1 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
11 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
12 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
13 * DVB-S scanning support
14 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
15 * Support for VDR recordings
16 * Blu-Ray integration with libbluray
17 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
20 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
21 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback
22 * Encode support for DVD LPCM
25 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
26 * Ogg seeking improvements
29 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
30 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
31 * Qt: effects dialogs reordering
32 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
35 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
38 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
41 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
44 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
45 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
46 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
49 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
50 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
51 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
52 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
53 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
54 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
57 * New capabilities for libVLC:
58 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
61 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
62 ----------------------------------
65 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
67 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
70 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
73 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
74 * Various fixes for Windows
77 * New Armenian translation
78 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
79 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
82 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
83 --------------------------------
86 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
88 * Fix folders opening from the interface
91 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
92 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
95 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
96 --------------------------------
99 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
100 * fix for podcasts parsing
101 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
104 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
105 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
108 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
109 * fix m3u playlists exports
112 * fix video autoresize behaviour
115 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
118 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
121 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
124 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
127 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
128 --------------------------------
131 * Avformat fps displaying fix
132 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
135 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
136 of mono streams, especially on Windows
139 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
140 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
141 * fix console output encoding
143 Interface and extensions:
144 * Youtube and other scripts updates
145 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
148 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
149 --------------------------------
152 * New capabilities for libVLC:
153 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
154 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
155 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
156 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
157 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
158 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
159 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
160 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
161 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
162 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
163 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
164 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
165 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
166 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
167 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
171 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
172 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
173 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
174 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
175 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
178 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
181 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
182 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
183 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
187 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
190 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
191 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
192 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
195 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
196 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
197 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
198 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
201 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
202 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
205 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
206 --------------------------------
208 Important changes for users:
209 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
210 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
212 Important changes for packagers:
213 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
214 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
215 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
216 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
217 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
219 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
221 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
222 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
223 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
224 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
225 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
228 * Support for the sftp protocol
229 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
230 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
231 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
232 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
233 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
236 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
237 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
238 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
240 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
241 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
242 * Invmem module improvements
243 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
244 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
245 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
246 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
247 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
248 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
249 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
250 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
251 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
252 * Support for VP8 codec
253 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
256 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
257 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
258 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
259 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
260 * Various EGP improvements
261 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
262 * Metadata and cover art improvements
265 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
266 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
267 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
268 * Podcast images are now displayed
271 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
272 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
273 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
274 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
275 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
276 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
277 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
278 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
279 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
280 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
281 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
284 * New content extensions lua framework
287 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
288 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
289 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
290 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
291 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
292 * NEON assembly audio converter module
293 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
296 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
297 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
298 * Service discovery based on libudev
299 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
302 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
303 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
304 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
305 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
306 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
307 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
308 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
311 * New smem module, streaming to memory
312 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
313 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
316 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
318 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
319 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
322 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
325 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
326 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
327 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
328 by Andy Matuschak et al.
329 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
330 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
331 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
334 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
335 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
338 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
339 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
340 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
344 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
345 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
346 * Improved Solaris port
349 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
350 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
353 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
354 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
355 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
356 * transrate: broken since too long
357 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
358 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
359 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
360 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
361 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
362 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
363 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
364 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
365 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
366 * cddax: use cdda instead.
367 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
368 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
369 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
370 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
373 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
374 --------------------------------
377 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
379 Decoders/Packetizers:
380 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
383 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
384 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
385 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
386 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
387 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
390 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
391 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
394 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
395 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
398 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
399 and Walloon translations updated
400 * Sinhala translation started
403 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
404 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
407 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
408 --------------------------------
411 * SubRip extra styles improvements
412 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
415 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
418 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
419 increase performance and fix x264 issues
422 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
423 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
424 Russian, Slovak translation updates
425 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
428 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
429 --------------------------------
432 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
433 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
436 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
437 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
440 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
441 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
444 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
447 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
448 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
451 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
452 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
455 * New Walloon translation
456 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
459 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
460 --------------------------------
463 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
464 regressions in most popular drivers
465 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
468 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
469 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
470 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
473 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
474 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
477 * Update for appletrailers lua script
478 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
479 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
480 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
481 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
484 * New udev module for linux
487 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
490 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
493 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
494 --------------------------------
497 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
498 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
499 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
502 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
503 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
506 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
507 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
510 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
513 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
514 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
515 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
516 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
519 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
520 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
521 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
522 - no support for Goom and SDL
523 - limited text rendering support
524 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
527 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
528 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
529 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
530 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
531 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
532 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
533 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
534 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
535 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
539 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
542 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
545 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
546 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
547 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
548 Arabic and French translation updates
551 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
552 --------------------------------
555 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
556 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
557 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
558 * Fix Dailymotion access script
559 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
560 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
563 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
564 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
567 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
568 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
569 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
572 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
575 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
576 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
579 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
580 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
581 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
582 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
583 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
584 * Fix various crashes
587 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
589 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
592 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
593 ---------------------------------
597 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
598 See 'Access:' for more info.
599 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
602 * Instantaneous pausing
603 * Frame-by-Frame playback
604 * Finer speed control
605 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
606 * Timeshift for most medias
607 * RTSP trickplay support
608 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
611 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
612 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
613 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
614 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
615 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
616 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
617 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
618 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
619 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
620 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
623 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
624 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
625 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
626 * Metadata for mod files are supported
627 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
628 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
629 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
632 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
633 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
636 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
637 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
638 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
639 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
640 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
641 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
642 * DVB scanning on linux
643 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
644 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
645 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
646 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
647 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
648 * MTP device access on Unix
649 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
650 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
653 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
654 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
655 Windows and Mac OS X.
658 * Export the playlist in HTML
659 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
660 * Better metadata handling and reading
662 Linux/Windows interface:
663 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
664 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
665 * Recently played items list
666 * Interface toolbar customizations
667 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
670 - Improvements on many dialogs
671 - New dialog for plugins listing
672 - Fixed-size mode for videos
673 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
674 * Better integration in GTK environments
677 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
678 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
679 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
680 * Additional usability improvements
683 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
684 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
685 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
686 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
687 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
690 * New Maemo port with:
691 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
692 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
695 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
698 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
699 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
700 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
701 * Support for latest iSight models
704 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
705 * Surround support for PulseAudio
708 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
709 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
710 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
711 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
712 The old image video output has been removed.
713 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
714 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
717 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
725 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
726 --------------------------------------
732 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
733 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
734 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
735 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
736 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
737 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
738 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
740 Various fixes to the following modules:
743 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
744 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
747 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
752 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
753 ---------------------------------
756 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
757 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
760 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
761 ---------------------------------
764 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
767 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
770 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
771 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
772 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
773 main controller window.
774 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
777 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
782 * Updates of other localizations
785 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
786 * Lots of small bugfixes.
787 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
788 * Telnet fixes on Windows
789 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
792 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
793 ---------------------------------
796 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
798 Bunch of small bugfixes.
801 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
802 --------------------------------
807 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
808 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
811 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
812 --------------------------------
814 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
815 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
818 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
821 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
822 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
825 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
826 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
829 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
830 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
831 * Various fixed in playlist
834 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
837 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
840 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
841 ------------------------------------
843 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
844 * Fixes several memory leaks.
847 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
848 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
849 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
852 * Stability fix for the video output.
855 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
856 --------------------------------
859 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
860 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
861 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
862 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
863 * Fixed update system bugs
864 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
867 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
868 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
869 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
870 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
871 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
872 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
873 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
874 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
875 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
876 modern Mac OS X versions
879 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
880 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
882 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
883 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
886 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
887 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
888 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
889 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
890 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
891 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
894 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
895 --------------------------------
897 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
898 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
902 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
903 --------------------------------
905 * Multiple bug fixes.
908 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
909 ---------------------------------
913 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
914 recent to work correctly
915 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
916 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
917 edit the ".hosts" file.
918 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
919 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
920 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
921 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
922 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
923 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
924 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
925 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
926 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
927 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
928 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
929 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
930 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
931 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
932 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
933 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
934 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
935 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
936 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
937 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
938 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
939 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
940 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
941 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
942 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
943 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
944 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
945 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
946 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
947 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
948 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
949 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
950 and postproc modules.
951 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
952 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
953 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
954 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
956 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
958 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
959 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
961 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
962 * Glide video output module has been removed.
968 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
970 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
971 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
974 * Vastly improved playlist support:
975 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
977 * Shoutcast TV listings
978 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
980 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
981 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
983 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
986 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
987 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
988 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
989 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
990 * JACK audio input support
991 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
992 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
993 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
994 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
995 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
996 * Experimental EyeTV access module
997 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
998 (available as a separate download).
999 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1000 * RTMP input support
1001 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1002 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1003 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1005 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1006 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1009 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1010 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1011 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1012 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1014 * APEv1/2 tags support
1015 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1016 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1018 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1019 * TiVo Series 2 support
1020 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1025 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1026 * Flash Screen Video support
1027 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1028 * DosBox Capture support
1029 * Karl Morton's Video support
1030 * limited atrac3 support
1032 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1033 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1034 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1035 * H.264 PAFF support
1036 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1037 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1038 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1039 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1040 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1043 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1044 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1045 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1046 * AQTitle subtitles support
1047 * MKV USF subtitles support
1048 * HTML-based subtitles support
1049 * MPSub subtitles support
1050 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1051 * MPL2 subtitles support
1052 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1053 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1054 * Realtext subtitle support
1055 * DKS subtitle support
1056 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1057 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1060 * Flash Screen Video support
1061 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1063 Video outputs and filters:
1064 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1065 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1066 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1067 * New puzzle video output filter
1068 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1069 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1071 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1072 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1073 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1074 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1075 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1076 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1077 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1078 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1079 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1080 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1081 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1082 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1083 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1084 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1086 Audio outputs and filters:
1087 * Replay gain support
1088 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1089 new scaletempo audio filter)
1090 * New spatializer audio filter
1091 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1094 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1095 * New RTP payload formats:
1096 * Speex voice audio codec
1097 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1098 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1099 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1100 * DCCP transport for RTP
1101 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1106 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1107 end-user suitable way.
1108 * Improved user interaction
1109 * Improved mouse gestures
1110 * Vastly improved Update checker
1111 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1113 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1114 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1116 * Improved video output features
1117 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1118 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1119 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1120 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1121 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1123 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1124 if libncursesw is available.
1125 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1126 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1127 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1129 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1130 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1131 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1132 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1133 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1134 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1135 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1136 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1139 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1140 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1141 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1144 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1145 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1146 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1147 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1148 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1149 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1152 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1153 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1163 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1164 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1165 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1168 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1169 ----------------------------------
1172 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1175 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1176 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1177 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1178 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1179 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1180 * Updated Polish translation
1183 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1184 ----------------------------------
1187 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1188 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1189 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1192 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1193 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1194 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1195 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1196 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1197 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1198 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1199 to an unexpected application termination
1200 * New Serbian translation
1201 * Updated Romanian translation
1204 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1205 ----------------------------------
1208 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1209 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1210 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1211 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1212 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1213 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1214 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1215 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1218 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1219 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1220 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1221 * Fixed AAC resampling
1222 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1223 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1226 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1227 ----------------------------------
1230 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1231 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1232 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1233 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1234 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1237 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1238 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1239 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1240 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1241 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1244 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1245 ----------------------------------
1248 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1249 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1252 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1253 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1254 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1255 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1257 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1261 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1264 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1267 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1270 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1273 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1274 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1275 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1276 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1277 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1279 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1280 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1281 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1282 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1285 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1288 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1289 ----------------------------------
1292 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1293 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1294 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1296 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1297 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1299 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1300 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1303 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1305 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1306 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1307 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1308 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1309 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1310 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1311 two different movies
1312 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1313 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1314 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1317 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1320 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1321 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1322 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1323 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1326 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1327 ----------------------------------
1329 Various bugfixes, notably:
1330 * Windows Vista compatibility
1331 * Cropping in Direct3D
1332 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1333 * RSS filter string overflow
1335 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1337 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1338 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1341 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1342 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1345 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1348 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1351 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1354 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1355 ----------------------------------
1357 Various bugfixes, notably:
1358 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1359 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1360 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1361 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1362 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1363 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1366 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1367 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1370 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1372 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1373 * Diverse usability improvements
1374 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1375 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1376 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1379 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1380 ---------------------------------
1382 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1383 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1386 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1389 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1390 --------------------------------
1393 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1396 * Support for RTSP authentication
1397 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1398 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1399 * ATSC support for DVB input
1400 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1401 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1402 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1405 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1406 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1407 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1408 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1409 * Matroska WavPack support
1410 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1411 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1412 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1415 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1416 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1417 * Improved libcaca support
1421 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1422 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1424 * Systray support in skins
1426 * Support for Apple Remote control
1427 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1428 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1429 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1430 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1432 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1435 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1436 Windows 9x/ME users:
1437 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1438 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1439 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1440 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1441 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1443 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1444 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1453 * Updates to the libvlc API
1454 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1457 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1458 --------------------------------
1461 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1462 * Support for downloading updates
1466 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1467 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1468 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1469 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1471 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1472 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1473 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1476 * Cook (Real audio) support
1478 Playlist / Services discovery:
1479 * XSPF playlist support
1481 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1484 * New JACK audio output
1487 * New video filters:
1488 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1489 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1490 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1491 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1492 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1493 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1496 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1499 * System to inform the user and request information
1500 - HTTP authentication
1504 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1505 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1506 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1509 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1510 - Improved playlist handling
1511 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1513 - Embedded Video output
1514 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1515 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1516 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1517 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1518 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1520 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1521 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1524 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1527 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1528 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1529 * Growl "Now playing" support
1532 * Ability to log to syslog
1533 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1536 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1538 * A bit more automatic testing
1541 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1542 ---------------------------------
1545 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1546 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1549 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1550 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1553 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1556 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1557 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1563 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1566 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1567 --------------------------------
1570 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1574 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1575 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1576 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1579 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1580 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1581 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1582 * GnomeVFS input module
1583 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1584 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1587 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1588 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1589 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1592 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1593 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1599 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1600 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1603 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1604 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1605 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1608 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1610 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1611 - New extended controls panel
1612 - New bookmarks window
1613 - Fixed playlist sorting
1614 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1616 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1617 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1618 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1619 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1623 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1624 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1626 - Include macro to include other files
1630 * Should now work outside IE as well
1633 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1636 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1637 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1640 The following languages were added:
1644 * Simplified Chinese
1645 The following languages were re-added:
1649 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1650 --------------------------------
1653 * Rewrite of the playlist
1655 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1656 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1657 * Preferences improvements:
1658 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1659 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1661 * Core image manipulation support
1662 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1663 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1664 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1665 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1666 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1667 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1668 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1669 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1670 * Access filter architecture
1671 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1672 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1676 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1677 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1678 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1679 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1680 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1681 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1682 * Massive Matroska improvements
1683 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1685 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1686 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1687 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1688 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1689 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1691 Decoders / Encoders:
1692 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1693 * PNG decoder/encoder
1694 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1695 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1698 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1701 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1702 * Brand new SAP module
1703 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1704 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1705 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1706 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1707 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1708 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1712 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1715 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1716 * Image file video output (png)
1717 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1718 * Improvements to wall video filter
1719 * Support for font color and opacity
1725 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1726 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1727 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1731 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1732 - Improved preferences
1733 - Improvements to the wizard
1734 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1736 - Redesigned playlist
1737 - Improved preferences
1739 - Support for multiple actions
1742 - Support for the new playlist system
1744 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1747 * Screensaver disabling fix
1748 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1749 * Support for no-decoration windows
1752 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1753 * The OpenGL video output is back
1754 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1755 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1756 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1757 is not yet available in the new module
1758 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1761 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1770 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1773 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1776 The following languages were added:
1782 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1783 --------------------------------
1786 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1787 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1790 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1791 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1792 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1795 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1798 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1801 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1804 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1805 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1806 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1810 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1812 * Support of playlist group announcement
1815 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1816 --------------------------------
1819 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1820 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1821 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1822 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1823 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1824 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1827 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1828 (Stream your desktop)
1829 * Improved DVD support:
1830 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1831 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1832 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1833 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1834 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1835 (selection of titles/chapters).
1838 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1839 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1840 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1841 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1842 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1843 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1844 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1845 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1846 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1847 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1850 * G.726 audio support
1851 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1852 * MPEG-4 text support
1853 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1854 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1855 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1859 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1860 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1861 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1862 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1863 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1864 * DVB subtitles encoder
1865 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1866 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1868 * Text track muxing for mp4
1869 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1870 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1871 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1872 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1873 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1874 * Improved ASF muxer
1876 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1877 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1878 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1881 * New audio equalizer filter
1882 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1883 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1884 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1885 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1888 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1889 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1890 with support for effects.
1891 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1892 - New filters can be streamed.
1893 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1894 - Centralized scaling and blending
1896 - "time", to display current time
1897 - "marq", to display a marquee
1900 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1901 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1902 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1903 * A few skins2 improvements
1904 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1905 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1906 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1907 * Improved CORBA control module
1910 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1911 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1912 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1915 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1916 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1917 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1920 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1921 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1922 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1923 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1924 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1927 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1930 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1931 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1934 * Server/client network synchronization module
1935 * VBrick streams fully supported
1936 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1940 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1941 --------------------------------
1944 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1945 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1946 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1947 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1950 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1951 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1952 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1953 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1954 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1955 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1956 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1959 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1960 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1961 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1962 * Improved directory access module.
1963 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1964 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1965 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1966 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1967 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1970 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1971 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1972 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1975 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1976 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1977 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1980 * Improved session announcement system.
1981 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1982 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1983 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1984 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1985 * Improved transrater.
1986 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1987 * New configuration system.
1988 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1991 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1992 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1993 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1994 * Supports scheduling.
1995 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1996 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1999 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2000 - Ability to embed video output.
2001 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2002 - Lots of improvements.
2003 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2004 - New design and set of icons.
2005 - Ability to embed video output.
2006 - Support for hotkeys.
2007 - Support for bookmarks.
2009 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2010 - Better hotkeys handling.
2013 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2014 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2015 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2016 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2019 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2020 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2021 * Improved Windows installer.
2027 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2028 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2031 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2032 ---------------------------------
2035 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2036 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2039 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2040 --------------------------------
2043 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2044 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2047 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2048 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2049 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2050 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2053 * Internal improvments
2054 * Improved import/export
2057 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2059 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2060 small and strange formats.
2062 * New MOD audio demux.
2063 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2064 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2065 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2066 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2069 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2070 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2071 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2077 * New opengl video output plugin.
2080 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2081 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2084 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2085 --------------------------------
2088 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2089 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2090 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2091 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2092 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2093 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2094 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2095 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2098 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2103 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2104 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2105 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2106 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2107 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2108 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2109 * Better Icecast support.
2110 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2111 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2114 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2115 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2116 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2117 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2118 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2119 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2120 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2123 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2124 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2125 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2126 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2127 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2128 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2129 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2130 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2131 * Preliminary RTP support.
2132 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2137 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2138 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2140 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2141 - Improvements and help in preferences
2142 - New streaming wizard
2143 - Revised Disc Open menu
2145 - Improvements of the standard pages
2146 - Support for new commands
2147 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2150 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2151 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2154 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2155 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2156 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2157 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2158 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2159 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2160 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2161 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2162 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2165 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2167 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2168 * Support for Panther.
2169 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2170 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2173 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2174 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2175 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2176 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2177 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2178 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2179 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2180 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2183 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2184 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2185 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2188 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2191 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2192 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2193 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2194 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2197 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2198 --------------------------------
2201 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2204 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2205 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2208 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2209 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2212 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2215 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2216 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2219 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2222 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2225 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2226 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2230 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2231 --------------------------------
2234 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2235 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2239 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2240 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2241 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2243 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2244 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2247 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2250 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2253 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2254 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2258 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2259 --------------------------------
2262 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2263 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2267 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2268 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2269 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2270 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2271 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2274 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2275 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2276 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2279 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2280 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2281 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2284 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2285 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2286 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2287 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2288 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2291 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2292 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2293 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2296 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2299 * Improved build system.
2300 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2301 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2302 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2303 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2306 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2307 --------------------------------
2310 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2313 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2314 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2315 * Video 4 Linux support
2316 * CD Digital Audio support
2317 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2320 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2321 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2322 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2323 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2326 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2327 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2328 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2329 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2330 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2331 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2332 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2335 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2336 * New HTTP remote control interface
2339 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2340 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2341 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2342 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2345 * New reset option for the preferences
2346 * You can set your language in the prefences
2347 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2348 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2349 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2350 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2353 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2354 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2355 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2358 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2359 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2360 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2361 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2362 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2363 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2364 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2365 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2366 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2367 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2370 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2371 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2372 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2373 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2374 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2375 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2376 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2379 * Interface localization
2380 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2381 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2382 * New full-featured Preferences window
2385 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2386 --------------------------------
2389 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2390 * support for skins at the interface level
2391 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2392 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2393 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2394 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2395 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2398 * fixed HTTP redirects
2399 * support for opening an entire directory
2400 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2401 * new video4linux access plug-in
2402 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2405 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2406 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2407 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2410 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2411 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2412 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2413 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2414 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2415 * new codec for raw I420 video
2416 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2419 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2420 (although it still misses some important features)
2421 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2424 * new HTTP output support
2425 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2426 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2429 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2432 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2435 * reorderable playlist
2436 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2437 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2438 * support for mono audio output devices
2439 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2440 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2441 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2442 * the messages window remembers more lines
2443 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2444 * http and ogg stream output options
2445 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2448 * new skinnable interface
2449 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2451 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2452 * support for FLAC audio format
2453 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2455 * network tab in the interface
2456 * "apply" handling in preferences
2459 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2460 ---------------------------------
2463 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2464 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2465 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2466 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2468 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2469 * DTS S/PDIF support
2472 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2473 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2474 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2475 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2478 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2479 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2482 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2485 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2488 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2490 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2491 * rc interface is now fully useable
2492 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2495 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2496 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2497 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2498 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2499 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2501 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2502 * support for mouse gestures
2503 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2506 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2507 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2510 * improved ID3 tag detection
2511 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2512 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2513 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2515 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2518 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2519 ---------------------------------
2522 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2523 English was set as the preferred language
2526 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2527 --------------------------------
2530 * new mouse gesture interface
2531 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2535 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2536 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2537 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2540 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2541 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2545 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2548 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2549 without the user consent
2552 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2554 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2555 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2556 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2559 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2560 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2561 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2562 * playlist enhancements
2563 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2564 * new step forward/step backward commands
2565 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2566 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2567 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2570 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2571 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2572 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2575 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2576 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2579 * native video output is working again
2580 * only commandline interface support
2581 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2584 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2585 --------------------------------
2588 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2589 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2590 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2591 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2592 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2593 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2594 and A/52 streams are supported)
2595 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2600 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2601 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2602 * VCD entry points support
2603 * VCD image file support
2606 * support for *.asf format
2607 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2608 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2609 * support for ogg encapsulation
2610 * support for raw DV format
2611 * support for *.wav format
2612 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2615 Stream discovery & playlists:
2616 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2617 * support for .m3u file format
2618 * support for .asx file format
2619 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2622 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2623 (only available with the .avi demux)
2624 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2625 * support for raw PCM data
2626 * support for Cinepak video codec
2627 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2628 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2629 * support for Xvid codec
2630 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2631 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2632 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2634 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2636 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2639 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2642 * new WxWindows interface
2643 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2644 device and the channels configuration
2645 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2646 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2647 format that VLC can play
2648 * new swedish translation
2649 * enhancements of the playlist window
2650 * new messages window to see debug info
2651 * fixed a few crashes
2654 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2655 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2656 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2657 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working