VLC media player 1.1.0

VLC media player 1.1.0 is uitgebracht. In deze nieuwe uitgave van de snelle en veelzijdige mediaspeler voor Windows, Mac OS X en Linux zijn heel veel verbeteringen doorgevoerd en functies toegevoegd. Nieuw zijn onder andere de ondersteuning voor extensies (net als Firefox) en toegang tot de CDDB-servers voor de Windows versie, zodat titelgegevens voor audio-cd's kunnen worden opgehaald via internet.

Verder veel nieuwe codecs (ook Googles WebM en Blu-Ray ondertitels), zodat nog meer audio- en video-formaten kunnen worden afgespeeld door VLC 1.1. Ook wordt VLC nu geïntegreerd in de taakbalk van Windows 7. Het werken met afspeellijsten (playlists) is veel beter geworden. Onder het menu Weergave is nu een Afspeellijstpaneel te activeren.

Het Afspeellijstpaneel in VLC 1.1

Ondersteuning voor hardware acceleratie (GPU) zorgt ervoor dat video's beter kunnen worden afgespeeld en dat VLC klaar is voor HD video. Sowieso is VLC 1.1.0 sneller geworden (soms wel 40% volgens de ontwikkelaars) bij het decoderen van video.

VLC 1.1.0 verhelpt ook enkele veiligheidslekken die nog openstonden in versie 1.0.5. Ten slotte zijn de streaming capaciteiten en de browser plugins van VLC verbeterd. VLC 1.1.0 is te downloaden voor Windows, Mac OS X en Linux. Lees hieronder alle veranderingen in VLC 1.1.0.

Release notes:

Important changes for users:
* On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
   Update to alsa-lib v1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or later, or use the libpulse audio
   output plugin instead of the ALSA one (if you have PulseAudio).

Important changes for packagers:
* The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
   generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
   later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
   by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
   can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
   launch each time.
* Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
   - xproto,
   - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
   - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
   - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
* On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
   required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.

Access:
* Support for the sftp protocol
* Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
* New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
* New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
* Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
* Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0

Decoders:
* Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
* Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
* Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP

* Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
* Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
* Invmem module improvements
* Support for Atrac1 audio codec
* Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
* Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
* Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
* Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
* Support for Indeo5 video codec
* Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
* Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
* Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
* Support for VP8 codec
* Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio

Demuxers:
* Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
* Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
* Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
* Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
* Various EGP improvements
* Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
* Metadata and cover art improvements

Video Output:
* Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
* Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
   desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
* New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
* New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
* New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
* Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
     Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki....)
     Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
     MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight...)
     Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichrad... search for DMX)

Extensions:
* New content extensions framework for lua

Audio filters:
* Chorus/Flanger audio filter
* 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
* Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
   resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
* NEON assembly audio converter module
* Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input

Playlist:
* WPL and ZPL playlist support
* Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
* New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
* Podcast images are now displayed

Service discovery:
* Service discoveries can now be written in lua
* Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
* Service discovery based on libudev
* Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed

Encoders:
* x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
* x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
#transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
* x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
* libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
* x264 has tune/preset parameters supported

Stream output:
* New smem module, streaming to memory
* Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
--sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"

Interfaces:
* Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
and oldhttp.
* rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
* qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist

Visualization:
* Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries

Mac OS X Port:
* Vastly improved VLCKit framework
* A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
* Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
by Andy Matuschak et al.
* New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
* New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
* Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote

Windows port:
* Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
* Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module

Maemo port:
* Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
* Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
* Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface

Misc:
* new sqlite module
* --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
* Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
* Improved Solaris port

Bindings:
* new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
* phonon-VLC backend is now usable

Removed modules:
* csri codec: use the libass module instead.
* galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
* showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
* transrate: broken since too long
* Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
* HAL: Use libudev instead.
* gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
* WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
* opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
* linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
* XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
* MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
* opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
* cddax: use cdda instead.
* cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
* realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
* access_file removed in favor of filesystem
* RTMP input and output: use avio module