Comment 0 for bug 597108

Binary package hint: vlc

According to videolan.org a new vlc version is available.

please update it as soon as possible

CHANGELOG

Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0:
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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.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
     Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
     MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
     Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ 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

Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
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Access:
 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path

Decoders/Packetizers:
 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support

Demuxers:
 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist

X11 port:
 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
   More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!

Interfaces:
 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist

Translations:
 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
   and Walloon translations updated
 * Sinhala translation started

Removed modules:
 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
   to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.