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9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib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
18 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
21 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
24 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
25 * Major improvements in DASH support
26 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
27 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
28 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
31 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
32 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
33 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
34 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
35 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
36 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
37 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
38 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
39 * Support for more MJPEG streams
42 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
43 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
44 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
47 * new remapping channel filter
48 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
49 * new VSXu visualization plugin
52 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
53 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
56 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
57 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
58 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
59 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
60 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
61 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
64 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
67 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
68 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
69 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
70 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
71 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
74 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
75 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
78 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
79 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
80 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
81 VLC's internal volume level
82 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
83 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
84 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
85 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
87 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
88 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
89 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
90 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
94 * Partial support for Qt5.0
95 * Menus modifications and improvements
96 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
97 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
101 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
102 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
103 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
104 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
107 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
108 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
109 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
110 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
111 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
113 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
114 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
117 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
118 --------------------------------
121 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
124 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
125 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
128 * Add GateKeeper support
129 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
130 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
131 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
134 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
137 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
138 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
139 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
140 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
141 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
144 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
145 --------------------------------
148 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
149 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
150 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
151 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
152 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
153 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
154 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
155 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
156 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
157 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
158 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
162 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
163 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
164 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
165 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
166 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
167 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
168 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
169 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
170 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
171 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
172 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
173 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
176 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
177 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
179 * Fix MP3 free format support
182 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
183 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
184 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
185 * Fix for DVB channels file support
186 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
189 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
190 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
192 Audio filters and output:
193 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
194 * Fix DirectSound device selection
195 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
196 * Do not apply volume in file output
197 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
198 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
201 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
202 the persistant media library
203 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
204 to the media library or the temporary playlist
205 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
206 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
207 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
208 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
209 press on the Play/Pause button
210 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
211 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
212 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
213 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
214 * Many Fullscreen fixes
215 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
216 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
217 Synchronization panel
218 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
219 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
220 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
221 * Fix crashes on exit
222 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
224 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
225 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
226 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
227 automatically reset on the first launch.
228 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
229 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
230 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
233 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
234 * Fixes for icecast SD
237 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
238 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
239 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
240 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
241 * Fix tags and file names display
242 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
245 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
246 * Fix for key events and focus loss
249 * Fix display of some buttons
250 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
251 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
254 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
255 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
256 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
259 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
260 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
261 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
262 Thai translations update
263 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
266 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
267 --------------------------------
270 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
271 * fix the samba module compilation
272 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
273 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
274 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
275 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
278 * Support for MXPEG files
279 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
280 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
283 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
284 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
285 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
288 * Fix ogm header creation
291 * limit spatializer filter distortions
292 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
295 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
296 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
297 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
298 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
301 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
304 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
305 * allow to hide the sidebar
306 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
307 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
308 * noticebly faster launch time
309 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
310 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
311 * improve track synchronization panel
312 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
313 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
316 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
317 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
318 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
319 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
322 * fix for menus display
323 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
324 * documentation update
327 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
328 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
331 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
332 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
333 * Update Jamendo selections
337 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
338 * fix a crash on VLM close
341 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
342 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
343 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
344 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
347 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
350 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
351 ---------------------------------
354 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
355 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
356 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
357 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
358 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
359 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
360 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
361 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
362 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
363 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
364 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
365 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
366 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
367 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
368 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
369 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
370 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
371 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
372 --http-crl (optional CRL).
373 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
374 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
375 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
376 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
377 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
378 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
379 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
381 Important changes for packagers:
382 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
383 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
384 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
385 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
386 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
387 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
388 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
389 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
390 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
391 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
394 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
395 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
396 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
397 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
398 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
399 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
400 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
403 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
404 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
405 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
406 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
407 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
408 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
409 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
410 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
411 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
412 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
413 * PulseAudio audio input support
414 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
415 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
416 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
417 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
418 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
419 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
420 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
421 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
424 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
425 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
426 are notably concerned.
427 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
428 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
429 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
430 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
431 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
432 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
433 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
434 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
435 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
436 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
437 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
438 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
439 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
440 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
441 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
444 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
445 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
446 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
447 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
448 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
449 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
450 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
451 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
452 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
453 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
454 * Improved support of tracker files
455 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
458 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
459 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
460 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
461 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
462 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
463 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
464 and important cleanups and optimisations
465 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
466 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
467 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
468 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
469 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
470 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
471 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
472 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
473 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
474 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
475 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
476 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
477 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
478 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
479 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
480 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
481 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
482 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
483 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
484 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
485 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
488 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
489 * New video output for iOS platform
490 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
491 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
492 * Various vmem improvements
493 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
494 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
495 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
496 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
497 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
498 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
500 Audio Output and Filters:
501 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
502 * New audio output in memory (amem)
503 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
504 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
505 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
506 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
507 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
508 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
509 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
510 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
513 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
514 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
515 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
516 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
517 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
518 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
519 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
520 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
521 * New anti-flickering filter
522 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
523 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
524 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
525 blackbox and customizable shadow.
526 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
527 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
528 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
531 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
532 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
533 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
534 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
535 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
536 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
537 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
538 * Major rework of VoD support
539 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
540 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
541 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
542 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
543 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
544 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
545 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
546 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
547 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
548 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
551 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
552 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
555 * New capabilities for libVLC:
556 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
557 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
558 list of available audio and video filters
559 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
560 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
561 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
564 * asademux, subsass: use libass
565 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
566 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
568 * upnp: use upnp_intel
569 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
570 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
571 * removal of the noise filter
572 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
573 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
574 removed in Growl's next release, too.
575 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
578 * Update of translations for most languages.
579 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
582 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
583 ----------------------------------
586 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
587 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
590 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
591 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
594 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
595 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
596 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
599 * Camtasia decoding fix.
602 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
603 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
606 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
609 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
610 ----------------------------------
613 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
614 including support for OS X Lion
615 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
616 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
619 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
622 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
623 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
624 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
627 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
630 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
631 ----------------------------------
634 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
635 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
638 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
639 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
640 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
641 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
642 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
644 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
645 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
646 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
648 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
649 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
652 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
655 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
658 * Fix quitting on Linux
659 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
663 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
666 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
669 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
670 ---------------------------------
672 Windows and Mac OS X:
673 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
676 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
677 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
680 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
683 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
686 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
688 Miscellaneous fixes in:
689 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
691 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
692 * RTP output and XML export
693 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
697 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
698 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
699 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
700 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
703 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
704 --------------------------------
706 Windows and Mac OS X:
707 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
710 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
713 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
714 * Improve Apple Remote handling
715 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
716 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
717 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
718 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
721 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
722 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
726 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
727 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
728 * New Luganda Translation
731 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
732 --------------------------------
735 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
738 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
739 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
740 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
741 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
744 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
746 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
747 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
748 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
749 * mp4 demuxer improvements
750 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
751 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
752 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
753 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
755 Miscellaneous fixes in:
756 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
757 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
758 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
759 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
760 * Configure and build system improvements
761 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
764 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
765 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
766 * New icelandic translation
769 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
770 --------------------------------
773 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
777 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
778 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
779 and stability reasons
782 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
786 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
789 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
790 ----------------------------------
793 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
796 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
797 ---------------------------------
800 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
801 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
802 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
803 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
806 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
809 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
810 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
811 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
812 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
815 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
816 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
817 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
819 Subtitles and renderer:
820 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
821 * Mark more freetype options as safe
822 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
823 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
824 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
827 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
828 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
829 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
830 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
833 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
834 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
837 * KDE device solid actions
839 * Transcode integer overflow
840 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
841 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
844 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
845 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
846 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
849 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
850 ----------------------------------
853 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
857 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
860 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
863 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
864 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
865 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
866 * Taglib thread-safety fix
869 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
873 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
876 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
879 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
880 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
882 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
886 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
887 * Miscellaneous fixes
890 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
891 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
893 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
894 * New Asturian translation
897 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
898 ----------------------------------
901 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
903 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
906 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
909 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
910 * Various fixes for Windows
913 * New Armenian translation
914 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
915 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
918 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
919 --------------------------------
922 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
924 * Fix folders opening from the interface
927 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
928 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
931 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
932 --------------------------------
935 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
936 * fix for podcasts parsing
937 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
940 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
941 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
944 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
945 * fix m3u playlists exports
948 * fix video autoresize behaviour
951 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
954 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
957 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
960 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
963 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
964 --------------------------------
967 * Avformat fps displaying fix
968 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
971 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
972 of mono streams, especially on Windows
975 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
976 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
977 * fix console output encoding
979 Interface and extensions:
980 * Youtube and other scripts updates
981 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
984 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
985 --------------------------------
988 * New capabilities for libVLC:
989 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
990 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
991 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
992 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
993 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
994 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
995 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
996 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
997 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
998 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
999 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1000 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1001 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1002 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1003 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1007 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1008 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1009 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1010 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1011 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1014 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1017 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1018 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1019 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1023 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1026 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1027 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1028 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1031 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1032 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1033 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1034 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1037 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1038 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1041 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1042 --------------------------------
1044 Important changes for users:
1045 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1046 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1048 Important changes for packagers:
1049 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1050 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1051 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1052 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1053 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1055 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1057 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1058 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1059 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1060 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1061 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1064 * Support for the sftp protocol
1065 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1066 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1067 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1068 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1069 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1072 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1073 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1074 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1076 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1077 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1078 * Invmem module improvements
1079 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1080 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1081 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1082 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1083 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1084 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1085 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1086 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1087 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1088 * Support for VP8 codec
1089 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1092 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1093 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1094 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1095 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1096 * Various EGP improvements
1097 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1098 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1101 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1102 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1103 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1104 * Podcast images are now displayed
1107 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1108 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1109 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1110 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1111 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1112 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1113 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1114 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1115 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1116 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1117 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1120 * New content extensions lua framework
1123 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1124 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1125 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1126 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1127 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1128 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1129 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1132 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1133 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1134 * Service discovery based on libudev
1135 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1138 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1139 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1140 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1141 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1142 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1143 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1144 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1147 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1148 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1149 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1152 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1154 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1155 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1158 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1161 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1162 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1163 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1164 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1165 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1166 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1167 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1170 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1171 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1174 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1175 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1176 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1180 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1181 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1182 * Improved Solaris port
1185 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1186 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1189 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1190 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1191 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1192 * transrate: broken since too long
1193 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1194 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1195 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1196 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1197 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1198 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1199 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1200 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1201 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1202 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1203 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1204 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1205 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1206 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1209 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1210 --------------------------------
1213 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1215 Decoders/Packetizers:
1216 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1219 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1220 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1221 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1222 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1223 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1226 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1227 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1230 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1231 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1234 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1235 and Walloon translations updated
1236 * Sinhala translation started
1239 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1240 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1243 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1244 --------------------------------
1247 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1248 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1251 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1254 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1255 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1258 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1259 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1260 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1261 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1264 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1265 --------------------------------
1268 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1269 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1272 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1273 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1276 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1277 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1280 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1283 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1284 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1287 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1288 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1291 * New Walloon translation
1292 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1295 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1296 --------------------------------
1299 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1300 regressions in most popular drivers
1301 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1304 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1305 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1306 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1309 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1310 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1313 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1314 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1315 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1316 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1317 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1320 * New udev module for linux
1323 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1326 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1329 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1330 --------------------------------
1333 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1334 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1335 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1338 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1339 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1342 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1343 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1346 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1349 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1350 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1351 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1352 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1355 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1356 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1357 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1358 - no support for Goom and SDL
1359 - limited text rendering support
1360 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1363 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1364 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1365 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1366 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1367 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1368 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1369 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1370 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1371 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1375 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1378 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1381 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1382 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1383 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1384 Arabic and French translation updates
1387 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1388 --------------------------------
1391 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1392 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1393 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1394 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1395 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1396 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1399 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1400 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1401 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1404 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1405 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1406 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1409 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1412 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1413 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1416 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1417 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1418 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1419 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1420 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1421 * Fix various crashes
1424 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1426 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1430 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1431 ---------------------------------
1435 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1436 See 'Access:' for more info.
1437 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1440 * Instantaneous pausing
1441 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1442 * Finer speed control
1443 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1444 * Timeshift for most medias
1445 * RTSP trickplay support
1446 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1449 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1450 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1451 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1452 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1453 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1454 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1455 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1456 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1457 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1458 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1461 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1462 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1463 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1464 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1465 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1466 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1467 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1470 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1471 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1474 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1475 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1476 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1477 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1478 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1479 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1480 * DVB scanning on linux
1481 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1482 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1483 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1484 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1485 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1486 * MTP device access on Unix
1487 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1488 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1491 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1492 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1493 Windows and Mac OS X.
1496 * Export the playlist in HTML
1497 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1498 * Better metadata handling and reading
1500 Linux/Windows interface:
1501 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1502 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1503 * Recently played items list
1504 * Interface toolbar customizations
1505 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1506 - More menus actions
1507 - Finer speed slider
1508 - Improvements on many dialogs
1509 - New dialog for plugins listing
1510 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1511 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1512 * Better integration in GTK environments
1515 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1516 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1517 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1518 * Additional usability improvements
1521 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1522 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1523 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1524 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1525 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1528 * New Maemo port with:
1529 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1530 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1533 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1536 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1537 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1538 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1539 * Support for latest iSight models
1542 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1543 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1546 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1547 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1548 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1549 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1550 The old image video output has been removed.
1551 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1552 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1555 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1563 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1564 --------------------------------------
1570 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1571 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1572 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1573 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1574 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1575 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1576 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1578 Various fixes to the following modules:
1581 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1582 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1583 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1585 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1590 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1591 ---------------------------------
1594 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1595 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1598 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1599 ---------------------------------
1602 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1605 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1608 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1609 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1610 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1611 main controller window.
1612 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1615 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1620 * Updates of other localizations
1623 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1624 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1625 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1626 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1627 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1630 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1631 ---------------------------------
1634 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1636 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1639 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1640 --------------------------------
1645 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1646 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1649 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1650 --------------------------------
1652 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1653 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1656 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1659 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1660 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1663 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1664 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1667 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1668 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1669 * Various fixed in playlist
1672 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1675 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1678 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1679 ------------------------------------
1681 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1682 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1685 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1686 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1687 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1690 * Stability fix for the video output.
1693 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1694 --------------------------------
1697 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1698 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1699 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1700 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1701 * Fixed update system bugs
1702 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1705 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1706 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1707 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1708 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1709 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1710 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1711 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1712 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1713 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1714 modern Mac OS X versions
1717 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1718 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1720 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1721 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1724 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1725 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1726 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1727 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1728 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1729 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1732 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1733 --------------------------------
1735 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1736 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1737 * Multiple bugfixes.
1740 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1741 --------------------------------
1743 * Multiple bug fixes.
1746 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1747 ---------------------------------
1751 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1752 recent to work correctly
1753 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1754 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1755 edit the ".hosts" file.
1756 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1757 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1758 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1759 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1760 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1761 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1762 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1763 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1764 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1765 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1766 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1767 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1768 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1769 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1770 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1771 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1772 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1773 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1774 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1775 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1776 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1777 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1778 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1779 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1780 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1781 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1782 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1783 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1784 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1785 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1786 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1787 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1788 and postproc modules.
1789 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1790 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1791 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1792 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1794 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1795 filter. For example:
1796 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1797 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1799 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1800 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1806 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1808 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1809 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1812 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1813 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1815 * Shoutcast TV listings
1816 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1818 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1819 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1821 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1824 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1825 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1826 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1827 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1828 * JACK audio input support
1829 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1830 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1831 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1832 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1833 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1834 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1835 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1836 (available as a separate download).
1837 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1838 * RTMP input support
1839 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1840 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1841 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1843 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1844 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1847 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1848 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1849 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1850 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1852 * APEv1/2 tags support
1853 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1854 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1856 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1857 * TiVo Series 2 support
1858 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1863 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1864 * Flash Screen Video support
1865 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1866 * DosBox Capture support
1867 * Karl Morton's Video support
1868 * limited atrac3 support
1870 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1871 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1872 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1873 * H.264 PAFF support
1874 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1875 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1876 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1877 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1878 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1881 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1882 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1883 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1884 * AQTitle subtitles support
1885 * MKV USF subtitles support
1886 * HTML-based subtitles support
1887 * MPSub subtitles support
1888 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1889 * MPL2 subtitles support
1890 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1891 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1892 * Realtext subtitle support
1893 * DKS subtitle support
1894 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1895 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1898 * Flash Screen Video support
1899 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1901 Video outputs and filters:
1902 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1903 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1904 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1905 * New puzzle video output filter
1906 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1907 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1909 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1910 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1911 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1912 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1913 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1914 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1915 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1916 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1917 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1918 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1919 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1920 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1921 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1922 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1924 Audio outputs and filters:
1925 * Replay gain support
1926 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1927 new scaletempo audio filter)
1928 * New spatializer audio filter
1929 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1932 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1933 * New RTP payload formats:
1934 * Speex voice audio codec
1935 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1936 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1937 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1938 * DCCP transport for RTP
1939 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1944 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1945 end-user suitable way.
1946 * Improved user interaction
1947 * Improved mouse gestures
1948 * Vastly improved Update checker
1949 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1951 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1952 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1954 * Improved video output features
1955 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1956 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1957 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1958 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1959 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1961 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1962 if libncursesw is available.
1963 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1964 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1965 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1967 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1968 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1969 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1970 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1971 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1972 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1973 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1974 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1977 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1978 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1979 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1982 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1983 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1984 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1985 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1986 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1987 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1990 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1991 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2001 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2002 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2003 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2006 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2007 ----------------------------------
2010 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2013 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2014 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2015 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2016 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2017 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2018 * Updated Polish translation
2021 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2022 ----------------------------------
2025 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2026 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2027 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2030 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2031 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2032 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2033 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2034 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2035 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2036 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2037 to an unexpected application termination
2038 * New Serbian translation
2039 * Updated Romanian translation
2042 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2043 ----------------------------------
2046 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2047 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2048 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2049 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2050 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2051 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2052 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2053 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2056 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2057 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2058 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2059 * Fixed AAC resampling
2060 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2061 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2064 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2065 ----------------------------------
2068 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2069 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2070 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2071 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2072 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2075 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2076 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2077 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2078 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2079 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2082 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2083 ----------------------------------
2086 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2087 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2090 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2091 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2092 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2093 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2095 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2099 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2102 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2105 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2108 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2111 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2112 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2113 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2114 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2115 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2117 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2118 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2119 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2120 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2123 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2126 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2127 ----------------------------------
2130 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2131 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2132 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2134 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2135 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2137 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2138 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2141 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2143 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2144 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2145 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2146 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2147 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2148 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2149 two different movies
2150 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2151 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2152 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2155 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2158 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2159 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2160 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2161 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2164 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2165 ----------------------------------
2167 Various bugfixes, notably:
2168 * Windows Vista compatibility
2169 * Cropping in Direct3D
2170 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2171 * RSS filter string overflow
2173 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2175 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2176 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2179 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2180 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2183 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2186 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2189 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2192 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2193 ----------------------------------
2195 Various bugfixes, notably:
2196 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2197 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2198 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2199 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2200 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2201 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2204 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2205 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2208 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2210 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2211 * Diverse usability improvements
2212 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2213 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2214 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2217 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2218 ---------------------------------
2220 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2221 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2224 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2227 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2228 --------------------------------
2231 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2234 * Support for RTSP authentication
2235 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2236 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2237 * ATSC support for DVB input
2238 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2239 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2240 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2243 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2244 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2245 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2246 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2247 * Matroska WavPack support
2248 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2249 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2250 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2253 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2254 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2255 * Improved libcaca support
2259 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2260 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2262 * Systray support in skins
2264 * Support for Apple Remote control
2265 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2266 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2267 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2268 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2270 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2273 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2274 Windows 9x/ME users:
2275 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2276 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2277 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2278 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2279 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2281 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2282 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2291 * Updates to the libvlc API
2292 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2295 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2296 --------------------------------
2299 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2300 * Support for downloading updates
2304 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2305 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2306 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2307 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2309 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2310 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2311 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2314 * Cook (Real audio) support
2316 Playlist / Services discovery:
2317 * XSPF playlist support
2319 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2322 * New JACK audio output
2325 * New video filters:
2326 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2327 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2328 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2329 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2330 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2331 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2334 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2337 * System to inform the user and request information
2338 - HTTP authentication
2342 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2343 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2344 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2347 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2348 - Improved playlist handling
2349 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2351 - Embedded Video output
2352 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2353 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2354 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2355 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2356 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2358 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2359 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2362 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2365 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2366 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2367 * Growl "Now playing" support
2370 * Ability to log to syslog
2371 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2374 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2376 * A bit more automatic testing
2379 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2380 ---------------------------------
2383 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2384 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2387 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2388 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2391 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2394 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2395 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2401 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2404 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2405 --------------------------------
2408 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2412 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2413 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2414 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2417 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2418 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2419 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2420 * GnomeVFS input module
2421 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2422 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2425 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2426 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2427 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2430 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2431 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2437 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2438 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2441 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2442 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2443 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2446 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2448 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2449 - New extended controls panel
2450 - New bookmarks window
2451 - Fixed playlist sorting
2452 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2454 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2455 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2456 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2457 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2461 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2462 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2464 - Include macro to include other files
2468 * Should now work outside IE as well
2471 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2474 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2475 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2478 The following languages were added:
2482 * Simplified Chinese
2483 The following languages were re-added:
2487 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2488 --------------------------------
2491 * Rewrite of the playlist
2493 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2494 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2495 * Preferences improvements:
2496 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2497 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2499 * Core image manipulation support
2500 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2501 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2502 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2503 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2504 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2505 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2506 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2507 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2508 * Access filter architecture
2509 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2510 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2514 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2515 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2516 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2517 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2518 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2519 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2520 * Massive Matroska improvements
2521 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2523 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2524 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2525 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2526 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2527 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2529 Decoders / Encoders:
2530 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2531 * PNG decoder/encoder
2532 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2533 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2536 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2539 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2540 * Brand new SAP module
2541 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2542 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2543 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2544 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2545 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2546 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2550 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2553 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2554 * Image file video output (png)
2555 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2556 * Improvements to wall video filter
2557 * Support for font color and opacity
2563 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2564 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2565 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2569 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2570 - Improved preferences
2571 - Improvements to the wizard
2572 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2574 - Redesigned playlist
2575 - Improved preferences
2577 - Support for multiple actions
2580 - Support for the new playlist system
2582 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2585 * Screensaver disabling fix
2586 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2587 * Support for no-decoration windows
2590 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2591 * The OpenGL video output is back
2592 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2593 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2594 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2595 is not yet available in the new module
2596 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2599 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2608 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2611 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2614 The following languages were added:
2620 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2621 --------------------------------
2624 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2625 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2628 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2629 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2630 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2633 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2636 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2639 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2642 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2643 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2644 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2648 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2650 * Support of playlist group announcement
2653 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2654 --------------------------------
2657 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2658 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2659 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2660 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2661 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2662 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2665 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2666 (Stream your desktop)
2667 * Improved DVD support:
2668 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2669 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2670 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2671 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2672 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2673 (selection of titles/chapters).
2676 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2677 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2678 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2679 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2680 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2681 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2682 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2683 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2684 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2685 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2688 * G.726 audio support
2689 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2690 * MPEG-4 text support
2691 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2692 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2693 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2697 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2698 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2699 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2700 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2701 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2702 * DVB subtitles encoder
2703 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2704 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2706 * Text track muxing for mp4
2707 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2708 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2709 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2710 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2711 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2712 * Improved ASF muxer
2714 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2715 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2716 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2719 * New audio equalizer filter
2720 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2721 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2722 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2723 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2726 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2727 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2728 with support for effects.
2729 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2730 - New filters can be streamed.
2731 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2732 - Centralized scaling and blending
2734 - "time", to display current time
2735 - "marq", to display a marquee
2738 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2739 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2740 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2741 * A few skins2 improvements
2742 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2743 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2744 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2745 * Improved CORBA control module
2748 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2749 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2750 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2753 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2754 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2755 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2758 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2759 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2760 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2761 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2762 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2765 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2768 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2769 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2772 * Server/client network synchronization module
2773 * VBrick streams fully supported
2774 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2778 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2779 --------------------------------
2782 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2783 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2784 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2785 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2788 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2789 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2790 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2791 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2792 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2793 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2794 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2797 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2798 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2799 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2800 * Improved directory access module.
2801 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2802 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2803 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2804 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2805 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2808 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2809 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2810 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2813 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2814 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2815 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2818 * Improved session announcement system.
2819 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2820 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2821 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2822 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2823 * Improved transrater.
2824 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2825 * New configuration system.
2826 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2829 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2830 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2831 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2832 * Supports scheduling.
2833 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2834 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2837 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2838 - Ability to embed video output.
2839 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2840 - Lots of improvements.
2841 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2842 - New design and set of icons.
2843 - Ability to embed video output.
2844 - Support for hotkeys.
2845 - Support for bookmarks.
2847 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2848 - Better hotkeys handling.
2851 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2852 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2853 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2854 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2857 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2858 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2859 * Improved Windows installer.
2865 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2866 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2869 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2870 ---------------------------------
2873 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2874 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2877 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2878 --------------------------------
2881 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2882 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2885 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2886 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2887 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2888 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2891 * Internal improvments
2892 * Improved import/export
2895 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2897 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2898 small and strange formats.
2900 * New MOD audio demux.
2901 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2902 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2903 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2904 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2907 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2908 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2909 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2915 * New opengl video output plugin.
2918 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2919 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2922 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2923 --------------------------------
2926 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2927 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2928 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2929 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2930 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2931 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2932 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2933 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2936 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2941 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2942 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2943 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2944 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2945 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2946 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2947 * Better Icecast support.
2948 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2949 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2952 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2953 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2954 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2955 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2956 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2957 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2958 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2961 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2962 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2963 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2964 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2965 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2966 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2967 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2968 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2969 * Preliminary RTP support.
2970 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2975 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2976 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2978 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2979 - Improvements and help in preferences
2980 - New streaming wizard
2981 - Revised Disc Open menu
2983 - Improvements of the standard pages
2984 - Support for new commands
2985 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2988 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2989 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2992 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2993 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2994 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2995 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2996 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2997 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2998 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2999 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3000 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3003 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3005 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3006 * Support for Panther.
3007 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3008 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3011 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3012 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3013 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3014 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3015 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3016 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3017 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3018 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3021 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3022 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3023 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3026 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3029 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3030 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3031 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3032 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3035 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3036 --------------------------------
3039 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3042 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3043 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3046 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3047 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3050 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3053 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3054 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3057 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3060 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3063 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3064 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3068 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3069 --------------------------------
3072 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3073 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3077 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3078 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3079 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3081 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3082 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3085 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3088 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3091 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3092 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3096 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3097 --------------------------------
3100 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3101 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3105 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3106 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3107 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3108 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3109 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3112 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3113 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3114 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3117 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3118 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3119 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3122 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3123 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3124 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3125 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3126 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3129 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3130 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3131 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3134 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3137 * Improved build system.
3138 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3139 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3140 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3141 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3144 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3145 --------------------------------
3148 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3151 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3152 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3153 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3154 * Video 4 Linux support
3155 * CD Digital Audio support
3156 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3159 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3160 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3161 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3162 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3165 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3166 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3167 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3168 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3169 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3170 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3171 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3174 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3175 * New HTTP remote control interface
3178 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3179 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3180 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3181 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3182 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3185 * New reset option for the preferences
3186 * You can set your language in the prefences
3187 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3188 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3189 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3190 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3193 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3194 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3195 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3198 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3199 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3200 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3201 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3202 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3203 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3204 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3205 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3206 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3207 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3210 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3211 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3212 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3213 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3214 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3215 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3216 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3219 * Interface localization
3220 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3221 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3222 * New full-featured Preferences window
3225 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3226 --------------------------------
3229 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3230 * support for skins at the interface level
3231 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3232 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3233 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3234 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3235 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3238 * fixed HTTP redirects
3239 * support for opening an entire directory
3240 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3241 * new video4linux access plug-in
3242 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3245 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3246 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3247 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3250 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3251 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3252 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3253 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3254 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3255 * new codec for raw I420 video
3256 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3259 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3260 (although it still misses some important features)
3261 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3264 * new HTTP output support
3265 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3266 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3269 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3272 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3275 * reorderable playlist
3276 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3277 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3278 * support for mono audio output devices
3279 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3280 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3281 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3282 * the messages window remembers more lines
3283 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3284 * http and ogg stream output options
3285 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3288 * new skinnable interface
3289 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3291 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3292 * support for FLAC audio format
3293 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3295 * network tab in the interface
3296 * "apply" handling in preferences
3299 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3300 ---------------------------------
3303 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3304 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3305 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3306 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3308 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3309 * DTS S/PDIF support
3312 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3313 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3314 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3315 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3318 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3319 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3322 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3325 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3328 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3330 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3331 * rc interface is now fully useable
3332 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3335 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3336 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3337 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3338 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3339 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3341 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3342 * support for mouse gestures
3343 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3346 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3347 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3350 * improved ID3 tag detection
3351 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3352 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3353 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3355 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3358 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3359 ---------------------------------
3362 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3363 English was set as the preferred language
3366 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3367 --------------------------------
3370 * new mouse gesture interface
3371 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3375 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3376 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3377 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3380 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3381 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3385 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3388 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3389 without the user consent
3392 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3394 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3395 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3396 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3399 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3400 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3401 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3402 * playlist enhancements
3403 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3404 * new step forward/step backward commands
3405 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3406 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3407 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3410 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3411 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3412 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3415 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3416 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3419 * native video output is working again
3420 * only commandline interface support
3421 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3424 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3425 --------------------------------
3428 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3429 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3430 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3431 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3432 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3433 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3434 and A/52 streams are supported)
3435 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3440 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3441 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3442 * VCD entry points support
3443 * VCD image file support
3446 * support for *.asf format
3447 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3448 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3449 * support for ogg encapsulation
3450 * support for raw DV format
3451 * support for *.wav format
3452 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3455 Stream discovery & playlists:
3456 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3457 * support for .m3u file format
3458 * support for .asx file format
3459 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3462 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3463 (only available with the .avi demux)
3464 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3465 * support for raw PCM data
3466 * support for Cinepak video codec
3467 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3468 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3469 * support for Xvid codec
3470 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3471 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3472 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3474 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3476 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3479 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3482 * new WxWindows interface
3483 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3484 device and the channels configuration
3485 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3486 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3487 format that VLC can play
3488 * new swedish translation
3489 * enhancements of the playlist window
3490 * new messages window to see debug info
3491 * fixed a few crashes
3494 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3495 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3496 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3497 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working