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Release Notes:
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Changes between 1.1.12 and 2.0.0:
Important notes:
Important changes for packagers:
Core:
Access:
Demuxers:
Audio Output and Filters:
Stream output:
Services Discovery:
* Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
* Upnp module was ported to Win32
libVLC:
Removed modules:
Changes between 1.1.12 and 2.0.0:
Important notes:
- The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
- Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4 - The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
- --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
- --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
- --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
- --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media. - All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
- HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
- The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]". - By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
- The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers. - By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
- The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
--http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
--http-crl (optional CRL). - RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
- Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
- *The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0. - The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported. - The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
Important changes for packagers:
- The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions. - The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed. - The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
- OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation. - The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
Core:
- Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs. - Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
- Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
- Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
- Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
Access:
- Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
- Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA module
- DVB-S scanning support on Unix
- DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
- Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
- Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
- Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
- HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
- Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
- Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
- PulseAudio audio input support
- Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now - Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
- Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
- Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
- Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
- MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
- Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
- You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
are notably concerned. - Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
- Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
- New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
- Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
- Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
- New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one - Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
- Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
- Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
- Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
- EIA-608 closed captions improvements
- Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
- Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
- One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
Demuxers:
- New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
- C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
- Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
- Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
- New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
- Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
- Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
- Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
- Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
- Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
- Improved support of tracker files
- Qt: effects dialogs rework
- Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
- Qt: port to MacOS X platform
- Qt: minor look improvements, notably on the seek bar
- Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
- Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
and important cleanups and optimisations - Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style) - Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
- Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
- Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
- Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
- Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
- Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
- Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
- The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
- lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
-I luaintf --lua-intf myscript - ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
- dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
- dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
- webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
- webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
- webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
- Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
- Qt: preferences are now searchable
- Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
- New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
- New video output for iOS platform
- Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
- Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
- Various vmem improvements
- OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
chroma conversion between YUV and RGB - New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
- Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
- Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
- New video output based on kva API for OS/2
Audio Output and Filters:
- New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
- New audio output in memory (amem)
- Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
- New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
- New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
- New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
- New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
- New simplistic Karaoke filter
- New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
- Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
- New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
- Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
- New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
- Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
- New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
- New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
- New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
- New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
- New anti-flickering filter
- New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
- New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
- Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
blackbox and customizable shadow.
NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
The Win32 font selection was improved too.
Stream output:
- New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}" - Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
- Major rework of VoD support
- New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
#delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard... - New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
#setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std... - New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std... - New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
#duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
#transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...} - New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
Services Discovery:
* Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
* Upnp module was ported to Win32
libVLC:
- New capabilities for libVLC:
- libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
- libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
list of available audio and video filters - libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
Removed modules:
- asademux: use libass only
- subsass: use libass
- fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
- hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
- id3tag: use taglib
- upnp: use upnp_intel
- removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
- removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
- removal of the noise filter
- removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
- growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
removed in Growl's next release, too. - removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
Try it out and post up what you think of it.
