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Changelog for VLC Media Player 1.0.0 RC1
Playback:
* Instantaneous pausing
* Frame-by-Frame playback
* Finer speed control
* On-the-fly recording for all medias
* Timeshift for most medias
* RTSP trickplay support
* Subtitles core improvements and fixes
Decoders:
* New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
* New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
* New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
* New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
* New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
* Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
* New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
* Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
* Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
* Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
Demuxers:
* Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
* Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
* Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
* Metadata for mod files are supported
* GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
* New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
* New dirac demuxer for raw dirac streams
Encoders:
* Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
* Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
Access:
* RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
* On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
* Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
* DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
* New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
* DVB scanning on linux
* EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
* On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
* Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
* MTP device access on Unix
* CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
* :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
Inputs:
* Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
* Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
Windows.
Playlist:
* Export the playlist in HTML
* Lua script for BBC radio playback
* Better metadata handling and reading
Linux/Windows interface:
* Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
* Various fixes for skins2 interface
* Recently played items list
* Interface toolbar customizations
* Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
- More menus actions
- Finer speed slider
- Improvements on many dialogs
- New dialog for plugins listing
- Fixed-size mode for videos
- Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
* Better integration in GTK environments
Mac OS X Interface:
* Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
* Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
* Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
* Additional usability improvements
Stream output:
* Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
* Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
* bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
* Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
* Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
Maemo Port:
* New Maemo port with:
- an interface based on Hildon framework.
- scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
Windows CE Port:
EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
Mac OS X Port:
* Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
* Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
Audio output:
* Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
* Surround support for PulseAudio
Video output:
* Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
* Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
(hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
* Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
The old image video output has been removed.
* Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
Miscellanous:
* Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
VLC Player Downloads
Last edited by slavezero; 05-14-2009 at 11:51 PM.
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What's new in VLC 1.1.8:
· Security update regarding video width concerning some demuxers
· Support for a new Dirac encoder based on libschroedinger
· Package of the new VP8/Webm encoder 'Bali'
· Notable updates in .mp4, .ogg, .ape demuxers
· Major updates in most language translations
· Fixes in skins2 supports of Winamp2 skins
· Upgrade on the look of VLC for Mac OS X
· Auto-detection for .txt subtitles is fixed
· Fixes on Windows integration, notably regarding volume keys
· Codecs updates
· Many miscellaneous fixes
What's new in VLC 1.1.2:
Demuxers:
· Avformat fps displaying fix
· TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
Audio filters:
· fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback of mono streams, especially on Windows
Interface and extensions:
· Youtube and other scripts updates
· Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
What's new in VLC 1.1.0:
Ready for HD:
· GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
· GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
· DSP decoding using OpenMax IL, for compatible embedded devices
· Improved support for MKV HD, including seeking fixes, and 7.1 channels codecs
· Support for new codecs, like Blu-Ray subtitles, MPEG-4 lossless and VP8
· NB: so far, on Windows for GPU decoding, VideoLAN is recommending nVidia® GPU, until ATI® drivers are working with VLC architecture, and until the VLC developers get access to some Intel® hardware supporting GPU decoding.
Extensions:
· New add-ons and script framework so one can personalize its vlc.
· Written in lua
2 main types of scripts:
· content add-ons, integrated in the playlist
· functionnalities extensions, like metadata searching on the web, or subtitles look-ups
· Very Simple
Web improvements:
· Support for WebM decoding and encoding
· Improved web plugins
· Better streaming capabilities
Better Audio experience:
· Integrated playlist in the Qt4 interface
· Multiple views (like album art) in the playlist in the Qt4 interface
· Support for AMR-NB, Mpeg-4 ALS, Vorbis 6.1/7.1, FLAC 6.1/7.1 and WMAS
· CDDB and CD-Text works now on the Windows port when listening to CD-Audio
· Support for DVD-Audio files (.aob)
· Improved meta-data and album-art support
Faster, Lighter:
· Faster decoding, with up to 40% speed-ups, in HD resolutions
· First part of the Video Output core rewrite
· Removal or rewrite of dozens of modules, code simplification and tens of thousands of lines of code removed
· Some functionalities that are less used are now moved to extensions
· More assembly optimizatinons, especially SSSE3/SSE4 and ARM Neon
· Fewer threads used
Better for developers:
· Simplified and improved libVLC, removal of exceptions for better C integration
· New phonon-backend for Qt applications, on all platforms
· New C++ bindings
What's new in VLC 1.1.0 RC:
· GPU and DSP decoding, depending on the platform
· Faster and more stable
· New codecs and HD codecs enhancements
· Webm and VP8 support
· MKV, mp4 and avi improvements
· Extensions
· Important code cleanup and rewrite
· Interface and playlist reworked
· Completely Free
What's new in VLC 1.0.5:
Decoders:
· SubRip extra styles improvements
· Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
Translations:
· Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali, Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish Russian, Slovak translation updates
· New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
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