X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d61cdc12884e8b6b278adfaa83a01f87da3e636a;hb=a9e47d715ebb0e67bd1e177b321beac0d3c453e7;hp=82a2f61c9b1aeddc928fe2ff501f46811ab22939;hpb=b14b18857f6ac240d9d850c658c1eb1e9d038d46;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 82a2f61c9b..d61cdc1288 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git: +Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.2.0-git: ------------------------------------ Important changes for packagers: @@ -7,41 +7,170 @@ Important changes for packagers: not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz + * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git + * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git + Access - * Multiple files are supported from RAR files + * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices * DVB-S scanning support * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection + * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders + * Blu-Ray Discs integration 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) + * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format + in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now Codecs * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc + * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV + * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards + * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger + The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one + +Core: + * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore + * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites + * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded Demuxers: - * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib). + * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib) + * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm * Ogg seeking improvements + * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2 Interfaces * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one - * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements - * Qt: port to Mac platform + * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes + * Qt: effects dialogs rework + * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist + * Qt: port to MacOS X platform + * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support + and important cleanups and optimisations + * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface Video Output: * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update) - -Audio Filter: - * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor + * New video output for iOS platform + * New video output using EGL + * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1 + * Various vmem improvements 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 + * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos + +Audio Output: + * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS + +Audio Filter: + * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor Stream output: - * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff), + * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3, venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{ 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 + * Major rework of VoD support + * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming: + #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard... + * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming: + #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std... + * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on + a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std... + +Services Discovery: + * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces + +libVLC: + * New capabilities for libVLC: + ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation + ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the + list of available audio and video filters + +Removed modules: + * asademux: use libass only + * fake: use the new image demuxers + * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules + * id3tag: use taglib + * upnp: use upnp_intel + + +Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5: +---------------------------------- + +Security: + * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives, + VideoLAN-SA-1006 + +Access: + * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL + +Services Discovery: + * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com + +Demuxers: + * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API + * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues + * Playback of live http .Webm streams + * Taglib thread-safety fix + +Decoders: + * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from + "Puget Systems" + +Skins: + * Add an icon to VLC on Linux + +Video Output: + * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB + +Interfaces: + * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration + * fixes on luatelnet and luarc + +Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and + TS-mux, Qt) + +libLVC: + * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64) + * Miscellaneous fixes + +Translations: + * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch, + Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician, + French and Ukrainian + * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek + * New Asturian translation + + +Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1: +---------------------------------- + +Mac OS X: + * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible + by 16 + * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider + +Demuxer: + * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams + +Qt interface: + * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files + * Various fixes for Windows + +Translations: + * New Armenian translation + * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk, + Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4: