1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
7 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
9 3rd party libraries (contrib):
10 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
14 * Fix support for .001, .00x splitted files on Windows
17 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
18 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
19 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
20 * Support for Ulead DV audio
21 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
22 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
23 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
24 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
25 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
26 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
27 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
30 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
33 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion, remove support for previous OS releases
34 * Major improvements in DASH support
35 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
36 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
37 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
38 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developped by Viotech.net
39 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
42 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
43 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
44 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
45 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
46 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
47 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
48 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
49 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
50 * Support for more MJPEG streams
51 * Add support for liveleak streams
54 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
55 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
56 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
57 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
58 * Mac OS X Auhal output supports for 6.1 and 7.1
59 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
62 * new remapping channel filter
63 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
64 * new VSXu visualization plugin
67 * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards
68 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
69 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
72 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
73 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
74 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
75 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
76 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
77 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
80 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
81 * Options support for AVIO output module
84 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
85 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
86 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
87 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
88 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
89 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
93 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
96 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
97 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
100 * add support for multiple video outputs
101 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
103 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
104 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
105 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
106 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
107 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
108 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
109 VLC's internal volume level
110 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
111 selection and to manage the list of presets
112 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
113 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
114 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
115 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
116 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
117 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
118 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
119 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
121 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
122 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
123 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
124 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
125 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
129 * Partial support for Qt5.0
130 * Menus modifications and improvements
131 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
132 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
136 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
137 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
138 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
139 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
140 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
143 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
144 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
145 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
146 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
147 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
148 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
150 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
151 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
154 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
155 --------------------------------
158 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
161 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
162 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
163 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
166 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
167 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
168 * Fix koreus lua parser
169 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
170 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
171 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
172 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
175 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
176 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
179 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
182 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
183 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
184 * Fix Time counter UI look
185 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
188 * Fix https streaming
191 * Fix audio and video track selection:
192 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
193 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
196 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
197 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
198 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
199 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
200 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
203 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
204 --------------------------------
207 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
208 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
209 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
210 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
211 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
212 during playback on Mac OS X
215 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
216 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
217 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
220 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
221 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
222 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
223 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
224 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
227 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
228 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
229 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
230 * Support Youtube live streams
233 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
236 * Fix media info dialog update
237 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
238 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
239 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
240 * Fix album art display at start
243 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
244 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
245 * Fix menus display and behavior
246 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
247 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
248 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
249 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
250 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
251 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
252 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
255 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
256 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
257 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
258 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
259 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
260 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
261 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
262 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
263 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
266 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
267 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
268 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
269 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
270 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
273 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
274 --------------------------------
277 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
280 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
281 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
284 * Add GateKeeper support
285 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
286 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
287 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
290 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
293 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
294 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
295 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
296 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
297 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
300 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
301 --------------------------------
304 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
305 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
306 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
307 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
308 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
309 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
310 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
311 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
312 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
313 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
314 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
318 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
319 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
320 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
321 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
322 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
323 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
324 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
325 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
326 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
327 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
328 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
329 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
332 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
333 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
335 * Fix MP3 free format support
338 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
339 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
340 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
341 * Fix for DVB channels file support
342 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
345 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
346 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
348 Audio filters and output:
349 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
350 * Fix DirectSound device selection
351 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
352 * Do not apply volume in file output
353 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
354 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
357 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
358 the persistant media library
359 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
360 to the media library or the temporary playlist
361 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
362 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
363 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
364 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
365 press on the Play/Pause button
366 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
367 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
368 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
369 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
370 * Many Fullscreen fixes
371 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
372 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
373 Synchronization panel
374 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
375 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
376 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
377 * Fix crashes on exit
378 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
380 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
381 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
382 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
383 automatically reset on the first launch.
384 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
385 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
386 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
389 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
390 * Fixes for icecast SD
393 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
394 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
395 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
396 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
397 * Fix tags and file names display
398 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
401 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
402 * Fix for key events and focus loss
405 * Fix display of some buttons
406 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
407 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
410 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
411 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
412 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
415 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
416 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
417 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
418 Thai translations update
419 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
422 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
423 --------------------------------
426 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
427 * fix the samba module compilation
428 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
429 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
430 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
431 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
434 * Support for MXPEG files
435 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
436 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
439 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
440 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
441 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
444 * Fix ogm header creation
447 * limit spatializer filter distortions
448 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
451 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
452 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
453 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
454 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
457 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
460 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
461 * allow to hide the sidebar
462 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
463 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
464 * noticebly faster launch time
465 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
466 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
467 * improve track synchronization panel
468 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
469 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
472 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
473 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
474 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
475 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
478 * fix for menus display
479 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
480 * documentation update
483 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
484 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
487 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
488 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
489 * Update Jamendo selections
493 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
494 * fix a crash on VLM close
497 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
498 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
499 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
500 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
503 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
506 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
507 ---------------------------------
510 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
511 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
512 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
513 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
514 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
515 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
516 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
517 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
518 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
519 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
520 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
521 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
522 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
523 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
524 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
525 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
526 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
527 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
528 --http-crl (optional CRL).
529 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
530 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
531 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
532 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
533 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
534 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
535 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
537 Important changes for packagers:
538 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
539 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
540 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
541 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
542 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
543 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
544 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
545 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
546 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
547 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
550 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
551 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
552 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
553 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
554 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
555 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
556 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
559 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
560 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
561 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
562 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
563 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
564 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
565 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
566 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
567 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
568 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
569 * PulseAudio audio input support
570 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
571 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
572 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
573 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
574 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
575 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
576 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
577 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
580 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
581 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
582 are notably concerned.
583 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
584 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
585 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
586 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
587 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
588 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
589 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
590 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
591 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
592 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
593 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
594 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
595 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
596 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
597 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
600 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
601 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
602 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
603 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
604 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
605 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
606 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
607 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
608 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
609 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
610 * Improved support of tracker files
611 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
614 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
615 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
616 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
617 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
618 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
619 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
620 and important cleanups and optimisations
621 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
622 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
623 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
624 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
625 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
626 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
627 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
628 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
629 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
630 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
631 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
632 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
633 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
634 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
635 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
636 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
637 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
638 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
639 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
640 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
641 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
644 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
645 * New video output for iOS platform
646 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
647 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
648 * Various vmem improvements
649 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
650 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
651 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
652 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
653 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
654 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
656 Audio Output and Filters:
657 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
658 * New audio output in memory (amem)
659 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
660 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
661 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
662 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
663 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
664 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
665 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
666 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
669 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
670 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
671 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
672 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
673 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
674 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
675 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
676 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
677 * New anti-flickering filter
678 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
679 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
680 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
681 blackbox and customizable shadow.
682 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
683 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
684 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
687 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
688 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
689 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
690 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
691 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
692 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
693 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
694 * Major rework of VoD support
695 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
696 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
697 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
698 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
699 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
700 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
701 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
702 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
703 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
704 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
707 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
708 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
711 * New capabilities for libVLC:
712 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
713 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
714 list of available audio and video filters
715 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
716 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
717 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
720 * asademux, subsass: use libass
721 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
722 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
724 * upnp: use upnp_intel
725 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
726 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
727 * removal of the noise filter
728 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
729 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
730 removed in Growl's next release, too.
731 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
734 * Update of translations for most languages.
735 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
738 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
739 ----------------------------------
742 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
743 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
746 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
747 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
750 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
751 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
752 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
755 * Camtasia decoding fix.
758 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
759 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
762 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
765 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
766 ----------------------------------
769 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
770 including support for OS X Lion
771 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
772 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
775 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
778 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
779 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
780 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
783 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
786 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
787 ----------------------------------
790 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
791 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
794 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
795 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
796 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
797 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
798 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
800 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
801 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
802 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
804 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
805 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
808 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
811 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
814 * Fix quitting on Linux
815 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
819 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
822 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
825 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
826 ---------------------------------
828 Windows and Mac OS X:
829 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
832 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
833 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
836 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
839 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
842 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
844 Miscellaneous fixes in:
845 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
847 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
848 * RTP output and XML export
849 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
853 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
854 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
855 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
856 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
859 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
860 --------------------------------
862 Windows and Mac OS X:
863 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
866 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
869 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
870 * Improve Apple Remote handling
871 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
872 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
873 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
874 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
877 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
878 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
882 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
883 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
884 * New Luganda Translation
887 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
888 --------------------------------
891 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
894 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
895 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
896 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
897 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
900 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
902 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
903 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
904 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
905 * mp4 demuxer improvements
906 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
907 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
908 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
909 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
911 Miscellaneous fixes in:
912 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
913 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
914 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
915 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
916 * Configure and build system improvements
917 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
920 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
921 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
922 * New icelandic translation
925 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
926 --------------------------------
929 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
933 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
934 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
935 and stability reasons
938 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
942 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
945 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
946 ----------------------------------
949 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
952 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
953 ---------------------------------
956 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
957 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
958 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
959 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
962 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
965 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
966 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
967 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
968 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
971 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
972 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
973 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
975 Subtitles and renderer:
976 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
977 * Mark more freetype options as safe
978 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
979 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
980 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
983 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
984 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
985 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
986 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
989 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
990 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
993 * KDE device solid actions
995 * Transcode integer overflow
996 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
997 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1000 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1001 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1002 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1005 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1006 ----------------------------------
1009 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1013 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1016 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1019 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1020 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1021 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1022 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1025 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1029 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1032 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1035 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1036 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1038 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1042 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1043 * Miscellaneous fixes
1046 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1047 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1048 French and Ukrainian
1049 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1050 * New Asturian translation
1053 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1054 ----------------------------------
1057 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1059 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1062 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1065 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1066 * Various fixes for Windows
1069 * New Armenian translation
1070 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1071 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1074 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1075 --------------------------------
1078 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1079 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1080 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1083 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1084 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1087 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1088 --------------------------------
1090 Access and demuxers:
1091 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1092 * fix for podcasts parsing
1093 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1096 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1097 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1100 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1101 * fix m3u playlists exports
1104 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1107 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1110 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1113 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1116 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1119 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1120 --------------------------------
1123 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1124 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1127 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1128 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1131 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1132 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1133 * fix console output encoding
1135 Interface and extensions:
1136 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1137 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1140 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1141 --------------------------------
1144 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1145 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1146 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1147 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1148 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1149 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1150 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1151 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1152 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1153 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1154 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1155 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1156 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1157 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1158 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1159 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1163 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1164 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1165 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1166 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1167 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1170 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1173 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1174 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1175 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1179 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1182 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1183 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1184 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1187 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1188 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1189 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1190 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1193 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1194 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1197 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1198 --------------------------------
1200 Important changes for users:
1201 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1202 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1204 Important changes for packagers:
1205 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1206 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1207 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1208 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1209 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1211 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1213 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1214 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1215 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1216 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1217 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1220 * Support for the sftp protocol
1221 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1222 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1223 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1224 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1225 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1228 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1229 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1230 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1232 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1233 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1234 * Invmem module improvements
1235 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1236 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1237 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1238 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1239 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1240 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1241 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1242 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1243 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1244 * Support for VP8 codec
1245 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1248 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1249 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1250 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1251 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1252 * Various EGP improvements
1253 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1254 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1257 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1258 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1259 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1260 * Podcast images are now displayed
1263 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1264 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1265 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1266 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1267 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1268 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1269 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1270 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1271 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1272 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1273 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1276 * New content extensions lua framework
1279 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1280 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1281 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1282 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1283 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1284 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1285 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1288 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1289 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1290 * Service discovery based on libudev
1291 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1294 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1295 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1296 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1297 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1298 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1299 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1300 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1303 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1304 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1305 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1308 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1310 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1311 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1314 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1317 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1318 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1319 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1320 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1321 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1322 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1323 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1326 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1327 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1330 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1331 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1332 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1336 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1337 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1338 * Improved Solaris port
1341 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1342 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1345 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1346 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1347 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1348 * transrate: broken since too long
1349 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1350 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1351 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1352 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1353 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1354 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1355 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1356 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1357 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1358 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1359 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1360 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1361 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1362 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1365 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1366 --------------------------------
1369 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1371 Decoders/Packetizers:
1372 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1375 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1376 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1377 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1378 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1379 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1382 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1383 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1386 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1387 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1390 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1391 and Walloon translations updated
1392 * Sinhala translation started
1395 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1396 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1399 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1400 --------------------------------
1403 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1404 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1407 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1410 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1411 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1414 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1415 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1416 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1417 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1420 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1421 --------------------------------
1424 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1425 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1428 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1429 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1432 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1433 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1436 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1439 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1440 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1443 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1444 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1447 * New Walloon translation
1448 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1451 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1452 --------------------------------
1455 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1456 regressions in most popular drivers
1457 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1460 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1461 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1462 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1465 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1466 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1469 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1470 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1471 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1472 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1473 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1476 * New udev module for linux
1479 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1482 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1485 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1486 --------------------------------
1489 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1490 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1491 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1494 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1495 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1498 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1499 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1502 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1505 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1506 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1507 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1508 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1511 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1512 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1513 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1514 - no support for Goom and SDL
1515 - limited text rendering support
1516 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1519 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1520 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1521 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1522 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1523 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1524 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1525 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1526 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1527 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1531 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1534 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1537 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1538 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1539 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1540 Arabic and French translation updates
1543 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1544 --------------------------------
1547 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1548 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1549 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1550 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1551 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1552 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1555 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1556 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1557 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1560 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1561 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1562 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1565 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1568 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1569 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1572 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1573 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1574 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1575 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1576 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1577 * Fix various crashes
1580 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1582 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1586 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1587 ---------------------------------
1591 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1592 See 'Access:' for more info.
1593 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1596 * Instantaneous pausing
1597 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1598 * Finer speed control
1599 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1600 * Timeshift for most medias
1601 * RTSP trickplay support
1602 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1605 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1606 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1607 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1608 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1609 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1610 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1611 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1612 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1613 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1614 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1617 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1618 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1619 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1620 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1621 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1622 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1623 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1626 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1627 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1630 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1631 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1632 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1633 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1634 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1635 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1636 * DVB scanning on linux
1637 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1638 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1639 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1640 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1641 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1642 * MTP device access on Unix
1643 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1644 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1647 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1648 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1649 Windows and Mac OS X.
1652 * Export the playlist in HTML
1653 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1654 * Better metadata handling and reading
1656 Linux/Windows interface:
1657 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1658 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1659 * Recently played items list
1660 * Interface toolbar customizations
1661 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1662 - More menus actions
1663 - Finer speed slider
1664 - Improvements on many dialogs
1665 - New dialog for plugins listing
1666 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1667 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1668 * Better integration in GTK environments
1671 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1672 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1673 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1674 * Additional usability improvements
1677 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1678 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1679 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1680 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1681 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1684 * New Maemo port with:
1685 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1686 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1689 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1692 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1693 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1694 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1695 * Support for latest iSight models
1698 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1699 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1702 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1703 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1704 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1705 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1706 The old image video output has been removed.
1707 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1708 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1711 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1719 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1720 --------------------------------------
1726 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1727 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1728 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1729 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1730 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1731 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1732 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1734 Various fixes to the following modules:
1737 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1738 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1739 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1741 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1746 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1747 ---------------------------------
1750 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1751 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1754 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1755 ---------------------------------
1758 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1761 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1764 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1765 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1766 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1767 main controller window.
1768 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1771 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1776 * Updates of other localizations
1779 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1780 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1781 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1782 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1783 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1786 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1787 ---------------------------------
1790 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1792 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1795 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1796 --------------------------------
1801 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1802 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1805 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1806 --------------------------------
1808 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1809 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1812 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1815 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1816 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1819 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1820 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1823 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1824 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1825 * Various fixed in playlist
1828 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1831 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1834 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1835 ------------------------------------
1837 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1838 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1841 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1842 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1843 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1846 * Stability fix for the video output.
1849 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1850 --------------------------------
1853 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1854 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1855 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1856 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1857 * Fixed update system bugs
1858 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1861 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1862 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1863 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1864 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1865 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1866 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1867 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1868 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1869 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1870 modern Mac OS X versions
1873 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1874 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1876 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1877 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1880 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1881 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1882 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1883 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1884 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1885 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1888 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1889 --------------------------------
1891 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1892 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1893 * Multiple bugfixes.
1896 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1897 --------------------------------
1899 * Multiple bug fixes.
1902 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1903 ---------------------------------
1907 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1908 recent to work correctly
1909 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1910 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1911 edit the ".hosts" file.
1912 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1913 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1914 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1915 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1916 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1917 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1918 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1919 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1920 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1921 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1922 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1923 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1924 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1925 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1926 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1927 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1928 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1929 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1930 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1931 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1932 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1933 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1934 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1935 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1936 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1937 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1938 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1939 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1940 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1941 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1942 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1943 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1944 and postproc modules.
1945 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1946 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1947 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1948 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1950 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1951 filter. For example:
1952 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1953 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1955 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1956 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1962 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1964 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1965 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1968 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1969 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1971 * Shoutcast TV listings
1972 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1974 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1975 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1977 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1980 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1981 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1982 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1983 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1984 * JACK audio input support
1985 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1986 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1987 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1988 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1989 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1990 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1991 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1992 (available as a separate download).
1993 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1994 * RTMP input support
1995 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1996 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1997 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1999 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2000 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2003 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2004 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2005 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2006 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2008 * APEv1/2 tags support
2009 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2010 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2012 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2013 * TiVo Series 2 support
2014 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2019 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2020 * Flash Screen Video support
2021 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2022 * DosBox Capture support
2023 * Karl Morton's Video support
2024 * limited atrac3 support
2026 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2027 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2028 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2029 * H.264 PAFF support
2030 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2031 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2032 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2033 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2034 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2037 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2038 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2039 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2040 * AQTitle subtitles support
2041 * MKV USF subtitles support
2042 * HTML-based subtitles support
2043 * MPSub subtitles support
2044 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2045 * MPL2 subtitles support
2046 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2047 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2048 * Realtext subtitle support
2049 * DKS subtitle support
2050 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2051 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2054 * Flash Screen Video support
2055 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2057 Video outputs and filters:
2058 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2059 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2060 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2061 * New puzzle video output filter
2062 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2063 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2065 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2066 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2067 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2068 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2069 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2070 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2071 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2072 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2073 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2074 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2075 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2076 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2077 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2078 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2080 Audio outputs and filters:
2081 * Replay gain support
2082 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2083 new scaletempo audio filter)
2084 * New spatializer audio filter
2085 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2088 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2089 * New RTP payload formats:
2090 * Speex voice audio codec
2091 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2092 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2093 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2094 * DCCP transport for RTP
2095 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2100 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2101 end-user suitable way.
2102 * Improved user interaction
2103 * Improved mouse gestures
2104 * Vastly improved Update checker
2105 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2107 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2108 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2110 * Improved video output features
2111 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2112 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2113 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2114 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2115 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2117 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2118 if libncursesw is available.
2119 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2120 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2121 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2123 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2124 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2125 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2126 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2127 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2128 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2129 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2130 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2133 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2134 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2135 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2138 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2139 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2140 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2141 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2142 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2143 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2146 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2147 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2157 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2158 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2159 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2162 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2163 ----------------------------------
2166 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2169 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2170 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2171 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2172 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2173 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2174 * Updated Polish translation
2177 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2178 ----------------------------------
2181 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2182 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2183 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2186 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2187 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2188 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2189 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2190 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2191 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2192 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2193 to an unexpected application termination
2194 * New Serbian translation
2195 * Updated Romanian translation
2198 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2199 ----------------------------------
2202 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2203 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2204 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2205 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2206 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2207 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2208 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2209 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2212 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2213 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2214 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2215 * Fixed AAC resampling
2216 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2217 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2220 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2221 ----------------------------------
2224 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2225 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2226 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2227 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2228 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2231 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2232 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2233 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2234 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2235 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2238 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2239 ----------------------------------
2242 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2243 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2246 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2247 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2248 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2249 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2251 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2255 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2258 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2261 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2264 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2267 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2268 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2269 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2270 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2271 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2273 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2274 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2275 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2276 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2279 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2282 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2283 ----------------------------------
2286 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2287 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2288 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2290 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2291 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2293 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2294 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2297 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2299 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2300 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2301 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2302 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2303 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2304 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2305 two different movies
2306 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2307 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2308 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2311 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2314 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2315 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2316 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2317 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2320 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2321 ----------------------------------
2323 Various bugfixes, notably:
2324 * Windows Vista compatibility
2325 * Cropping in Direct3D
2326 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2327 * RSS filter string overflow
2329 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2331 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2332 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2335 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2336 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2339 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2342 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2345 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2348 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2349 ----------------------------------
2351 Various bugfixes, notably:
2352 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2353 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2354 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2355 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2356 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2357 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2360 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2361 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2364 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2366 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2367 * Diverse usability improvements
2368 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2369 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2370 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2373 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2374 ---------------------------------
2376 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2377 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2380 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2383 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2384 --------------------------------
2387 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2390 * Support for RTSP authentication
2391 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2392 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2393 * ATSC support for DVB input
2394 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2395 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2396 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2399 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2400 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2401 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2402 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2403 * Matroska WavPack support
2404 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2405 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2406 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2409 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2410 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2411 * Improved libcaca support
2415 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2416 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2418 * Systray support in skins
2420 * Support for Apple Remote control
2421 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2422 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2423 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2424 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2426 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2429 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2430 Windows 9x/ME users:
2431 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2432 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2433 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2434 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2435 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2437 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2438 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2447 * Updates to the libvlc API
2448 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2451 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2452 --------------------------------
2455 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2456 * Support for downloading updates
2460 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2461 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2462 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2463 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2465 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2466 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2467 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2470 * Cook (Real audio) support
2472 Playlist / Services discovery:
2473 * XSPF playlist support
2475 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2478 * New JACK audio output
2481 * New video filters:
2482 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2483 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2484 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2485 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2486 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2487 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2490 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2493 * System to inform the user and request information
2494 - HTTP authentication
2498 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2499 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2500 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2503 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2504 - Improved playlist handling
2505 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2507 - Embedded Video output
2508 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2509 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2510 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2511 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2512 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2514 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2515 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2518 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2521 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2522 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2523 * Growl "Now playing" support
2526 * Ability to log to syslog
2527 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2530 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2532 * A bit more automatic testing
2535 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2536 ---------------------------------
2539 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2540 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2543 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2544 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2547 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2550 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2551 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2557 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2560 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2561 --------------------------------
2564 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2568 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2569 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2570 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2573 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2574 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2575 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2576 * GnomeVFS input module
2577 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2578 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2581 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2582 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2583 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2586 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2587 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2593 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2594 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2597 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2598 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2599 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2602 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2604 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2605 - New extended controls panel
2606 - New bookmarks window
2607 - Fixed playlist sorting
2608 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2610 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2611 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2612 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2613 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2617 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2618 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2620 - Include macro to include other files
2624 * Should now work outside IE as well
2627 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2630 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2631 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2634 The following languages were added:
2638 * Simplified Chinese
2639 The following languages were re-added:
2643 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2644 --------------------------------
2647 * Rewrite of the playlist
2649 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2650 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2651 * Preferences improvements:
2652 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2653 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2655 * Core image manipulation support
2656 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2657 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2658 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2659 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2660 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2661 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2662 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2663 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2664 * Access filter architecture
2665 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2666 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2670 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2671 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2672 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2673 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2674 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2675 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2676 * Massive Matroska improvements
2677 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2679 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2680 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2681 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2682 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2683 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2685 Decoders / Encoders:
2686 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2687 * PNG decoder/encoder
2688 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2689 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2692 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2695 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2696 * Brand new SAP module
2697 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2698 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2699 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2700 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2701 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2702 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2706 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2709 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2710 * Image file video output (png)
2711 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2712 * Improvements to wall video filter
2713 * Support for font color and opacity
2719 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2720 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2721 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2725 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2726 - Improved preferences
2727 - Improvements to the wizard
2728 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2730 - Redesigned playlist
2731 - Improved preferences
2733 - Support for multiple actions
2736 - Support for the new playlist system
2738 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2741 * Screensaver disabling fix
2742 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2743 * Support for no-decoration windows
2746 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2747 * The OpenGL video output is back
2748 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2749 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2750 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2751 is not yet available in the new module
2752 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2755 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2764 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2767 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2770 The following languages were added:
2776 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2777 --------------------------------
2780 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2781 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2784 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2785 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2786 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2789 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2792 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2795 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2798 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2799 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2800 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2804 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2806 * Support of playlist group announcement
2809 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2810 --------------------------------
2813 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2814 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2815 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2816 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2817 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2818 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2821 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2822 (Stream your desktop)
2823 * Improved DVD support:
2824 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2825 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2826 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2827 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2828 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2829 (selection of titles/chapters).
2832 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2833 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2834 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2835 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2836 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2837 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2838 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2839 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2840 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2841 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2844 * G.726 audio support
2845 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2846 * MPEG-4 text support
2847 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2848 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2849 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2853 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2854 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2855 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2856 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2857 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2858 * DVB subtitles encoder
2859 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2860 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2862 * Text track muxing for mp4
2863 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2864 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2865 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2866 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2867 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2868 * Improved ASF muxer
2870 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2871 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2872 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2875 * New audio equalizer filter
2876 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2877 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2878 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2879 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2882 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2883 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2884 with support for effects.
2885 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2886 - New filters can be streamed.
2887 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2888 - Centralized scaling and blending
2890 - "time", to display current time
2891 - "marq", to display a marquee
2894 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2895 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2896 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2897 * A few skins2 improvements
2898 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2899 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2900 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2901 * Improved CORBA control module
2904 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2905 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2906 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2909 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2910 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2911 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2914 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2915 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2916 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2917 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2918 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2921 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2924 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2925 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2928 * Server/client network synchronization module
2929 * VBrick streams fully supported
2930 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2934 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2935 --------------------------------
2938 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2939 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2940 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2941 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2944 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2945 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2946 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2947 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2948 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2949 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2950 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2953 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2954 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2955 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2956 * Improved directory access module.
2957 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2958 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2959 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2960 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2961 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2964 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2965 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2966 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2969 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2970 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2971 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2974 * Improved session announcement system.
2975 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2976 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2977 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2978 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2979 * Improved transrater.
2980 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2981 * New configuration system.
2982 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2985 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2986 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2987 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2988 * Supports scheduling.
2989 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2990 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2993 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2994 - Ability to embed video output.
2995 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2996 - Lots of improvements.
2997 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2998 - New design and set of icons.
2999 - Ability to embed video output.
3000 - Support for hotkeys.
3001 - Support for bookmarks.
3003 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3004 - Better hotkeys handling.
3007 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3008 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3009 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3010 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3013 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3014 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3015 * Improved Windows installer.
3021 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3022 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3025 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3026 ---------------------------------
3029 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3030 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3033 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3034 --------------------------------
3037 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3038 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3041 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3042 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3043 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3044 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3047 * Internal improvments
3048 * Improved import/export
3051 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3053 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3054 small and strange formats.
3056 * New MOD audio demux.
3057 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3058 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3059 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3060 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3063 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3064 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3065 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3071 * New opengl video output plugin.
3074 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3075 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3078 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3079 --------------------------------
3082 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3083 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3084 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3085 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3086 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3087 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3088 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3089 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3092 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3097 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3098 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3099 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3100 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3101 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3102 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3103 * Better Icecast support.
3104 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3105 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3108 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3109 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3110 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3111 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3112 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3113 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3114 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3117 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3118 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3119 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3120 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3121 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3122 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3123 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3124 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3125 * Preliminary RTP support.
3126 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3131 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3132 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3134 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3135 - Improvements and help in preferences
3136 - New streaming wizard
3137 - Revised Disc Open menu
3139 - Improvements of the standard pages
3140 - Support for new commands
3141 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3144 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3145 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3148 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3149 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3150 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3151 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3152 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3153 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3154 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3155 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3156 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3159 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3161 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3162 * Support for Panther.
3163 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3164 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3167 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3168 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3169 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3170 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3171 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3172 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3173 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3174 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3177 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3178 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3179 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3182 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3185 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3186 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3187 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3188 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3191 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3192 --------------------------------
3195 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3198 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3199 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3202 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3203 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3206 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3209 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3210 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3213 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3216 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3219 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3220 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3224 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3225 --------------------------------
3228 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3229 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3233 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3234 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3235 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3237 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3238 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3241 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3244 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3247 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3248 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3252 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3253 --------------------------------
3256 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3257 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3261 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3262 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3263 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3264 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3265 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3268 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3269 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3270 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3273 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3274 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3275 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3278 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3279 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3280 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3281 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3282 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3285 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3286 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3287 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3290 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3293 * Improved build system.
3294 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3295 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3296 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3297 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3300 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3301 --------------------------------
3304 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3307 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3308 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3309 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3310 * Video 4 Linux support
3311 * CD Digital Audio support
3312 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3315 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3316 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3317 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3318 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3321 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3322 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3323 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3324 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3325 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3326 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3327 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3330 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3331 * New HTTP remote control interface
3334 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3335 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3336 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3337 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3338 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3341 * New reset option for the preferences
3342 * You can set your language in the prefences
3343 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3344 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3345 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3346 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3349 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3350 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3351 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3354 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3355 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3356 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3357 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3358 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3359 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3360 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3361 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3362 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3363 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3366 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3367 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3368 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3369 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3370 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3371 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3372 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3375 * Interface localization
3376 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3377 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3378 * New full-featured Preferences window
3381 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3382 --------------------------------
3385 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3386 * support for skins at the interface level
3387 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3388 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3389 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3390 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3391 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3394 * fixed HTTP redirects
3395 * support for opening an entire directory
3396 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3397 * new video4linux access plug-in
3398 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3401 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3402 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3403 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3406 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3407 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3408 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3409 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3410 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3411 * new codec for raw I420 video
3412 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3415 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3416 (although it still misses some important features)
3417 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3420 * new HTTP output support
3421 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3422 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3425 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3428 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3431 * reorderable playlist
3432 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3433 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3434 * support for mono audio output devices
3435 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3436 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3437 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3438 * the messages window remembers more lines
3439 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3440 * http and ogg stream output options
3441 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3444 * new skinnable interface
3445 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3447 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3448 * support for FLAC audio format
3449 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3451 * network tab in the interface
3452 * "apply" handling in preferences
3455 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3456 ---------------------------------
3459 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3460 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3461 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3462 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3464 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3465 * DTS S/PDIF support
3468 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3469 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3470 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3471 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3474 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3475 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3478 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3481 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3484 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3486 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3487 * rc interface is now fully useable
3488 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3491 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3492 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3493 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3494 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3495 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3497 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3498 * support for mouse gestures
3499 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3502 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3503 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3506 * improved ID3 tag detection
3507 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3508 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3509 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3511 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3514 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3515 ---------------------------------
3518 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3519 English was set as the preferred language
3522 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3523 --------------------------------
3526 * new mouse gesture interface
3527 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3531 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3532 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3533 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3536 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3537 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3541 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3544 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3545 without the user consent
3548 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3550 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3551 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3552 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3555 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3556 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3557 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3558 * playlist enhancements
3559 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3560 * new step forward/step backward commands
3561 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3562 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3563 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3566 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3567 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3568 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3571 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3572 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3575 * native video output is working again
3576 * only commandline interface support
3577 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3580 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3581 --------------------------------
3584 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3585 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3586 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3587 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3588 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3589 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3590 and A/52 streams are supported)
3591 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3596 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3597 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3598 * VCD entry points support
3599 * VCD image file support
3602 * support for *.asf format
3603 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3604 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3605 * support for ogg encapsulation
3606 * support for raw DV format
3607 * support for *.wav format
3608 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3611 Stream discovery & playlists:
3612 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3613 * support for .m3u file format
3614 * support for .asx file format
3615 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3618 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3619 (only available with the .avi demux)
3620 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3621 * support for raw PCM data
3622 * support for Cinepak video codec
3623 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3624 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3625 * support for Xvid codec
3626 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3627 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3628 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3630 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3632 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3635 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3638 * new WxWindows interface
3639 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3640 device and the channels configuration
3641 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3642 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3643 format that VLC can play
3644 * new swedish translation
3645 * enhancements of the playlist window
3646 * new messages window to see debug info
3647 * fixed a few crashes
3650 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3651 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3652 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3653 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working