X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ce9116be28d3b0088cd3dc20bf831f0a5e60bbcf;hb=07228ceaaff0e4436159a6a8d1ebd9774e78aaac;hp=61d93d2d99ab14eae901f3ac96feb0dcc8542639;hpb=bf4764eaeaf05d9eaeaf14ebaff33d9898121ef1;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 61d93d2d99..ce9116be28 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,355 @@ -Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-pre2: ------------------------------------- +Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git: +-------------------------------- + +Important changes for packagers: + * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune + compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually. + +3rd party libraries (contrib): + * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib + +Codecs: + * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec. + * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec + * Support for Ulead DV audio + * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen, + Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) + * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless + * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder + +Encoders: + * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264 + +Access: + * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion + * Major improvements in DASH support + * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support + * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module + * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names + +Demuxers: + * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4 + * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art + * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata + * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI + * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio + * Support for total number of tracks in major container + * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV + * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras + * Support for more MJPEG streams + +Audio output: + * Windows Audio Session API audio output support + * OpenBSD sndio audio output support + * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module + +Audio Filters: + * new remapping channel filter + * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect + * new VSXu visualization plugin + +Video Outputs: + * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions + * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management + +Video Filters: + * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in + anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images. + * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats + and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits) + * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats + * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters + +Stream Output: + * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI + +Interfaces: + * configurable password for the HTTP server. + * .hosts removed from the HTTP server. + * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows. + * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows + * Hotkey support for TS program selection + +Mac OS X Port: + * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs + * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now + +Mac OS X Interface: + * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally + * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of + VLC's internal volume level + * add an option to show next / previous buttons + * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons + * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description, + date and language. + * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time + * add an option to play videos as a desktop background + * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming + * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are + deprecated now + +Qt: + * Partial support for Qt5.0 + * Menus modifications and improvements + * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view + * Streaming output wizard rewrite + * Numerous fixes + +libVLC: + * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions + to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname + and libvlc_audio_output_device_id + * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks + +Removed modules: + * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead + * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd) + * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd) + * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead + * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead + * Hildon GUI + * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0) + * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0) + + +Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3: +-------------------------------- + +Access: + * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels + +Demuxers: + * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined) + * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags + +Mac OS X: + * Add GateKeeper support + * Fix handling for some hotkeys + * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces + * Minor bugfixes and improvements + +Qt: + * Fix Windows 8 interface style + +Translations: + * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, + Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, + Thai, Turkish and Walloon + * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi + * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations + + +Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2: +-------------------------------- + +Video Output: + * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions. + There were too many errors with broken drivers. + * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL + * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X + * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support + * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms + * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500, + an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra. + * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped + with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later. + * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called + Retina Displays. + +Access: + * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again + * Fixes for RAR compressed files + * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit + * Improve PulseAudio input latency + * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy + * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264) + * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour + * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32 + * Accept more extensions for DVD images + * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer + * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback + * Improvements and fixes in HLS support + +Codec: + * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams + * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions + * Fix G726 support + * Fix MP3 free format support + +Demuxers: + * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display + * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes + * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support + * Fix for DVB channels file support + * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4 + +Encoders: + * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a" + * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots + +Audio filters and output: + * Limitation of spatializer volume output + * Fix DirectSound device selection + * Correct PulseAudio volume control + * Do not apply volume in file output + * Fix sampling rate in JACK output + * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers + +Mac OS X: + * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and + the persistant media library + * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules + to the media library or the temporary playlist + * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple + This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG + manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry". + * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer + press on the Play/Pause button + * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup. + This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts. + * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback + * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap + * Many Fullscreen fixes + * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back + * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track + Synchronization panel + * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now + * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop + * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop + * Fix crashes on exit + * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while + VLC is running + * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions + * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control + Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be + automatically reset on the first launch. + - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit. + * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3 + * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements + +Lua Scripts: + * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues + * Fixes for icecast SD + +Qt: + * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows + * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour + * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog + * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog + * Fix tags and file names display + * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues + +Skins2: + * Fix mousewheel on Windows + * Fix for key events and focus loss + +Web interface: + * Fix display of some buttons + * Fix listing of files in the Open interface + * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog + +Security: + * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow + * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396) + * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries + +Translation: + * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer, + Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish, + Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian, + Thai translations update + * New Scottish Gaelic translation + + +Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1: +-------------------------------- + +Access: + * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval + * fix the samba module compilation + * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK + * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption + * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback + * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives + +Codecs: + * Support for MXPEG files + * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module + * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams + +Demuxers: + * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support + * Fix a crash when seeking in mka + * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support + +Muxers: + * Fix ogm header creation + +Audio filters: + * limit spatializer filter distortions + * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module + +Audio output: + * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA. + * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection. + The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default). + * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X + +Video filters: + * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform + +Mac OS X interface: + * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window + * allow to hide the sidebar + * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading + - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen + * noticebly faster launch time + * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support + * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes + * improve track synchronization panel + * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes + * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu + +Qt interface: + * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one + * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar + the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs + * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts + +Skins interface: + * fix for menus display + * Addition of $R to display current playback speed + * documentation update + +Web interface: + * fix mobiles display for remote control mode + * support for .drc and .3ga extensions + +Service discovery: + * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times + * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK + * Update Jamendo selections + +Miscellaneous: + * fix DBus crash + * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc + * fix a crash on VLM close + +Security: + * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026) + * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144) + * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775) + * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776) + +Translations: + * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations + + +Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0: +--------------------------------- Important notes: + * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd @@ -13,7 +361,7 @@ Important notes: - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media. All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions. * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized: - - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1". + - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]". By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used. - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers. By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS. @@ -26,6 +374,7 @@ Important notes: output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0. * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later. Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported. + * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines. Important changes for packagers: * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for @@ -37,40 +386,42 @@ Important changes for packagers: * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation. - - * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git + * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git Core: * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite: - Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs + Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs. * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source - * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64 + * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64. Access: * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files - * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices + * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module * DVB-S scanning support on Unix * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed - * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection + * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders - * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray + * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support 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) * PulseAudio audio input support - * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format + * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control - * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices - * QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices - * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows + * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture + * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound + * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support + * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port Codecs: - * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc + * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load + on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4 + are notably concerned. * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl) @@ -81,8 +432,9 @@ Codecs: * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits + * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits * EIA-608 closed captions improvements - * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries + * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2 @@ -98,31 +450,37 @@ Demuxers: * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts) * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks * Improved support of tracker files + * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat Interfaces: * Qt: effects dialogs rework * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist * Qt: port to MacOS X platform - * Qt: small look improvements + * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support and important cleanups and optimisations * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows + It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style) * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support + * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface + * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass + -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface - * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org + * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder * Qt: preferences are now searchable + * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom Video Output: * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update) @@ -131,10 +489,11 @@ Video Output: * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1 * Various vmem improvements * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for - chroma conversion + chroma conversion between YUV and RGB * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine + * New video output based on kva API for OS/2 Audio Output and Filters: * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS @@ -152,7 +511,7 @@ 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 + * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films @@ -173,7 +532,7 @@ Stream output: 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 + * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP * Major rework of VoD support * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming: #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard... @@ -200,8 +559,7 @@ libVLC: allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time. Removed modules: - * asademux: use libass only - * subsass: use libass + * asademux, subsass: use libass * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules * id3tag: use taglib @@ -214,6 +572,37 @@ Removed modules: removed in Growl's next release, too. * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one +Translations: + * Update of translations for most languages. + * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations. + + +Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13: +---------------------------------- + +Security: + * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed. + * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface. + +Audio outputs: + * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix. + * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery. + +Video outputs: + * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC). + * XVideo support for automatic color keying. + * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix. + +Decoders: + * Camtasia decoding fix. + +Qt interface: + * Rare crash while seeking fixed. + * V4L2 video standard selection fixed. + +Translations: + * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages. + Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12: ---------------------------------- @@ -533,7 +922,7 @@ Win32: * Fix folders opening from the interface Translations: - * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian + * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician @@ -1248,7 +1637,7 @@ Bunch of small bugfixes. Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6: -------------------------------- New Localizations: - * Ukranian + * Ukrainian Security updates: * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)