X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=f09175103184e08769c3dc794008fb1a52ef2053;hb=9d4515ac4873076af85af33270d126818c0e8639;hp=c41d4e1068cb64babbb2d24ab41557d8d7340fad;hpb=093bcba4f29c91f96e8e45534d0f447120756dcb;p=vlc diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c41d4e1068..f091751031 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,25 +1,42 @@ Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git: ------------------------------------ +Important notes: + * 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 + title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4 + * 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". + 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. + - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate), + --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and + --http-crl (optional CRL). + * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly. + Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively. + Important changes for packagers: * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script. Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions. - * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment + * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed. * 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 Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later. + Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported. * 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 - Core: * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite: Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs - x11 (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video 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 @@ -45,13 +62,27 @@ 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 decoding EBU subtitles (.stl) + * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding + * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one + * 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 + * EIA-608 closed captions improvements + * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries + * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android Demuxers: - * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm - * Ogg seeking improvements - * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2 + * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm + * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2 + * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files + * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing + * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl) + * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files + * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements + * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling Interfaces: * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes @@ -61,11 +92,18 @@ Interfaces: * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support and important cleanups and optimisations * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface + * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output * 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 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" 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 + * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery + * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML Video Output: * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update) @@ -75,10 +113,16 @@ Video Output: * Various vmem improvements * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for chroma conversion + * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface + * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output + * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which requires a Quartz Extreme capable Mac Audio Output: * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS * New audio output in memory (amem) + * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output + * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android + * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate) Video Filter: * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering @@ -90,6 +134,9 @@ Video Filter: * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay * New anti-flickering filter + * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing + * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting + blackbox and customizable shadow Audio Filter: * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor @@ -134,6 +181,83 @@ Removed modules: * upnp: use upnp_intel * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp + * removal of the noise filter + * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs + * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be + removed in Growl's next release, too. + + +Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11: +---------------------------------- + +Security: + * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587) + and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588). + +Mac OS X: + * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted + * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API + * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface + * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB + * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling + +Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin: + * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32 + * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32 + +Demuxers/Meta Readers: + * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma + +Muxers/Output: + * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players + +Extensions: + * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues + +Qt Interface: + * Fix quitting on Linux + * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows + * Miscellaneous + +Win32 port: + * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash + +Translations: + * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian + + +Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10: +--------------------------------- + +Windows and Mac OS X: + * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues + +Mac OS X Interface: + * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB + * Fix for various crashes and small issues + +Demuxer: + * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser + +Audio output: + * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one + +Win32 port: + * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module + +Miscellaneous fixes in: + * Windows 7 taskbar buttons + * Qt interface + * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer + * RTP output and XML export + * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows + * v4l2 access + +Translations: + * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda, + Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish, + Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations + * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9: