3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
20 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
21 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
22 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
23 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
25 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
26 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
27 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
28 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
29 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
30 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
31 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
32 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
33 Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
34 New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
40 * Vastly improved playlist support:
41 * Media library support
43 * Shoutcast TV listings
44 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
45 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
46 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
49 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
50 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
51 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
52 * JACK audio input support
53 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
54 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
55 * Fixed aiff stereo file
56 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
57 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
59 * APEv1/2 tags support
60 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
61 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
63 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
64 * Tivo Series 2 support
65 * v4l2 access module support
66 * CD+G karaoke Files support
70 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
71 * MKV USF subtitles support
72 * HTML based subtitles support
73 * Flash Screen Video support
74 * CamStudio Screen Video support
75 * DosBox Capture support
76 * Karl Morton's Video support
77 * limited atrac3 support
78 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
79 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
80 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
81 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, Tivo, DVB/ATSC)
83 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
84 * NellyMoser ASAO support
85 * APE ( Monkey audio ) support
88 * Flash Screen Video support
90 Video output and filters:
91 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
92 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
93 * New puzzle video output filter
94 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
95 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
97 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
98 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
99 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
101 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
102 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
103 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
104 was previously part of the mosaic module.
105 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
106 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
107 * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
108 * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
110 Audio output and filters
111 * Replay gain support.
112 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
113 * New spatializer audio filter.
116 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
117 * New RTP payload formats:
118 * Speex voice audio codec
119 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
120 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
121 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
122 * DCCP transport for RTP
123 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
127 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
129 * Improved user interaction
130 * Improved mouse gestures
132 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
133 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
134 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
135 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
136 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
137 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
138 * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters
139 when using an UTF-8 locale.
140 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
143 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
144 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
145 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
148 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
149 applications. (Google Summer Of Code Student project).
152 * Event management and various improvement in libvlc.
153 (Part of a Google Summer Of Code Student project).
156 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
165 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
166 ----------------------------------
168 Various bugfixes, notably:
169 * Windows Vista compatibility
170 * Cropping in Direct3D
171 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
172 * RSS filter string overflow
174 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
176 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
177 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
180 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
183 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
186 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
189 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
192 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
193 ----------------------------------
195 Various bugfixes, notably:
196 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
197 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
198 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
199 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
200 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
201 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
204 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
205 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
208 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
210 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
211 * Diverse usability improvements
212 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
213 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
214 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
217 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
218 ---------------------------------
221 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
224 * Fullscreen controller improvements
227 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
228 --------------------------------
231 * Shoutcast TV listings support
234 * Support for RTSP authentication
235 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
236 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
237 * ATSC support for DVB input
238 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
239 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
240 * Improved support for Flash Video files
243 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
244 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
245 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
246 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
247 * Matroska WavPack support
248 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
249 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
250 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
253 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
254 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
255 * Improved libcaca support
259 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
260 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
262 * Systray support in skins
264 * Support for Apple Remote control
265 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
266 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
267 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
268 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
270 * Notifications using notification-daemon
273 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
275 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
276 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
277 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
278 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
279 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
281 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
282 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
291 * Updates to the libvlc API
292 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
295 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
296 --------------------------------
299 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
300 * Support for downloading updates
304 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
305 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
306 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
307 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
309 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
310 * Improved subtitles encoding support
311 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
314 * Cook (Real audio) support
316 Playlist / Services discovery:
317 * XSPF playlist support
319 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
322 * New JACK audio output
326 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
327 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
328 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
329 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
330 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
331 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
334 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
337 * System to inform the user and request information
338 - HTTP authentication
342 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
343 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
344 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
347 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
348 - Improved playlist handling
349 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
351 - Embedded Video output
352 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
353 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
354 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
355 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
356 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
358 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
359 - A bunch of new RPN functions
362 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
365 * Mac-Intel compatibility
366 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
367 * Growl "Now playing" support
370 * Ability to log to syslog
371 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
374 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
376 * A bit more automatic testing
379 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
380 ---------------------------------
383 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
384 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
387 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
388 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
391 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
394 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
395 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
401 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
404 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
405 --------------------------------
408 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
412 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
413 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
414 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
417 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
418 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
419 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
420 * GnomeVFS input module
421 * Support for RTP packet reordering
422 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
425 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
426 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
427 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
430 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
431 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
437 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
438 Mixer and Dolby Surround
441 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
442 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
443 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
446 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
448 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
449 - New extended controls panel
450 - New bookmarks window
451 - Fixed playlist sorting
452 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
454 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
455 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
456 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
457 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
461 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
462 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
464 - Include macro to include other files
468 * Should now work outside IE as well
471 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
474 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
475 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
478 The following languages were added:
483 The following languages were re-added:
487 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
488 --------------------------------
491 * Rewrite of the playlist
493 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
494 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
495 * Preferences improvements:
496 - New organization, designed to improve usability
497 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
499 * Core image manipulation support
500 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
501 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
502 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
503 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
504 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
505 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
506 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
507 now separated by ':' instead of ','
508 * Access filter architecture
509 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
510 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
514 * Support for SOCKS proxy
515 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
516 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
517 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
518 * Better support for Kasenna streams
519 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
520 * Massive Matroska improvements
521 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
523 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
524 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
525 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
526 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
527 * Support for FTP over IPv6
530 * Dirac decoder and encoder
531 * PNG decoder/encoder
532 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
533 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
536 * New Record and Timeshift filters
539 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
540 * Brand new SAP module
541 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
542 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
543 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
544 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
545 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
546 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
550 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
553 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
554 * Image file video output (png)
555 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
556 * Improvements to wall video filter
557 * Support for font color and opacity
563 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
564 - Seeking support in VoD streams
565 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
569 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
570 - Improved preferences
571 - Improvements to the wizard
572 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
574 - Redesigned playlist
575 - Improved preferences
577 - Support for multiple actions
580 - Support for the new playlist system
582 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
585 * Screensaver disabling fix
586 * DirectShow tuner configuration
587 * Support for no-decoration windows
590 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
591 * The OpenGL video output is back
592 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
593 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
594 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
595 is not yet available in the new module
596 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
599 * Support for single-buffered overlay
608 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
611 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
614 The following languages were added:
620 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
621 --------------------------------
624 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
625 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
628 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
629 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
630 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
633 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
636 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
639 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
642 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
643 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
644 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
648 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
650 * Support of playlist group announcement
653 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
654 --------------------------------
657 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
658 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
659 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
660 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
661 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
662 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
665 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
666 (Stream your desktop)
667 * Improved DVD support:
668 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
669 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
670 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
671 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
672 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
673 (selection of titles/chapters).
676 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
677 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
678 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
679 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
680 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
681 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
682 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
683 * Improved Ogg demuxer
684 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
685 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
688 * G.726 audio support
689 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
690 * MPEG-4 text support
691 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
692 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
693 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
697 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
698 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
699 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
700 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
701 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
702 * DVB subtitles encoder
703 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
704 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
706 * Text track muxing for mp4
707 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
708 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
709 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
710 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
711 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
714 * H.263 RTP streaming support
715 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
716 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
719 * New audio equalizer filter
720 * Very trivial volume normalizer
721 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
722 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
723 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
726 * Roku HD1000 Video output
727 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
728 with support for effects.
729 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
730 - New filters can be streamed.
731 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
732 - Centralized scaling and blending
734 - "time", to display current time
735 - "marq", to display a marquee
738 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
739 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
740 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
741 * A few skins2 improvements
742 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
743 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
744 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
745 * Improved CORBA control module
748 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
749 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
750 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
753 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
754 * Experimental SVG rendering module
755 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
758 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
759 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
760 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
761 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
762 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
765 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
768 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
769 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
772 * Server/client network synchronization module
773 * VBrick streams fully supported
774 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
778 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
779 --------------------------------
782 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
783 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
784 * Improved HTTP daemon.
785 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
788 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
789 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
790 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
791 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
792 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
793 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
794 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
797 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
798 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
799 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
800 * Improved directory access module.
801 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
802 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
803 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
804 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
805 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
808 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
809 * mmsh streaming fixes.
810 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
813 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
814 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
815 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
818 * Improved session announcement system.
819 * Minimize threads usage by default.
820 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
821 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
822 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
823 * Improved transrater.
824 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
825 * New configuration system.
826 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
829 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
830 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
831 * Supports live streams and VoD.
832 * Supports scheduling.
833 * Telnet interface for vlm.
834 * HTTP interface for vlm.
837 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
838 - Ability to embed video output.
839 - Support for bitmap fonts.
840 - Lots of improvements.
841 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
842 - New design and set of icons.
843 - Ability to embed video output.
844 - Support for hotkeys.
845 - Support for bookmarks.
847 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
848 - Better hotkeys handling.
851 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
852 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
853 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
854 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
857 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
858 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
859 * Improved Windows installer.
865 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
866 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
869 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
870 ---------------------------------
873 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
874 * Playing MOD files is working now.
877 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
878 --------------------------------
881 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
882 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
885 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
886 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
887 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
888 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
891 * Internal improvments
892 * Improved import/export
895 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
897 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
898 small and strange formats.
900 * New MOD audio demux.
901 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
902 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
903 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
904 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
907 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
908 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
909 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
915 * New opengl video output plugin.
918 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
919 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
922 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
923 --------------------------------
926 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
927 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
928 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
929 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
930 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
931 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
932 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
933 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
936 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
941 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
942 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
943 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
944 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
945 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
946 * Reworked DVB tuning.
947 * Better Icecast support.
948 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
949 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
952 * Support for Theora video encoding.
953 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
954 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
955 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
956 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
957 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
958 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
961 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
962 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
963 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
964 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
965 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
966 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
967 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
968 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
969 * Preliminary RTP support.
970 * Fixes to SAP announces.
975 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
976 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
978 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
979 - Improvements and help in preferences
980 - New streaming wizard
981 - Revised Disc Open menu
983 - Improvements of the standard pages
984 - Support for new commands
985 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
988 * Many fixes to the SAP module
989 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
992 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
993 * Text subtitles autodetection.
994 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
995 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
996 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
997 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
998 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
999 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1000 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1003 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1005 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1006 * Support for Panther.
1007 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1008 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1011 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1012 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1013 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1014 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1015 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1016 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1017 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1018 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1021 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1022 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1023 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1026 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1029 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1030 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1031 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1032 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1035 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1036 --------------------------------
1039 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1042 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1043 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1046 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1047 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1050 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1053 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1054 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1057 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1060 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1063 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1064 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1068 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1069 --------------------------------
1072 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1073 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1077 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1078 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1079 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1081 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1082 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1085 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1088 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1091 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1092 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1096 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1097 --------------------------------
1100 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1101 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1105 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1106 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1107 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1108 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1109 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1112 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1113 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1114 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1117 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1118 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1119 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1122 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1123 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1124 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1125 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1126 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1129 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1130 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1131 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1134 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1137 * Improved build system.
1138 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1139 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1140 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1141 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1144 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1145 --------------------------------
1148 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1151 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1152 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1153 * Video 4 Linux support
1154 * CD Digital Audio support
1155 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1158 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1159 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1160 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1161 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1164 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1165 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1166 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1167 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1168 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1169 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1170 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1173 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1174 * New HTTP remote control interface
1177 * 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.
1178 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1179 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1180 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1183 * New reset option for the preferences
1184 * You can set your language in the prefences
1185 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1186 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1187 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1188 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1191 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1192 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1193 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1196 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1197 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1198 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1199 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1200 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1201 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1202 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1203 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1204 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1205 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1208 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1209 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1210 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1211 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1212 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1213 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1214 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1217 * Interface localization
1218 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1219 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1220 * New full-featured Preferences window
1223 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1224 --------------------------------
1227 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1228 * support for skins at the interface level
1229 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1230 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1231 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1232 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1233 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1236 * fixed HTTP redirects
1237 * support for opening an entire directory
1238 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1239 * new video4linux access plug-in
1240 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1243 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1244 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1245 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1248 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1249 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1250 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1251 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1252 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1253 * new codec for raw I420 video
1254 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1257 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1258 (although it still misses some important features)
1259 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1262 * new HTTP output support
1263 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1264 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1267 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1270 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1273 * reorderable playlist
1274 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1275 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1276 * support for mono audio output devices
1277 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1278 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1279 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1280 * the messages window remembers more lines
1281 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1282 * http and ogg stream output options
1283 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1286 * new skinnable interface
1287 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1289 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1290 * support for FLAC audio format
1291 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1293 * network tab in the interface
1294 * "apply" handling in preferences
1297 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1298 ---------------------------------
1301 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1302 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1303 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1304 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1306 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1307 * DTS S/PDIF support
1310 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1311 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1312 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1313 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1316 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1317 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1320 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1323 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1326 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1328 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1329 * rc interface is now fully useable
1330 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1333 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1334 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1335 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1336 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1337 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1339 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1340 * support for mouse gestures
1341 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1344 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1345 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1348 * improved ID3 tag detection
1349 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1350 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1351 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1353 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1356 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1357 ---------------------------------
1360 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1361 English was set as the preferred language
1364 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1365 --------------------------------
1368 * new mouse gesture interface
1369 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1373 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1374 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1375 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1378 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1379 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1383 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1386 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1387 without the user consent
1390 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1392 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1393 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1394 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1397 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1398 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1399 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1400 * playlist enhancements
1401 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1402 * new step forward/step backward commands
1403 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1404 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1405 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1408 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1409 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1410 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1413 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1414 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1417 * native video output is working again
1418 * only commandline interface support
1419 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1422 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1423 --------------------------------
1426 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1427 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1428 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1429 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1430 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1431 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1432 and A/52 streams are supported)
1433 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1438 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1439 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1440 * VCD entry points support
1441 * VCD image file support
1444 * support for *.asf format
1445 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1446 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1447 * support for ogg encapsulation
1448 * support for raw DV format
1449 * support for *.wav format
1450 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1453 Stream discovery & playlists:
1454 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1455 * support for .m3u file format
1456 * support for .asx file format
1457 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1460 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1461 (only available with the .avi demux)
1462 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1463 * support for raw PCM data
1464 * support for Cinepak video codec
1465 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1466 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1467 * support for Xvid codec
1468 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1469 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1470 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1472 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1474 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1477 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1480 * new WxWindows interface
1481 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1482 device and the channels configuration
1483 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1484 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1485 format that VLC can play
1486 * new swedish translation
1487 * enhancements of the playlist window
1488 * new messages window to see debug info
1489 * fixed a few crashes
1492 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1493 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1494 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1495 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working