1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 3rd party libraries (contrib):
5 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
8 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
11 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
14 * new remapping channel filter
15 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
16 * new VSXu visualization plugin
19 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
22 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
25 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
26 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
29 * fixed lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
32 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
35 * portaudio audio output
38 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
39 --------------------------------
42 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
43 * fix the samba module compilation
44 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
45 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
46 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
47 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
50 * Support for MXPEG files
51 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
52 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
55 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
56 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
57 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
60 * Fix ogm header creation
63 * limit spatializer filter distortions
64 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
67 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
68 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
69 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
70 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
73 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
76 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
77 * allow to hide the sidebar
78 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
79 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
80 * noticebly faster launch time
81 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
82 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
83 * improve track synchronization panel
84 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
85 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
88 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
89 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
90 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
91 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
94 * fix for menus display
95 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
96 * documentation update
99 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
100 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
103 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
104 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
105 * Update Jamendo selections
109 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
110 * fix a crash on VLM close
113 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
114 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
115 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
116 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
119 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
122 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
123 ---------------------------------
126 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
127 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
128 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
129 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
130 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
131 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
132 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
133 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
134 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
135 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
136 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
137 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
138 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
139 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
140 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
141 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
142 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
143 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
144 --http-crl (optional CRL).
145 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
146 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
147 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
148 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
149 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
150 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
151 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
153 Important changes for packagers:
154 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
155 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
156 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
157 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
158 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
159 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
160 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
161 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
162 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
163 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
166 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
167 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
168 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
169 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
170 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
171 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
172 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
175 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
176 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
177 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
178 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
179 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
180 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
181 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
182 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
183 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
184 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
185 * PulseAudio audio input support
186 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
187 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
188 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
189 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
190 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
191 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
192 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
193 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
196 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
197 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
198 are notably concerned.
199 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
200 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
201 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
202 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
203 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
204 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
205 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
206 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
207 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
208 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
209 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
210 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
211 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
212 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
213 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
216 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
217 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
218 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
219 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
220 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
221 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
222 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
223 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
224 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
225 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
226 * Improved support of tracker files
227 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
230 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
231 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
232 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
233 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
234 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
235 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
236 and important cleanups and optimisations
237 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
238 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
239 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
240 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
241 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
242 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
243 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
244 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
245 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
246 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
247 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
248 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
249 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
250 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
251 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
252 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
253 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
254 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
255 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
256 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
257 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
260 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
261 * New video output for iOS platform
262 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
263 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
264 * Various vmem improvements
265 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
266 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
267 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
268 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
269 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
270 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
272 Audio Output and Filters:
273 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
274 * New audio output in memory (amem)
275 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
276 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
277 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
278 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
279 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
280 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
281 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
282 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
285 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
286 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
287 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
288 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
289 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
290 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
291 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
292 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
293 * New anti-flickering filter
294 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
295 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
296 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
297 blackbox and customizable shadow.
298 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
299 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
300 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
303 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
304 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
305 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
306 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
307 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
308 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
309 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
310 * Major rework of VoD support
311 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
312 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
313 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
314 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
315 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
316 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
317 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
318 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
319 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
320 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
323 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
324 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
327 * New capabilities for libVLC:
328 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
329 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
330 list of available audio and video filters
331 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
332 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
333 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
336 * asademux, subsass: use libass
337 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
338 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
340 * upnp: use upnp_intel
341 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
342 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
343 * removal of the noise filter
344 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
345 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
346 removed in Growl's next release, too.
347 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
350 * Update of translations for most languages.
351 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
354 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
355 ----------------------------------
358 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
359 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
362 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
363 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
366 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
367 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
368 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
371 * Camtasia decoding fix.
374 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
375 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
378 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
381 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
382 ----------------------------------
385 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
386 including support for OS X Lion
387 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
388 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
391 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
394 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
395 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
396 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
399 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
402 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
403 ----------------------------------
406 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
407 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
410 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
411 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
412 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
413 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
414 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
416 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
417 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
418 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
420 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
421 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
424 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
427 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
430 * Fix quitting on Linux
431 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
435 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
438 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
441 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
442 ---------------------------------
444 Windows and Mac OS X:
445 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
448 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
449 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
452 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
455 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
458 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
460 Miscellaneous fixes in:
461 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
463 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
464 * RTP output and XML export
465 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
469 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
470 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
471 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
472 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
475 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
476 --------------------------------
478 Windows and Mac OS X:
479 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
482 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
485 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
486 * Improve Apple Remote handling
487 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
488 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
489 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
490 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
493 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
494 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
498 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
499 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
500 * New Luganda Translation
503 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
504 --------------------------------
507 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
510 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
511 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
512 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
513 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
516 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
518 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
519 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
520 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
521 * mp4 demuxer improvements
522 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
523 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
524 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
525 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
527 Miscellaneous fixes in:
528 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
529 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
530 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
531 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
532 * Configure and build system improvements
533 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
536 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
537 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
538 * New icelandic translation
541 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
542 --------------------------------
545 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
549 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
550 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
551 and stability reasons
554 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
558 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
561 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
562 ----------------------------------
565 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
568 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
569 ---------------------------------
572 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
573 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
574 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
575 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
578 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
581 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
582 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
583 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
584 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
587 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
588 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
589 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
591 Subtitles and renderer:
592 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
593 * Mark more freetype options as safe
594 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
595 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
596 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
599 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
600 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
601 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
602 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
605 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
606 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
609 * KDE device solid actions
611 * Transcode integer overflow
612 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
613 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
616 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
617 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
618 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
621 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
622 ----------------------------------
625 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
629 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
632 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
635 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
636 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
637 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
638 * Taglib thread-safety fix
641 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
645 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
648 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
651 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
652 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
654 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
658 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
659 * Miscellaneous fixes
662 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
663 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
665 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
666 * New Asturian translation
669 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
670 ----------------------------------
673 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
675 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
678 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
681 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
682 * Various fixes for Windows
685 * New Armenian translation
686 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
687 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
690 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
691 --------------------------------
694 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
696 * Fix folders opening from the interface
699 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
700 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
703 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
704 --------------------------------
707 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
708 * fix for podcasts parsing
709 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
712 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
713 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
716 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
717 * fix m3u playlists exports
720 * fix video autoresize behaviour
723 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
726 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
729 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
732 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
735 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
736 --------------------------------
739 * Avformat fps displaying fix
740 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
743 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
744 of mono streams, especially on Windows
747 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
748 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
749 * fix console output encoding
751 Interface and extensions:
752 * Youtube and other scripts updates
753 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
756 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
757 --------------------------------
760 * New capabilities for libVLC:
761 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
762 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
763 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
764 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
765 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
766 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
767 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
768 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
769 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
770 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
771 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
772 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
773 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
774 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
775 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
779 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
780 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
781 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
782 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
783 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
786 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
789 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
790 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
791 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
795 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
798 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
799 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
800 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
803 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
804 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
805 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
806 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
809 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
810 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
813 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
814 --------------------------------
816 Important changes for users:
817 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
818 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
820 Important changes for packagers:
821 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
822 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
823 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
824 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
825 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
827 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
829 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
830 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
831 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
832 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
833 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
836 * Support for the sftp protocol
837 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
838 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
839 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
840 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
841 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
844 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
845 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
846 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
848 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
849 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
850 * Invmem module improvements
851 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
852 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
853 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
854 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
855 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
856 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
857 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
858 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
859 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
860 * Support for VP8 codec
861 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
864 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
865 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
866 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
867 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
868 * Various EGP improvements
869 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
870 * Metadata and cover art improvements
873 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
874 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
875 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
876 * Podcast images are now displayed
879 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
880 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
881 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
882 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
883 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
884 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
885 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
886 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
887 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
888 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
889 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
892 * New content extensions lua framework
895 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
896 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
897 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
898 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
899 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
900 * NEON assembly audio converter module
901 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
904 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
905 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
906 * Service discovery based on libudev
907 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
910 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
911 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
912 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
913 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
914 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
915 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
916 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
919 * New smem module, streaming to memory
920 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
921 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
924 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
926 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
927 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
930 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
933 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
934 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
935 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
936 by Andy Matuschak et al.
937 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
938 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
939 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
942 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
943 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
946 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
947 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
948 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
952 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
953 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
954 * Improved Solaris port
957 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
958 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
961 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
962 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
963 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
964 * transrate: broken since too long
965 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
966 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
967 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
968 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
969 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
970 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
971 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
972 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
973 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
974 * cddax: use cdda instead.
975 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
976 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
977 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
978 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
981 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
982 --------------------------------
985 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
987 Decoders/Packetizers:
988 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
991 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
992 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
993 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
994 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
995 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
998 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
999 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1002 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1003 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1006 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1007 and Walloon translations updated
1008 * Sinhala translation started
1011 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1012 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1015 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1016 --------------------------------
1019 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1020 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1023 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1026 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1027 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1030 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1031 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1032 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1033 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1036 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1037 --------------------------------
1040 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1041 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1044 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1045 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1048 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1049 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1052 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1055 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1056 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1059 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1060 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1063 * New Walloon translation
1064 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1067 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1068 --------------------------------
1071 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1072 regressions in most popular drivers
1073 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1076 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1077 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1078 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1081 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1082 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1085 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1086 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1087 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1088 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1089 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1092 * New udev module for linux
1095 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1098 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1101 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1102 --------------------------------
1105 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1106 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1107 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1110 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1111 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1114 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1115 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1118 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1121 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1122 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1123 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1124 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1127 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1128 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1129 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1130 - no support for Goom and SDL
1131 - limited text rendering support
1132 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1135 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1136 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1137 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1138 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1139 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1140 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1141 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1142 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1143 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1147 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1150 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1153 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1154 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1155 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1156 Arabic and French translation updates
1159 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1160 --------------------------------
1163 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1164 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1165 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1166 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1167 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1168 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1171 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1172 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1173 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1176 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1177 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1178 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1181 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1184 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1185 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1188 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1189 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1190 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1191 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1192 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1193 * Fix various crashes
1196 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1198 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1202 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1203 ---------------------------------
1207 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1208 See 'Access:' for more info.
1209 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1212 * Instantaneous pausing
1213 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1214 * Finer speed control
1215 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1216 * Timeshift for most medias
1217 * RTSP trickplay support
1218 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1221 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1222 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1223 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1224 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1225 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1226 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1227 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1228 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1229 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1230 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1233 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1234 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1235 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1236 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1237 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1238 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1239 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1242 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1243 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1246 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1247 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1248 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1249 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1250 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1251 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1252 * DVB scanning on linux
1253 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1254 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1255 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1256 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1257 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1258 * MTP device access on Unix
1259 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1260 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1263 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1264 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1265 Windows and Mac OS X.
1268 * Export the playlist in HTML
1269 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1270 * Better metadata handling and reading
1272 Linux/Windows interface:
1273 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1274 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1275 * Recently played items list
1276 * Interface toolbar customizations
1277 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1278 - More menus actions
1279 - Finer speed slider
1280 - Improvements on many dialogs
1281 - New dialog for plugins listing
1282 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1283 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1284 * Better integration in GTK environments
1287 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1288 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1289 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1290 * Additional usability improvements
1293 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1294 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1295 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1296 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1297 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1300 * New Maemo port with:
1301 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1302 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1305 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1308 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1309 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1310 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1311 * Support for latest iSight models
1314 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1315 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1318 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1319 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1320 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1321 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1322 The old image video output has been removed.
1323 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1324 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1327 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1335 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1336 --------------------------------------
1342 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1343 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1344 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1345 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1346 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1347 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1348 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1350 Various fixes to the following modules:
1353 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1354 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1355 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1357 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1362 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1363 ---------------------------------
1366 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1367 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1370 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1371 ---------------------------------
1374 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1377 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1380 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1381 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1382 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1383 main controller window.
1384 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1387 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1392 * Updates of other localizations
1395 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1396 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1397 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1398 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1399 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1402 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1403 ---------------------------------
1406 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1408 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1411 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1412 --------------------------------
1417 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1418 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1421 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1422 --------------------------------
1424 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1425 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1428 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1431 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1432 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1435 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1436 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1439 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1440 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1441 * Various fixed in playlist
1444 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1447 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1450 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1451 ------------------------------------
1453 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1454 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1457 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1458 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1459 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1462 * Stability fix for the video output.
1465 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1466 --------------------------------
1469 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1470 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1471 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1472 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1473 * Fixed update system bugs
1474 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1477 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1478 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1479 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1480 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1481 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1482 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1483 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1484 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1485 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1486 modern Mac OS X versions
1489 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1490 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1492 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1493 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1496 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1497 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1498 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1499 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1500 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1501 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1504 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1505 --------------------------------
1507 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1508 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1509 * Multiple bugfixes.
1512 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1513 --------------------------------
1515 * Multiple bug fixes.
1518 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1519 ---------------------------------
1523 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1524 recent to work correctly
1525 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1526 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1527 edit the ".hosts" file.
1528 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1529 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1530 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1531 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1532 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1533 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1534 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1535 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1536 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1537 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1538 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1539 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1540 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1541 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1542 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1543 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1544 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1545 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1546 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1547 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1548 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1549 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1550 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1551 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1552 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1553 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1554 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1555 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1556 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1557 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1558 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1559 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1560 and postproc modules.
1561 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1562 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1563 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1564 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1566 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1567 filter. For example:
1568 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1569 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1571 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1572 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1578 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1580 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1581 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1584 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1585 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1587 * Shoutcast TV listings
1588 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1590 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1591 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1593 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1596 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1597 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1598 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1599 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1600 * JACK audio input support
1601 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1602 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1603 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1604 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1605 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1606 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1607 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1608 (available as a separate download).
1609 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1610 * RTMP input support
1611 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1612 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1613 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1615 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1616 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1619 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1620 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1621 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1622 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1624 * APEv1/2 tags support
1625 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1626 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1628 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1629 * TiVo Series 2 support
1630 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1635 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1636 * Flash Screen Video support
1637 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1638 * DosBox Capture support
1639 * Karl Morton's Video support
1640 * limited atrac3 support
1642 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1643 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1644 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1645 * H.264 PAFF support
1646 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1647 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1648 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1649 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1650 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1653 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1654 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1655 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1656 * AQTitle subtitles support
1657 * MKV USF subtitles support
1658 * HTML-based subtitles support
1659 * MPSub subtitles support
1660 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1661 * MPL2 subtitles support
1662 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1663 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1664 * Realtext subtitle support
1665 * DKS subtitle support
1666 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1667 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1670 * Flash Screen Video support
1671 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1673 Video outputs and filters:
1674 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1675 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1676 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1677 * New puzzle video output filter
1678 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1679 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1681 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1682 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1683 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1684 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1685 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1686 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1687 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1688 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1689 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1690 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1691 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1692 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1693 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1694 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1696 Audio outputs and filters:
1697 * Replay gain support
1698 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1699 new scaletempo audio filter)
1700 * New spatializer audio filter
1701 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1704 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1705 * New RTP payload formats:
1706 * Speex voice audio codec
1707 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1708 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1709 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1710 * DCCP transport for RTP
1711 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1716 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1717 end-user suitable way.
1718 * Improved user interaction
1719 * Improved mouse gestures
1720 * Vastly improved Update checker
1721 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1723 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1724 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1726 * Improved video output features
1727 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1728 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1729 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1730 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1731 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1733 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1734 if libncursesw is available.
1735 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1736 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1737 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1739 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1740 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1741 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1742 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1743 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1744 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1745 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1746 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1749 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1750 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1751 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1754 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1755 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1756 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1757 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1758 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1759 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1762 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1763 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1773 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1774 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1775 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1778 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1779 ----------------------------------
1782 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1785 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1786 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1787 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1788 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1789 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1790 * Updated Polish translation
1793 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1794 ----------------------------------
1797 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1798 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1799 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1802 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1803 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1804 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1805 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1806 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1807 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1808 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1809 to an unexpected application termination
1810 * New Serbian translation
1811 * Updated Romanian translation
1814 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1815 ----------------------------------
1818 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1819 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1820 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1821 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1822 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1823 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1824 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1825 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1828 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1829 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1830 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1831 * Fixed AAC resampling
1832 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1833 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1836 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1837 ----------------------------------
1840 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1841 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1842 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1843 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1844 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1847 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1848 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1849 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1850 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1851 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1854 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1855 ----------------------------------
1858 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1859 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1862 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1863 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1864 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1865 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1867 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1871 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1874 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1877 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1880 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1883 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1884 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1885 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1886 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1887 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1889 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1890 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1891 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1892 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1895 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1898 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1899 ----------------------------------
1902 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1903 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1904 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1906 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1907 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1909 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1910 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1913 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1915 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1916 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1917 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1918 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1919 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1920 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1921 two different movies
1922 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1923 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1924 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1927 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1930 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1931 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1932 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1933 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1936 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1937 ----------------------------------
1939 Various bugfixes, notably:
1940 * Windows Vista compatibility
1941 * Cropping in Direct3D
1942 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1943 * RSS filter string overflow
1945 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1947 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1948 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1951 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1952 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1955 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1958 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1961 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1964 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1965 ----------------------------------
1967 Various bugfixes, notably:
1968 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1969 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1970 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1971 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1972 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1973 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1976 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1977 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1980 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1982 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1983 * Diverse usability improvements
1984 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1985 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1986 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1989 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1990 ---------------------------------
1992 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1993 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1996 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1999 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2000 --------------------------------
2003 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2006 * Support for RTSP authentication
2007 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2008 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2009 * ATSC support for DVB input
2010 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2011 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2012 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2015 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2016 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2017 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2018 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2019 * Matroska WavPack support
2020 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2021 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2022 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2025 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2026 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2027 * Improved libcaca support
2031 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2032 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2034 * Systray support in skins
2036 * Support for Apple Remote control
2037 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2038 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2039 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2040 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2042 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2045 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2046 Windows 9x/ME users:
2047 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2048 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2049 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2050 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2051 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2053 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2054 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2063 * Updates to the libvlc API
2064 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2067 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2068 --------------------------------
2071 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2072 * Support for downloading updates
2076 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2077 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2078 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2079 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2081 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2082 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2083 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2086 * Cook (Real audio) support
2088 Playlist / Services discovery:
2089 * XSPF playlist support
2091 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2094 * New JACK audio output
2097 * New video filters:
2098 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2099 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2100 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2101 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2102 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2103 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2106 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2109 * System to inform the user and request information
2110 - HTTP authentication
2114 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2115 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2116 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2119 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2120 - Improved playlist handling
2121 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2123 - Embedded Video output
2124 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2125 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2126 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2127 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2128 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2130 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2131 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2134 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2137 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2138 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2139 * Growl "Now playing" support
2142 * Ability to log to syslog
2143 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2146 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2148 * A bit more automatic testing
2151 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2152 ---------------------------------
2155 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2156 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2159 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2160 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2163 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2166 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2167 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2173 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2176 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2177 --------------------------------
2180 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2184 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2185 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2186 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2189 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2190 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2191 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2192 * GnomeVFS input module
2193 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2194 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2197 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2198 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2199 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2202 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2203 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2209 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2210 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2213 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2214 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2215 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2218 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2220 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2221 - New extended controls panel
2222 - New bookmarks window
2223 - Fixed playlist sorting
2224 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2226 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2227 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2228 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2229 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2233 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2234 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2236 - Include macro to include other files
2240 * Should now work outside IE as well
2243 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2246 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2247 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2250 The following languages were added:
2254 * Simplified Chinese
2255 The following languages were re-added:
2259 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2260 --------------------------------
2263 * Rewrite of the playlist
2265 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2266 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2267 * Preferences improvements:
2268 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2269 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2271 * Core image manipulation support
2272 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2273 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2274 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2275 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2276 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2277 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2278 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2279 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2280 * Access filter architecture
2281 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2282 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2286 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2287 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2288 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2289 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2290 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2291 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2292 * Massive Matroska improvements
2293 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2295 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2296 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2297 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2298 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2299 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2301 Decoders / Encoders:
2302 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2303 * PNG decoder/encoder
2304 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2305 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2308 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2311 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2312 * Brand new SAP module
2313 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2314 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2315 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2316 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2317 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2318 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2322 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2325 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2326 * Image file video output (png)
2327 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2328 * Improvements to wall video filter
2329 * Support for font color and opacity
2335 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2336 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2337 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2341 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2342 - Improved preferences
2343 - Improvements to the wizard
2344 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2346 - Redesigned playlist
2347 - Improved preferences
2349 - Support for multiple actions
2352 - Support for the new playlist system
2354 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2357 * Screensaver disabling fix
2358 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2359 * Support for no-decoration windows
2362 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2363 * The OpenGL video output is back
2364 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2365 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2366 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2367 is not yet available in the new module
2368 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2371 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2380 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2383 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2386 The following languages were added:
2392 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2393 --------------------------------
2396 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2397 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2400 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2401 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2402 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2405 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2408 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2411 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2414 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2415 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2416 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2420 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2422 * Support of playlist group announcement
2425 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2426 --------------------------------
2429 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2430 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2431 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2432 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2433 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2434 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2437 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2438 (Stream your desktop)
2439 * Improved DVD support:
2440 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2441 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2442 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2443 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2444 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2445 (selection of titles/chapters).
2448 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2449 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2450 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2451 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2452 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2453 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2454 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2455 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2456 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2457 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2460 * G.726 audio support
2461 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2462 * MPEG-4 text support
2463 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2464 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2465 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2469 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2470 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2471 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2472 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2473 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2474 * DVB subtitles encoder
2475 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2476 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2478 * Text track muxing for mp4
2479 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2480 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2481 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2482 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2483 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2484 * Improved ASF muxer
2486 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2487 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2488 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2491 * New audio equalizer filter
2492 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2493 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2494 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2495 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2498 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2499 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2500 with support for effects.
2501 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2502 - New filters can be streamed.
2503 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2504 - Centralized scaling and blending
2506 - "time", to display current time
2507 - "marq", to display a marquee
2510 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2511 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2512 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2513 * A few skins2 improvements
2514 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2515 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2516 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2517 * Improved CORBA control module
2520 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2521 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2522 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2525 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2526 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2527 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2530 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2531 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2532 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2533 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2534 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2537 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2540 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2541 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2544 * Server/client network synchronization module
2545 * VBrick streams fully supported
2546 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2550 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2551 --------------------------------
2554 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2555 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2556 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2557 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2560 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2561 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2562 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2563 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2564 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2565 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2566 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2569 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2570 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2571 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2572 * Improved directory access module.
2573 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2574 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2575 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2576 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2577 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2580 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2581 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2582 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2585 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2586 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2587 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2590 * Improved session announcement system.
2591 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2592 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2593 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2594 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2595 * Improved transrater.
2596 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2597 * New configuration system.
2598 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2601 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2602 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2603 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2604 * Supports scheduling.
2605 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2606 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2609 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2610 - Ability to embed video output.
2611 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2612 - Lots of improvements.
2613 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2614 - New design and set of icons.
2615 - Ability to embed video output.
2616 - Support for hotkeys.
2617 - Support for bookmarks.
2619 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2620 - Better hotkeys handling.
2623 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2624 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2625 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2626 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2629 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2630 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2631 * Improved Windows installer.
2637 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2638 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2641 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2642 ---------------------------------
2645 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2646 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2649 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2650 --------------------------------
2653 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2654 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2657 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2658 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2659 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2660 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2663 * Internal improvments
2664 * Improved import/export
2667 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2669 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2670 small and strange formats.
2672 * New MOD audio demux.
2673 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2674 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2675 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2676 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2679 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2680 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2681 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2687 * New opengl video output plugin.
2690 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2691 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2694 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2695 --------------------------------
2698 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2699 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2700 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2701 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2702 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2703 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2704 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2705 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2708 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2713 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2714 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2715 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2716 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2717 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2718 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2719 * Better Icecast support.
2720 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2721 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2724 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2725 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2726 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2727 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2728 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2729 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2730 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2733 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2734 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2735 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2736 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2737 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2738 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2739 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2740 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2741 * Preliminary RTP support.
2742 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2747 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2748 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2750 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2751 - Improvements and help in preferences
2752 - New streaming wizard
2753 - Revised Disc Open menu
2755 - Improvements of the standard pages
2756 - Support for new commands
2757 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2760 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2761 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2764 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2765 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2766 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2767 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2768 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2769 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2770 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2771 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2772 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2775 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2777 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2778 * Support for Panther.
2779 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2780 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2783 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2784 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2785 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2786 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2787 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2788 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2789 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2790 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2793 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2794 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2795 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2798 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2801 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2802 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2803 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2804 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2807 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2808 --------------------------------
2811 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2814 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2815 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2818 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2819 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2822 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2825 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2826 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2829 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2832 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2835 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2836 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2840 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2841 --------------------------------
2844 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2845 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2849 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2850 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2851 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2853 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2854 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2857 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2860 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2863 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2864 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2868 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2869 --------------------------------
2872 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2873 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2877 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2878 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2879 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2880 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2881 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2884 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2885 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2886 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2889 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2890 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2891 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2894 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2895 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2896 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2897 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2898 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2901 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2902 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2903 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2906 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2909 * Improved build system.
2910 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2911 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2912 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2913 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2916 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2917 --------------------------------
2920 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2923 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2924 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2925 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2926 * Video 4 Linux support
2927 * CD Digital Audio support
2928 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2931 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2932 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2933 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2934 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2937 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2938 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2939 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2940 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2941 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2942 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2943 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2946 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2947 * New HTTP remote control interface
2950 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2951 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2952 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2953 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2954 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2957 * New reset option for the preferences
2958 * You can set your language in the prefences
2959 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2960 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2961 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2962 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2965 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2966 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2967 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2970 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2971 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2972 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2973 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2974 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2975 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2976 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2977 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2978 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2979 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2982 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2983 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2984 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2985 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2986 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2987 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2988 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2991 * Interface localization
2992 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2993 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2994 * New full-featured Preferences window
2997 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2998 --------------------------------
3001 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3002 * support for skins at the interface level
3003 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3004 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3005 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3006 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3007 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3010 * fixed HTTP redirects
3011 * support for opening an entire directory
3012 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3013 * new video4linux access plug-in
3014 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3017 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3018 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3019 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3022 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3023 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3024 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3025 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3026 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3027 * new codec for raw I420 video
3028 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3031 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3032 (although it still misses some important features)
3033 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3036 * new HTTP output support
3037 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3038 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3041 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3044 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3047 * reorderable playlist
3048 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3049 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3050 * support for mono audio output devices
3051 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3052 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3053 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3054 * the messages window remembers more lines
3055 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3056 * http and ogg stream output options
3057 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3060 * new skinnable interface
3061 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3063 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3064 * support for FLAC audio format
3065 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3067 * network tab in the interface
3068 * "apply" handling in preferences
3071 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3072 ---------------------------------
3075 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3076 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3077 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3078 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3080 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3081 * DTS S/PDIF support
3084 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3085 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3086 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3087 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3090 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3091 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3094 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3097 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3100 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3102 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3103 * rc interface is now fully useable
3104 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3107 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3108 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3109 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3110 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3111 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3113 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3114 * support for mouse gestures
3115 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3118 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3119 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3122 * improved ID3 tag detection
3123 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3124 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3125 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3127 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3130 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3131 ---------------------------------
3134 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3135 English was set as the preferred language
3138 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3139 --------------------------------
3142 * new mouse gesture interface
3143 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3147 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3148 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3149 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3152 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3153 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3157 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3160 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3161 without the user consent
3164 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3166 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3167 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3168 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3171 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3172 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3173 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3174 * playlist enhancements
3175 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3176 * new step forward/step backward commands
3177 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3178 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3179 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3182 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3183 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3184 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3187 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3188 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3191 * native video output is working again
3192 * only commandline interface support
3193 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3196 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3197 --------------------------------
3200 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3201 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3202 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3203 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3204 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3205 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3206 and A/52 streams are supported)
3207 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3212 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3213 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3214 * VCD entry points support
3215 * VCD image file support
3218 * support for *.asf format
3219 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3220 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3221 * support for ogg encapsulation
3222 * support for raw DV format
3223 * support for *.wav format
3224 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3227 Stream discovery & playlists:
3228 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3229 * support for .m3u file format
3230 * support for .asx file format
3231 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3234 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3235 (only available with the .avi demux)
3236 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3237 * support for raw PCM data
3238 * support for Cinepak video codec
3239 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3240 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3241 * support for Xvid codec
3242 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3243 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3244 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3246 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3248 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3251 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3254 * new WxWindows interface
3255 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3256 device and the channels configuration
3257 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3258 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3259 format that VLC can play
3260 * new swedish translation
3261 * enhancements of the playlist window
3262 * new messages window to see debug info
3263 * fixed a few crashes
3266 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3267 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3268 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3269 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working