What's new in this version: The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis: - it should work, but not without limitations - libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated - You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version - Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported - 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended
Core: - Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...) - and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs - Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common - protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...) - Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles - Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD - Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR) - Support output renderers, like ChromeCast - VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8 - Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder) - Support wayland surface type - Allow to start the video paused on the first frame - Refactor preparsing input - EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time - Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override - es category single only or multiple es behavior - Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification - Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels - Support subtitles size live adjustments
Access: - New NFS access module using libnfs - New SMB access module using libdsm
Adaptive streaming: - Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including - MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles - Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.) - Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module - Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth - stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module - Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags - Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...) - New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support - Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items, - domain / path matching, Secure cookies) - Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA - Support depayloading Opus from RTP - New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions - SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories - Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication - New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows - New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams - Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings - by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back. - Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds> - New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks - Improvements on DVB scanning - BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support - Support for DVD ISO over network - New SRT access module using libsrt
Hardware Decoder: - Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11 - Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode, and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows, and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust - Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android) - Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop - Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec - OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL - Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration - Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support - Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements - Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2 - New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox - supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
Decoders: - Support for experimental AV1 video - Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles - Support for experimental Daala video - New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123 - New BPG decoder based on libbpg - Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding - Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune) - Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs - TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant - Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support - Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats - Support for the OggSpots video codec - HEVC packetization is mostly fixed - H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps - Packetizers have support for captions in SEI - DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec can now decode up to 8 channels - JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present - Support VPX high bit depth support - Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions - BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded - Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams - CEA-708 decoder - New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
Demuxers: Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including: - Support for fragmented MP4 - Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov - Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files - Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov - Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads - Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac - Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4 - Support GoPro HiLight chapters - Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH - Add new metadata fields
Important rework of the TS demuxer, including: - Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream - Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others) - Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings - Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB - Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS - Support for new descriptors and ETT tables - Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1 - Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing - Improvements for scrambled state detection - Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS) - Important rework of the PS demuxer, including: - HEVC support - Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264 - Partial support of PSMF - Fix broken SCR samples - Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
Improvements on MKV: - Rewrite MKV seeking - Support FFv1 inside MKV - Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV - Improve DVD-menus support - Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files - Support Daala in Ogg - Improve Chained-Ogg support - Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files - Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files - Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI - Support WMV extended content metadata - Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files - Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata - Support raw H265/HEVC files - Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps - Support SBV subtitles - Support for Scenarist Closed Caption - Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1 - Support for isofLaC - Improve fLaC seeking - Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse - channels.conf digital TV channel list files
Stream filter: - Add an ADF stream filter - Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder - Add a stream prebuffering plugin - Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor - Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter - Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter - Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags - Demux filter: - Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing - Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
Audio output: - Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default - module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3, - 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version. - Add Tizen audio module - HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD) - Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio - Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS - Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
Audio filters: - Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler) - a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif, - this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame - Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules: - an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order - an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams - Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for - headphones effects - Add a pitch shifting module
Video ouput: - Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
OpenGL: - New OpenGL provider for Windows - Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support - Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4) - Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop - Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop - Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop - Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS) - HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo - Wayland shell surface window provider - Wayland shared memory video output - Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2) - NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque) - Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders - Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9 - Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes, - supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration - Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update - EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
Video filter: - Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL - New video filter to convert between fps rates - Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter - New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges - Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API - Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage - Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
Text renderer: - CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module - New font fallback algorithm on most platforms - More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio - More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
Stream Output: - Chromecast output module - RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
Encoder: - Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4 - VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
Muxers: - Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer - Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4 - Opus in MPEG Transport Stream - Daala in Ogg
Service Discovery: - New NetBios service discovery using libdsm - New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns - New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS) - Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
Qt interface: - Batch convert support - It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
Skins2: - Support key accelerators
libVLC: - Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams - Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout - Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new, - libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop - This allows to attach media events between create and start - Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec - Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end - Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player - Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options - Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device identifier (if there is one available) - Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media - Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it - Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it - Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description, libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl - Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications: - libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks, - libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login - Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers - Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear - libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves from a libvlc_media - Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role - Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file, working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves - Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate and removes vlc_epg_Merge
Logging: - Support for the SystemD Journal - Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only - New Android module for logging
Misc: - remove langfromtelx - remove ZPL playlist format - Update libVLC doxygen modules - Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS - Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows - Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore - Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore - Add a memory keystore - Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets - Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
Removed modules: - Atmo video filter - QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead) - httplive (use adaptive instead) - smooth (use adaptive instead) - Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x) - QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead) - Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead) - Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications) - VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module) - Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead) - iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead) - QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs) - BD access module (use libbluray) - Direct2D module (use Direct3D11) - EyeTV access module - Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive - VDA decoder: use VT - Audioqueue: use audiounit - SDL video output module - DirectFB video output module - RAOP stream output module
VLC Media Player 3.0.0 (64-bit) 相關參考資料
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