1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
6 * Support for the sftp protocol
7 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on Windows version
8 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
9 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
10 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
14 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
15 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
16 * Invmem module improvements
17 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
18 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 on Windows Vista and 7
19 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles, especially on Windows
22 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
23 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
24 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
25 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
26 * Various EGP improvements
29 * WPL playlist support
30 * ZPL playlist support
31 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
32 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
33 * Podcast images are now displayed
36 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
37 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
38 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
39 linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
40 * NEON assembly audio converter module
43 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
44 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
45 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
46 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
47 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
48 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
51 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
52 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
53 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
54 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
55 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
56 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
59 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
62 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
63 * Service discovery based on libudev
66 * New smem module, streaming to memory
69 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
71 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
74 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
77 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
78 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
79 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
80 by Andy Matuschak et al.
81 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
84 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
85 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
88 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
94 * csri codec. Use libass module instead.
95 * galaktos. Use new projectM module instead.
96 * showintf. Useless in qt and mac os X
98 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use new XCB modules instead.
99 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
100 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
101 * WinCE and qnx interfaces
102 * opie, qte and qte_main
103 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
104 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
105 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
107 * cddax. Use cdda instead
108 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
111 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 (not yet released):
112 ---------------------------------------------------
114 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
117 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
118 --------------------------------
121 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
122 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
125 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
126 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
129 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
130 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
133 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
136 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
137 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
140 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
141 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
144 * New Walloon translation
145 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
148 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
149 --------------------------------
152 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
153 regressions in most popular drivers
154 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
157 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
158 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
159 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
162 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
163 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
166 * Update for appletrailers lua script
167 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
168 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
169 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
170 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
173 * New udev module for linux
176 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
179 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
182 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
183 --------------------------------
186 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
187 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
188 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
191 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
192 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
195 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
196 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
199 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
202 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
203 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
204 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
205 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
208 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
209 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
210 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
211 - no support for Goom and SDL
212 - limited text rendering support
213 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
216 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
217 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
218 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
219 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
220 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
221 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
222 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
223 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
224 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
228 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
231 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
234 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
235 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
236 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
237 Arabic and French translation updates
240 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
241 --------------------------------
244 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
245 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
246 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
247 * Fix Dailymotion access script
248 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
249 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
252 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
253 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
256 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
257 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
258 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
261 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
264 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
265 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
268 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
269 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
270 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
271 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
272 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
273 * Fix various crashes
276 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
278 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
281 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
282 ---------------------------------
286 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
287 See 'Access:' for more info.
288 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
291 * Instantaneous pausing
292 * Frame-by-Frame playback
293 * Finer speed control
294 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
295 * Timeshift for most medias
296 * RTSP trickplay support
297 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
300 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
301 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
302 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
303 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
304 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
305 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
306 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
307 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
308 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
309 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
312 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
313 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
314 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
315 * Metadata for mod files are supported
316 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
317 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
318 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
321 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
322 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
325 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
326 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
327 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
328 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
329 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
330 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
331 * DVB scanning on linux
332 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
333 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
334 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
335 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
336 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
337 * MTP device access on Unix
338 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
339 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
342 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
343 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
344 Windows and Mac OS X.
347 * Export the playlist in HTML
348 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
349 * Better metadata handling and reading
351 Linux/Windows interface:
352 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
353 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
354 * Recently played items list
355 * Interface toolbar customizations
356 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
359 - Improvements on many dialogs
360 - New dialog for plugins listing
361 - Fixed-size mode for videos
362 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
363 * Better integration in GTK environments
366 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
367 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
368 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
369 * Additional usability improvements
372 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
373 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
374 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
375 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
376 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
379 * New Maemo port with:
380 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
381 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
384 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
387 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
388 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
389 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
390 * Support for latest iSight models
393 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
394 * Surround support for PulseAudio
397 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
398 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
399 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
400 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
401 The old image video output has been removed.
402 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
403 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
406 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
414 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
415 --------------------------------------
421 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
422 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
423 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
424 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
425 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
426 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
427 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
429 Various fixes to the following modules:
432 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
433 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
436 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
441 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
442 ---------------------------------
445 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
446 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
449 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
450 ---------------------------------
453 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
456 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
459 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
460 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
461 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
462 main controller window.
463 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
466 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
471 * Updates of other localizations
474 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
475 * Lots of small bugfixes.
476 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
477 * Telnet fixes on Windows
478 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
481 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
482 ---------------------------------
485 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
487 Bunch of small bugfixes.
490 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
491 --------------------------------
496 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
497 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
500 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
501 --------------------------------
503 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
504 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
507 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
510 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
511 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
514 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
515 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
518 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
519 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
520 * Various fixed in playlist
523 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
526 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
529 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
530 ------------------------------------
532 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
533 * Fixes several memory leaks.
536 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
537 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
538 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
541 * Stability fix for the video output.
544 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
545 --------------------------------
548 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
549 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
550 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
551 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
552 * Fixed update system bugs
553 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
556 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
557 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
558 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
559 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
560 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
561 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
562 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
563 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
564 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
565 modern Mac OS X versions
568 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
569 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
571 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
572 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
575 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
576 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
577 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
578 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
579 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
580 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
583 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
584 --------------------------------
586 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
587 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
591 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
592 --------------------------------
594 * Multiple bug fixes.
597 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
598 ---------------------------------
602 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
603 recent to work correctly
604 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
605 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
606 edit the ".hosts" file.
607 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
608 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
609 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
610 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
611 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
612 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
613 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
614 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
615 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
616 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
617 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
618 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
619 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
620 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
621 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
622 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
623 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
624 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
625 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
626 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
627 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
628 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
629 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
630 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
631 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
632 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
633 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
634 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
635 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
636 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
637 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
638 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
639 and postproc modules.
640 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
641 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
642 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
643 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
645 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
647 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
648 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
650 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
651 * Glide video output module has been removed.
657 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
659 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
660 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
663 * Vastly improved playlist support:
664 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
666 * Shoutcast TV listings
667 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
669 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
670 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
672 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
675 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
676 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
677 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
678 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
679 * JACK audio input support
680 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
681 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
682 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
683 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
684 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
685 * Experimental EyeTV access module
686 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
687 (available as a separate download).
688 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
690 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
691 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
692 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
694 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
695 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
698 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
699 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
700 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
701 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
703 * APEv1/2 tags support
704 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
705 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
707 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
708 * TiVo Series 2 support
709 * CD+G karaoke Files support
714 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
715 * Flash Screen Video support
716 * CamStudio Screen Video support
717 * DosBox Capture support
718 * Karl Morton's Video support
719 * limited atrac3 support
721 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
722 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
723 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
725 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
726 * NellyMoser ASAO support
727 * APE (Monkey audio) support
728 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
729 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
732 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
733 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
734 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
735 * AQTitle subtitles support
736 * MKV USF subtitles support
737 * HTML-based subtitles support
738 * MPSub subtitles support
739 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
740 * MPL2 subtitles support
741 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
742 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
743 * Realtext subtitle support
744 * DKS subtitle support
745 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
746 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
749 * Flash Screen Video support
750 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
752 Video outputs and filters:
753 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
754 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
755 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
756 * New puzzle video output filter
757 * Re-written motion detection video filter
758 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
760 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
761 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
762 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
763 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
764 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
765 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
766 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
767 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
768 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
769 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
770 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
771 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
772 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
773 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
775 Audio outputs and filters:
776 * Replay gain support
777 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
778 new scaletempo audio filter)
779 * New spatializer audio filter
780 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
783 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
784 * New RTP payload formats:
785 * Speex voice audio codec
786 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
787 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
788 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
789 * DCCP transport for RTP
790 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
795 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
796 end-user suitable way.
797 * Improved user interaction
798 * Improved mouse gestures
799 * Vastly improved Update checker
800 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
802 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
803 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
805 * Improved video output features
806 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
807 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
808 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
809 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
810 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
812 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
813 if libncursesw is available.
814 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
815 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
816 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
818 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
819 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
820 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
821 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
822 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
823 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
824 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
825 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
828 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
829 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
830 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
833 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
834 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
835 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
836 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
837 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
838 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
841 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
842 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
852 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
853 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
854 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
857 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
858 ----------------------------------
861 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
864 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
865 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
866 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
867 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
868 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
869 * Updated Polish translation
872 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
873 ----------------------------------
876 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
877 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
878 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
881 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
882 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
883 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
884 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
885 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
886 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
887 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
888 to an unexpected application termination
889 * New Serbian translation
890 * Updated Romanian translation
893 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
894 ----------------------------------
897 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
898 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
899 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
900 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
901 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
902 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
903 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
904 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
907 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
908 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
909 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
910 * Fixed AAC resampling
911 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
912 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
915 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
916 ----------------------------------
919 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
920 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
921 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
922 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
923 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
926 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
927 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
928 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
929 * Close MMS access on network timeout
930 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
933 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
934 ----------------------------------
937 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
938 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
941 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
942 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
943 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
944 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
946 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
950 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
953 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
956 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
959 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
962 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
963 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
964 encoding on multi-cpu systems
965 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
966 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
968 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
969 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
970 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
971 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
974 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
977 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
978 ----------------------------------
981 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
982 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
983 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
985 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
986 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
988 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
989 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
992 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
994 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
995 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
996 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
997 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
998 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
999 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1000 two different movies
1001 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1002 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1003 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1006 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1009 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1010 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1011 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1012 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1015 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1016 ----------------------------------
1018 Various bugfixes, notably:
1019 * Windows Vista compatibility
1020 * Cropping in Direct3D
1021 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1022 * RSS filter string overflow
1024 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1026 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1027 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1030 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1031 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1034 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1037 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1040 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1043 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1044 ----------------------------------
1046 Various bugfixes, notably:
1047 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1048 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1049 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1050 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1051 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1052 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1055 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1056 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1059 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1061 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1062 * Diverse usability improvements
1063 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1064 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1065 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1068 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1069 ---------------------------------
1071 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1072 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1075 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1078 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1079 --------------------------------
1082 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1085 * Support for RTSP authentication
1086 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1087 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1088 * ATSC support for DVB input
1089 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1090 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1091 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1094 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1095 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1096 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1097 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1098 * Matroska WavPack support
1099 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1100 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1101 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1104 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1105 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1106 * Improved libcaca support
1110 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1111 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1113 * Systray support in skins
1115 * Support for Apple Remote control
1116 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1117 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1118 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1119 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1121 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1124 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1125 Windows 9x/ME users:
1126 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1127 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1128 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1129 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1130 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1132 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1133 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1142 * Updates to the libvlc API
1143 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1146 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1147 --------------------------------
1150 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1151 * Support for downloading updates
1155 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1156 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1157 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1158 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1160 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1161 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1162 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1165 * Cook (Real audio) support
1167 Playlist / Services discovery:
1168 * XSPF playlist support
1170 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1173 * New JACK audio output
1176 * New video filters:
1177 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1178 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1179 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1180 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1181 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1182 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1185 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1188 * System to inform the user and request information
1189 - HTTP authentication
1193 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1194 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1195 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1198 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1199 - Improved playlist handling
1200 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1202 - Embedded Video output
1203 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1204 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1205 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1206 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1207 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1209 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1210 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1213 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1216 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1217 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1218 * Growl "Now playing" support
1221 * Ability to log to syslog
1222 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1225 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1227 * A bit more automatic testing
1230 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1231 ---------------------------------
1234 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1235 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1238 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1239 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1242 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1245 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1246 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1252 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1255 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1256 --------------------------------
1259 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1263 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1264 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1265 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1268 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1269 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1270 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1271 * GnomeVFS input module
1272 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1273 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1276 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1277 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1278 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1281 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1282 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1288 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1289 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1292 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1293 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1294 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1297 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1299 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1300 - New extended controls panel
1301 - New bookmarks window
1302 - Fixed playlist sorting
1303 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1305 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1306 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1307 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1308 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1312 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1313 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1315 - Include macro to include other files
1319 * Should now work outside IE as well
1322 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1325 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1326 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1329 The following languages were added:
1333 * Simplified Chinese
1334 The following languages were re-added:
1338 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1339 --------------------------------
1342 * Rewrite of the playlist
1344 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1345 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1346 * Preferences improvements:
1347 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1348 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1350 * Core image manipulation support
1351 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1352 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1353 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1354 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1355 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1356 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1357 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1358 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1359 * Access filter architecture
1360 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1361 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1365 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1366 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1367 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1368 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1369 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1370 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1371 * Massive Matroska improvements
1372 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1374 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1375 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1376 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1377 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1378 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1380 Decoders / Encoders:
1381 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1382 * PNG decoder/encoder
1383 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1384 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1387 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1390 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1391 * Brand new SAP module
1392 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1393 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1394 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1395 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1396 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1397 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1401 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1404 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1405 * Image file video output (png)
1406 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1407 * Improvements to wall video filter
1408 * Support for font color and opacity
1414 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1415 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1416 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1420 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1421 - Improved preferences
1422 - Improvements to the wizard
1423 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1425 - Redesigned playlist
1426 - Improved preferences
1428 - Support for multiple actions
1431 - Support for the new playlist system
1433 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1436 * Screensaver disabling fix
1437 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1438 * Support for no-decoration windows
1441 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1442 * The OpenGL video output is back
1443 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1444 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1445 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1446 is not yet available in the new module
1447 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1450 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1459 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1462 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1465 The following languages were added:
1471 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1472 --------------------------------
1475 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1476 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1479 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1480 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1481 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1484 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1487 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1490 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1493 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1494 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1495 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1499 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1501 * Support of playlist group announcement
1504 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1505 --------------------------------
1508 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1509 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1510 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1511 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1512 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1513 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1516 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1517 (Stream your desktop)
1518 * Improved DVD support:
1519 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1520 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1521 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1522 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1523 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1524 (selection of titles/chapters).
1527 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1528 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1529 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1530 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1531 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1532 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1533 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1534 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1535 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1536 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1539 * G.726 audio support
1540 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1541 * MPEG-4 text support
1542 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1543 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1544 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1548 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1549 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1550 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1551 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1552 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1553 * DVB subtitles encoder
1554 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1555 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1557 * Text track muxing for mp4
1558 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1559 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1560 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1561 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1562 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1563 * Improved ASF muxer
1565 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1566 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1567 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1570 * New audio equalizer filter
1571 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1572 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1573 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1574 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1577 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1578 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1579 with support for effects.
1580 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1581 - New filters can be streamed.
1582 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1583 - Centralized scaling and blending
1585 - "time", to display current time
1586 - "marq", to display a marquee
1589 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1590 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1591 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1592 * A few skins2 improvements
1593 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1594 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1595 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1596 * Improved CORBA control module
1599 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1600 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1601 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1604 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1605 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1606 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1609 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1610 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1611 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1612 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1613 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1616 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1619 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1620 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1623 * Server/client network synchronization module
1624 * VBrick streams fully supported
1625 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1629 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1630 --------------------------------
1633 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1634 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1635 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1636 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1639 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1640 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1641 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1642 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1643 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1644 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1645 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1648 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1649 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1650 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1651 * Improved directory access module.
1652 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1653 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1654 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1655 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1656 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1659 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1660 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1661 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1664 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1665 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1666 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1669 * Improved session announcement system.
1670 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1671 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1672 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1673 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1674 * Improved transrater.
1675 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1676 * New configuration system.
1677 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1680 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1681 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1682 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1683 * Supports scheduling.
1684 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1685 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1688 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1689 - Ability to embed video output.
1690 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1691 - Lots of improvements.
1692 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1693 - New design and set of icons.
1694 - Ability to embed video output.
1695 - Support for hotkeys.
1696 - Support for bookmarks.
1698 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1699 - Better hotkeys handling.
1702 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1703 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1704 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1705 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1708 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1709 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1710 * Improved Windows installer.
1716 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1717 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1720 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1721 ---------------------------------
1724 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1725 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1728 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1729 --------------------------------
1732 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1733 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1736 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1737 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1738 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1739 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1742 * Internal improvments
1743 * Improved import/export
1746 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1748 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1749 small and strange formats.
1751 * New MOD audio demux.
1752 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1753 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1754 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1755 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1758 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1759 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1760 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1766 * New opengl video output plugin.
1769 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1770 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1773 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1774 --------------------------------
1777 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1778 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1779 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1780 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1781 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1782 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1783 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1784 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1787 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1792 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1793 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1794 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1795 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1796 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1797 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1798 * Better Icecast support.
1799 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1800 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1803 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1804 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1805 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1806 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1807 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1808 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1809 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1812 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1813 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1814 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1815 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1816 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1817 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1818 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1819 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1820 * Preliminary RTP support.
1821 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1826 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1827 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1829 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1830 - Improvements and help in preferences
1831 - New streaming wizard
1832 - Revised Disc Open menu
1834 - Improvements of the standard pages
1835 - Support for new commands
1836 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1839 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1840 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1843 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1844 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1845 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1846 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1847 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1848 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1849 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1850 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1851 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1854 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1856 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1857 * Support for Panther.
1858 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1859 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1862 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1863 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1864 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1865 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1866 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1867 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1868 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1869 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1872 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1873 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1874 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1877 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1880 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1881 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1882 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1883 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1886 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1887 --------------------------------
1890 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1893 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1894 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1897 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1898 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1901 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1904 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1905 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1908 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1911 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1914 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1915 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1919 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1920 --------------------------------
1923 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1924 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1928 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1929 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1930 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1932 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1933 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1936 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1939 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1942 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1943 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1947 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1948 --------------------------------
1951 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1952 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1956 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1957 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1958 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1959 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1960 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1963 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1964 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1965 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1968 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1969 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1970 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1973 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1974 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1975 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1976 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1977 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1980 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1981 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1982 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1985 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1988 * Improved build system.
1989 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1990 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1991 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1992 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1995 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1996 --------------------------------
1999 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2002 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2003 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2004 * Video 4 Linux support
2005 * CD Digital Audio support
2006 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2009 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2010 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2011 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2012 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2015 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2016 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2017 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2018 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2019 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2020 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2021 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2024 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2025 * New HTTP remote control interface
2028 * 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.
2029 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2030 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2031 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2034 * New reset option for the preferences
2035 * You can set your language in the prefences
2036 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2037 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2038 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2039 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2042 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2043 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2044 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2047 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2048 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2049 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2050 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2051 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2052 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2053 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2054 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2055 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2056 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2059 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2060 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2061 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2062 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2063 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2064 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2065 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2068 * Interface localization
2069 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2070 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2071 * New full-featured Preferences window
2074 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2075 --------------------------------
2078 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2079 * support for skins at the interface level
2080 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2081 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2082 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2083 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2084 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2087 * fixed HTTP redirects
2088 * support for opening an entire directory
2089 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2090 * new video4linux access plug-in
2091 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2094 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2095 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2096 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2099 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2100 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2101 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2102 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2103 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2104 * new codec for raw I420 video
2105 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2108 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2109 (although it still misses some important features)
2110 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2113 * new HTTP output support
2114 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2115 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2118 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2121 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2124 * reorderable playlist
2125 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2126 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2127 * support for mono audio output devices
2128 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2129 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2130 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2131 * the messages window remembers more lines
2132 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2133 * http and ogg stream output options
2134 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2137 * new skinnable interface
2138 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2140 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2141 * support for FLAC audio format
2142 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2144 * network tab in the interface
2145 * "apply" handling in preferences
2148 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2149 ---------------------------------
2152 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2153 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2154 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2155 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2157 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2158 * DTS S/PDIF support
2161 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2162 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2163 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2164 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2167 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2168 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2171 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2174 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2177 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2179 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2180 * rc interface is now fully useable
2181 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2184 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2185 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2186 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2187 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2188 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2190 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2191 * support for mouse gestures
2192 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2195 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2196 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2199 * improved ID3 tag detection
2200 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2201 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2202 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2204 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2207 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2208 ---------------------------------
2211 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2212 English was set as the preferred language
2215 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2216 --------------------------------
2219 * new mouse gesture interface
2220 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2224 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2225 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2226 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2229 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2230 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2234 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2237 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2238 without the user consent
2241 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2243 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2244 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2245 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2248 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2249 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2250 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2251 * playlist enhancements
2252 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2253 * new step forward/step backward commands
2254 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2255 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2256 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2259 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2260 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2261 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2264 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2265 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2268 * native video output is working again
2269 * only commandline interface support
2270 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2273 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2274 --------------------------------
2277 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2278 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2279 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2280 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2281 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2282 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2283 and A/52 streams are supported)
2284 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2289 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2290 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2291 * VCD entry points support
2292 * VCD image file support
2295 * support for *.asf format
2296 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2297 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2298 * support for ogg encapsulation
2299 * support for raw DV format
2300 * support for *.wav format
2301 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2304 Stream discovery & playlists:
2305 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2306 * support for .m3u file format
2307 * support for .asx file format
2308 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2311 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2312 (only available with the .avi demux)
2313 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2314 * support for raw PCM data
2315 * support for Cinepak video codec
2316 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2317 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2318 * support for Xvid codec
2319 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2320 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2321 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2323 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2325 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2328 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2331 * new WxWindows interface
2332 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2333 device and the channels configuration
2334 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2335 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2336 format that VLC can play
2337 * new swedish translation
2338 * enhancements of the playlist window
2339 * new messages window to see debug info
2340 * fixed a few crashes
2343 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2344 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2345 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2346 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working