X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=dac943ab7ddf284dc4ce0aff754449f1ff42d206;hb=5d04943cbd4190513343beffa30e71d31801b052;hp=662eae95727e2df5ef4bf58e3cf7426816e221b0;hpb=145e92db783b9de7a5ae3796ba5303b2f478f038;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 662eae9572..dac943ab7d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,34 +1,392 @@ $Id$ -Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.7.3: -This version is in development and not yet released. +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 + * 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: - * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added funtionality - * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems + * Rewrite of the playlist + - Tree structure + - Input preparsing (for meta-data) + - Grouping (by artist, ...) support + * 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 + * 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: + * 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 (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 + - ASF improvements + * VLM / VoD + - Ability to load a configuration file on startup + - Seeking support in VoD streams + * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system) + +Interfaces: + * 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 + * Lirc + - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc + +Windows port: + * Screensaver disabling fix + * 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: + * 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 + * Turkish + + +Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: +----------------------------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available) + * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface) + +Windows port: + * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0) + * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input + * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen + +WinCE port: + * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output). + +Audio Output: + * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements + +Video Output: + * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available + +Demuxers: + * Fixed crash with ODML avi files + * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files + * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming + +Stream Output: + * Encoders: + * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module + * 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 + * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...) * New plugins cache to speed up launch time - * Fix crash with deinterlace switching * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item - * Daemon mode - * Technical improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem + * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background) + * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem Input: - * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X (Stream your desktop) + * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X + (Stream your desktop) * Improved DVD support: - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming) - * Experimental --input-slave option to start playing with multi-input + * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it ) * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams + * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access + (selection of titles/chapters). -Demux: - * Support iTunes Music Store previews +Demuxers: + * Support for iTunes Music Store previews * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams) * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support * Windows Media Server RTSP support * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets) * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) - * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skin2 is the current interface) + * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface) + * Improved Ogg demuxer + * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video. + * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams Codecs: * G.726 audio support @@ -36,24 +394,54 @@ Codecs: * MPEG-4 text support * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743) * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering + * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska Stream Output: - * Text track muxing for mp4 - * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser - * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS - * H.263 RTP streaming support - * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) - * Experimental WAV muxer - * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now + Encoders: + * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on, + everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well + * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder + * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output) + * Frame rate selection in the transcoder + * DVB subtitles encoder + * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame + * Improved vorbis/theora encoding + Muxers: + * Text track muxing for mp4 + * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser + * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS + * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) + * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS. + * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio) + * Improved ASF muxer + Misc: + * H.263 RTP streaming support + * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now + * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental) Audio Output: * New audio equalizer filter * Very trivial volume normalizer + * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo + * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect + * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19 + +Video Output: + * Roku HD1000 Video output + * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X) + with support for effects. + * Improved filter and subpictures support : + - New filters can be streamed. + - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video + - Centralized scaling and blending + * New filters : + - "time", to display current time + - "marq", to display a marquee Interfaces: * OSD sliders for volume and postition information * OSD icons for Play and Pause - * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces + * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows) * A few skins2 improvements * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface @@ -68,24 +456,27 @@ Mac OS X port: Linux port: * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible) * Experimental SVG rendering module + * Support for DVB CAM modules. Windows port: * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3) + * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode) +WinCE port: + * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output). + Mozilla plugin: * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc. Misc: - * Roku HD1000 Video output * Server/client network synchronization module * VBrick streams fully supported - * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported * Cisco IP/TV streams supported - * Experimental OpenGL video output for X11 and win32 + * VLM enhancements Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2: --------------------------------