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available) @@ -245,8 +783,9 @@ Stream Output: * Stream output: * Support of playlist group announcement + Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0: ------------------------------------------------------ +-------------------------------- Core support: * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions @@ -369,6 +908,7 @@ Misc: * Cisco IP/TV streams supported * VLM enhancements + Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: -------------------------------- @@ -459,6 +999,7 @@ Misc: * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin. * Roku HD1000 audio output. + Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a: --------------------------------- @@ -468,7 +1009,7 @@ Mac OS X: Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times. @@ -511,8 +1052,9 @@ Win32 port: * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin. * Fixed ipv6 name resolution. + Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * Brand new decoder/packetizer api. @@ -623,8 +1165,9 @@ Miscellaneous: * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations. * libcaca video output (colored ascii) + Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable. @@ -655,8 +1198,9 @@ Miscellaneous: * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play mpeg1/2 videos. + Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs. @@ -682,8 +1226,9 @@ Miscellaneous: * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play mpeg1/2 videos. + Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core support: * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs. @@ -731,7 +1276,7 @@ Miscellaneous: Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core Support: * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated) @@ -808,8 +1353,9 @@ BeOS port: * A few new keyboard shortcuts * New full-featured Preferences window + Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3: ---------------------------------- +-------------------------------- Core Support: * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines