VLC 0.85

[hemertje]

http://www.videolan.org/

 

$Id: NEWS 15559 2006-05-06 22:39:02Z xtophe $

 

Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5

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Core support:

* Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)

* Support for downloading updates

* Updated strings

 

Input:

* Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)

* Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input

* Improvements to the Audio CD input

- Separate playlist entries for the tracks

- Support for CDDB

* Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules

* Improved subtitles encoding support

* Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web

 

Decoders:

* Cook (Real audio) support

 

Playlist / Services discovery:

* XSPF playlist support

* Podcast support

* Updated Shoutcast to use new listing

 

Audio output:

* New JACK audio output

 

Video output:

* New video filters:

- magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image

- gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect

- bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one

* Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images

* RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.

* Improvements to the subtitles rendering

 

Stream output:

* Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams

 

Interfaces:

* System to inform the user and request information

- HTTP authentication

- Fatal errors

- ...

* wxWidgets

- VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel

- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)

- Drag & Drop support in the playlist

* Skins2

- New default skin

- Support for Winamp 2 skins

- Improved playlist handling

- Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...

* OS X

- Embedded Video output

- new Go-To-Specific-Time feature

- Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing

- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)

- support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run

- option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)

* HTTP

- New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)

- A bunch of new RPN functions

 

Windows Port:

* MSN messenger "Now playing" support

 

OS X Port:

* Mac-Intel compatibility

* Enhanced support of various audio output devices

* Growl "Now playing" support

 

*Nix port:

* Ability to log to syslog

* Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root

 

Developers:

* New libvlc API (not finished yet)

* Java bindings

* A bit more automatic testing

 

Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:

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Audio output:

* Fix a52 over spdif in alsa

* SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.

 

Decoder:

* Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg

* Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263

 

Demux:

* Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks

 

Services Discovery:

* HAL fixes, should now work with new API

* SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows

* UPnP fixes

* Avahi 0.6 support

 

Interfaces:

* Mac OS X

- fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard

 

Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:

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Core support:

* Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based

* New OSD system

 

Video output:

* Fixed problems with OpenGL output

* New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option

* Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format

 

Input:

* Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band

* IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP

* IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support

* GnomeVFS input module

* Support for RTP packet reordering

* Fixed syntax for FTP URLs

 

Decoders:

* Support for libSDL_image to import different image types

* Musepack decoder using libmpdec

* QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)

 

Services discovery:

* UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)

* Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)

 

Video filters:

* RSS feed overlay

 

Audio filters:

* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel

Mixer and Dolby Surround

 

Stream output:

* New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers

* Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs

* Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments

 

Interfaces:

- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)

* Mac OS X

- New streaming and transcoding wizard

- New extended controls panel

- New bookmarks window

- Fixed playlist sorting

- Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist

* wxWidgets

- Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.

- All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*

- Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog

- Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support

* Skins2

- Tree playlist

* HTTP

- New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)

- Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in

the names of files

- Include macro to include other files

- CGI 1.0 support

 

ActiveX plugin:

* Should now work outside IE as well

 

Mac OS X port:

* New script to delete the preferences automatically

 

Windows port:

* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming

* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output

 

Translations:

The following languages were added:

* Galician

* Korean

* Romanian

* Simplified Chinese

The following languages were re-added:

* Swedish

[Gast]

bedankt voor de TIP <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/xyxthumbs.gif" alt="" />

[Powerbooky]

Voor MacOS-X gebruikers is er nu ook de VLC 0.8.5 plugin voor Safari en Mozilla beschikbaar! Zowel PowerPC als intel versie.

 

Daarmee werkt WEB-X-TV nu ook op Mac.

 

Werkt goed! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/xyxthumbs.gif" alt="" />

[henniek]

Als ik via de Enigma web interface de VLC knop druk, heb ik wel beeld en geen geluid meer. Dit was met de ouder 084 versie wel goed.

 

Wie heeft een goede tip?

 

Ik heb Gemini 280 geinstalleerd op een Dream 7000

[Powerbooky]

Dat ligt aan Gemini 2.80; al eerder gemeld in het forum.

 

Heb het zelf ook gehad, maar met Gemini 2.70 werkt het goed.

[henniek]

bedankt,

Ik had Gemini270 nog op de stick, en inderdaad daar doet VLC085 het wel.

<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/xyxthumbs.gif" alt="" />

[rai]

Als ik via de Enigma Webinternface de boel start krijg ik een foutmelding. Moet nog steeds de PLS file saven en renamen naar M3U. Was hiervoor nu al een oplossing?

[Gast]

VLC 0.85 werkt ook prima als streaming server...

Gebruik VLCF (VLC Frontend) op je dreambox (download blue gem2.9)

Start VLC met parameter --extraintf=http op je PC

Stel VLCF in met http poort 8080 en streaming poort 31335

Ip van streaming server en bestandslocatie tuurlijk ook zetten ...

[Gast]

Is de VLCF plugin nu de vervanging van de VLC/Movieplayer plugin ? Ben de draad een beetje kwijt <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

[Gast]

VlCF is de opvolger van VLC.

Je hebt de mogelijkheid om eea. via de ab in te stellen. Gaat echter niet zo snel als ff de config file aanpassen.

Je kunt meerdere configuraties opslaan en aanroepen (handig als je meer streaming-servers hebt)

De configs! staat nu in //var/etc en moeten movieplayer_*.xml heten.

Bij vlc staat de config in //var/tuxbox/config en moet vlc.xml heten (dacht ik).

Volgens mij heeft het niks met de plugin movieplayer te maken, het is gewoon een prefix voor de file. Je zou movieplayer ook als streamingserver kunnen zien (in feite speelt de server af).

[Gast]

Kan iemand mij vertellen hoe de instellingen zijn voor versie 8.5.

Had de oudere versie lopen (7.1) om HD kanalen op mijn pc (en beamer) te kijken.

Nu 8.5 geinstaleerd en krijg het niet meer werkend.

Wel webxtv (pli emerald) maar niet meer als speler alleen.

 

Alvast bedankt

 

Eric