1 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
8 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
11 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-pre1:
12 ------------------------------------
13 Important changes for users:
15 Important changes for packagers:
16 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
17 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
18 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
19 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
20 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
24 * Support for the sftp protocol
25 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
26 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
27 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
28 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
29 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
32 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
33 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
34 * Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP usage
36 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
37 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
38 * Invmem module improvements
39 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
40 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
41 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
42 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
43 * Support for Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec natively on all platforms
44 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
45 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
46 * Direct rendering is always used with H.264 in avcodec module
47 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
50 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
51 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
52 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
53 * Various EGP improvements
54 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
57 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
58 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
59 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
60 * Podcast images are now displayed
63 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
64 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
65 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
66 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
67 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
68 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
69 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
70 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
71 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
72 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
73 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
76 * New content extensions lua framework
80 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
81 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
82 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
83 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
84 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
85 * NEON assembly audio converter module
86 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
89 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
92 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
93 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
94 * Service discovery based on libudev
95 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
98 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
99 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
100 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
101 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
102 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
103 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
104 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
107 * New smem module, streaming to memory
108 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
109 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
112 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
114 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
117 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
118 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
119 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
120 by Andy Matuschak et al.
121 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
122 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
123 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
126 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
127 * Experimental playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
130 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
131 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
132 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
136 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
137 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
140 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
141 * phonon bindings are now usable
144 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
145 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
146 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
147 * transrate: broken since too long
148 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
149 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
150 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
151 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
152 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
153 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
154 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
155 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
156 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
157 * cddax: use cdda instead.
158 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
159 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
160 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
161 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
164 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
165 --------------------------------
168 * SubRip extra styles improvements
169 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
172 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
175 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
176 increase performance and fix x264 issues
179 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
180 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
181 Russian, Slovak translation updates
182 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
185 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
186 --------------------------------
189 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
190 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
193 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
194 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
197 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
198 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
201 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
204 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
205 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
208 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
209 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
212 * New Walloon translation
213 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
216 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
217 --------------------------------
220 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
221 regressions in most popular drivers
222 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
225 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
226 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
227 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
230 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
231 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
234 * Update for appletrailers lua script
235 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
236 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
237 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
238 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
241 * New udev module for linux
244 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
247 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
250 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
251 --------------------------------
254 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
255 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
256 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
259 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
260 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
263 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
264 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
267 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
270 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
271 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
272 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
273 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
276 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
277 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
278 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
279 - no support for Goom and SDL
280 - limited text rendering support
281 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
284 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
285 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
286 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
287 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
288 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
289 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
290 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
291 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
292 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
296 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
299 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
302 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
303 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
304 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
305 Arabic and French translation updates
308 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
309 --------------------------------
312 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
313 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
314 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
315 * Fix Dailymotion access script
316 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
317 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
320 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
321 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
324 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
325 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
326 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
329 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
332 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
333 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
336 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
337 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
338 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
339 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
340 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
341 * Fix various crashes
344 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
346 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
349 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
350 ---------------------------------
354 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
355 See 'Access:' for more info.
356 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
359 * Instantaneous pausing
360 * Frame-by-Frame playback
361 * Finer speed control
362 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
363 * Timeshift for most medias
364 * RTSP trickplay support
365 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
368 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
369 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
370 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
371 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
372 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
373 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
374 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
375 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
376 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
377 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
380 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
381 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
382 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
383 * Metadata for mod files are supported
384 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
385 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
386 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
389 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
390 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
393 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
394 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
395 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
396 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
397 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
398 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
399 * DVB scanning on linux
400 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
401 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
402 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
403 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
404 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
405 * MTP device access on Unix
406 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
407 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
410 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
411 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
412 Windows and Mac OS X.
415 * Export the playlist in HTML
416 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
417 * Better metadata handling and reading
419 Linux/Windows interface:
420 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
421 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
422 * Recently played items list
423 * Interface toolbar customizations
424 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
427 - Improvements on many dialogs
428 - New dialog for plugins listing
429 - Fixed-size mode for videos
430 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
431 * Better integration in GTK environments
434 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
435 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
436 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
437 * Additional usability improvements
440 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
441 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
442 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
443 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
444 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
447 * New Maemo port with:
448 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
449 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
452 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
455 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
456 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
457 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
458 * Support for latest iSight models
461 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
462 * Surround support for PulseAudio
465 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
466 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
467 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
468 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
469 The old image video output has been removed.
470 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
471 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
474 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
482 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
483 --------------------------------------
489 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
490 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
491 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
492 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
493 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
494 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
495 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
497 Various fixes to the following modules:
500 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
501 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
504 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
509 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
510 ---------------------------------
513 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
514 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
517 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
518 ---------------------------------
521 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
524 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
527 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
528 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
529 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
530 main controller window.
531 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
534 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
539 * Updates of other localizations
542 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
543 * Lots of small bugfixes.
544 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
545 * Telnet fixes on Windows
546 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
549 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
550 ---------------------------------
553 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
555 Bunch of small bugfixes.
558 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
559 --------------------------------
564 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
565 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
568 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
569 --------------------------------
571 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
572 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
575 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
578 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
579 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
582 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
583 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
586 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
587 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
588 * Various fixed in playlist
591 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
594 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
597 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
598 ------------------------------------
600 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
601 * Fixes several memory leaks.
604 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
605 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
606 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
609 * Stability fix for the video output.
612 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
613 --------------------------------
616 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
617 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
618 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
619 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
620 * Fixed update system bugs
621 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
624 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
625 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
626 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
627 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
628 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
629 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
630 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
631 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
632 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
633 modern Mac OS X versions
636 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
637 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
639 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
640 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
643 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
644 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
645 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
646 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
647 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
648 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
651 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
652 --------------------------------
654 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
655 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
659 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
660 --------------------------------
662 * Multiple bug fixes.
665 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
666 ---------------------------------
670 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
671 recent to work correctly
672 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
673 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
674 edit the ".hosts" file.
675 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
676 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
677 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
678 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
679 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
680 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
681 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
682 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
683 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
684 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
685 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
686 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
687 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
688 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
689 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
690 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
691 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
692 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
693 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
694 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
695 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
696 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
697 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
698 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
699 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
700 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
701 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
702 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
703 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
704 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
705 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
706 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
707 and postproc modules.
708 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
709 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
710 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
711 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
713 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
715 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
716 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
718 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
719 * Glide video output module has been removed.
725 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
727 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
728 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
731 * Vastly improved playlist support:
732 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
734 * Shoutcast TV listings
735 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
737 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
738 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
740 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
743 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
744 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
745 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
746 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
747 * JACK audio input support
748 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
749 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
750 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
751 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
752 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
753 * Experimental EyeTV access module
754 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
755 (available as a separate download).
756 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
758 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
759 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
760 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
762 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
763 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
766 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
767 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
768 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
769 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
771 * APEv1/2 tags support
772 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
773 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
775 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
776 * TiVo Series 2 support
777 * CD+G karaoke Files support
782 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
783 * Flash Screen Video support
784 * CamStudio Screen Video support
785 * DosBox Capture support
786 * Karl Morton's Video support
787 * limited atrac3 support
789 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
790 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
791 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
793 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
794 * NellyMoser ASAO support
795 * APE (Monkey audio) support
796 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
797 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
800 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
801 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
802 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
803 * AQTitle subtitles support
804 * MKV USF subtitles support
805 * HTML-based subtitles support
806 * MPSub subtitles support
807 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
808 * MPL2 subtitles support
809 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
810 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
811 * Realtext subtitle support
812 * DKS subtitle support
813 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
814 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
817 * Flash Screen Video support
818 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
820 Video outputs and filters:
821 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
822 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
823 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
824 * New puzzle video output filter
825 * Re-written motion detection video filter
826 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
828 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
829 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
830 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
831 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
832 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
833 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
834 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
835 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
836 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
837 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
838 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
839 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
840 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
841 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
843 Audio outputs and filters:
844 * Replay gain support
845 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
846 new scaletempo audio filter)
847 * New spatializer audio filter
848 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
851 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
852 * New RTP payload formats:
853 * Speex voice audio codec
854 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
855 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
856 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
857 * DCCP transport for RTP
858 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
863 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
864 end-user suitable way.
865 * Improved user interaction
866 * Improved mouse gestures
867 * Vastly improved Update checker
868 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
870 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
871 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
873 * Improved video output features
874 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
875 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
876 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
877 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
878 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
880 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
881 if libncursesw is available.
882 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
883 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
884 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
886 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
887 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
888 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
889 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
890 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
891 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
892 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
893 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
896 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
897 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
898 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
901 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
902 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
903 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
904 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
905 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
906 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
909 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
910 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
920 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
921 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
922 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
925 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
926 ----------------------------------
929 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
932 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
933 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
934 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
935 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
936 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
937 * Updated Polish translation
940 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
941 ----------------------------------
944 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
945 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
946 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
949 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
950 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
951 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
952 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
953 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
954 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
955 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
956 to an unexpected application termination
957 * New Serbian translation
958 * Updated Romanian translation
961 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
962 ----------------------------------
965 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
966 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
967 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
968 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
969 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
970 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
971 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
972 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
975 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
976 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
977 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
978 * Fixed AAC resampling
979 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
980 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
983 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
984 ----------------------------------
987 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
988 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
989 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
990 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
991 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
994 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
995 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
996 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
997 * Close MMS access on network timeout
998 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1001 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1002 ----------------------------------
1005 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1006 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1009 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1010 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1011 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1012 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1014 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1018 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1021 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1024 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1027 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1030 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1031 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1032 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1033 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1034 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1036 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1037 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1038 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1039 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1042 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1045 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1046 ----------------------------------
1049 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1050 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1051 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1053 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1054 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1056 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1057 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1060 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1062 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1063 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1064 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1065 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1066 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1067 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1068 two different movies
1069 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1070 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1071 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1074 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1077 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1078 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1079 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1080 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1083 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1084 ----------------------------------
1086 Various bugfixes, notably:
1087 * Windows Vista compatibility
1088 * Cropping in Direct3D
1089 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1090 * RSS filter string overflow
1092 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1094 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1095 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1098 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1099 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1102 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1105 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1108 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1111 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1112 ----------------------------------
1114 Various bugfixes, notably:
1115 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1116 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1117 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1118 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1119 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1120 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1123 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1124 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1127 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1129 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1130 * Diverse usability improvements
1131 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1132 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1133 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1136 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1137 ---------------------------------
1139 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1140 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1143 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1146 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1147 --------------------------------
1150 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1153 * Support for RTSP authentication
1154 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1155 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1156 * ATSC support for DVB input
1157 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1158 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1159 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1162 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1163 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1164 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1165 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1166 * Matroska WavPack support
1167 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1168 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1169 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1172 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1173 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1174 * Improved libcaca support
1178 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1179 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1181 * Systray support in skins
1183 * Support for Apple Remote control
1184 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1185 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1186 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1187 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1189 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1192 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1193 Windows 9x/ME users:
1194 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1195 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1196 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1197 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1198 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1200 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1201 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1210 * Updates to the libvlc API
1211 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1214 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1215 --------------------------------
1218 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1219 * Support for downloading updates
1223 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1224 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1225 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1226 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1228 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1229 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1230 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1233 * Cook (Real audio) support
1235 Playlist / Services discovery:
1236 * XSPF playlist support
1238 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1241 * New JACK audio output
1244 * New video filters:
1245 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1246 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1247 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1248 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1249 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1250 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1253 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1256 * System to inform the user and request information
1257 - HTTP authentication
1261 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1262 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1263 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1266 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1267 - Improved playlist handling
1268 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1270 - Embedded Video output
1271 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1272 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1273 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1274 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1275 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1277 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1278 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1281 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1284 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1285 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1286 * Growl "Now playing" support
1289 * Ability to log to syslog
1290 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1293 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1295 * A bit more automatic testing
1298 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1299 ---------------------------------
1302 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1303 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1306 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1307 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1310 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1313 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1314 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1320 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1323 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1324 --------------------------------
1327 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1331 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1332 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1333 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1336 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1337 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1338 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1339 * GnomeVFS input module
1340 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1341 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1344 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1345 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1346 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1349 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1350 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1356 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1357 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1360 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1361 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1362 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1365 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1367 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1368 - New extended controls panel
1369 - New bookmarks window
1370 - Fixed playlist sorting
1371 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1373 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1374 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1375 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1376 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1380 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1381 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1383 - Include macro to include other files
1387 * Should now work outside IE as well
1390 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1393 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1394 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1397 The following languages were added:
1401 * Simplified Chinese
1402 The following languages were re-added:
1406 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1407 --------------------------------
1410 * Rewrite of the playlist
1412 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1413 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1414 * Preferences improvements:
1415 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1416 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1418 * Core image manipulation support
1419 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1420 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1421 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1422 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1423 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1424 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1425 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1426 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1427 * Access filter architecture
1428 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1429 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1433 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1434 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1435 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1436 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1437 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1438 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1439 * Massive Matroska improvements
1440 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1442 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1443 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1444 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1445 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1446 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1448 Decoders / Encoders:
1449 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1450 * PNG decoder/encoder
1451 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1452 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1455 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1458 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1459 * Brand new SAP module
1460 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1461 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1462 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1463 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1464 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1465 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1469 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1472 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1473 * Image file video output (png)
1474 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1475 * Improvements to wall video filter
1476 * Support for font color and opacity
1482 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1483 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1484 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1488 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1489 - Improved preferences
1490 - Improvements to the wizard
1491 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1493 - Redesigned playlist
1494 - Improved preferences
1496 - Support for multiple actions
1499 - Support for the new playlist system
1501 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1504 * Screensaver disabling fix
1505 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1506 * Support for no-decoration windows
1509 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1510 * The OpenGL video output is back
1511 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1512 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1513 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1514 is not yet available in the new module
1515 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1518 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1527 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1530 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1533 The following languages were added:
1539 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1540 --------------------------------
1543 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1544 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1547 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1548 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1549 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1552 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1555 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1558 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1561 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1562 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1563 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1567 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1569 * Support of playlist group announcement
1572 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1573 --------------------------------
1576 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1577 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1578 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1579 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1580 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1581 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1584 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1585 (Stream your desktop)
1586 * Improved DVD support:
1587 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1588 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1589 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1590 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1591 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1592 (selection of titles/chapters).
1595 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1596 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1597 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1598 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1599 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1600 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1601 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1602 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1603 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1604 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1607 * G.726 audio support
1608 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1609 * MPEG-4 text support
1610 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1611 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1612 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1616 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1617 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1618 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1619 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1620 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1621 * DVB subtitles encoder
1622 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1623 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1625 * Text track muxing for mp4
1626 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1627 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1628 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1629 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1630 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1631 * Improved ASF muxer
1633 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1634 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1635 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1638 * New audio equalizer filter
1639 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1640 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1641 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1642 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1645 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1646 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1647 with support for effects.
1648 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1649 - New filters can be streamed.
1650 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1651 - Centralized scaling and blending
1653 - "time", to display current time
1654 - "marq", to display a marquee
1657 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1658 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1659 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1660 * A few skins2 improvements
1661 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1662 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1663 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1664 * Improved CORBA control module
1667 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1668 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1669 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1672 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1673 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1674 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1677 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1678 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1679 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1680 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1681 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1684 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1687 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1688 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1691 * Server/client network synchronization module
1692 * VBrick streams fully supported
1693 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1697 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1698 --------------------------------
1701 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1702 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1703 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1704 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1707 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1708 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1709 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1710 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1711 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1712 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1713 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1716 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1717 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1718 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1719 * Improved directory access module.
1720 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1721 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1722 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1723 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1724 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1727 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1728 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1729 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1732 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1733 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1734 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1737 * Improved session announcement system.
1738 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1739 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1740 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1741 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1742 * Improved transrater.
1743 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1744 * New configuration system.
1745 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1748 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1749 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1750 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1751 * Supports scheduling.
1752 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1753 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1756 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1757 - Ability to embed video output.
1758 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1759 - Lots of improvements.
1760 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1761 - New design and set of icons.
1762 - Ability to embed video output.
1763 - Support for hotkeys.
1764 - Support for bookmarks.
1766 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1767 - Better hotkeys handling.
1770 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1771 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1772 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1773 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1776 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1777 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1778 * Improved Windows installer.
1784 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1785 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1788 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1789 ---------------------------------
1792 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1793 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1796 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1797 --------------------------------
1800 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1801 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1804 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1805 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1806 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1807 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1810 * Internal improvments
1811 * Improved import/export
1814 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1816 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1817 small and strange formats.
1819 * New MOD audio demux.
1820 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1821 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1822 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1823 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1826 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1827 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1828 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1834 * New opengl video output plugin.
1837 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1838 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1841 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1842 --------------------------------
1845 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1846 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1847 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1848 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1849 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1850 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1851 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1852 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1855 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1860 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1861 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1862 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1863 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1864 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1865 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1866 * Better Icecast support.
1867 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1868 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1871 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1872 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1873 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1874 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1875 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1876 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1877 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1880 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1881 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1882 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1883 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1884 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1885 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1886 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1887 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1888 * Preliminary RTP support.
1889 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1894 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1895 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1897 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1898 - Improvements and help in preferences
1899 - New streaming wizard
1900 - Revised Disc Open menu
1902 - Improvements of the standard pages
1903 - Support for new commands
1904 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1907 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1908 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1911 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1912 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1913 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1914 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1915 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1916 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1917 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1918 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1919 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1922 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1924 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1925 * Support for Panther.
1926 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1927 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1930 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1931 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1932 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1933 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1934 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1935 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1936 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1937 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1940 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1941 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1942 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1945 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1948 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1949 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1950 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1951 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1954 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1955 --------------------------------
1958 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1961 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1962 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1965 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1966 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1969 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1972 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1973 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1976 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1979 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1982 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1983 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1987 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1988 --------------------------------
1991 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1992 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1996 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1997 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1998 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2000 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2001 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2004 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2007 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2010 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2011 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2015 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2016 --------------------------------
2019 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2020 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2024 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2025 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2026 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2027 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2028 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2031 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2032 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2033 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2036 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2037 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2038 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2041 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2042 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2043 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2044 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2045 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2048 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2049 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2050 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2053 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2056 * Improved build system.
2057 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2058 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2059 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2060 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2063 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2064 --------------------------------
2067 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2070 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2071 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2072 * Video 4 Linux support
2073 * CD Digital Audio support
2074 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2077 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2078 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2079 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2080 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2083 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2084 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2085 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2086 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2087 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2088 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2089 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2092 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2093 * New HTTP remote control interface
2096 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2097 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2098 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2099 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2102 * New reset option for the preferences
2103 * You can set your language in the prefences
2104 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2105 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2106 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2107 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2110 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2111 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2112 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2115 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2116 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2117 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2118 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2119 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2120 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2121 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2122 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2123 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2124 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2127 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2128 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2129 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2130 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2131 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2132 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2133 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2136 * Interface localization
2137 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2138 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2139 * New full-featured Preferences window
2142 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2143 --------------------------------
2146 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2147 * support for skins at the interface level
2148 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2149 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2150 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2151 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2152 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2155 * fixed HTTP redirects
2156 * support for opening an entire directory
2157 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2158 * new video4linux access plug-in
2159 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2162 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2163 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2164 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2167 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2168 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2169 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2170 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2171 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2172 * new codec for raw I420 video
2173 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2176 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2177 (although it still misses some important features)
2178 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2181 * new HTTP output support
2182 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2183 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2186 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2189 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2192 * reorderable playlist
2193 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2194 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2195 * support for mono audio output devices
2196 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2197 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2198 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2199 * the messages window remembers more lines
2200 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2201 * http and ogg stream output options
2202 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2205 * new skinnable interface
2206 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2208 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2209 * support for FLAC audio format
2210 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2212 * network tab in the interface
2213 * "apply" handling in preferences
2216 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2217 ---------------------------------
2220 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2221 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2222 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2223 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2225 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2226 * DTS S/PDIF support
2229 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2230 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2231 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2232 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2235 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2236 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2239 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2242 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2245 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2247 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2248 * rc interface is now fully useable
2249 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2252 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2253 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2254 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2255 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2256 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2258 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2259 * support for mouse gestures
2260 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2263 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2264 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2267 * improved ID3 tag detection
2268 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2269 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2270 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2272 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2275 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2276 ---------------------------------
2279 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2280 English was set as the preferred language
2283 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2284 --------------------------------
2287 * new mouse gesture interface
2288 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2292 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2293 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2294 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2297 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2298 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2302 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2305 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2306 without the user consent
2309 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2311 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2312 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2313 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2316 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2317 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2318 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2319 * playlist enhancements
2320 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2321 * new step forward/step backward commands
2322 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2323 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2324 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2327 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2328 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2329 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2332 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2333 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2336 * native video output is working again
2337 * only commandline interface support
2338 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2341 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2342 --------------------------------
2345 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2346 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2347 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2348 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2349 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2350 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2351 and A/52 streams are supported)
2352 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2357 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2358 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2359 * VCD entry points support
2360 * VCD image file support
2363 * support for *.asf format
2364 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2365 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2366 * support for ogg encapsulation
2367 * support for raw DV format
2368 * support for *.wav format
2369 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2372 Stream discovery & playlists:
2373 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2374 * support for .m3u file format
2375 * support for .asx file format
2376 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2379 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2380 (only available with the .avi demux)
2381 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2382 * support for raw PCM data
2383 * support for Cinepak video codec
2384 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2385 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2386 * support for Xvid codec
2387 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2388 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2389 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2391 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2393 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2396 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2399 * new WxWindows interface
2400 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2401 device and the channels configuration
2402 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2403 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2404 format that VLC can play
2405 * new swedish translation
2406 * enhancements of the playlist window
2407 * new messages window to see debug info
2408 * fixed a few crashes
2411 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2412 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2413 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2414 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working