Release : VLC 0.7.0

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Release : VLC 0.7.0

Postby zorglub » 03 Jan 2004 17:13

Hello,

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of
VLC Media Player 0.7.0 "Bond"

You can download the source code or binaries packages (currently, Win32, Mac OS X and BeOS are available) from here:
http://www.videolan.org/pub/vlc/0.7.0

This new major release features:
* Major core enhancements
* RTP/RTSP support
* Audio visual effects
* New supported formats (encoders ans decoders) (Speex, MPEG2 422,
* AAC+SBR, ....)
* Subtitles support enhancements
* Improved stream output (muxing and transcoding)
* RTP streaming
* Interface and playlist enhancements (wxWindows, skins, MacOS X, HTTP)
* DirectShow input on Win32
* Support for MacOS X 10.3

For complete list of new features since 0.6.2, please have a look at http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS

Please report any bugs, by using this forum, or using Bugzilla.
For more details on bug reporting, please look at
http://www.videolan.org/support/bug-reporting.html
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"Next" menu item or keystroke doesn't work

Postby bradsm87 » 04 Jan 2004 11:07

Whenever I play a DVD, when i choose "Next" (chapter), It starts the DVD all over again from the first sequence before the menu. This is on the Mac version by the way. This is the only app that can play dvd's properly on my widescreen TV because i can set the aspect ratio to 5:4 and the resolution in system preferences to 720 x 576. Not being able to skip chapters or go back is a real pain! Please help somebody!

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Postby The DJ » 04 Jan 2004 13:19

pause and use the Chapter navigation menu.
I removed the next functionality from the button because it was buggy for some users. DVD navigation will be reworked in the upcoming versions, and we hope this will improve correctness and behaviour.
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Troubles playing AAC

Postby maverick » 04 Jan 2004 18:29

I have troubles playing AAC Audio on Mac OS X.3.
Sound sounds 'bad', and only the left Channel is playing. mplayer is able to handle this correctly (uses libfaad2).

This is a .mkv file, using mpeg4 as video codec.

Here comes some debug output from mplayer (iam not familiar with vlc, please tell me how to produce similar debugging output)

Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 6 ch, 16 bit (0x20), ratio: 16000->529200 (128.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm:faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG2/MPEG4 Audio) decoder)

Keep up the good work!

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Postby Guest » 05 Jan 2004 13:31

I'm getting the following error when trying to compile VLC 0.7.0 from the source package.
> make
srcdir=. ./toolbox --update-includes
srcdir=. ./toolbox --update-includes
make all-recursive
Making all in intl
Making all in modules
Making all in access
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I/usr/local/include -DSYS_FREEBSD5_1 -I../../include `top_builddir="../.." ../../vlc-config --cflags plugin access_file` -Wsign-compare -Wall -pthread -finline-limit-30000 -pipe -MT libaccess_file_plugin_a-file.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/libaccess_file_plugin_a-file.Tpo" -c -o libaccess_file_plugin_a-file.o `test -f 'file.c' || echo './'`file.c; then mv -f ".deps/libaccess_file_plugin_a-file.Tpo" ".deps/libaccess_file_plugin_a-file.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/libaccess_file_plugin_a-file.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
In file included from ../../include/vlc_common.h:814,
from /usr/local/include/vlc/vlc.h:121,
from file.c:27:
../../include/vlc_symbols.h:226: syntax error before "playlist_command_t"
In file included from ../../include/vlc_common.h:817,
from /usr/local/include/vlc/vlc.h:121,
from file.c:27:
../../include/variables.h: In function `__var_SetTime':
../../include/variables.h:261: union has no member named `i_time'
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/roop/vlc-0.7.0/modules/access.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/roop/vlc-0.7.0/modules/access.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/roop/vlc-0.7.0/modules.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/roop/vlc-0.7.0.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/roop/vlc-0.7.0.
I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. GCC version 3.2.3.
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Postby The DJ » 06 Jan 2004 12:33

The first OSX version of 0.7.0 was missing the FLAC decoder. If you have problems with FLAC on OSX, please download 0.7.0 again.
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charlie

Postby charlie » 19 Jan 2004 00:44

The new vlc 070 wont load subtitles anymore.
the demux sub in advance wont let me load .srt subs or any subs for that matter.
and i used the input advanced options to try to put it in there and that didnt work either.

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Postby [HUN]bastya_elvtars » 19 Jan 2004 02:53

well
this is my problem too
there are many ppl complainin bout subs...
what can be done?
otherwise the client is great, dubbed films go perfect
and the audio playin capabilities under win98... it kills the cpu more than winamp

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Re: Troubles playing AAC

Postby hans-jürgen » 19 Jan 2004 11:30

I have troubles playing AAC Audio on Mac OS X.3.
Sound sounds 'bad', and only the left Channel is playing. mplayer is able to handle this correctly (uses libfaad2).

This is a .mkv file, using mpeg4 as video codec.

Here comes some debug output from mplayer (iam not familiar with vlc, please tell me how to produce similar debugging output)

Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: compressed input bitrate missing, assuming 128kbit/s!
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 6 ch, 16 bit (0x20), ratio: 16000->529200 (128.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [faad] afm:faad (FAAD AAC (MPEG2/MPEG4 Audio) decoder)
Suggestion to forum mods: maybe this announce should be locked and the different bug reports separated into single threads, because otherwise this will become very cluttered in no time...

Now to the Mac user problems: the audio track of your Matroska file seems to be a 6ch track, so you have to downmix it somehow to stereo, because there is no Apple hard- and software that can properly handle multichannel AAC audio tracks yet.

Furthermore you didn't mention how the 6ch audio track was encoded, with Nero AAC or FAAC? Which settings were used, maybe HE AAC in Nero? There were problems with early Nero versions and correct multichannel layout, so the version number is important, too.

And concerning the FAAD2 library in VLC: this should be updated, too, because there have been a lot of changes since Aug 2003, also concerning multichannel playback.
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Postby Gibalou » 19 Jan 2004 12:56

VLC 0.7.0 binaries should be using http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... rc2.tar.gz which is a pretty recent snapshot. Actually I know the win32 binary uses this one because I'm the one who did it but I'm not certain for the OSX/BeOS binaries (thedj ?).

0.7.0 should also have correct channels mapping for multi-channels aac tracks (previous versions didn't support that correctly).

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Postby The DJ » 19 Jan 2004 14:10

OSX uses that too
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Postby hans-jürgen » 19 Jan 2004 18:06

VLC 0.7.0 binaries should be using http://download.videolan.org/pub/videol ... rc2.tar.gz which is a pretty recent snapshot. Actually I know the win32 binary uses this one because I'm the one who did it but I'm not certain for the OSX/BeOS binaries (thedj ?).
Well, in "FAAD2 terms" a Release Candidate 2 from August last year is very outdated, for sure... :wink: You could e.g. try this RC3 from the download section of Audiocoding.com, but it is outdated, too:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/faac ... z?download

So the best would be to get a fresh CVS version, because there have been big changes in the last few weeks (you can browse the web access to FAAD2's CVS directory).
0.7.0 should also have correct channels mapping for multi-channels aac tracks (previous versions didn't support that correctly).
Probably yes, I only mentioned it as the last possibility for any multichannel problems. The original poster most likely did not use the downmix-to-stereo option (I hope VLC has one?) on his Apple computer and/or encoded with an outdated Nero version.
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Postby The DJ » 20 Jan 2004 03:30

cvs sucks.
you have no idea what it means to have to maintain 20 cvs repositories for your vlc release. And you never know what kind of bug is in one of those versions. With true release you at least know what you are getting.

vlc rarely uses cvs versions for their releases.
And vlc has no true downmix to stereo. only a 2/6 channels to 2 channels one. it is something that truly should be fixed.
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Postby hans-jürgen » 20 Jan 2004 11:18

cvs sucks.
you have no idea what it means to have to maintain 20 cvs repositories for your vlc release. And you never know what kind of bug is in one of those versions. With true release you at least know what you are getting.
vlc rarely uses cvs versions for their releases.
This depends... e.g. Menno just confirmed in the Audiocoding.com forum that there was a bug concerning invalid input file names with the Linux compile of FAAD2 that he has fixed recently.

Anyhow, the RC3 is from Nov 14, 2003, so it doesn't use the new mp4 library either which was one of the biggest changes lately (checked in on Nov 21, 2003).
And vlc has no true downmix to stereo. only a 2/6 channels to 2 channels one. it is something that truly should be fixed.
I see... FAAD2 has an own option to do that for multichannel AAC/MP4 files, but I guess you've already noticed that.
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Guest

Postby Guest » 22 Jan 2004 23:00

Question which somehow has something to do with the new version. Where do I ¨put the zipped files in VLS (0.5.5.)


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