vlc | branch: master | Jean-Baptiste Kempf <[email protected]> | Sat Oct 8 17:42:10 2016 +0200| [c910cc6cf559c66eb62511591349642eccc44088] | committer: Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Update NEWS > http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=c910cc6cf559c66eb62511591349642eccc44088 --- NEWS | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8c125ea..50ad866 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,23 +11,30 @@ Important changes: * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7 to run VLC. Core: - * Support wayland surface type - * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame - * Support portable version of Windows build * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...) and rewrite the parsing of those files - * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8 * Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...) - * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3,m4a,aac,dts...) + * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...), similar to subs + * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD + * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR) + * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast + * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8 + * Support portable version of Windows build + * Support wayland surface type + * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame + * Refactor preparsing input Access: * New NFS access module using libnfs - * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.) * New SMB access module using libdsm * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles + * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.) * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module + * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth + stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module + * Support HLSv4-7, including TS and raw muxing and ID3 tags * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...) * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items, @@ -38,50 +45,57 @@ Access: * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories - * Support for SAT>IP server dialect for RTSP (satip://) * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back. * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds> * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks + * Improvements on DVB scanning + * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support Decoder: * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles - * Support for Daala video - * Support for AV1 video + * Support for experimental Daala video + * Support for experimental AV1 video * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2 - * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec + * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11 + * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode + * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows + * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android) * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop + * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune) - * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX - * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 - * Basic TTML subtitles support - * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode - * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows + * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX codecs + * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device and OS version * Support for the OggSpots video codec * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present + * Support VPX high bit depth support + * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions Demuxers: * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS) * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream * Support Daala in Ogg - * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments - * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov - * Support SBV subtitles - * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files - * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov - * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata + * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including: + * Support for fragmented MP4 + * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov + * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files + * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov + * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads + * Support for XiphQt(MP4) vorbis and Flac + * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10 in MP4 + * Support GoPro HiLight chapters * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including: * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others) * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings @@ -90,35 +104,37 @@ Demuxers: * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI + * Support WMV extended content metadata * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files - * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth - stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module - * Improved smooth streaming compatibility + * Support SBV subtitles + * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS - * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track In MP4 with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads. - * Support for XiphQt(MP4) vorbis and Flac - * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10 in MP4 + * Support raw h265/hevc files + * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps + * Rewrite MKV seeking + * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1 Stream filter: * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder * Added stream prebuffering plugin * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter - + Demux filter: * Added a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing Audio output: - * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default. - It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3, 5.1/7.1 and float - output. - * Added Tizen audio module. - * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/EAC3/TRUEHD). + * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default + module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3, + 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version. + * Added Tizen audio module + * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/EAC3/TRUEHD) + * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio -Audio filters and output: +Audio filters: * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler) - * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif. This new - * converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937. + * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif, + this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame Video ouput: * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo _______________________________________________ vlc-commits mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/vlc-commits
