vlc-android/NEWS

Changes between 1.2.5 and 1.3.0:
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Changes between 1.2.4 and 1.2.5:
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Application:
 * Fix audio stutter with some devices
 * Fix MPEG4 on some MTK devices (Wiko)
 * Fix crashes with some QCOM devices (Samsung Galaxy Tab 4, Galaxy S4/S5...)
 * Minor fixes and UI adjustments
 * Add option to ask for resume video or play from star
 * Volume/brightness: add a vertical bar and levels in %


Changes between 1.2.3 and 1.2.4:
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Application:
 * Fix crashes
 * Fix material design for action bar
 * Fix audio support on Fire OS


Changes between 1.2.2 and 1.2.3:
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Application:
 * Fix material alignment
 * Support chapter selection
 * Fix directory context menu
 * Fix crash when seeking

Translations:
 * Update of Danish, Croatian, Kabyle, Polish, Slovenian, Swedish and Turkish


Changes between 1.2.1 and 1.2.2:
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Core:
 * Fix an audio/video sync regression

Application:
 * Add an intent to load sub files
 * Seek by position instead of time, by default


Changes between 1.2.0 and 1.2.1:
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Application:
 * Allow to switch to audio mode, when playing a video
 * Change the sort icon to match Material design
 * Fix crash

TV:
 * Better navigation with buttons and gamepad
 * Fix network favorites


Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.2.0:
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Application:
 * Show 'load last video' option on phones
 * (Lollipop only) Swipe music notification to remove it. When playback is paused.
 * Fix video ts opened as audio
 * Fix black theme
 * Fix player menu hidden with some MKV files
 * Keep player speed between videos
 * Refactor track selections and updates
 * Option to exlude Directories from Media Library
 * Playlists support for audio
 * In video player, lock the back button in lock mode
 * Fix crashes for Android 2.x
 * Allow to sort video by modified date
 * Improve volume and brightness gestures
 * Support cover for video files
 * Misc bugfixes

TV:
 * Better thumbnails
 * Better recommendations (last video 3 random ones)
 * Better gamepad events

Translations:
 * Thai, Russian, French, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian,
   Turkish, Tamil, Swedish, Slovak, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Korean,
   Japanese, Italian, French, Finnish, Spanish, Modern Greek, German and
   Danish updates


Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
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Application:
 * Fix look of secondary fragments activities, for better navigation
 * Rework actions
 * Fix rare crashes
 * Fix HDMI unplugging
 * Improve seek
 * Fixes on AudioFocus
 * Fixes on Black Theme

TV:
 * Recommend last video viewed
 * Better UI while scanning

Core:
 * Fix mediacodec crash


Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.5:
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Application:
 * Fix BD upgrade crashes, because of broken versions of Android


Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
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Core:
 * Support ModTracker files
 * Fix freeze when changing audio speed

Audio:
 * Add AC3 passthrough support on Lollipop (Tested on Nexus Player)
 * Add PCM 5.1 and 7.1 support via HDMI or SPDIF
 * Add Float support on Lollipop

Application:
 * More Material fixes (search, streams, equalizer)
 * Improvements on the black theme (colors and settings)
 * Fix numerous crashes
 * Fix album art for artists

TV:
 * Fix look of numerous activities
 * Better keyboard and gamepad mappings
 * Shuffle and repeat in Audio mode
 * Better recommendations

Translations:
 * Update most translations


Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
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Core:
 * Improve audiotrack performance and quality

Main Application:
 * SearchView in Material, new search look and performance
 * New FAB to play all the songs
 * Rework information panel
 * Ellipsize long URLs in stream panel
 * Improve dark theme
 * Fix Moto G SD cards detection
 * Fix LG bug with menu button
 * Fix rare NPE for Samsung devices
 * Fix numerous NPE and crashes


Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
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Main Application:
 * Fix fast scrolling pulling refresh
 * Fix settings toolbar to look Material

TV:
 * Fix gamepad requirement


Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
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Main Application:
 * Bugfixes
 * UI Adjustments
 * Restore dpad navigation between audio tabs


Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.1.0:
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Main Application:
 * New design for Material/Lollipop
 * Port to 5.0 new APIs
 * Rewrite of most views
 * Gamepad controller support for navigation
 * Async load of fragments and search
 * Option to show videos as list in portrait
 * Suport pull to refresh
 * Tracknumber, DiscNumber & AlbumArtist tags support for audio files
 * Handle nowplaying for streams
 * Set Audio & Subs delay

TV:
 * Port for Android TV
 * Video + Audio browsing, settings
 * Recommandations

Core:
 * Rewrite of the NativeWindow output
 * Support of direct rendering and GPU 0-copy
 * New rendering of subtitles
 * New audio output based on AudioTrack
 * Support all the new ABIs

Fixes:
 * Fix parsing of metadata with space
 * Fix popup context menu loaded for wrong files
 * More than 60 bugs fixed

Build:
 * Move to Gradle
 * Prepare compilation for Android, Android TV, Chrome
 * Simpler multi-ABI compilation

Translations:
 * Update of all the translations


Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
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Main Application:
 * Fix popup context menu loaded for the wrong items


Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
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Main Application:
 * Minimum Lollipop support
 * Support remotes for DVD navigation
 * Immersive mode from Kitkat and on
 * Fix crashes

Translations:
 * Update of all the translations


Changes between 0.9.8 and 0.9.9:
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Main Application:
 * Fix Artist names on the lock screen and bluetooth interface
 * Allow VLC to be installed as a system app
 * Fix potential crashes in the UI

Core:
 * Fix assert on some video decoding
 * Fix avi and m4a regressions

Translations:
 * Update of all the translations (more than 60 languages now)


Changes between 0.9.7 and 0.9.8:
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Main Application:
 * Fix compatibility with Android 2.1
 * Fix Media detection when the extension was in UPPER CASE
 * Fix default display orientation for the Video Player
 * Fix possible crashes and leaks
 * Fix "replay from start" issue when screen goes off

Core:
 * Fix compatibility with MIPS (broken with the native crash handler
 * Support building with NDKr10
 * Prepare support for OMX zero-copy for Honeycomb+ (Android-11 and later)

libVLCjni:
 * Add bitrate information, statistics and player state methods

Translations:
 * Update of Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Marathi, Polish,
   Portuguese, Tatar translations


Changes between 0.9.7 and 0.9.7.1:
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Main Application:
 * Fix "mysterious" disappearance of the video buttons :)
 * Fix a couple of crashes in preferences, history and media information panels


Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.7:
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Core:
 * Fix pthread issue on Android L
 * Fix wrong error on some x86 devices

Main Application:
 * Add a DVD menu button, fix DVD navigation and improve DVD menus support
 * Cache DVD CSS keys
 * Remove dependency on ActionBarSherlock: use android-support-v7-appcompat
   instead, from now on.
 * Fix various crashes on application and video playback start

Translations:
 * Initial Nepali and  Bengali translations
 * Update of Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Uzbek, Serbian, Slovenian,
   Russian, Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Polish, Marathi,
   Japanese, Italian, Scottish Gaelic, French, Modern Greek, Welsh, and Bosnian
   translations


Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
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Core:
 * repair equalizer
 * Blacklist hardware decoding for more TS files

Main Application:
 * Fix crash in Audio browsing and Video player
 * Fix retaining of user playlists when clearing
 * Updates of all translations


Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
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 * Fix a codec crash during thumbnailing
 * Fix various crashes in Audio and Video views
 * Fix hardware decoding exceptions


Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
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Core:
 * Fix playback of numerous files formats
 * Fix some crashes in hardware decoding

Main application:
 * New VLC icon
 * Tips and tutorial are shown on the first start
 * Add the possibility to send a report after a native crash
 * Numerous icons modifications and tweaks
 * Support Dual Audio in remote mode
 * Fast scroll using letters in audio views
 * DVD menu are now supported
 * Vibrations on long clicks
 * Major translations updates


Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
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Main Application:
 * Fix a crash in the Remote Audio Player, leading to misbehaviours in the
   Audio player service
 * Minor icon tweaks


Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
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Core:
 * Support DVD iso

Main Application:
 * Fix numerous crashes in the interface
 * Improve the Secondary Display experience
 * Update most translations


Changes between 0.9.0 and 0.9.1:
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Core:
 * Fix mp4 playback

Main Application:
 * Fix crash on some 2.3.x devices
 * Fix numerous crashes in the interface


Changes between 0.1.4 and 0.9.0:
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Core:
 * Hardware acceleration for video decoding and rendering
 * New OpenGL video output
 * Support subtitles accelerated rendering
 * Support for SDK package creation
 * Decoding and filter accelerations for ARM and x86
 * Support video cropping
 * Allow thumbnailing of 4k videos

Main Application:
 * New UI for the application, available in white and dark
 * Enable Hardware decoding by default on Android 4.3 and newer
   Direct fallback to software when hardware fails
 * New UI for HDMI and Secondary Screens
 * Experimental support for Miracast/WiDi
 * New audio equalizer
 * Group of video files in folders, for TV shows
 * New preferences organization
 * New detection for SDcards
 * Add an option for frame skip to improve performance
 * Add an option to set network caching
 * Better audio service destruction
 * Fix opening MRLs and video streaming
 * Fix many crashes and warnings

Translations:
 * Initial Greek, Kannada, Slovenian, Uzbek, Swedish, Sinhala, Romanian and
   Latvian translations
 * Updates to the Arabic, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech,
   Danish, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
   Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lithuanian, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmal,
   Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Simplified Chinese,
   Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu,
   Vietnamese and Welsh translations


Changes between 0.1.3 and 0.1.4:
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Main Application:
 * Remove completion for URL opening
 * Fix video stream playback when notifications arise
 * Fix crashes in History Fragment
 * Fix widget update events

Core:
 * Fix video output on 2.x versions
 * Fix thumbnailer


Changes between 0.1.2 and 0.1.3:
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Main Application:
 * Fix SQlite crash on init
 * Fix wrong display time on video player
 * Fix crash on item selection in subfolder in directory view

Core:
 * Fix for FLAC
 * Fix for video output on 4.3


Changes between 0.1.1 and 0.1.2:
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* Relicensed libVLC jni wrapper and Java counterpart to LGPL

Audio Service:
 * Keep the service alive only when playing
 * Fix crashes

Main Application:
 * Manual selection of subtitles
 * Fix crashes and warnings
 * Add an option to adjust the deblocking filter level, resulting in
   noticeable performance improvements.

Translations:
 * Initial Icelandic, Lithuanian and Vietnamese translations
 * Updates to the Bosnian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
   Galician, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Marathi,
   Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic,
   Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, French,
   and Welsh translations


Changes between 0.1.0 and 0.1.1:
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Core:
* Fix numerous crashes and error paths


Translations:
 * Updates to German, Italian and Galician Translations
 * New Welsh translation


Changes between 0.0.11 and 0.1.0:
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Core:
 * Update to libVLC 2.1.0 new log API
 * Update libVLC
 * Allow to build with x86_64 and OSX SDKs
 * Reduce memory usage

Main Application:
 * Warn user if playback of a deleted item starts
 * New dialog for speed/sleep/jump
 * New control from Notifications
 * Fix multiple important crashes
 * Fix some subtitles selections
 * Fix some infinite thumbnail retries
 * Fix issues where a media would not start

libVLC:
 * split libVLC classes to their own package: org.videolan.libvlc

Translations:
 * Update of Basque, Croatian


Changes between 0.0.10 and 0.0.11:
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Main Application:
 * Numerous fixes for recurrent crashes
 * Better debugging log facility
 * Show seek position when locked in fullscreen mode
 * Avoid running thumbnailer when playing audio only
 * Improve the overlay fading after a gesture

Translations:
 * Initial Burmese, Danish, and Serbian translations
 * Updates to the Bosnian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
   Estonian, German, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish,
   Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu,
   Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations


Changes between 0.0.9 and 0.0.10:
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 * Subs selection
 * Fixes for 2 frequent crashes


Changes between 0.0.8 and 0.0.9:
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Core:
 * Various crash/stability fixes
 * Improved video-audio synchronization
 * Improved automatic SD card detection
 * Experimental YV12-based androidsurface
 * Wakelock issue with stopping was fixed
 * Use of a faster DTS decoding library
 * Codec updates

Main application:
 * SD cards mount point fixes
 * Change of subtitle encoding is now possible
 * Subtitles and audio track selection is now preserved across calls
 * Many bugfixes in the interface
 * Fix selection of some audio tracks
 * A sleep timer was added for audio and video
 * Added an option to add custom paths to the media library scanner
 * content:// based URIs from Camera and file pickers now supported
 * Fix video player resume of media outside the media library
 * Jump to Time feature
 * Allow to open a video as audio-only

Widget:
 * Display the timeline

Translations:
 * Initial Traditional Chinese, Catalan, and Urdu, Odia,
   Norwegian Bokmål and Portuguese (Portugal) translations
 * Updates to the Bosnian, Japanese, Russian, French, Korean,
   Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Thai, Slovak, Polish, Dutch, Khmer,
   Italian, Hebrew, Galician, Spanish, German, Czech, Estonian,
   Hindi, and Bosnian translations


Changes between 0.0.7 and 0.0.8:
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Core:
 * Support MIPS compilation

Main application:
 * SD cards mount points are auto-detected
 * Directory view starts from the SD cards and are live-detected
 * Improve the thumbnailing process
 * Improve the headset handling and remote control code, including bluetooth
 * Correctly support the lock screen controls
 * Fixes for Android 4.2 support
 * Fix for sound notification loudness
 * Fixes miscellaneous crashes and issues

Interface:
 * Allow toggling between remaining and total time in fullscreen
 * Allow a menu option to start the media from the beginning
 * Add different options for rotation and screen orientation
 * Fix sorting of album tracks
 * Add a ticker in the status bar, when playing audio
 * Improve the Directories View
 * Translations


Changes between 0.0.6 and 0.0.7:
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Core:
 * Fix audio output selection to fix the audio-sync

Main application:
 * reduce the memory used for thumbnails decoding
 * better behaviour when we are low on memory
 * fix the interaction between thumbnailing and sleeping
 * fix various crashes

Interface:
 * better multi-column look on low resolution phones
 * fix audio song sorting
 * add a popup-menu in the video list
 * Show Volume and Brightness values
 * fix navbar hiding on tablets


Changes between 0.0.5 and 0.0.6:
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Core:
 * Change threading code for Android
 * Fix MediaCodec decoding
 * Fix audio issues in cook and DTS

Main application:
 * Reduce the memory and CPU used in the video list
 * Use bitmap caching to improve smoothness
 * Display the current playing position as a progress bar under every video

Interface:
 * Add animations in the video list
 * Simplify the fullscreen interface


Changes between 0.0.4 and 0.0.5:
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Core:
 * Autodetection of NEON at runtime: ARMv7-a builds should work everywhere
   including tegra2 and cortex-a8 without NEON
 * Better threading support
 * Support for MediaCodec Jelly Bean hardware decoding

Main application
 * Better extensions and intent integration
 * Better service start/stop to avoid using CPU when VLC is not running or
   when we are playing a video
 * Automatic rescan when needed
 * Fix headset detection during phone calls
 * Fix several crashes
 * Fix compatibility with Android 2.1 (android-7)

Interface:
 * New grid look for Video List on tablets and phone in landscape-mode
 * Cover arts are now shown in Audio List panels
 * Better notification and use of covers in notifications
 * Directory View back button does now a parent-up action
 * Fix several crashes and misbehaviour of fragments
 * Fix small issues in About dialog, Video List, menu and preferences
 * Back button correctly behaves in fullscreen
 * Fix several sliding menu bugs

Translations
 * many :)


Changes between 0.0.3 and 0.0.4:
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Interface:
 * Many Sliding Menu fixes
 * Fix subtitles and audio tracks selection
 * Fix Sliding menu selection
 * Fix about dialog
 * Update the android compatibility library to avoid crashes (r10)
 * Miscellaneous fixes

Core:
 * fix mp4 playback
 * correctly restrain the background processing of thumbnails and medialibrary


Changes between 0.0.2 and 0.0.3:
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Device specific:
 * Add support for the Nexus7
 * Add support for Android x86

Core:
 * Many, many bugfixes and stability improvements
 * Building for Android-x86 is now supported
 * IOMX hardware acceleration and AudioTrack improvements on Jellybean
 * Media library scanning is now faster and more efficient
 * The aspect ratio is now correctly handled in software decoding

Interface:
 * Sliding panel added in video player
 * Tabs replaced with a sliding sidebar
 * Added the feature to change the playback speed in audio and video
 * Improved seek gesture
 * Added optional brightness gesture
 * Added ability to set the system ringtone to a song from VLC
 * Added history support
 * On ICS and above, added lockscreen control for music

Translations:
 * Added Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Korean, Russian, Thai translations
 * Updates for the Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Polish, Hebrew,
   Galician, German, Czech, Bosnian, Estonian, Japanese, Italian, Dutch,
   Hindi and Slovak translations

Changes between 0.0.1 and 0.0.2:
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Core:
 * the application can now go on the SDcard
 * Database speed improvements
 * .nomedia folders are correctly ignored now

Interface:
 * Dynamically switch from audio to video player on ES change
 * Reduce video player control size
 * ICS: better integration when dimming and fullscreen
 * Deletion is possible in folder mode

Stability issues:
 * Fix numerous crashes
 * Fix some memory leaks
 * Better separation of the audio widget and the service

Translations:
 * Added Hebrew, Polish, Hindi, Basque, Galician, Dutch, Ukrainian, Croatian,
   Czech, Scottish Gaelic, Telugu, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, Slovak,
   Spanish, Walloon, Marathi, Khmer, Italian, Polish and Estonian translations