X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ea2f4500276e003cb6b4b2fe073c3988550515dd;hb=878747abedefb916a70c3b346f7167cde1ab2bbb;hp=a17ce095b7f2dace2106bee5370434a5e4ea57e0;hpb=3f180b7ffe3fa63918250ac304369a200321b927;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a17ce095b7..ea2f450027 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,192 @@ $Id$ -Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2-test1: ------------------------------------------------------ +Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5-svn (not yet released): +-------------------------------------------------------- + +Core support: + * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...) + * Support for downloading updates + +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 [ not included in 0.8.5-test1 ] + * Podcast support + +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 + - 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 + - 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: * Rewrite of the playlist @@ -20,10 +205,10 @@ Core support: * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are - now seperated by ':' instead of ',' + 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 + * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments * Many bugfixes... Input/Demuxers: @@ -71,7 +256,6 @@ Video output: * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions) * Improvements to wall video filter * Support for font color and opacity - * Fixed Mac OS X OpenGL output Stream output: * Muxers @@ -104,7 +288,13 @@ Windows port: * Support for no-decoration windows MacOS X port: - * Many Tiger related fixes + * 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 @@ -116,22 +306,17 @@ Pocket PC port: Mozilla Plugin: * Javascript fixes - * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back + * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed) IE Plugin: * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin Translations: - The following languages were added + The following languages were added: * Catalan * Danish - * Greek - * Hindi - * Pashto - * Burmese - * Tetum - * Tagalog - * Bengali + * Turkish + Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1: -----------------------------------------------------