1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
11 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
12 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
13 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
14 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
15 * Digital Cinema Package support
18 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
19 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
20 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink
21 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
22 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
23 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
24 * OpenMax IL imrpovements, notably for RaspberryPi
25 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
26 * New jpeg image decoder
29 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
30 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
31 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
32 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
35 * New CAF format module
36 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
37 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
38 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
39 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
42 * Basic support for WebVTT
43 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
44 * Support HDPR TS files
45 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
46 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
47 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
50 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
51 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
55 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
56 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
57 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
58 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
59 * New Android native window provider module
60 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
61 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
64 * New Oldmovie effect filter
65 * New VHS effect filter
66 * New Freeze effect filter
67 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
68 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
71 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
74 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
75 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
76 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
77 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
78 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
79 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
82 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
83 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
86 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
89 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
92 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
95 * ios video output: use ios2
96 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
97 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
100 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
101 --------------------------------
104 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
106 * Fix some subtitles track selection
109 * VP9 support in WebM
110 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
111 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
114 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
115 * Support Speex in ogg files
116 * Fix some .mov playlists support
117 * Support Alac in mkv
118 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
119 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
122 * Fix DVB options parsing
123 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
124 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
127 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
128 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
131 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
132 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
135 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
136 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
137 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
138 * Fix play after drag'n drop
139 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
142 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
143 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
146 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
147 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
150 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
151 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
152 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
153 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
154 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
155 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
156 * Improves interface resizings
159 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
160 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
161 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
162 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
163 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
167 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
168 --------------------------------
171 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
172 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
173 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
174 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
175 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
177 3rd party libraries (contrib):
178 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
181 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
182 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
183 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
184 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
185 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
188 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
189 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
193 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
194 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
195 * Support for Ulead DV audio
196 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
197 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
198 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
199 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
200 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
201 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
202 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
203 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
204 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
205 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
208 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
209 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
210 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
213 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
214 remove support for previous OS X releases
215 * Major improvements in DASH support
216 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
217 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
218 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
219 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
220 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
221 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
222 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
223 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
224 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
225 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
226 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
229 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
230 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
231 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
232 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
233 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
234 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
235 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
236 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
237 * Support for more MJPEG streams
238 * Add support for liveleak streams
239 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
240 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
241 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
244 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
245 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
246 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
247 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
248 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
249 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
250 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
251 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
252 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
253 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
254 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
257 * New remapping channel filter
258 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
259 * New VSXu visualization plugin
260 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
261 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
262 * New gain audio filter
265 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
266 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
267 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
268 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
269 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
270 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
271 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
272 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
273 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
276 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
277 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
278 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
279 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
280 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
281 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
282 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
285 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
286 * Options support for AVIO output module
287 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
288 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
289 * Livehttp stream encryption support
290 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
291 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
294 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
297 * configurable password for the HTTP server
298 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
299 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
300 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
301 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
302 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
303 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
304 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
308 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
311 * Add support for multiple video outputs
312 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
314 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
315 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
316 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
317 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
318 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
319 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
320 VLC's internal volume level
321 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
323 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
324 selection and to manage the list of presets
325 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
326 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
327 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
328 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
329 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
330 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
331 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
332 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
333 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
334 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
336 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
337 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
338 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
339 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
340 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
341 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
342 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
343 3rd party applications
344 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
345 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
346 (system-wide settings)
347 * Add support for the Video Title option
348 * Add support for the Boss Key
349 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
350 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
353 * Partial support for Qt5.0
354 * Menus modifications and improvements
355 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
356 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
357 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
358 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
359 * EPG display fixes and improvements
360 * Add SD pixmap sources
361 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
362 * Display playlist total duration
363 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
364 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
365 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
370 * Extend sliders, offsets options
371 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
372 * Numerous fixes and improvements
373 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
376 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
377 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
378 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
379 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
380 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
381 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
382 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
383 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
384 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
385 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
388 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
389 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
390 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
391 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
392 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
393 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
395 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
396 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
397 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
398 * Broken crop video filter
400 * OSD parser and menu
401 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
402 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
403 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
404 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
408 * Update of all translations
411 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
412 --------------------------------
415 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
416 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
419 * Fix modplug security issues
422 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
423 --------------------------------
427 * Fix crash in QTsound
428 * Fix screen mouse file location
429 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
432 * Fix use after free in sgimb
433 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
436 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
439 * Fix interface crashes
440 * Fix autostart playback option
441 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
444 * update Welsh translation
445 * New Kannada translation
448 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
449 --------------------------------
452 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
453 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
457 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
460 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
463 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
466 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
470 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
473 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
476 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
477 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
478 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
481 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
482 --------------------------------
485 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
488 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
491 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
492 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
493 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
494 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
495 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
496 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
499 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
500 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
501 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
502 * 3rd party codecs updates
505 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
506 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
507 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
508 in the advanced preferences panel
509 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
510 * Fix crash within the video output code
511 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
512 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
513 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
514 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
516 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
519 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
522 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
523 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
526 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
529 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
530 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
531 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
532 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
533 Dutch, Danish, translations
534 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
537 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
538 --------------------------------
541 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
544 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
545 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
546 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
549 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
550 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
551 * Fix koreus lua parser
552 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
553 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
554 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
555 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
558 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
559 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
562 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
565 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
566 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
567 * Fix Time counter UI look
568 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
571 * Fix https streaming
574 * Fix audio and video track selection:
575 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
576 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
579 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
580 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
581 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
582 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
583 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
586 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
587 --------------------------------
590 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
591 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
592 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
593 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
594 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
595 during playback on Mac OS X
598 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
599 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
600 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
603 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
604 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
605 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
606 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
607 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
610 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
611 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
612 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
613 * Support Youtube live streams
616 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
619 * Fix media info dialog update
620 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
621 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
622 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
623 * Fix album art display at start
626 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
627 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
628 * Fix menus display and behavior
629 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
630 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
631 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
632 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
633 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
634 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
635 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
638 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
639 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
640 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
641 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
642 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
643 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
644 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
645 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
646 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
649 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
650 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
651 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
652 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
653 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
656 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
657 --------------------------------
660 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
663 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
664 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
667 * Add GateKeeper support
668 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
669 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
670 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
673 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
676 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
677 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
678 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
679 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
680 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
683 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
684 --------------------------------
687 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
688 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
689 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
690 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
691 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
692 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
693 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
694 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
695 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
696 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
697 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
701 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
702 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
703 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
704 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
705 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
706 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
707 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
708 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
709 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
710 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
711 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
712 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
715 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
716 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
718 * Fix MP3 free format support
721 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
722 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
723 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
724 * Fix for DVB channels file support
725 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
728 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
729 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
731 Audio filters and output:
732 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
733 * Fix DirectSound device selection
734 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
735 * Do not apply volume in file output
736 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
737 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
740 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
741 the persistant media library
742 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
743 to the media library or the temporary playlist
744 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
745 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
746 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
747 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
748 press on the Play/Pause button
749 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
750 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
751 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
752 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
753 * Many Fullscreen fixes
754 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
755 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
756 Synchronization panel
757 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
758 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
759 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
760 * Fix crashes on exit
761 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
763 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
764 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
765 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
766 automatically reset on the first launch.
767 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
768 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
769 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
772 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
773 * Fixes for icecast SD
776 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
777 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
778 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
779 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
780 * Fix tags and file names display
781 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
784 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
785 * Fix for key events and focus loss
788 * Fix display of some buttons
789 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
790 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
793 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
794 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
795 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
798 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
799 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
800 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
801 Thai translations update
802 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
805 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
806 --------------------------------
809 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
810 * fix the samba module compilation
811 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
812 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
813 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
814 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
817 * Support for MXPEG files
818 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
819 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
822 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
823 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
824 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
827 * Fix ogm header creation
830 * limit spatializer filter distortions
831 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
834 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
835 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
836 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
837 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
840 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
843 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
844 * allow to hide the sidebar
845 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
846 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
847 * noticebly faster launch time
848 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
849 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
850 * improve track synchronization panel
851 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
852 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
855 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
856 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
857 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
858 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
861 * fix for menus display
862 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
863 * documentation update
866 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
867 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
870 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
871 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
872 * Update Jamendo selections
876 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
877 * fix a crash on VLM close
880 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
881 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
882 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
883 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
886 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
889 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
890 ---------------------------------
893 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
894 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
895 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
896 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
897 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
898 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
899 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
900 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
901 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
902 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
903 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
904 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
905 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
906 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
907 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
908 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
909 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
910 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
911 --http-crl (optional CRL).
912 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
913 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
914 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
915 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
916 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
917 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
918 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
920 Important changes for packagers:
921 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
922 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
923 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
924 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
925 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
926 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
927 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
928 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
929 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
930 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
933 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
934 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
935 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
936 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
937 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
938 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
939 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
942 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
943 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
944 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
945 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
946 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
947 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
948 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
949 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
950 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
951 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
952 * PulseAudio audio input support
953 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
954 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
955 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
956 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
957 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
958 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
959 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
960 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
963 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
964 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
965 are notably concerned.
966 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
967 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
968 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
969 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
970 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
971 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
972 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
973 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
974 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
975 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
976 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
977 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
978 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
979 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
980 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
983 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
984 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
985 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
986 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
987 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
988 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
989 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
990 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
991 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
992 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
993 * Improved support of tracker files
994 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
997 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
998 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
999 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1000 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1001 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1002 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1003 and important cleanups and optimisations
1004 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1005 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1006 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1007 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1008 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1009 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1010 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1011 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1012 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1013 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1014 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1015 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1016 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1017 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1018 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1019 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1020 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1021 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1022 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1023 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1024 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1027 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1028 * New video output for iOS platform
1029 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1030 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1031 * Various vmem improvements
1032 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1033 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1034 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1035 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1036 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1037 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1039 Audio Output and Filters:
1040 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1041 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1042 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1043 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1044 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1045 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1046 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1047 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1048 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1049 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1052 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1053 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1054 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1055 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1056 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1057 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1058 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1059 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1060 * New anti-flickering filter
1061 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1062 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1063 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1064 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1065 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1066 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1067 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1070 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1071 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1072 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1073 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1074 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1075 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1076 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1077 * Major rework of VoD support
1078 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1079 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1080 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1081 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1082 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1083 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1084 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1085 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1086 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1087 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1090 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1091 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1094 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1095 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1096 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1097 list of available audio and video filters
1098 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1099 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1100 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1103 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1104 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1105 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1106 * id3tag: use taglib
1107 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1108 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1109 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1110 * removal of the noise filter
1111 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1112 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1113 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1114 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1117 * Update of translations for most languages.
1118 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1121 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1122 ----------------------------------
1125 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1126 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1129 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1130 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1133 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1134 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1135 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1138 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1141 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1142 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1145 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1148 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1149 ----------------------------------
1152 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1153 including support for OS X Lion
1154 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1155 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1158 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1161 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1162 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1163 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1166 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1169 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1170 ----------------------------------
1173 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1174 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1177 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1178 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1179 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1180 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1181 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1183 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1184 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1185 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1187 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1188 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1191 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1194 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1197 * Fix quitting on Linux
1198 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1202 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1205 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1208 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1209 ---------------------------------
1211 Windows and Mac OS X:
1212 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1215 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1216 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1219 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1222 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1225 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1227 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1228 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1230 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1231 * RTP output and XML export
1232 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1236 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1237 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1238 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1239 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1242 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1243 --------------------------------
1245 Windows and Mac OS X:
1246 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1249 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1252 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1253 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1254 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1255 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1256 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1257 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1260 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1261 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1265 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1266 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1267 * New Luganda Translation
1270 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1271 --------------------------------
1274 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1277 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1278 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1279 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1280 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1283 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1285 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1286 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1287 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1288 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1289 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1290 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1291 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1292 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1294 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1295 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1296 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1297 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1298 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1299 * Configure and build system improvements
1300 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1303 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1304 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1305 * New icelandic translation
1308 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1309 --------------------------------
1312 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1313 #234484 and #260719.
1316 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1317 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1318 and stability reasons
1321 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1325 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1328 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1329 ----------------------------------
1332 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1335 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1336 ---------------------------------
1339 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1340 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1341 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1342 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1345 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1348 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1349 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1350 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1351 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1354 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1355 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1356 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1358 Subtitles and renderer:
1359 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1360 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1361 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1362 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1363 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1366 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1367 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1368 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1369 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1372 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1373 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1375 Miscellaneous fixes:
1376 * KDE device solid actions
1378 * Transcode integer overflow
1379 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1380 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1383 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1384 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1385 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1388 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1389 ----------------------------------
1392 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1396 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1399 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1402 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1403 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1404 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1405 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1408 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1412 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1415 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1418 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1419 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1421 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1425 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1426 * Miscellaneous fixes
1429 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1430 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1431 French and Ukrainian
1432 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1433 * New Asturian translation
1436 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1437 ----------------------------------
1440 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1442 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1445 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1448 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1449 * Various fixes for Windows
1452 * New Armenian translation
1453 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1454 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1457 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1458 --------------------------------
1461 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1462 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1463 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1466 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1467 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1470 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1471 --------------------------------
1473 Access and demuxers:
1474 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1475 * fix for podcasts parsing
1476 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1479 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1480 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1483 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1484 * fix m3u playlists exports
1487 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1490 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1493 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1496 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1499 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1502 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1503 --------------------------------
1506 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1507 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1510 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1511 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1514 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1515 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1516 * fix console output encoding
1518 Interface and extensions:
1519 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1520 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1523 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1524 --------------------------------
1527 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1528 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1529 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1530 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1531 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1532 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1533 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1534 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1535 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1536 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1537 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1538 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1539 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1540 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1541 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1542 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1546 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1547 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1548 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1549 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1550 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1553 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1556 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1557 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1558 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1562 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1565 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1566 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1567 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1570 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1571 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1572 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1573 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1576 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1577 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1580 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1581 --------------------------------
1583 Important changes for users:
1584 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1585 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1587 Important changes for packagers:
1588 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1589 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1590 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1591 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1592 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1594 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1596 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1597 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1598 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1599 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1600 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1603 * Support for the sftp protocol
1604 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1605 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1606 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1607 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1608 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1611 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1612 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1613 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1615 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1616 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1617 * Invmem module improvements
1618 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1619 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1620 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1621 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1622 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1623 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1624 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1625 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1626 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1627 * Support for VP8 codec
1628 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1631 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1632 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1633 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1634 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1635 * Various EGP improvements
1636 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1637 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1640 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1641 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1642 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1643 * Podcast images are now displayed
1646 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1647 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1648 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1649 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1650 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1651 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1652 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1653 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1654 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1655 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1656 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1659 * New content extensions lua framework
1662 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1663 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1664 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1665 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1666 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1667 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1668 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1671 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1672 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1673 * Service discovery based on libudev
1674 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1677 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1678 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1679 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1680 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1681 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1682 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1683 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1686 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1687 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1688 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1691 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1693 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1694 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1697 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1700 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1701 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1702 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1703 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1704 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1705 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1706 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1709 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1710 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1713 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1714 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1715 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1719 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1720 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1721 * Improved Solaris port
1724 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1725 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1728 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1729 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1730 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1731 * transrate: broken since too long
1732 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1733 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1734 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1735 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1736 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1737 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1738 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1739 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1740 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1741 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1742 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1743 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1744 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1745 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1748 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1749 --------------------------------
1752 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1754 Decoders/Packetizers:
1755 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1758 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1759 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1760 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1761 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1762 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1765 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1766 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1769 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1770 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1773 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1774 and Walloon translations updated
1775 * Sinhala translation started
1778 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1779 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1782 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1783 --------------------------------
1786 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1787 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1790 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1793 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1794 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1797 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1798 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1799 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1800 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1803 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1804 --------------------------------
1807 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1808 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1811 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1812 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1815 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1816 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1819 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1822 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1823 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1826 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1827 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1830 * New Walloon translation
1831 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1834 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1835 --------------------------------
1838 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1839 regressions in most popular drivers
1840 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1843 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1844 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1845 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1848 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1849 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1852 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1853 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1854 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1855 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1856 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1859 * New udev module for linux
1862 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1865 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1868 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1869 --------------------------------
1872 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1873 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1874 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1877 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1878 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1881 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1882 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1885 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1888 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1889 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1890 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1891 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1894 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1895 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1896 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1897 - no support for Goom and SDL
1898 - limited text rendering support
1899 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1902 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1903 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1904 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1905 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1906 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1907 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1908 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1909 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1910 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1914 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1917 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1920 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1921 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1922 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1923 Arabic and French translation updates
1926 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1927 --------------------------------
1930 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1931 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1932 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1933 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1934 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1935 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1938 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1939 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1940 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1943 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1944 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1945 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1948 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1951 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1952 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1955 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1956 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1957 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1958 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1959 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1960 * Fix various crashes
1963 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1965 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1969 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1970 ---------------------------------
1974 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1975 See 'Access:' for more info.
1976 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1979 * Instantaneous pausing
1980 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1981 * Finer speed control
1982 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1983 * Timeshift for most medias
1984 * RTSP trickplay support
1985 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1988 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1989 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1990 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1991 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1992 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1993 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1994 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1995 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1996 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1997 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2000 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2001 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2002 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2003 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2004 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2005 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2006 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2009 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2010 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2013 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2014 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2015 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2016 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2017 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2018 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2019 * DVB scanning on linux
2020 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2021 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2022 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2023 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2024 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2025 * MTP device access on Unix
2026 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2027 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2030 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2031 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2032 Windows and Mac OS X.
2035 * Export the playlist in HTML
2036 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2037 * Better metadata handling and reading
2039 Linux/Windows interface:
2040 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2041 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2042 * Recently played items list
2043 * Interface toolbar customizations
2044 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2045 - More menus actions
2046 - Finer speed slider
2047 - Improvements on many dialogs
2048 - New dialog for plugins listing
2049 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2050 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2051 * Better integration in GTK environments
2054 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2055 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2056 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2057 * Additional usability improvements
2060 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2061 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2062 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2063 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2064 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2067 * New Maemo port with:
2068 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2069 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2072 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2075 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2076 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2077 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2078 * Support for latest iSight models
2081 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2082 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2085 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2086 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2087 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2088 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2089 The old image video output has been removed.
2090 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2091 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2094 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2102 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2103 --------------------------------------
2109 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2110 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2111 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2112 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2113 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2114 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2115 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2117 Various fixes to the following modules:
2120 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2121 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2122 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2124 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2129 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2130 ---------------------------------
2133 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2134 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2137 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2138 ---------------------------------
2141 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2144 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2147 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2148 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2149 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2150 main controller window.
2151 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2154 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2159 * Updates of other localizations
2162 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2163 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2164 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2165 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2166 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2169 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2170 ---------------------------------
2173 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2175 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2178 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2179 --------------------------------
2184 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2185 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2188 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2189 --------------------------------
2191 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2192 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2195 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2198 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2199 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2202 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2203 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2206 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2207 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2208 * Various fixed in playlist
2211 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2214 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2217 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2218 ------------------------------------
2220 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2221 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2224 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2225 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2226 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2229 * Stability fix for the video output.
2232 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2233 --------------------------------
2236 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2237 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2238 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2239 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2240 * Fixed update system bugs
2241 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2244 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2245 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2246 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2247 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2248 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2249 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2250 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2251 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2252 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2253 modern Mac OS X versions
2256 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2257 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2259 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2260 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2263 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2264 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2265 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2266 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2267 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2268 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2271 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2272 --------------------------------
2274 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2275 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2276 * Multiple bugfixes.
2279 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2280 --------------------------------
2282 * Multiple bug fixes.
2285 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2286 ---------------------------------
2290 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2291 recent to work correctly
2292 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2293 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2294 edit the ".hosts" file.
2295 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2296 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2297 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2298 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2299 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2300 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2301 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2302 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2303 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2304 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2305 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2306 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2307 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2308 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2309 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2310 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2311 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2312 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2313 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2314 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2315 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2316 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2317 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2318 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2319 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2320 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2321 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2322 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2323 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2324 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2325 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2326 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2327 and postproc modules.
2328 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2329 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2330 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2331 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2333 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2334 filter. For example:
2335 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2336 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2338 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2339 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2345 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2347 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2348 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2351 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2352 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2354 * Shoutcast TV listings
2355 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2357 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2358 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2360 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2363 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2364 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2365 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2366 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2367 * JACK audio input support
2368 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2369 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2370 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2371 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2372 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2373 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2374 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2375 (available as a separate download).
2376 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2377 * RTMP input support
2378 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2379 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2380 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2382 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2383 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2386 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2387 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2388 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2389 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2391 * APEv1/2 tags support
2392 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2393 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2395 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2396 * TiVo Series 2 support
2397 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2402 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2403 * Flash Screen Video support
2404 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2405 * DosBox Capture support
2406 * Karl Morton's Video support
2407 * limited atrac3 support
2409 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2410 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2411 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2412 * H.264 PAFF support
2413 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2414 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2415 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2416 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2417 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2420 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2421 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2422 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2423 * AQTitle subtitles support
2424 * MKV USF subtitles support
2425 * HTML-based subtitles support
2426 * MPSub subtitles support
2427 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2428 * MPL2 subtitles support
2429 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2430 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2431 * Realtext subtitle support
2432 * DKS subtitle support
2433 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2434 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2437 * Flash Screen Video support
2438 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2440 Video outputs and filters:
2441 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2442 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2443 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2444 * New puzzle video output filter
2445 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2446 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2448 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2449 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2450 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2451 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2452 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2453 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2454 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2455 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2456 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2457 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2458 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2459 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2460 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2461 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2463 Audio outputs and filters:
2464 * Replay gain support
2465 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2466 new scaletempo audio filter)
2467 * New spatializer audio filter
2468 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2471 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2472 * New RTP payload formats:
2473 * Speex voice audio codec
2474 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2475 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2476 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2477 * DCCP transport for RTP
2478 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2483 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2484 end-user suitable way.
2485 * Improved user interaction
2486 * Improved mouse gestures
2487 * Vastly improved Update checker
2488 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2490 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2491 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2493 * Improved video output features
2494 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2495 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2496 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2497 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2498 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2500 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2501 if libncursesw is available.
2502 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2503 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2504 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2506 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2507 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2508 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2509 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2510 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2511 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2512 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2513 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2516 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2517 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2518 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2521 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2522 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2523 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2524 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2525 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2526 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2529 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2530 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2540 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2541 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2542 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2545 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2546 ----------------------------------
2549 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2552 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2553 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2554 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2555 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2556 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2557 * Updated Polish translation
2560 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2561 ----------------------------------
2564 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2565 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2566 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2569 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2570 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2571 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2572 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2573 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2574 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2575 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2576 to an unexpected application termination
2577 * New Serbian translation
2578 * Updated Romanian translation
2581 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2582 ----------------------------------
2585 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2586 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2587 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2588 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2589 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2590 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2591 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2592 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2595 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2596 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2597 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2598 * Fixed AAC resampling
2599 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2600 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2603 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2604 ----------------------------------
2607 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2608 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2609 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2610 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2611 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2614 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2615 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2616 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2617 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2618 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2621 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2622 ----------------------------------
2625 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2626 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2629 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2630 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2631 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2632 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2634 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2638 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2641 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2644 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2647 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2650 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2651 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2652 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2653 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2654 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2656 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2657 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2658 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2659 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2662 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2665 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2666 ----------------------------------
2669 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2670 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2671 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2673 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2674 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2676 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2677 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2680 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2682 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2683 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2684 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2685 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2686 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2687 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2688 two different movies
2689 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2690 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2691 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2694 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2697 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2698 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2699 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2700 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2703 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2704 ----------------------------------
2706 Various bugfixes, notably:
2707 * Windows Vista compatibility
2708 * Cropping in Direct3D
2709 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2710 * RSS filter string overflow
2712 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2714 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2715 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2718 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2719 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2722 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2725 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2728 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2731 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2732 ----------------------------------
2734 Various bugfixes, notably:
2735 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2736 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2737 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2738 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2739 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2740 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2743 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2744 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2747 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2749 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2750 * Diverse usability improvements
2751 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2752 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2753 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2756 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2757 ---------------------------------
2759 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2760 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2763 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2766 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2767 --------------------------------
2770 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2773 * Support for RTSP authentication
2774 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2775 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2776 * ATSC support for DVB input
2777 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2778 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2779 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2782 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2783 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2784 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2785 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2786 * Matroska WavPack support
2787 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2788 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2789 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2792 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2793 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2794 * Improved libcaca support
2798 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2799 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2801 * Systray support in skins
2803 * Support for Apple Remote control
2804 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2805 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2806 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2807 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2809 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2812 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2813 Windows 9x/ME users:
2814 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2815 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2816 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2817 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2818 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2820 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2821 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2830 * Updates to the libvlc API
2831 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2834 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2835 --------------------------------
2838 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2839 * Support for downloading updates
2843 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2844 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2845 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2846 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2848 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2849 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2850 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2853 * Cook (Real audio) support
2855 Playlist / Services discovery:
2856 * XSPF playlist support
2858 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2861 * New JACK audio output
2864 * New video filters:
2865 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2866 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2867 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2868 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2869 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2870 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2873 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2876 * System to inform the user and request information
2877 - HTTP authentication
2881 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2882 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2883 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2886 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2887 - Improved playlist handling
2888 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2890 - Embedded Video output
2891 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2892 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2893 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2894 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2895 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2897 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2898 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2901 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2904 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2905 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2906 * Growl "Now playing" support
2909 * Ability to log to syslog
2910 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2913 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2915 * A bit more automatic testing
2918 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2919 ---------------------------------
2922 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2923 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2926 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2927 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2930 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2933 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2934 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2940 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2943 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2944 --------------------------------
2947 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2951 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2952 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2953 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2956 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2957 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2958 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2959 * GnomeVFS input module
2960 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2961 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2964 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2965 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2966 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2969 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2970 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2976 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2977 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2980 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2981 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2982 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2985 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2987 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2988 - New extended controls panel
2989 - New bookmarks window
2990 - Fixed playlist sorting
2991 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2993 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2994 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2995 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2996 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3000 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3001 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3003 - Include macro to include other files
3007 * Should now work outside IE as well
3010 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3013 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3014 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3017 The following languages were added:
3021 * Simplified Chinese
3022 The following languages were re-added:
3026 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3027 --------------------------------
3030 * Rewrite of the playlist
3032 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3033 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3034 * Preferences improvements:
3035 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3036 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3038 * Core image manipulation support
3039 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3040 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3041 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3042 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3043 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3044 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3045 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3046 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3047 * Access filter architecture
3048 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3049 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3053 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3054 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3055 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3056 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3057 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3058 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3059 * Massive Matroska improvements
3060 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3062 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3063 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3064 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3065 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3066 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3068 Decoders / Encoders:
3069 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3070 * PNG decoder/encoder
3071 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3072 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3075 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3078 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3079 * Brand new SAP module
3080 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3081 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3082 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3083 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3084 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3085 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3089 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3092 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3093 * Image file video output (png)
3094 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3095 * Improvements to wall video filter
3096 * Support for font color and opacity
3102 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3103 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3104 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3108 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3109 - Improved preferences
3110 - Improvements to the wizard
3111 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3113 - Redesigned playlist
3114 - Improved preferences
3116 - Support for multiple actions
3119 - Support for the new playlist system
3121 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3124 * Screensaver disabling fix
3125 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3126 * Support for no-decoration windows
3129 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3130 * The OpenGL video output is back
3131 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3132 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3133 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3134 is not yet available in the new module
3135 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3138 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3147 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3150 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3153 The following languages were added:
3159 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3160 --------------------------------
3163 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3164 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3167 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3168 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3169 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3172 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3175 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3178 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3181 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3182 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3183 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3187 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3189 * Support of playlist group announcement
3192 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3193 --------------------------------
3196 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3197 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3198 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3199 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3200 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3201 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3204 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3205 (Stream your desktop)
3206 * Improved DVD support:
3207 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3208 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3209 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3210 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3211 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3212 (selection of titles/chapters).
3215 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3216 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3217 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3218 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3219 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3220 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3221 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3222 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3223 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3224 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3227 * G.726 audio support
3228 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3229 * MPEG-4 text support
3230 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3231 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3232 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3236 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3237 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3238 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3239 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3240 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3241 * DVB subtitles encoder
3242 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3243 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3245 * Text track muxing for mp4
3246 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3247 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3248 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3249 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3250 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3251 * Improved ASF muxer
3253 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3254 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3255 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3258 * New audio equalizer filter
3259 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3260 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3261 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3262 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3265 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3266 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3267 with support for effects.
3268 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3269 - New filters can be streamed.
3270 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3271 - Centralized scaling and blending
3273 - "time", to display current time
3274 - "marq", to display a marquee
3277 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3278 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3279 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3280 * A few skins2 improvements
3281 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3282 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3283 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3284 * Improved CORBA control module
3287 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3288 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3289 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3292 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3293 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3294 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3297 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3298 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3299 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3300 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3301 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3304 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3307 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3308 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3311 * Server/client network synchronization module
3312 * VBrick streams fully supported
3313 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3317 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3318 --------------------------------
3321 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3322 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3323 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3324 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3327 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3328 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3329 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3330 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3331 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3332 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3333 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3336 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3337 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3338 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3339 * Improved directory access module.
3340 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3341 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3342 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3343 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3344 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3347 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3348 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3349 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3352 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3353 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3354 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3357 * Improved session announcement system.
3358 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3359 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3360 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3361 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3362 * Improved transrater.
3363 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3364 * New configuration system.
3365 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3368 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3369 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3370 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3371 * Supports scheduling.
3372 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3373 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3376 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3377 - Ability to embed video output.
3378 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3379 - Lots of improvements.
3380 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3381 - New design and set of icons.
3382 - Ability to embed video output.
3383 - Support for hotkeys.
3384 - Support for bookmarks.
3386 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3387 - Better hotkeys handling.
3390 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3391 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3392 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3393 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3396 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3397 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3398 * Improved Windows installer.
3404 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3405 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3408 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3409 ---------------------------------
3412 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3413 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3416 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3417 --------------------------------
3420 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3421 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3424 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3425 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3426 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3427 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3430 * Internal improvments
3431 * Improved import/export
3434 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3436 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3437 small and strange formats.
3439 * New MOD audio demux.
3440 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3441 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3442 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3443 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3446 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3447 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3448 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3454 * New opengl video output plugin.
3457 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3458 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3461 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3462 --------------------------------
3465 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3466 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3467 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3468 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3469 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3470 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3471 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3472 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3475 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3480 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3481 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3482 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3483 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3484 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3485 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3486 * Better Icecast support.
3487 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3488 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3491 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3492 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3493 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3494 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3495 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3496 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3497 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3500 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3501 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3502 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3503 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3504 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3505 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3506 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3507 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3508 * Preliminary RTP support.
3509 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3514 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3515 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3517 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3518 - Improvements and help in preferences
3519 - New streaming wizard
3520 - Revised Disc Open menu
3522 - Improvements of the standard pages
3523 - Support for new commands
3524 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3527 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3528 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3531 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3532 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3533 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3534 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3535 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3536 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3537 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3538 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3539 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3542 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3544 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3545 * Support for Panther.
3546 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3547 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3550 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3551 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3552 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3553 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3554 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3555 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3556 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3557 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3560 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3561 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3562 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3565 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3568 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3569 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3570 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3571 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3574 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3575 --------------------------------
3578 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3581 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3582 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3585 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3586 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3589 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3592 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3593 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3596 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3599 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3602 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3603 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3607 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3608 --------------------------------
3611 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3612 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3616 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3617 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3618 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3620 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3621 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3624 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3627 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3630 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3631 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3635 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3636 --------------------------------
3639 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3640 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3644 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3645 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3646 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3647 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3648 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3651 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3652 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3653 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3656 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3657 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3658 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3661 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3662 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3663 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3664 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3665 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3668 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3669 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3670 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3673 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3676 * Improved build system.
3677 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3678 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3679 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3680 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3683 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3684 --------------------------------
3687 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3690 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3691 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3692 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3693 * Video 4 Linux support
3694 * CD Digital Audio support
3695 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3698 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3699 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3700 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3701 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3704 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3705 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3706 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3707 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3708 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3709 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3710 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3713 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3714 * New HTTP remote control interface
3717 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3718 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3719 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3720 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3721 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3724 * New reset option for the preferences
3725 * You can set your language in the prefences
3726 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3727 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3728 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3729 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3732 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3733 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3734 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3737 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3738 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3739 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3740 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3741 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3742 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3743 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3744 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3745 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3746 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3749 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3750 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3751 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3752 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3753 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3754 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3755 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3758 * Interface localization
3759 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3760 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3761 * New full-featured Preferences window
3764 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3765 --------------------------------
3768 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3769 * support for skins at the interface level
3770 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3771 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3772 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3773 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3774 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3777 * fixed HTTP redirects
3778 * support for opening an entire directory
3779 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3780 * new video4linux access plug-in
3781 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3784 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3785 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3786 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3789 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3790 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3791 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3792 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3793 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3794 * new codec for raw I420 video
3795 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3798 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3799 (although it still misses some important features)
3800 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3803 * new HTTP output support
3804 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3805 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3808 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3811 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3814 * reorderable playlist
3815 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3816 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3817 * support for mono audio output devices
3818 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3819 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3820 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3821 * the messages window remembers more lines
3822 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3823 * http and ogg stream output options
3824 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3827 * new skinnable interface
3828 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3830 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3831 * support for FLAC audio format
3832 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3834 * network tab in the interface
3835 * "apply" handling in preferences
3838 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3839 ---------------------------------
3842 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3843 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3844 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3845 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3847 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3848 * DTS S/PDIF support
3851 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3852 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3853 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3854 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3857 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3858 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3861 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3864 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3867 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3869 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3870 * rc interface is now fully useable
3871 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3874 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3875 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3876 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3877 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3878 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3880 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3881 * support for mouse gestures
3882 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3885 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3886 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3889 * improved ID3 tag detection
3890 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3891 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3892 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3894 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3897 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3898 ---------------------------------
3901 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3902 English was set as the preferred language
3905 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3906 --------------------------------
3909 * new mouse gesture interface
3910 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3914 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3915 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3916 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3919 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3920 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3924 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3927 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3928 without the user consent
3931 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3933 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3934 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3935 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3938 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3939 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3940 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3941 * playlist enhancements
3942 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3943 * new step forward/step backward commands
3944 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3945 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3946 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3949 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3950 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3951 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3954 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3955 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3958 * native video output is working again
3959 * only commandline interface support
3960 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3963 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3964 --------------------------------
3967 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3968 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3969 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3970 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3971 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3972 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3973 and A/52 streams are supported)
3974 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3979 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3980 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3981 * VCD entry points support
3982 * VCD image file support
3985 * support for *.asf format
3986 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3987 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3988 * support for ogg encapsulation
3989 * support for raw DV format
3990 * support for *.wav format
3991 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3994 Stream discovery & playlists:
3995 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3996 * support for .m3u file format
3997 * support for .asx file format
3998 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4001 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4002 (only available with the .avi demux)
4003 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4004 * support for raw PCM data
4005 * support for Cinepak video codec
4006 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4007 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4008 * support for Xvid codec
4009 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4010 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4011 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4013 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4015 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4018 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4021 * new WxWindows interface
4022 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4023 device and the channels configuration
4024 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4025 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4026 format that VLC can play
4027 * new swedish translation
4028 * enhancements of the playlist window
4029 * new messages window to see debug info
4030 * fixed a few crashes
4033 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4034 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4035 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4036 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working