eMule part file access module for VideoLAN - CHANGELOG

27-Aug-2003

Added: Updated to VLC v0.6.2.
Added: Exception handler to ensue that due to a crash while reading a part.met file, the part.met file always gets closed again.
Added: More detailed version info resource for makeing sure which version of VideoLAN Client has to be used with the version of the access module.

14-Aug-2003

Added: More options to specify which part files have to be handled.

13-Aug-2003

Fix: VLC seems to not display strings which contain characters with a value >=0x80. Workaround added which replaces all character >=80 with a '.'

08-Aug-2003

Added: ED2K meta data is added as separate information category to the media stream and shown in the File Info dialog.
Added: The "Provide Seekable Stream" option is selectable within the Settings dialog page of the partfile access module. (All/AVI/MPEG)
Added: Recognition of the input file type via the appropriate ED2K meta data tag or via the file extension.
Fix: Bug in read function; small (<64KB) available data parts where not handled correctly.
Change: Tweaked code for stream positioning.

07-Aug-2003

Added: Support for seekable streams. Though there seem to be some trouble with AVI files. MPEG files work well.

06-Aug-2003

Added: Option to handle not only the partfile:// protocol, but also the file:// protocol to get around a bug in original VLC file access module or core(?).
Added: Support for partfile:// and file:// protocol.
Cleaned up a lot of code.

05-Aug-2003

Initial version. Started to use the original file access module from VideoLAN v0.6.1.