What's new in Jaksta Media Player 3.2.0.3
Aug 2, 2013
- Initial release of Series 5
New in Jaksta Media Player 2.0.3 (Aug 2, 2013)
- Access:
- Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
- Demuxers:
- Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
- Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
- Qt:
- Fix Windows 8 interface style
- Translations:
- Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
- Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
- Thai, Turkish and Walloon
- New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
- Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
New in Jaksta Media Player 2.0.2 (Aug 2, 2013)
- Video Output:
- XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
- There were too many errors with broken drivers.
- More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
- Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
- Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
- Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
- Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
- an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
- Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
- with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
- Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
- Retina Displays.
- Access:
- Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
- Fixes for RAR compressed files
- Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
- Improve PulseAudio input latency
- Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
- v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
- Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
- IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
- Accept more extensions for DVD images
- Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
- Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
- Improvements and fixes in HLS support
- Codec:
- Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
- Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
- Fix G726 support
- Fix MP3 free format support
- Demuxers:
- Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
- Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
- Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
- Fix for DVB channels file support
- Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
- Encoders:
- Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
- Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
- Audio filters and output:
- Limitation of spatializer volume output
- Fix DirectSound device selection
- Correct PulseAudio volume control
- Do not apply volume in file output
- Fix sampling rate in JACK output
- Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
- Lua Scripts:
- Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
- Fixes for icecast SD
- Qt:
- Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
- Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
- Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
- Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
- Fix tags and file names display
- Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
- Skins2:
- Fix mousewheel on Windows
- Fix for key events and focus loss
- Web interface:
- Fix display of some buttons
- Fix listing of files in the Open interface
- Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
- Security:
- Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
- Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
- Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
- Translation:
- Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
- Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
- Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
- Thai translations update
- New Scottish Gaelic translation
New in Jaksta Media Player 2.0.1 (Aug 2, 2013)
- Access:
- fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
- fix the samba module compilation
- fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
- multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
- multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
- fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
- Codecs:
- Support for MXPEG files
- limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
- fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
- Demuxers:
- Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
- Fix a crash when seeking in mka
- Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
- Muxers:
- Fix ogm header creation
- Audio filters:
- limit spatializer filter distortions
- Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
- Audio output:
- Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
- Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
- The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
- Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
- Video filters:
- Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
- Qt interface:
- allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
- fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
- the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
- fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
- Skins interface:
- fix for menus display
- Addition of $R to display current playback speed
- documentation update
- Web interface:
- fix mobiles display for remote control mode
- support for .drc and .3ga extensions
- Service discovery:
- fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
- Update Jamendo selections
- Miscellaneous:
- fix DBus crash
- fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
- fix a crash on VLM close
- Security:
- Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
- Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
- Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
- Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
- Translations:
- Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
New in Jaksta Media Player 2.0.1 (Aug 2, 2013)
- Access:
- fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
- fix the samba module compilation
- fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
- multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
- multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
- fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
- Codecs:
- Support for MXPEG files
- limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
- fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
- Demuxers:
- Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
- Fix a crash when seeking in mka
- Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
- Muxers:
- Fix ogm header creation
- Audio filters:
- limit spatializer filter distortions
- Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
- Audio output:
- Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
- Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
- The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
- Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
- Video filters:
- Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
- Qt interface:
- allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
- fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
- the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
- fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
- Skins interface:
- fix for menus display
- Addition of $R to display current playback speed
- documentation update
- Web interface:
- fix mobiles display for remote control mode
- support for .drc and .3ga extensions
- Service discovery:
- fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
- Update Jamendo selections
- Miscellaneous:
- fix DBus crash
- fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
- fix a crash on VLM close
- Security:
- Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
- Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
- Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
- Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
- Translations:
- Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
New in Jaksta Media Player 2.0.0 (Aug 2, 2013)
- Important notes:
- The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
- Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
- conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
- from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
- title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
- The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
- - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
- - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
- - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
- - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
- All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
- HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
- - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
- By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
- - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
- By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
- - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
- --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
- --http-crl (optional CRL).
- RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
- Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
- The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
- output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
- The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
- Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
- Important changes for packagers:
- The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
- its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
- not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
- Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
- The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
- variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
- The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
- OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
- configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
- The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
- Core:
- Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
- Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
- x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
- Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
- Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
- Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
- Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
- Access:
- Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
- Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
- DVB-S scanning support on Unix
- DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
- Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
- Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
- Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
- HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
- Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
- Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
- PulseAudio audio input support
- Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
- in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
- Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
- Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
- Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
- Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
- MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
- Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
- Codecs:
- One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
- on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
- are notably concerned.
- Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
- Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
- New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
- Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
- Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
- New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
- The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
- Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
- Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
- Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
- Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
- EIA-608 closed captions improvements
- Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
- Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
- One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
- Demuxers:
- New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
- C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
- Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
- Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
- New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
- Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
- Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
- Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
- Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
- Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
- Improved support of tracker files
- Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
- Interfaces:
- Qt: effects dialogs rework
- Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
- Qt: port to MacOS X platform
- Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
- Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
- Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
- and important cleanups and optimisations
- The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
- lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
- -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
- ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
- dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
- dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
- webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
- webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
- webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
- Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
- Qt: preferences are now searchable
- Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
- Video Output:
- New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
- New video output for iOS platform
- Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
- Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
- Various vmem improvements
- OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
- chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
- New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
- Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
- Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
- New video output based on kva API for OS/2
- Audio Output and Filters:
- New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
- New audio output in memory (amem)
- Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
- New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
- New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
- New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
- New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
- New simplistic Karaoke filter
- New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
- Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
- Video Filter:
- New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
- Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
- New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
- Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
- New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
- New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
- New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
- New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
- New anti-flickering filter
- New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
- New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
- Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
- blackbox and customizable shadow.
- NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
- the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
- The Win32 font selection was improved too.
- Stream output:
- New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
- example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
- venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
- access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
- index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
- dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
- Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
- Major rework of VoD support
- New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
- #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
- New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
- #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
- New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
- New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
- #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
- #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
- New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
- Services Discovery:
- Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
- Upnp module was ported to Win32
- libVLC:
- New capabilities for libVLC:
- libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
- libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
- list of available audio and video filters
- libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
- libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
- allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
- Removed modules:
- asademux, subsass: use libass
- fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
- hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
- id3tag: use taglib
- upnp: use upnp_intel
- removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
- removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
- removal of the noise filter
- removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
- growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
- removed in Growl's next release, too.
- removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
- Translations:
- Update of translations for most languages.
- New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.