VLC.Media.Player 1.0.0-rc3.Plus.Skins(djDEVASTATE)

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 rc3 :



• 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

- Close Caption under 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.

• 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.

• Miscellanous:

- Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications