Changeset 930ced7838197c88122e1b5ebad1f5d59da7abab

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03/26/08 12:49:57 (6 months ago)
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Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org>
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Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org> 1206532197 +0100
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Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne@videolan.org> 1206532197 +0100
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Updates and spelling improvements

Merged the 0.8.6e and the preliminary 0.8.6f release notes.

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    2222   - "Streaming wizard". These features will be replaced 
    2323     by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these 
    24      features, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6 
    25   * The behavior of --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default. 
     24     features, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6. 
     25  * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default. 
    2626  * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They 
    2727    now require a target name as their first argument. Example: 
     
    104104   Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed 
    105105 * New puzzle video output filter 
    106  * Rewrite motion detection video filter 
     106 * Re-written motion detection video filter 
    107107 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a 
    108108   video) 
    109109 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels) 
    110  * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video) 
    111  * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML 
    112    tags 
     110 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video) 
     111 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags 
     112   (Google Summer of Code Student project) 
    113113 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*. 
    114114 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). 
    115  * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This 
    116    was previously part of the mosaic module. 
    117  * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter. 
     115 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).  
     116   This was previously part of the mosaic module. 
     117 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter. 
    118118 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter 
    119119 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters 
     
    140140   * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit 
    141141 * All 
     142   * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an 
     143     end-user suitable way. 
    142144   * Improved user interaction 
    143145   * Improved mouse gestures 
     
    145147   * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info 
    146148   * Ncurses: 
    147      * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale, if libncursesw is available (not by default on MacOSX) 
     149     * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,  
     150       if libncursesw is available. 
    148151     * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do) 
    149152 * Mac OS X 
     
    180183 * Polish 
    181184 
    182 TODO: Add 0.8.6e changelog here 
     185 
     186Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f (not-yet-released): 
     187----------------------------------------------------- 
     188 
     189Security updates: 
     190 * Fix subtitle buffer overflow 
     191 * Fix Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073) 
     192 * Fix cinepak integer overflow 
     193 
     194Various bugfixes: 
     195 * mozilla plugin registers a usable range of mimetypes on OSX 
     196 
     197 
     198Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e: 
     199---------------------------------- 
     200 
     201Various bugfixes: 
     202 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP 
     203 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11 
     204 
     205Security updates: 
     206 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681) 
     207 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682) 
     208 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484) 
     209 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296, 
     210   VideoLAN-SA-0801) 
     211 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,  
     212   VideoLAN-SA-0802) 
     213 
     214Audio filter: 
     215 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter 
     216 
     217Audio output: 
     218 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA 
     219 
     220Access: 
     221 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs 
     222 
     223Stream output: 
     224 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer 
     225 
     226Encoders: 
     227 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones 
     228 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264  
     229   encoding on multi-cpu systems 
     230    - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default) 
     231    - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration) 
     232 
     233Mac OS X Interface & Port: 
     234 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9 
     235 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel 
     236 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing 
     237 
     238Localization: 
     239 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations 
     240 
    183241 
    184242Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d: 
     
    188246 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows 
    189247 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA 
    190  * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences in input 
     248 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences 
     249   in input 
    191250 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing 
    192251 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code 
     
    201260 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality 
    202261 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 
    203  * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output 
    204  * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies 
     262 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between  
     263   Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output 
     264 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of  
     265   two different movies 
    205266 * Support for current Ogg file formats 
    206  NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore. 
     267 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.  
     268       Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore. 
    207269 
    208270Encoders: