vlc | branch: master | Jean-Baptiste Kempf <[email protected]> | Sat May 24 16:30:50 2014 +0200| [3c76752f2e175931dabaead3c79cc43ccfecf76c] | committer: Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Update NEWS > http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=3c76752f2e175931dabaead3c79cc43ccfecf76c --- NEWS | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 25eb7a7..745ffff 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,18 +7,29 @@ Important changes: Core: * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples * Add extensions download from external repositories + * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible + * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies Access: * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access. New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes. * MMS audio selection on split audio streams - * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation - * Digital Cinema Package support + * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection + and navigation + * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM + * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs Decoder: + * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding + * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding + * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder + * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins + * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi) + supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9 - * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink + * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, + Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs * Teletext subtitles display improvements * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora @@ -26,9 +37,10 @@ Decoder: * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files * New jpeg image decoder * Add tx3g subtitles decoder - * Add Media Foundation Transform decoder - * Add decoder module based on GStreamer. Currently supports only video decode. - * Add mmal based mpeg2/h264 decoder + * New SVG image decoder + * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv + * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes + * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments Encoder: * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262 @@ -39,28 +51,36 @@ Encoder: Demuxer: * New CAF format module - * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking - * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking - * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles - * FLAC packets validation using CRC + * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking, + streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg + * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking, + synchronization and tracks exclusion + * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations + * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps * Support Opus in MKV * Support VP8 in OGG * Basic support for WebVTT - * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS + * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS * Support HDPR TS files + * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles + * FLAC packets validation using CRC * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer - * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec - * AVI fixes for uncompressed and indexed bitmaps * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM + * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec + * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio + and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion + * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms) + * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV + * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename Muxers: * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect * Support VP8 in OGG - * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 + * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS Video Output: * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration @@ -77,10 +97,15 @@ Video Filter: * New Freeze effect filter * Support I422 and J422 in transform * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420 + * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage Audio Output: * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio * Audio device notifications for WASAPI + * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound + * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules + * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes + * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules Streaming: * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs @@ -95,6 +120,7 @@ Streaming: with --no-sout-all * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234 + * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP libVLC: * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions @@ -109,9 +135,9 @@ Interfaces: * Add record button in Qt menus * New module for core dialogs on iOS * New layout for Qt buttons customization + * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS Mac OS X Interface: - * Support to continue media playback where it was left off * Fixes for advanced preferences * Option to increase playlist font size @@ -126,6 +152,21 @@ Removed modules: * dirac encoder: use schroedinger +Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4: +-------------------------------- + +Demuxers: + * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads + +Video Output: + * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows + +Mac OS X: + * Fix DVD playback regression + * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9 + * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks + + Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3: -------------------------------- @@ -293,7 +334,7 @@ Mac OS X interface: Translations: * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, - Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, + Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek _______________________________________________ vlc-commits mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-commits
