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.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
15 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
16 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
17 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
20 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
23 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
24 * Major improvements in DASH support
25 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
26 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
29 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
30 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
31 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
32 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
33 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
34 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
35 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
36 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
37 * Support for more MJPEG streams
40 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
41 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
42 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
45 * new remapping channel filter
46 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
47 * new VSXu visualization plugin
50 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
53 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
54 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
55 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
56 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
57 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
60 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
63 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
64 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
65 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
66 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
67 * Partial support for Qt5.0
70 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
71 * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
72 VLC's internal volume level
73 * added an option to show next / previous buttons
74 * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
75 * added optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
77 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
80 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
81 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
82 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
83 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
84 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
88 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
89 --------------------------------
92 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
95 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
96 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
99 * Add GateKeeper support
100 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
101 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
102 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
105 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
108 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
109 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
110 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
111 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
112 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
115 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
116 --------------------------------
119 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
120 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
121 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
122 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
123 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
124 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
125 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
126 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
127 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
128 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
129 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
133 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
134 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
135 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
136 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
137 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
138 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
139 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
140 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
141 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
142 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
143 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
144 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
147 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
148 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
150 * Fix MP3 free format support
153 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
154 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
155 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
156 * Fix for DVB channels file support
157 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
160 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
161 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
163 Audio filters and output:
164 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
165 * Fix DirectSound device selection
166 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
167 * Do not apply volume in file output
168 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
169 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
172 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
173 the persistant media library
174 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
175 to the media library or the temporary playlist
176 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
177 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
178 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
179 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
180 press on the Play/Pause button
181 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
182 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
183 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
184 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
185 * Many Fullscreen fixes
186 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
187 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
188 Synchronization panel
189 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
190 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
191 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
192 * Fix crashes on exit
193 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
195 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
196 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
197 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
198 automatically reset on the first launch.
199 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
200 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
201 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
204 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
205 * Fixes for icecast SD
208 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
209 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
210 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
211 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
212 * Fix tags and file names display
213 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
216 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
217 * Fix for key events and focus loss
220 * Fix display of some buttons
221 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
222 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
225 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
226 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
227 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
230 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
231 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
232 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
233 Thai translations update
234 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
237 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
238 --------------------------------
241 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
242 * fix the samba module compilation
243 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
244 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
245 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
246 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
249 * Support for MXPEG files
250 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
251 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
254 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
255 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
256 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
259 * Fix ogm header creation
262 * limit spatializer filter distortions
263 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
266 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
267 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
268 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
269 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
272 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
275 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
276 * allow to hide the sidebar
277 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
278 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
279 * noticebly faster launch time
280 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
281 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
282 * improve track synchronization panel
283 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
284 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
287 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
288 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
289 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
290 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
293 * fix for menus display
294 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
295 * documentation update
298 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
299 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
302 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
303 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
304 * Update Jamendo selections
308 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
309 * fix a crash on VLM close
312 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
313 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
314 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
315 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
318 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
321 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
322 ---------------------------------
325 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
326 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
327 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
328 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
329 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
330 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
331 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
332 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
333 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
334 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
335 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
336 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
337 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
338 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
339 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
340 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
341 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
342 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
343 --http-crl (optional CRL).
344 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
345 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
346 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
347 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
348 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
349 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
350 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
352 Important changes for packagers:
353 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
354 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
355 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
356 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
357 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
358 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
359 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
360 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
361 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
362 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
365 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
366 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
367 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
368 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
369 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
370 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
371 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
374 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
375 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
376 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
377 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
378 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
379 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
380 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
381 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
382 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
383 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
384 * PulseAudio audio input support
385 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
386 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
387 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
388 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
389 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
390 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
391 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
392 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
395 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
396 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
397 are notably concerned.
398 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
399 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
400 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
401 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
402 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
403 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
404 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
405 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
406 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
407 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
408 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
409 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
410 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
411 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
412 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
415 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
416 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
417 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
418 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
419 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
420 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
421 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
422 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
423 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
424 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
425 * Improved support of tracker files
426 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
429 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
430 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
431 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
432 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
433 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
434 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
435 and important cleanups and optimisations
436 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
437 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
438 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
439 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
440 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
441 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
442 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
443 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
444 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
445 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
446 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
447 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
448 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
449 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
450 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
451 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
452 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
453 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
454 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
455 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
456 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
459 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
460 * New video output for iOS platform
461 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
462 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
463 * Various vmem improvements
464 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
465 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
466 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
467 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
468 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
469 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
471 Audio Output and Filters:
472 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
473 * New audio output in memory (amem)
474 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
475 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
476 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
477 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
478 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
479 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
480 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
481 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
484 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
485 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
486 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
487 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
488 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
489 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
490 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
491 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
492 * New anti-flickering filter
493 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
494 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
495 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
496 blackbox and customizable shadow.
497 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
498 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
499 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
502 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
503 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
504 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
505 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
506 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
507 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
508 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
509 * Major rework of VoD support
510 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
511 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
512 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
513 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
514 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
515 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
516 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
517 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
518 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
519 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
522 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
523 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
526 * New capabilities for libVLC:
527 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
528 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
529 list of available audio and video filters
530 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
531 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
532 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
535 * asademux, subsass: use libass
536 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
537 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
539 * upnp: use upnp_intel
540 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
541 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
542 * removal of the noise filter
543 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
544 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
545 removed in Growl's next release, too.
546 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
549 * Update of translations for most languages.
550 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
553 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
554 ----------------------------------
557 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
558 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
561 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
562 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
565 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
566 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
567 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
570 * Camtasia decoding fix.
573 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
574 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
577 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
580 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
581 ----------------------------------
584 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
585 including support for OS X Lion
586 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
587 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
590 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
593 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
594 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
595 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
598 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
601 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
602 ----------------------------------
605 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
606 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
609 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
610 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
611 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
612 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
613 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
615 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
616 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
617 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
619 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
620 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
623 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
626 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
629 * Fix quitting on Linux
630 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
634 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
637 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
640 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
641 ---------------------------------
643 Windows and Mac OS X:
644 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
647 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
648 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
651 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
654 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
657 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
659 Miscellaneous fixes in:
660 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
662 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
663 * RTP output and XML export
664 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
668 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
669 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
670 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
671 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
674 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
675 --------------------------------
677 Windows and Mac OS X:
678 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
681 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
684 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
685 * Improve Apple Remote handling
686 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
687 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
688 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
689 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
692 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
693 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
697 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
698 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
699 * New Luganda Translation
702 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
703 --------------------------------
706 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
709 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
710 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
711 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
712 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
715 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
717 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
718 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
719 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
720 * mp4 demuxer improvements
721 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
722 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
723 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
724 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
726 Miscellaneous fixes in:
727 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
728 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
729 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
730 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
731 * Configure and build system improvements
732 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
735 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
736 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
737 * New icelandic translation
740 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
741 --------------------------------
744 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
748 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
749 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
750 and stability reasons
753 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
757 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
760 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
761 ----------------------------------
764 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
767 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
768 ---------------------------------
771 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
772 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
773 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
774 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
777 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
780 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
781 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
782 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
783 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
786 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
787 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
788 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
790 Subtitles and renderer:
791 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
792 * Mark more freetype options as safe
793 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
794 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
795 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
798 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
799 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
800 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
801 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
804 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
805 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
808 * KDE device solid actions
810 * Transcode integer overflow
811 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
812 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
815 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
816 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
817 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
820 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
821 ----------------------------------
824 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
828 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
831 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
834 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
835 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
836 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
837 * Taglib thread-safety fix
840 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
844 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
847 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
850 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
851 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
853 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
857 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
858 * Miscellaneous fixes
861 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
862 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
864 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
865 * New Asturian translation
868 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
869 ----------------------------------
872 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
874 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
877 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
880 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
881 * Various fixes for Windows
884 * New Armenian translation
885 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
886 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
889 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
890 --------------------------------
893 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
895 * Fix folders opening from the interface
898 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
899 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
902 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
903 --------------------------------
906 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
907 * fix for podcasts parsing
908 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
911 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
912 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
915 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
916 * fix m3u playlists exports
919 * fix video autoresize behaviour
922 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
925 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
928 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
931 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
934 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
935 --------------------------------
938 * Avformat fps displaying fix
939 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
942 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
943 of mono streams, especially on Windows
946 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
947 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
948 * fix console output encoding
950 Interface and extensions:
951 * Youtube and other scripts updates
952 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
955 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
956 --------------------------------
959 * New capabilities for libVLC:
960 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
961 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
962 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
963 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
964 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
965 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
966 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
967 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
968 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
969 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
970 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
971 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
972 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
973 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
974 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
978 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
979 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
980 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
981 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
982 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
985 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
988 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
989 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
990 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
994 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
997 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
998 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
999 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1002 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1003 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1004 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1005 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1008 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1009 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1012 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1013 --------------------------------
1015 Important changes for users:
1016 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1017 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1019 Important changes for packagers:
1020 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1021 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1022 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1023 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1024 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1026 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1028 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1029 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1030 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1031 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1032 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1035 * Support for the sftp protocol
1036 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1037 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1038 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1039 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1040 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1043 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1044 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1045 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1047 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1048 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1049 * Invmem module improvements
1050 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1051 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1052 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1053 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1054 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1055 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1056 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1057 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1058 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1059 * Support for VP8 codec
1060 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1063 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1064 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1065 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1066 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1067 * Various EGP improvements
1068 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1069 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1072 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1073 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1074 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1075 * Podcast images are now displayed
1078 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1079 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1080 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1081 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1082 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1083 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1084 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1085 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1086 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1087 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1088 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1091 * New content extensions lua framework
1094 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1095 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1096 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1097 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1098 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1099 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1100 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1103 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1104 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1105 * Service discovery based on libudev
1106 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1109 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1110 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1111 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1112 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1113 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1114 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1115 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1118 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1119 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1120 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1123 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1125 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1126 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1129 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1132 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1133 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1134 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1135 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1136 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1137 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1138 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1141 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1142 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1145 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1146 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1147 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1151 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1152 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1153 * Improved Solaris port
1156 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1157 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1160 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1161 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1162 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1163 * transrate: broken since too long
1164 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1165 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1166 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1167 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1168 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1169 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1170 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1171 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1172 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1173 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1174 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1175 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1176 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1177 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1180 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1181 --------------------------------
1184 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1186 Decoders/Packetizers:
1187 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1190 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1191 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1192 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1193 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1194 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1197 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1198 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1201 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1202 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1205 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1206 and Walloon translations updated
1207 * Sinhala translation started
1210 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1211 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1214 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1215 --------------------------------
1218 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1219 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1222 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1225 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1226 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1229 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1230 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1231 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1232 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1235 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1236 --------------------------------
1239 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1240 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1243 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1244 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1247 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1248 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1251 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1254 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1255 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1258 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1259 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1262 * New Walloon translation
1263 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1266 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1267 --------------------------------
1270 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1271 regressions in most popular drivers
1272 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1275 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1276 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1277 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1280 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1281 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1284 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1285 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1286 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1287 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1288 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1291 * New udev module for linux
1294 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1297 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1300 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1301 --------------------------------
1304 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1305 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1306 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1309 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1310 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1313 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1314 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1317 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1320 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1321 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1322 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1323 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1326 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1327 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1328 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1329 - no support for Goom and SDL
1330 - limited text rendering support
1331 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1334 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1335 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1336 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1337 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1338 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1339 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1340 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1341 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1342 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1346 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1349 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1352 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1353 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1354 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1355 Arabic and French translation updates
1358 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1359 --------------------------------
1362 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1363 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1364 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1365 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1366 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1367 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1370 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1371 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1372 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1375 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1376 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1377 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1380 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1383 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1384 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1387 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1388 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1389 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1390 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1391 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1392 * Fix various crashes
1395 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1397 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1401 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1402 ---------------------------------
1406 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1407 See 'Access:' for more info.
1408 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1411 * Instantaneous pausing
1412 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1413 * Finer speed control
1414 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1415 * Timeshift for most medias
1416 * RTSP trickplay support
1417 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1420 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1421 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1422 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1423 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1424 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1425 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1426 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1427 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1428 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1429 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1432 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1433 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1434 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1435 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1436 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1437 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1438 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1441 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1442 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1445 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1446 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1447 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1448 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1449 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1450 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1451 * DVB scanning on linux
1452 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1453 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1454 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1455 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1456 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1457 * MTP device access on Unix
1458 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1459 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1462 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1463 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1464 Windows and Mac OS X.
1467 * Export the playlist in HTML
1468 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1469 * Better metadata handling and reading
1471 Linux/Windows interface:
1472 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1473 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1474 * Recently played items list
1475 * Interface toolbar customizations
1476 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1477 - More menus actions
1478 - Finer speed slider
1479 - Improvements on many dialogs
1480 - New dialog for plugins listing
1481 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1482 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1483 * Better integration in GTK environments
1486 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1487 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1488 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1489 * Additional usability improvements
1492 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1493 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1494 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1495 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1496 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1499 * New Maemo port with:
1500 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1501 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1504 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1507 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1508 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1509 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1510 * Support for latest iSight models
1513 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1514 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1517 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1518 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1519 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1520 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1521 The old image video output has been removed.
1522 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1523 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1526 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1534 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1535 --------------------------------------
1541 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1542 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1543 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1544 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1545 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1546 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1547 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1549 Various fixes to the following modules:
1552 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1553 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1554 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1556 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1561 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1562 ---------------------------------
1565 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1566 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1569 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1570 ---------------------------------
1573 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1576 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1579 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1580 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1581 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1582 main controller window.
1583 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1586 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1591 * Updates of other localizations
1594 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1595 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1596 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1597 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1598 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1601 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1602 ---------------------------------
1605 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1607 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1610 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1611 --------------------------------
1616 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1617 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1620 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1621 --------------------------------
1623 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1624 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1627 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1630 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1631 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1634 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1635 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1638 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1639 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1640 * Various fixed in playlist
1643 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1646 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1649 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1650 ------------------------------------
1652 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1653 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1656 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1657 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1658 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1661 * Stability fix for the video output.
1664 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1665 --------------------------------
1668 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1669 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1670 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1671 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1672 * Fixed update system bugs
1673 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1676 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1677 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1678 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1679 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1680 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1681 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1682 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1683 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1684 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1685 modern Mac OS X versions
1688 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1689 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1691 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1692 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1695 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1696 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1697 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1698 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1699 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1700 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1703 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1704 --------------------------------
1706 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1707 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1708 * Multiple bugfixes.
1711 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1712 --------------------------------
1714 * Multiple bug fixes.
1717 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1718 ---------------------------------
1722 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1723 recent to work correctly
1724 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1725 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1726 edit the ".hosts" file.
1727 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1728 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1729 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1730 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1731 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1732 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1733 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1734 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1735 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1736 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1737 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1738 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1739 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1740 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1741 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1742 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1743 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1744 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1745 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1746 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1747 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1748 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1749 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1750 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1751 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1752 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1753 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1754 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1755 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1756 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1757 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1758 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1759 and postproc modules.
1760 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1761 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1762 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1763 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1765 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1766 filter. For example:
1767 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1768 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1770 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1771 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1777 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1779 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1780 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1783 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1784 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1786 * Shoutcast TV listings
1787 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1789 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1790 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1792 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1795 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1796 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1797 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1798 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1799 * JACK audio input support
1800 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1801 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1802 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1803 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1804 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1805 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1806 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1807 (available as a separate download).
1808 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1809 * RTMP input support
1810 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1811 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1812 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1814 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1815 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1818 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1819 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1820 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1821 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1823 * APEv1/2 tags support
1824 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1825 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1827 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1828 * TiVo Series 2 support
1829 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1834 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1835 * Flash Screen Video support
1836 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1837 * DosBox Capture support
1838 * Karl Morton's Video support
1839 * limited atrac3 support
1841 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1842 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1843 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1844 * H.264 PAFF support
1845 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1846 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1847 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1848 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1849 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1852 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1853 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1854 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1855 * AQTitle subtitles support
1856 * MKV USF subtitles support
1857 * HTML-based subtitles support
1858 * MPSub subtitles support
1859 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1860 * MPL2 subtitles support
1861 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1862 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1863 * Realtext subtitle support
1864 * DKS subtitle support
1865 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1866 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1869 * Flash Screen Video support
1870 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1872 Video outputs and filters:
1873 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1874 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1875 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1876 * New puzzle video output filter
1877 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1878 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1880 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1881 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1882 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1883 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1884 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1885 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1886 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1887 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1888 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1889 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1890 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1891 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1892 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1893 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1895 Audio outputs and filters:
1896 * Replay gain support
1897 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1898 new scaletempo audio filter)
1899 * New spatializer audio filter
1900 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1903 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1904 * New RTP payload formats:
1905 * Speex voice audio codec
1906 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1907 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1908 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1909 * DCCP transport for RTP
1910 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1915 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1916 end-user suitable way.
1917 * Improved user interaction
1918 * Improved mouse gestures
1919 * Vastly improved Update checker
1920 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1922 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1923 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1925 * Improved video output features
1926 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1927 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1928 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1929 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1930 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1932 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1933 if libncursesw is available.
1934 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1935 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1936 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1938 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1939 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1940 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1941 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1942 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1943 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1944 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1945 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1948 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1949 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1950 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1953 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1954 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1955 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1956 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1957 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1958 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1961 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1962 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1972 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1973 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1974 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1977 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1978 ----------------------------------
1981 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1984 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1985 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1986 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1987 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1988 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1989 * Updated Polish translation
1992 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1993 ----------------------------------
1996 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1997 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1998 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2001 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2002 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2003 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2004 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2005 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2006 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2007 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2008 to an unexpected application termination
2009 * New Serbian translation
2010 * Updated Romanian translation
2013 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2014 ----------------------------------
2017 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2018 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2019 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2020 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2021 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2022 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2023 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2024 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2027 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2028 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2029 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2030 * Fixed AAC resampling
2031 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2032 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2035 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2036 ----------------------------------
2039 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2040 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2041 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2042 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2043 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2046 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2047 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2048 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2049 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2050 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2053 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2054 ----------------------------------
2057 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2058 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2061 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2062 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2063 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2064 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2066 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2070 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2073 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2076 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2079 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2082 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2083 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2084 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2085 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2086 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2088 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2089 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2090 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2091 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2094 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2097 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2098 ----------------------------------
2101 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2102 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2103 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2105 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2106 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2108 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2109 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2112 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2114 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2115 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2116 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2117 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2118 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2119 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2120 two different movies
2121 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2122 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2123 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2126 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2129 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2130 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2131 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2132 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2135 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2136 ----------------------------------
2138 Various bugfixes, notably:
2139 * Windows Vista compatibility
2140 * Cropping in Direct3D
2141 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2142 * RSS filter string overflow
2144 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2146 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2147 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2150 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2151 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2154 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2157 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2160 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2163 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2164 ----------------------------------
2166 Various bugfixes, notably:
2167 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2168 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2169 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2170 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2171 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2172 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2175 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2176 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2179 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2181 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2182 * Diverse usability improvements
2183 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2184 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2185 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2188 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2189 ---------------------------------
2191 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2192 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2195 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2198 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2199 --------------------------------
2202 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2205 * Support for RTSP authentication
2206 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2207 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2208 * ATSC support for DVB input
2209 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2210 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2211 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2214 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2215 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2216 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2217 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2218 * Matroska WavPack support
2219 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2220 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2221 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2224 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2225 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2226 * Improved libcaca support
2230 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2231 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2233 * Systray support in skins
2235 * Support for Apple Remote control
2236 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2237 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2238 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2239 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2241 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2244 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2245 Windows 9x/ME users:
2246 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2247 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2248 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2249 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2250 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2252 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2253 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2262 * Updates to the libvlc API
2263 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2266 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2267 --------------------------------
2270 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2271 * Support for downloading updates
2275 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2276 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2277 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2278 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2280 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2281 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2282 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2285 * Cook (Real audio) support
2287 Playlist / Services discovery:
2288 * XSPF playlist support
2290 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2293 * New JACK audio output
2296 * New video filters:
2297 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2298 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2299 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2300 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2301 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2302 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2305 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2308 * System to inform the user and request information
2309 - HTTP authentication
2313 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2314 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2315 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2318 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2319 - Improved playlist handling
2320 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2322 - Embedded Video output
2323 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2324 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2325 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2326 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2327 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2329 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2330 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2333 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2336 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2337 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2338 * Growl "Now playing" support
2341 * Ability to log to syslog
2342 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2345 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2347 * A bit more automatic testing
2350 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2351 ---------------------------------
2354 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2355 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2358 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2359 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2362 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2365 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2366 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2372 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2375 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2376 --------------------------------
2379 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2383 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2384 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2385 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2388 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2389 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2390 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2391 * GnomeVFS input module
2392 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2393 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2396 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2397 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2398 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2401 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2402 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2408 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2409 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2412 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2413 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2414 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2417 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2419 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2420 - New extended controls panel
2421 - New bookmarks window
2422 - Fixed playlist sorting
2423 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2425 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2426 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2427 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2428 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2432 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2433 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2435 - Include macro to include other files
2439 * Should now work outside IE as well
2442 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2445 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2446 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2449 The following languages were added:
2453 * Simplified Chinese
2454 The following languages were re-added:
2458 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2459 --------------------------------
2462 * Rewrite of the playlist
2464 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2465 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2466 * Preferences improvements:
2467 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2468 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2470 * Core image manipulation support
2471 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2472 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2473 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2474 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2475 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2476 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2477 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2478 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2479 * Access filter architecture
2480 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2481 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2485 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2486 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2487 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2488 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2489 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2490 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2491 * Massive Matroska improvements
2492 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2494 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2495 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2496 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2497 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2498 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2500 Decoders / Encoders:
2501 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2502 * PNG decoder/encoder
2503 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2504 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2507 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2510 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2511 * Brand new SAP module
2512 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2513 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2514 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2515 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2516 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2517 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2521 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2524 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2525 * Image file video output (png)
2526 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2527 * Improvements to wall video filter
2528 * Support for font color and opacity
2534 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2535 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2536 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2540 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2541 - Improved preferences
2542 - Improvements to the wizard
2543 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2545 - Redesigned playlist
2546 - Improved preferences
2548 - Support for multiple actions
2551 - Support for the new playlist system
2553 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2556 * Screensaver disabling fix
2557 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2558 * Support for no-decoration windows
2561 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2562 * The OpenGL video output is back
2563 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2564 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2565 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2566 is not yet available in the new module
2567 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2570 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2579 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2582 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2585 The following languages were added:
2591 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2592 --------------------------------
2595 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2596 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2599 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2600 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2601 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2604 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2607 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2610 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2613 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2614 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2615 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2619 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2621 * Support of playlist group announcement
2624 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2625 --------------------------------
2628 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2629 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2630 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2631 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2632 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2633 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2636 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2637 (Stream your desktop)
2638 * Improved DVD support:
2639 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2640 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2641 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2642 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2643 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2644 (selection of titles/chapters).
2647 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2648 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2649 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2650 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2651 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2652 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2653 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2654 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2655 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2656 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2659 * G.726 audio support
2660 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2661 * MPEG-4 text support
2662 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2663 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2664 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2668 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2669 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2670 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2671 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2672 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2673 * DVB subtitles encoder
2674 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2675 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2677 * Text track muxing for mp4
2678 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2679 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2680 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2681 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2682 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2683 * Improved ASF muxer
2685 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2686 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2687 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2690 * New audio equalizer filter
2691 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2692 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2693 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2694 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2697 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2698 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2699 with support for effects.
2700 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2701 - New filters can be streamed.
2702 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2703 - Centralized scaling and blending
2705 - "time", to display current time
2706 - "marq", to display a marquee
2709 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2710 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2711 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2712 * A few skins2 improvements
2713 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2714 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2715 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2716 * Improved CORBA control module
2719 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2720 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2721 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2724 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2725 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2726 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2729 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2730 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2731 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2732 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2733 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2736 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2739 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2740 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2743 * Server/client network synchronization module
2744 * VBrick streams fully supported
2745 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2749 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2750 --------------------------------
2753 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2754 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2755 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2756 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2759 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2760 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2761 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2762 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2763 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2764 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2765 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2768 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2769 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2770 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2771 * Improved directory access module.
2772 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2773 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2774 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2775 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2776 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2779 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2780 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2781 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2784 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2785 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2786 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2789 * Improved session announcement system.
2790 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2791 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2792 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2793 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2794 * Improved transrater.
2795 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2796 * New configuration system.
2797 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2800 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2801 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2802 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2803 * Supports scheduling.
2804 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2805 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2808 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2809 - Ability to embed video output.
2810 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2811 - Lots of improvements.
2812 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2813 - New design and set of icons.
2814 - Ability to embed video output.
2815 - Support for hotkeys.
2816 - Support for bookmarks.
2818 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2819 - Better hotkeys handling.
2822 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2823 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2824 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2825 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2828 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2829 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2830 * Improved Windows installer.
2836 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2837 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2840 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2841 ---------------------------------
2844 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2845 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2848 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2849 --------------------------------
2852 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2853 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2856 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2857 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2858 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2859 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2862 * Internal improvments
2863 * Improved import/export
2866 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2868 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2869 small and strange formats.
2871 * New MOD audio demux.
2872 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2873 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2874 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2875 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2878 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2879 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2880 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2886 * New opengl video output plugin.
2889 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2890 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2893 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2894 --------------------------------
2897 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2898 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2899 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2900 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2901 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2902 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2903 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2904 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2907 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2912 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2913 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2914 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2915 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2916 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2917 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2918 * Better Icecast support.
2919 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2920 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2923 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2924 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2925 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2926 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2927 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2928 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2929 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2932 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2933 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2934 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2935 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2936 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2937 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2938 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2939 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2940 * Preliminary RTP support.
2941 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2946 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2947 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2949 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2950 - Improvements and help in preferences
2951 - New streaming wizard
2952 - Revised Disc Open menu
2954 - Improvements of the standard pages
2955 - Support for new commands
2956 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2959 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2960 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2963 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2964 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2965 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2966 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2967 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2968 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2969 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2970 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2971 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2974 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2976 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2977 * Support for Panther.
2978 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2979 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2982 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2983 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2984 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2985 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2986 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2987 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2988 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2989 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2992 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2993 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2994 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2997 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3000 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3001 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3002 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3003 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3006 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3007 --------------------------------
3010 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3013 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3014 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3017 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3018 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3021 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3024 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3025 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3028 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3031 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3034 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3035 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3039 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3040 --------------------------------
3043 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3044 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3048 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3049 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3050 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3052 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3053 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3056 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3059 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3062 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3063 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3067 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3068 --------------------------------
3071 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3072 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3076 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3077 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3078 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3079 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3080 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3083 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3084 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3085 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3088 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3089 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3090 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3093 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3094 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3095 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3096 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3097 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3100 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3101 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3102 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3105 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3108 * Improved build system.
3109 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3110 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3111 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3112 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3115 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3116 --------------------------------
3119 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3122 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3123 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3124 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3125 * Video 4 Linux support
3126 * CD Digital Audio support
3127 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3130 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3131 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3132 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3133 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3136 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3137 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3138 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3139 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3140 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3141 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3142 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3145 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3146 * New HTTP remote control interface
3149 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3150 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3151 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3152 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3153 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3156 * New reset option for the preferences
3157 * You can set your language in the prefences
3158 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3159 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3160 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3161 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3164 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3165 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3166 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3169 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3170 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3171 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3172 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3173 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3174 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3175 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3176 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3177 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3178 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3181 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3182 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3183 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3184 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3185 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3186 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3187 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3190 * Interface localization
3191 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3192 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3193 * New full-featured Preferences window
3196 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3197 --------------------------------
3200 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3201 * support for skins at the interface level
3202 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3203 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3204 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3205 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3206 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3209 * fixed HTTP redirects
3210 * support for opening an entire directory
3211 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3212 * new video4linux access plug-in
3213 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3216 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3217 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3218 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3221 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3222 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3223 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3224 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3225 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3226 * new codec for raw I420 video
3227 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3230 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3231 (although it still misses some important features)
3232 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3235 * new HTTP output support
3236 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3237 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3240 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3243 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3246 * reorderable playlist
3247 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3248 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3249 * support for mono audio output devices
3250 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3251 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3252 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3253 * the messages window remembers more lines
3254 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3255 * http and ogg stream output options
3256 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3259 * new skinnable interface
3260 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3262 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3263 * support for FLAC audio format
3264 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3266 * network tab in the interface
3267 * "apply" handling in preferences
3270 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3271 ---------------------------------
3274 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3275 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3276 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3277 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3279 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3280 * DTS S/PDIF support
3283 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3284 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3285 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3286 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3289 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3290 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3293 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3296 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3299 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3301 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3302 * rc interface is now fully useable
3303 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3306 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3307 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3308 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3309 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3310 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3312 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3313 * support for mouse gestures
3314 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3317 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3318 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3321 * improved ID3 tag detection
3322 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3323 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3324 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3326 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3329 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3330 ---------------------------------
3333 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3334 English was set as the preferred language
3337 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3338 --------------------------------
3341 * new mouse gesture interface
3342 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3346 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3347 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3348 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3351 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3352 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3356 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3359 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3360 without the user consent
3363 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3365 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3366 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3367 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3370 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3371 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3372 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3373 * playlist enhancements
3374 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3375 * new step forward/step backward commands
3376 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3377 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3378 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3381 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3382 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3383 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3386 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3387 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3390 * native video output is working again
3391 * only commandline interface support
3392 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3395 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3396 --------------------------------
3399 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3400 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3401 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3402 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3403 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3404 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3405 and A/52 streams are supported)
3406 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3411 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3412 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3413 * VCD entry points support
3414 * VCD image file support
3417 * support for *.asf format
3418 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3419 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3420 * support for ogg encapsulation
3421 * support for raw DV format
3422 * support for *.wav format
3423 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3426 Stream discovery & playlists:
3427 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3428 * support for .m3u file format
3429 * support for .asx file format
3430 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3433 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3434 (only available with the .avi demux)
3435 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3436 * support for raw PCM data
3437 * support for Cinepak video codec
3438 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3439 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3440 * support for Xvid codec
3441 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3442 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3443 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3445 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3447 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3450 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3453 * new WxWindows interface
3454 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3455 device and the channels configuration
3456 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3457 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3458 format that VLC can play
3459 * new swedish translation
3460 * enhancements of the playlist window
3461 * new messages window to see debug info
3462 * fixed a few crashes
3465 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3466 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3467 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3468 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working