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Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0
Important notes
- This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
- "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
- Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a later point
- The default Interface is now Qt Interface on linux and windows.
- The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
- The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>- You can then use commands like:
@test marq-marquee Goodbye
- These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
- The HTTP Interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
- If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to edit the ".hosts" file.
- On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
- If you're using the old http interface, it's located in /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
- On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
- On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
- The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
- Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
- Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
- New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
Important Changes
Playlist
- Vastly improved playlist support:
- Media library support
- "Live search"
- Shoutcast TV listings
- Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
- Album art support
- User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
- (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
- User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See share/luameta/README.txt
Input/Demuxers
- UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
- DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
- Proxy support for MMSH stream
- JACK audio input support
- MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
- Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
- Fixed aiff stereo file
- Fixed audio glitch on seek
- Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
- AAC tags support
- APEv1/2 tags support
- Improved ID3v2 tags support
- Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
- Raw video support
- Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
- Tivo Series 2 support
- v4l2 access module support
- CD+G karaoke Files support
- MXF files support
Decoders
- VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
- MKV USF subtitles support
- HTML based subtitles support
- Flash Screen Video support
- CamStudio Screen Video support
- DOSBox Capture support
- Karl Morton's Video support
- limited atrac3 support
- Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
- New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files: Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
- Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, Tivo, DVB/ATSC)
- H.264 PAFF support
- DNxHD / VC-3 support
- NellyMoser ASAO support
- APE (Monkey audio) support
- VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
Encoders
- Flash Screen Video support
Video output and filters
- Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
- New puzzle video output filter
- Rewrite motion detection video filter
- New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
- New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
- New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
- Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML tags
- Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
- New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
- New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This was previously part of the mosaic module.
- Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
- Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
- Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
- Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
Audio output and filters
- Replay gain support.
- Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
- New spatializer audio filter.
Stream output
- RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
- New RTP payload formats:
- Speex voice audio codec
- ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
- G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
- UDP-Lite transport for RTP
- DCCP transport for RTP
- Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
Interfaces
- Windows/Linux
- Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
- All
- Improved user interaction
- Improved mouse gestures
- Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
- Unix
- Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
- Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale.
- Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
Linux Port
- VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
Mac OS X Port
- Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party applications. (Google Summer Of Code Student project).
LibVLC
- Event management and various improvement in libvlc. (Part of a Google Summer Of Code Student project).
Capture
Localisations
- Finnish
- Persian
- Polish
Changes in between
Links to changelogs between:
- 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i
- 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h
- 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g
- 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f
- 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e
- 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d
- 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c
- 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b
- 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a
Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
Playlist
- Shoutcast TV listings support
Input
- Support for RTSP authentication
- Support for adding subtitles on the fly
- Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
- ATSC support for DVB input
- Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
- Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
- Improved support for Flash Video files
Decoders
- Native WMV9/VC-1 support
- WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
- VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
- The True Audio Lossless codec support
- Matroska WavPack support
- Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
- Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
- Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
Video output
- Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
- Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
- Improved libcaca support
Interfaces
- All
- New hotkeys for crop and zoom
- Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
- Windows
- Systray support in skins
- OS X
- Support for Apple Remote control
- Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
- New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
- right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
- Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
- Linux
- Notifications using notification-daemon
Windows port
- Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
- Windows 9x/ME users:
- Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
- Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
- Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location: http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
- Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder C:\Windows\System
- Windows 9x/ME users:
- Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
- Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
Localization
- Add Czech
- Add Slovak
- Add Malay
- Add Slovenian
Developers
- Updates to the libvlc API
- Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
