Impression VLC 0.8.0 test 1 
VLCLa nouvelle version de VLC portera le numéro 0.8.0. Mais avant que la version finale sorte, les développeurs de cette superbe application, nous ont habitués à publier des versions de test. Aujourd'hui, c'est donc la version 0.8.0 test 1 qui est proposé au téléchargement. 
Qui dit nouvelle version, dit obligatoirement nouveautés. Qu'en est-il réellement ?

Core support:
  • 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.
  • New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
  • Daemon mode.
  • Technical improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem.

Inputs :
  • 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 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).

Demuxers :
  • Support iTunes Music Store previews.
  • Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams).
  • Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support.
  • Windows Media Server RTSP support.
  • Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets).
  • Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G).
  • Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skin2 is the current interface).
  • Improved Ogg demuxer.

Codecs :
  • G.726 audio support.
  • 14496-17 MPEG TS text support.
  • MPEG-4 text support.
  • Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743).
  • Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering.

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    - 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.
  • SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now.

Audio Output :
  • New audio equalizer filter.
  • Very trivial volume normalizer.

Interfaces:
  • OSD sliders for volume and postition information.
  • OSD icons for Play and Pause.
  • New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces.
    A few skins2 improvements.
  • Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface.
  • Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface.
  • The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets.
  • Improved CORBA control module.

Mac OS X port :
  • Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem.
  • Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output.
  • The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video.

Linux port :
  • New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible).
  • Experimental SVG rendering module.

Windows port :
  • DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3).
  • DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder.
  • Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak.
  • Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering.
  • Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode).

Mozilla plugin :
  • Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality.
  • Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.

Misc :
  • Roku HD1000 Video output
  • Server/client network synchronization module
  • VBrick streams fully supported
  • Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported
  • Cisco IP/TV streams supported
  • Experimental OpenGL video output for X11 and win32


Informations techniques :
Nom : VLC
Version : 0.8.0 test 1
Licence : Freeware
Auteur : VideoLan
Internet : VideoLan
Téléchargement : vlc-0.8.0-test1.dmg (12.8Mo)
 
Thiery
Posté le : Jeu. - Septembre 2, 2004 à 10:31 PM

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