X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=cd9ea31d7da74d3496bb02bf218339d26db76114;hb=bddb56ff8c731c9c6f35bfb520d16680945b8747;hp=e446e9afca1499c95d47a75f98d9107c8fbf0a30;hpb=c28589a43c156c681f5598cc0ede2af47a2b68ce;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e446e9afca..cd9ea31d7d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,47 +1,242 @@ $Id$ -Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2-svn: ------------------------------------------------------ +Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5-svn (not yet released): +-------------------------------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...) + +Input: + * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal) + * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input + * Improvements to the Audio CD input + * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules + * Improved subtitles encoding support + +Decoders: + * Cook (Real audio) support + +Playlist / Services discovery : + * Podcast support + +Audio output: + * New JACK audio output + +Video output: + * New video filters: magnify, gradient, edge detection and bluescreen + * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images + * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds. + +Interfaces: + * System to inform the user and request information + - HTTP authentication + - Fatal errors + - ... + * wxWidgets + - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel + * Skins2 + - Support for Winamp 2 skins + - Improved playlist handling + - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ... + * OS X + - new Update-Checker + - 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 + - A bunch of new RPN functions + +Windows Port: + * MSN messenger "Now playing" support + +OS X Port: + * + +*Nix port: + * Ability to log to syslog + * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root + +Developers: + * New libvlc API (not finished yet) + * Java bindings + +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 + * New OSD system + +Video output: + * Fixed problems with OpenGL output + * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option + * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format + +Input: + * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band + * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP + * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support + * GnomeVFS input module + * Support for RTP packet reordering + * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs + +Decoders: + * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types + * Musepack decoder using libmpdec + * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later) + +Services discovery: + * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment) + * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only) + +Video filters: + * RSS feed overlay + +Audio filters: +* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel + Mixer and Dolby Surround + +Stream output: + * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers + * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs + * 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 + - New bookmarks window + - Fixed playlist sorting + - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist + * wxWidgets + - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets. + - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-* + - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog + - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support + * Skins2 + - Tree playlist + * HTTP + - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto) + - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in + the names of files + - Include macro to include other files + - CGI 1.0 support + +ActiveX plugin: +* Should now work outside IE as well + +Mac OS X port: +* New script to delete the preferences automatically + +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: +-------------------------------- Core support: * Rewrite of the playlist - Tree structure - Input preparsing (for meta-data) - Grouping (by artist, ...) support - * Preferences improvements : + * Preferences improvements: - New organization, designed to improve usability - New configuration types (list of modules, ...) * XML parsers * Core image manipulation support * Client-side SSL/TLS support + * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD) * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track - * Track selection based on preferred language - -Input: + * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter + * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are + now separated by ':' instead of ',' + * Access filter architecture + * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language) + * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments + * Many bugfixes... + +Input/Demuxers: * Support for SOCKS proxy * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server * Better support for Kasenna streams + * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support + * Massive Matroska improvements + * Support for XA and VOC audio files + * TiVo demuxer + * Samba (Windows shares) access module * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items) * Fixes to Linux DVB support + * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug + * Support for FTP over IPv6 Decoders / Encoders: * Dirac decoder and encoder * PNG decoder/encoder + * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder + * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec + +Access filters: + * New Record and Timeshift filters -Services discovery +Services discovery: * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist * Brand new SAP module + * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in + the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu + ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default ) + * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery * DAAP (iTunes shares) support + * Shoutcast + +Audio output: + * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM Video output: - * Video snapshot support - * Image file video output (png or jpg) + * Video snapshot support (png or jpg) + * Image file video output (png) * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions) + * Improvements to wall video filter + * Support for font color and opacity Stream output: * Muxers @@ -49,15 +244,19 @@ Stream output: * VLM / VoD - Ability to load a configuration file on startup - Seeking support in VoD streams - + * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system) + Interfaces: - * wxWidgets + * wxWidgets - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ... - Improved preferences + - Improvements to the wizard - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons * MacOS X - Redesigned playlist + - Improved preferences * Skins + - Support for multiple actions - Fixes * HTTP - Support for the new playlist system @@ -69,28 +268,36 @@ Windows port: * DirectShow tuner configuration * Support for no-decoration windows +MacOS X port: + * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes + * The OpenGL video output is back + * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations. + - Supports multichannel discrete analog output + - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it + is not yet available in the new module + - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information. + BeOS port: * Support for single-buffered overlay -Pocket PC port : +Pocket PC port: * Many fixes * New interface + * New video output Mozilla Plugin: * Javascript fixes + * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed) IE Plugin: * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin Translations: + The following languages were added: + * Catalan * Danish - * Greek - * Hindi - * Pashto - * Burmese - * Tetum - * Tagalog - * Bengali + * Turkish + Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: -----------------------------------------------------