From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:14:52 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Synchronise NEWS between 1.1 and master X-Git-Tag: 1.2.0-pre1~6367 X-Git-Url: https://git.sesse.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=676c2926fcf869212b6a8c965e2d8240d4df6518;p=vlc Synchronise NEWS between 1.1 and master --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2adfdca7f4..e3a97c5c1e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ Stream output: Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-pre1: ------------------------------------ Important changes for users: + * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output. + Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead. Important changes for packagers: * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be @@ -27,6 +29,13 @@ Important changes for packagers: by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to launch each time. + * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses + - xproto, + - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb), + - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils), + - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support. + * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically + required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback. Access: * Support for the sftp protocol @@ -53,6 +62,7 @@ Decoders: * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support) * Direct rendering is always used with H.264 in avcodec module * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec + * Support for VP8 codec (source code version only) Demuxers: * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet) @@ -60,6 +70,7 @@ Demuxers: * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files * Various EGP improvements * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files + * Many fixes on Matroska support and support for webm format Playlist: * WPL and ZPL playlist support