diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a9f673c033597077a90d6080b2207e7cccd63a38..7d3428cad0c51ea9fdffbab3207a0f1c262a36d2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ This version is in development and not yet released. -------------------------------- Core support: - * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added funtionality + * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems * New plugins cache to speed up launch time * Fix crash with deinterlace switching @@ -14,15 +14,17 @@ Core support: * Technical improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem Input: - * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X (Stream your desktop) + * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X + (Stream your desktop) * Improved DVD support: - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming) - * Experimental --input-slave option to start playing with multi-input + * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it ) * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams - * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access (selection of titles/chapters). + * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access + (selection of titles/chapters). -Demux: +Demuxers: * Support iTunes Music Store previews * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams) * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support @@ -40,21 +42,24 @@ Codecs: * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering Stream Output: - * Text track muxing for mp4 - * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser - * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS + Encoders: + * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on, + everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well + * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder + * Frame rate selection in the transcoder + * DVB subtitles encoder + * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame + * Improved vorbis/theora encoding + Muxers: + * Text track muxing for mp4 + * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser + * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS + * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) + * Experimental WAV muxer + * Improved ASF muxer + Misc: * H.263 RTP streaming support - * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G) - * Experimental WAV muxer * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now - * Frame rate selection in the transcoder - * Improved ASF muxer - * DVB subtitles encoder - * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder - * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame - * Improved vorbis/theora encoding - * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on, - everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well Audio Output: * New audio equalizer filter