What's new in VLC media player (formerly VideoLAN Client) 1.0.0 RC1 Goldeneye:
· Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
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.
· 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)
· 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
Windows interface:
· Global Hotkeys
· 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
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