Version History of VLC Player 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