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- VLC Media Player 2.1.0 Release Notes:
- Important changes:
- * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
- * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
- Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
- * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
- compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
- 3rd party libraries (contrib):
- * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
- Core:
- * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
- better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
- * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
- * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
- * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
- * Port to Android
- * Port to iOS
- * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
- * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
- * Remove SQL support
- Decoders:
- * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
- * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
- * Support for Ulead DV audio
- * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
- Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
- * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
- * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
- * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
- * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
- * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
- * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
- * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
- * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
- Encoders:
- * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
- * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
- * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
- Access:
- * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
- remove support for previous OS X releases
- * Major improvements in DASH support
- * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
- * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
- * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
- * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
- * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
- * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
- * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
- * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
- vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
- * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
- * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
- Demuxers:
- * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
- * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
- * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
- * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
- * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
- * Support for total number of tracks in major container
- * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
- * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
- * Support for more MJPEG streams
- * Add support for liveleak streams
- * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
- * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
- * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
- Audio output:
- * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
- * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
- * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
- * Android AudioTrack audio output support
- * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
- * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
- * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
- This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
- distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
- * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
- * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
- Audio Filters:
- * New remapping channel filter
- * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
- * New VSXu visualization plugin
- * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
- * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
- * New gain audio filter
- Video Outputs:
- * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
- * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
- * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
- * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
- * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
- * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
- * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
- * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
- * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
- Video Filters:
- * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
- anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
- * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
- and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
- * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
- * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
- * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
- Stream Output:
- * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
- * Options support for AVIO output module
- * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
- * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
- * Livehttp stream encryption support
- * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
- * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
- Fingerprinters:
- * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
- Interfaces:
- * configurable password for the HTTP server
- * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
- * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
- * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
- * Hotkey support for TS program selection
- * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
- * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
- rotate mode into the rotate video filter
- Services discovery:
- * UPnP A/V subtitles
- * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
- OS X Interface:
- * Add support for multiple video outputs
- * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
- controller
- * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
- * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
- * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
- - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
- * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
- * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
- VLC's internal volume level
- * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
- playback
- * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
- selection and to manage the list of presets
- * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
- multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
- * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
- * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
- * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
- * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
- * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
- * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
- * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
- * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
- date and language
- * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
- * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
- * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
- * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
- * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
- * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
- when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
- 3rd party applications
- * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
- handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
- (system-wide settings)
- * Add support for the Video Title option
- * Add support for the Boss Key
- * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
- deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
- Qt:
- * Partial support for Qt5.0
- * Menus modifications and improvements
- * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
- * Streaming output wizard rewrite
- * Add bitrate graph in information panels
- * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
- * EPG display fixes and improvements
- * Add SD pixmap sources
- * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
- * Display playlist total duration
- * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
- * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
- * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
- * Numerous fixes
- Skins2:
- * Port to OS/2
- * Extend sliders, offsets options
- * New bitmaps caching mechanism
- * Numerous fixes and improvements
- * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
- libVLC:
- * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
- to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
- and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
- * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
- * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
- media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
- * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
- * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
- libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
- * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
- Removed modules:
- * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
- * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
- * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
- * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
- * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
- * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
- * Hildon GUI
- * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
- * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
- * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
- * Broken crop video filter
- * Switcher module
- * OSD parser and menu
- * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
- * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
- * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
- * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
- * htcpcp :)
- Translations:
- * Update of all translations
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