X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d4b67f48e5a115ea6ec3afe855cfccc881f73c40;hb=124db676d5e9c5e7c6cb61c761061e24a828947b;hp=cf6fdebbc19b0f5c58bbf8044f2933b847cb784a;hpb=f9780264d40c437f1b4f72c770d432e6a0748bbc;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cf6fdebbc1..d4b67f48e5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,19 +1,212 @@ -Changes between 0.9.3 and 1.0.0-git: ------------------------------------- +Changes between 0.9.9 and 1.0.0-pre2: +------------------------------------- + +Important notes: +---------------- + * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses. + See 'Access:' for more info. + +Playback: + * Instantaneous pausing + * Frame-by-Frame playback + * Finer speed control + * Timeshift for most medias + * On-the-fly recording for all medias + * RTSP trickplay support + +New Decoders: + * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) + * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) + * True HD/MLP + * Blu-Ray Linear PCM + * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) + * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 + * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer + * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard + +Demuxers: + * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files + * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb) + * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD + * Metadata for mod files are supported + * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported + +Encoders: + * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS) + * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder + +Access: + * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server + * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows) + * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives + * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows + * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support + 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) + * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://' + * MTP device access on Unix + * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio) + * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values Inputs: * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules - * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on - windows. + * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on + Windows. -Decoders: - * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support - * E-AC3 (A/52b) support +Playlist: + * Export the playlist in HTML + * Lua script for BBC radio playback + * Better metadata handling and reading + +Linux/Windows interface: + * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux + * Various fixes for skins2 interface + * Recently played items list + * Interface toolbar customizations + * Various Improvements on the Qt interface: + - More menus actions + - Finer speed slider + - Improvements on many dialogs + - New dialog for plugins listing + - Fixed-size mode for videos + - 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 + * Additional usability improvements Stream output: * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module. * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible. * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream. + * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module. + * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again. + +Maemo Port: + * New Maemo port with: + - an interface based on Hildon framework. + - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library. + +Windows CE Port: + EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done. + +Mac OS X Port: + * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations + * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc + +Audio output: + * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins + * Surround support for PulseAudio + +Video output: + * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output + * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen + (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders + * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'. + The old image video output has been removed. + * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was + withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead. + +Miscellanous: + * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications + +Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9: +--------------------------------- + +Decoders: + * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 + +Demuxers: + * Various fixes related to real demuxer + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel + - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item + instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the + main controller window. + * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard + +Mac OS X Port: + * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs + +New Localizations: + * Indonesian + * Bengali + * Updates of other localizations + +Various bugfixes: + * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers. + * Lots of small bugfixes. + * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows + * Telnet fixes on Windows + * Resampling fixes when transcoding + +Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a: +--------------------------------- + +Security update: + * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276) + +Bunch of small bugfixes. + + +Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6: +-------------------------------- +New Localizations: + * Ukranian + +Security updates: + * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032) + * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036) + + +Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5: +-------------------------------- +Security updates: + * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654) + * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds + +Features: + * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2 + +Various bugfixes: + * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks + * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local) + +Windows port: + * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys + * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access + +Qt Interface: + * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states + * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled + * Various fixed in playlist + +Access: + * MMAP module is now deactivated by default + +Translations: + * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation + + +Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4: +------------------------------------ +Various bugfixes: + * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread + * Fixes several memory leaks. + +Mac OS X port: + * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier ) + * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences. + * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates + +Windows port: + * Stability fix for the video output. Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3: