NEWS
上传用户:riyaled888
上传日期:2009-03-27
资源大小:7338k
文件大小:30k
- $Id: NEWS 9326 2004-11-14 18:15:34Z fkuehne $
- 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
- 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
- * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
- * 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)
- * Improved DVD support:
- - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
- - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
- * 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).
- 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 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
- * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
- * 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:
- 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 (wxWindows)
- * A few skins2 improvements
- * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
- * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
- * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
- * Improved CORBA control module
- Mac OS X port:
- * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
- * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
- * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
- 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:
- * Server/client network synchronization module
- * VBrick streams fully supported
- * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
- * VLM enhancements
- Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
- * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
- * Improved HTTP daemon.
- * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
- Codecs:
- * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
- (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
- * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
- * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
- * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
- (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
- * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
- Input:
- * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
- file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
- fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
- * Improved directory access module.
- * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
- * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
- * New options to pass meta info to the input.
- * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
- (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
- Demux:
- * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
- * mmsh streaming fixes.
- * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
- Subtitles:
- * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
- * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
- * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
- Stream output:
- * Improved session announcement system.
- * Minimize threads usage by default.
- * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
- * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
- * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
- * Improved transrater.
- * Meta info options used by the muxers.
- * New configuration system.
- * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
- VideoLAN manager:
- * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
- and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
- * Supports live streams and VoD.
- * Supports scheduling.
- * Telnet interface for vlm.
- * HTTP interface for vlm.
- Interfaces:
- * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
- - Ability to embed video output.
- - Support for bitmap fonts.
- - Lots of improvements.
- * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
- - New design and set of icons.
- - Ability to embed video output.
- - Support for hotkeys.
- - Support for bookmarks.
- * Mac OS X
- - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
- - Better hotkeys handling.
- Mac OS X port:
- * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
- * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
- * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
- * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
- Win32 port:
- * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
- * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
- * Improved Windows installer.
- Linux port:
- * PowerPC fixes.
- Misc:
- * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
- * Roku HD1000 audio output.
- Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
- ---------------------------------
- Mac OS X:
- * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
- * Playing MOD files is working now.
- Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
- ---------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
- * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
- Codecs:
- * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
- (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
- * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
- * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
- Playlist:
- * Internal improvments
- * Improved import/export
- Input:
- * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
- container formars.
- * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
- small and strange formats.
- * New PVA demux.
- * New MOD audio demux.
- * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
- * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
- * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
- * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
- Stream output:
- * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
- * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
- * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
- Service discovery:
- * Fixed sdp in SAP.
- Mac OS X port:
- * New opengl video output plugin.
- Win32 port:
- * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
- * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
- Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
- ---------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
- Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
- * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
- * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
- This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
- * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
- * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
- subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
- Playlist:
- * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
- * Playlist sorting
- Input:
- * RTP/RTSP support.
- * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
- * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
- * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
- * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
- * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
- * Reworked DVB tuning.
- * Better Icecast support.
- * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
- * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
- Codecs:
- * Support for Theora video encoding.
- * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
- * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
- * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
- * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
- * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
- * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
- Stream output:
- * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
- * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
- * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
- * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
- * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
- * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
- * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
- * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
- * Preliminary RTP support.
- * Fixes to SAP announces.
- Interface:
- * Skins:
- - Bugfixes
- - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
- * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
- * wxWindows
- - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
- - Improvements and help in preferences
- - New streaming wizard
- - Revised Disc Open menu
- * HTTP
- - Improvements of the standard pages
- - Support for new commands
- * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
- Service discovery:
- * Many fixes to the SAP module
- * SAP now supports HTTP streams
- Subtitles:
- * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
- * Text subtitles autodetection.
- * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
- * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
- * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
- * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
- * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
- * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
- * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
- Mac OS X port:
- * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
- * Save playlist.
- * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
- * Support for Panther.
- * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
- * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
- Win32 port:
- * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
- * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
- * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
- * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
- * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
- * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
- * Multimonitor support (untested).
- * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
- Linux port:
- * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
- * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
- * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
- iPaq port:
- * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
- Miscellaneous:
- * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
- * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
- * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
- * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
- Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
- ---------------------------------
- Core support:
- * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
- Stream output:
- * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
- * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
- Access input:
- * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
- * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
- Interfaces:
- * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
- UNIX ports:
- * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
- * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
- Win32 port:
- * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
- iPaq port:
- * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
- Miscellaneous:
- * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
- * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
- mpeg1/2 videos.
- Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
- ---------------------------------
- Core support:
- * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
- * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
- after a pause.
- Stream output:
- * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
- * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
- * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
- UNIX ports:
- * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
- * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
- Win32 port:
- * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
- iPaq port:
- * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
- Miscellaneous:
- * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
- * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
- mpeg1/2 videos.
- Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
- ---------------------------------
- Core support:
- * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
- * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
- after a pause.
- Stream output:
- * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
- * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
- * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
- * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
- * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
- Win32 port:
- * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
- * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
- * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
- UNIX ports:
- * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
- * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
- use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
- iPaq port:
- * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
- * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
- * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
- * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
- * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
- Interfaces:
- * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
- * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
- * A new CORBA control plugin.
- Input demux:
- * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
- Miscellaneous:
- * Improved build system.
- * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
- * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
- * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
- Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
- Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
- ---------------------------------
- Core Support:
- * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
- Input access:
- * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
- * Fixed large file support on Windows
- * Video 4 Linux support
- * CD Digital Audio support
- * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
- Input demux:
- * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
- * Support for OpenDML avi files
- * More complete .mp4/.mov support
- * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
- Codecs:
- * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
- * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
- * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
- * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
- * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
- * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
- * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
- Interfaces:
- * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
- * New HTTP remote control interface
- Stream output:
- * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
- * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
- * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
- * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
- Miscellaneous:
- * New reset option for the preferences
- * You can set your language in the prefences
- * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
- * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
- * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
- * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
- UNIX ports:
- * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
- * New skinable interface ported to X11.
- * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
- Mac OS X port:
- * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
- * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
- * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
- * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
- * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
- * New icons by Davor Orel.
- * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
- * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
- * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
- * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
- Win32 port:
- * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
- * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
- * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
- * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
- * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
- * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
- * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
- BeOS port:
- * Interface localization
- * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
- * A few new keyboard shortcuts
- * New full-featured Preferences window
- Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
- ---------------------------------
- Core Support:
- * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
- * support for skins at the interface level
- * new OSD module using Freetype2
- * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
- * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
- input level before dropping out of date frames.
- * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
- Input access:
- * fixed HTTP redirects
- * support for opening an entire directory
- * EOF should be detected more reliably
- * new video4linux access plug-in
- * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
- Input demux:
- * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
- * fix for some ogg web radio streams
- * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
- Codecs:
- * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
- * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
- * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
- * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
- * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
- * new codec for raw I420 video
- * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
- Interfaces:
- * improvements to wxWindows based interface
- (although it still misses some important features)
- * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
- Stream output:
- * new HTTP output support
- * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
- * fixed AV synchronization issues
- Miscellaneous:
- * support for oldstyle id3 genres
- UNIX ports:
- * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
- Mac OS X port:
- * reorderable playlist
- * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
- * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
- * support for mono audio output devices
- * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
- * fixed several cosmetic issues
- * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
- * the messages window remembers more lines
- * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
- * http and ogg stream output options
- * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
- Win32 port:
- * new skinnable interface
- * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
- iPAQ familiar Linux port:
- * support for FLAC audio format
- * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
- * playlist
- * network tab in the interface
- * "apply" handling in preferences
- Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
- ---------------------------------
- Core support:
- * advanced config options are now hidden by default
- * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
- * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
- * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
- Mac OS X
- * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
- * DTS S/PDIF support
- Codecs:
- * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
- * support for FLAC audio through libflac
- * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
- * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
- Stream output:
- * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
- * new --ttl option for Time To Live
- DVD support:
- * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
- UNIX ports:
- * fixed the GNU-pth support
- Win32 port:
- * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
- plugins
- * localization support via gettext is now fully working
- * rc interface is now fully useable
- * fixed the MSVC project files generation
- Mac OS X port:
- * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
- M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
- bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
- iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
- * VLC now uses the default audio device
- * new info panel
- * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
- * support for mouse gestures
- * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
- Linupy port:
- * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
- YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
- Miscellaneous:
- * improved ID3 tag detection
- * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
- not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
- * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
- gestures
- * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
- Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
- ---------------------------------
- Mac OS X port:
- * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
- English was set as the preferred language
- Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
- --------------------------------
- Core support:
- * new mouse gesture interface
- * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
- playing
- Input access:
- * various minor fixes on the network inputs
- * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
- * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
- Input demux:
- * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
- * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
- continuity counter
- Codecs:
- * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
- DVD support:
- * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
- without the user consent
- UNIX ports:
- * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
- popup menu
- * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
- * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
- * ALSA: fixed mono files output
- Mac OS X port:
- * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
- * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
- * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
- * playlist enhancements
- * added half, normal and double video window menu items
- * new step forward/step backward commands
- * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
- * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
- * vlc.app is now VLC.app
- Win32 port:
- * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
- * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
- * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
- BeOS port:
- * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
- * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
- Opie port:
- * native video output is working again
- * only commandline interface support
- * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
- Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
- --------------------------------
- Core structure:
- * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
- * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
- S/PDIF and multi-channel support
- * localization support via gettext on most architectures
- * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
- multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
- and A/52 streams are supported)
- * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
- Input access:
- * mms:// support
- * ftp:// support
- * stability fixes in the HTTP access
- * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
- * VCD entry points support
- * VCD image file support
- Input demux:
- * support for *.asf format
- * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
- * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
- * support for ogg encapsulation
- * support for raw DV format
- * support for *.wav format
- * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
- * raw AAC support
- Stream discovery & playlists:
- * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
- * support for .m3u file format
- * support for .asx file format
- * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
- Codecs:
- * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
- (only available with the .avi demux)
- * support for ADPCM audio codec
- * support for raw PCM data
- * support for Cinepak video codec
- * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
- * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
- * support for Xvid codec
- * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
- * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
- * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
- from sources)
- * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
- H263i, MJPEG A/B
- * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
- DVD support:
- * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
- Miscellaneous:
- * new WxWindows interface
- * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
- device and the channels configuration
- * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
- * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
- format that VLC can play
- * new swedish translation
- * enhancements of the playlist window
- * new messages window to see debug info
- * fixed a few crashes
- iPaq port:
- * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
- * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
- * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
- * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working