Features in VLC (VideoLAN Client) 1.0.0 : - Rewrite of the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing ...) - Preferences improvements - XML parsers - Client-side SSL/TLS support - Massive Matroska improvements - Support for SOCKS proxy - Support for Shoutcast Meta-data - Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams - TiVo demuxer - Samba (Windows shares) access module - Dirac decoder and encoder - PNG decoder/encoder - Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec - Services discovery modules (brand new SAP module, HAL discovery, DAAP (iTunes shares), shoutcast) - Support for 20/24 bits LPCM - Video snapshot support (png or jpg) - Image file video output (png) - Mosaic (picture-in-picture system) - Pocket PC port - Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin ... Changes from VLC (VideoLAN Client) 0.9.9a to VLC 1.0.0 : • Important note: - Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses. See 'Access:' for more info. • 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 - Closed Captions using the 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 - the development form of zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore) - 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 and Mac OS X. • 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 • 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. • 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. • Miscellaneous: - Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications • New Localization: - Khmer - Mongolian - Sorani Hidden Content: You must either reply or click 'Like' to see the hidden information contained here.
