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
9 * Add extensions download from external repositories
12 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
13 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
14 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
15 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
16 * Digital Cinema Package support
19 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
20 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
21 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink
22 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
23 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
24 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
25 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
26 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
27 * New jpeg image decoder
28 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
31 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
32 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
33 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
34 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
35 * New png image encoder using libpng
38 * New CAF format module
39 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
40 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
41 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
42 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
45 * Basic support for WebVTT
46 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
47 * Support HDPR TS files
48 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
49 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
50 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
51 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
52 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
55 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
56 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
58 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4
61 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
62 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
63 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
64 * New Android native window provider module
65 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
66 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
69 * New Oldmovie effect filter
70 * New VHS effect filter
71 * New Freeze effect filter
72 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
73 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
76 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
77 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
80 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
81 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
82 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
83 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
84 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
85 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
86 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
87 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
88 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
90 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
91 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
94 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
95 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
98 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
99 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
102 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
103 * Add record button in Qt menus
104 * Fixes for advanced preferences on OS X
105 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
108 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
109 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
112 * ios video output: use ios2
113 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
114 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
117 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
118 --------------------------------
121 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
122 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
125 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
126 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
127 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
130 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
131 by updating codec libraries
132 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
133 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
134 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
137 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
138 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
139 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
140 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
143 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
144 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
147 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
148 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
149 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
150 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
151 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
154 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
155 * Fix record file names
158 * Fix minimal size possible on start
159 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
160 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
161 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
162 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
165 * Fix album art display on Windows
168 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
169 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
170 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
171 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
172 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
173 and Simplified Chinese translations
174 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
177 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
178 --------------------------------
181 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
182 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
183 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
184 audio devices on OS X
185 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
186 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
189 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
190 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
193 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
194 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
197 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
200 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
201 * Improve A-B loop control
202 * Fix album art update when changing media
205 * Add a language option in the interface
206 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
207 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
208 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
209 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
210 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
211 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
212 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
215 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
218 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
219 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
220 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
221 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
224 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
225 --------------------------------
228 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
230 * Fix some subtitles track selection
233 * VP9 support in WebM
234 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
235 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
238 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
239 * Support Speex in ogg files
240 * Fix some .mov playlists support
241 * Support Alac in mkv
242 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
243 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
246 * Fix DVB options parsing
247 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
248 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
251 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
252 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
255 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
256 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
259 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
260 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
261 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
262 * Fix play after drag'n drop
263 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
266 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
267 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
270 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
271 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
274 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
275 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
276 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
277 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
278 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
279 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
280 * Improves interface resizings
283 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
284 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
285 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
286 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
287 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
291 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
292 --------------------------------
295 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
296 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
297 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
298 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
299 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
301 3rd party libraries (contrib):
302 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
305 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
306 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
307 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
308 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
309 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
312 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
313 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
317 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
318 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
319 * Support for Ulead DV audio
320 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
321 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
322 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
323 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
324 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
325 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
326 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
327 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
328 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
329 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
332 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
333 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
334 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
337 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
338 remove support for previous OS X releases
339 * Major improvements in DASH support
340 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
341 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
342 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
343 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
344 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
345 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
346 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
347 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
348 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
349 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
350 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
353 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
354 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
355 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
356 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
357 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
358 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
359 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
360 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
361 * Support for more MJPEG streams
362 * Add support for liveleak streams
363 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
364 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
365 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
368 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
369 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
370 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
371 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
372 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
373 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
374 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
375 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
376 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
377 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
378 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
381 * New remapping channel filter
382 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
383 * New VSXu visualization plugin
384 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
385 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
386 * New gain audio filter
389 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
390 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
391 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
392 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
393 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
394 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
395 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
396 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
397 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
400 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
401 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
402 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
403 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
404 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
405 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
406 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
409 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
410 * Options support for AVIO output module
411 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
412 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
413 * Livehttp stream encryption support
414 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
415 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
418 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
421 * configurable password for the HTTP server
422 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
423 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
424 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
425 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
426 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
427 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
428 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
432 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
435 * Add support for multiple video outputs
436 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
438 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
439 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
440 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
441 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
442 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
443 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
444 VLC's internal volume level
445 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
447 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
448 selection and to manage the list of presets
449 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
450 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
451 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
452 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
453 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
454 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
455 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
456 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
457 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
458 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
460 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
461 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
462 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
463 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
464 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
465 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
466 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
467 3rd party applications
468 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
469 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
470 (system-wide settings)
471 * Add support for the Video Title option
472 * Add support for the Boss Key
473 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
474 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
477 * Partial support for Qt5.0
478 * Menus modifications and improvements
479 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
480 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
481 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
482 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
483 * EPG display fixes and improvements
484 * Add SD pixmap sources
485 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
486 * Display playlist total duration
487 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
488 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
489 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
494 * Extend sliders, offsets options
495 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
496 * Numerous fixes and improvements
497 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
500 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
501 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
502 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
503 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
504 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
505 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
506 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
507 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
508 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
509 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
512 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
513 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
514 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
515 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
516 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
517 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
519 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
520 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
521 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
522 * Broken crop video filter
524 * OSD parser and menu
525 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
526 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
527 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
528 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
532 * Update of all translations
535 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
536 --------------------------------
539 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
540 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
543 * Fix modplug security issues
546 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
547 --------------------------------
551 * Fix crash in QTsound
552 * Fix screen mouse file location
553 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
556 * Fix use after free in sgimb
557 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
560 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
563 * Fix interface crashes
564 * Fix autostart playback option
565 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
568 * update Welsh translation
569 * New Kannada translation
572 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
573 --------------------------------
576 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
577 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
581 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
584 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
587 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
590 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
594 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
597 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
600 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
601 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
602 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
605 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
606 --------------------------------
609 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
612 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
615 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
616 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
617 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
618 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
619 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
620 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
623 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
624 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
625 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
626 * 3rd party codecs updates
629 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
630 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
631 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
632 in the advanced preferences panel
633 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
634 * Fix crash within the video output code
635 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
636 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
637 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
638 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
640 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
643 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
646 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
647 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
650 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
653 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
654 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
655 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
656 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
657 Dutch, Danish, translations
658 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
661 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
662 --------------------------------
665 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
668 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
669 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
670 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
673 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
674 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
675 * Fix koreus lua parser
676 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
677 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
678 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
679 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
682 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
683 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
686 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
689 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
690 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
691 * Fix Time counter UI look
692 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
695 * Fix https streaming
698 * Fix audio and video track selection:
699 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
700 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
703 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
704 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
705 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
706 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
707 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
710 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
711 --------------------------------
714 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
715 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
716 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
717 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
718 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
719 during playback on Mac OS X
722 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
723 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
724 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
727 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
728 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
729 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
730 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
731 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
734 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
735 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
736 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
737 * Support Youtube live streams
740 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
743 * Fix media info dialog update
744 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
745 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
746 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
747 * Fix album art display at start
750 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
751 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
752 * Fix menus display and behavior
753 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
754 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
755 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
756 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
757 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
758 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
759 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
762 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
763 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
764 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
765 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
766 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
767 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
768 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
769 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
770 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
773 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
774 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
775 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
776 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
777 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
780 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
781 --------------------------------
784 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
787 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
788 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
791 * Add GateKeeper support
792 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
793 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
794 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
797 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
800 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
801 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
802 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
803 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
804 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
807 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
808 --------------------------------
811 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
812 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
813 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
814 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
815 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
816 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
817 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
818 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
819 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
820 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
821 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
825 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
826 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
827 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
828 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
829 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
830 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
831 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
832 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
833 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
834 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
835 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
836 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
839 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
840 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
842 * Fix MP3 free format support
845 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
846 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
847 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
848 * Fix for DVB channels file support
849 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
852 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
853 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
855 Audio filters and output:
856 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
857 * Fix DirectSound device selection
858 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
859 * Do not apply volume in file output
860 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
861 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
864 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
865 the persistant media library
866 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
867 to the media library or the temporary playlist
868 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
869 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
870 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
871 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
872 press on the Play/Pause button
873 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
874 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
875 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
876 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
877 * Many Fullscreen fixes
878 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
879 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
880 Synchronization panel
881 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
882 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
883 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
884 * Fix crashes on exit
885 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
887 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
888 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
889 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
890 automatically reset on the first launch.
891 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
892 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
893 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
896 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
897 * Fixes for icecast SD
900 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
901 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
902 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
903 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
904 * Fix tags and file names display
905 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
908 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
909 * Fix for key events and focus loss
912 * Fix display of some buttons
913 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
914 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
917 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
918 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
919 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
922 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
923 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
924 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
925 Thai translations update
926 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
929 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
930 --------------------------------
933 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
934 * fix the samba module compilation
935 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
936 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
937 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
938 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
941 * Support for MXPEG files
942 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
943 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
946 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
947 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
948 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
951 * Fix ogm header creation
954 * limit spatializer filter distortions
955 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
958 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
959 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
960 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
961 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
964 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
967 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
968 * allow to hide the sidebar
969 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
970 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
971 * noticebly faster launch time
972 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
973 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
974 * improve track synchronization panel
975 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
976 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
979 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
980 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
981 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
982 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
985 * fix for menus display
986 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
987 * documentation update
990 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
991 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
994 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
995 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
996 * Update Jamendo selections
1000 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1001 * fix a crash on VLM close
1004 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1005 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1006 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1007 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1010 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1013 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1014 ---------------------------------
1017 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1018 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1019 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1020 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1021 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1022 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1023 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1024 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1025 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1026 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1027 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1028 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1029 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1030 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1031 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1032 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1033 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1034 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1035 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1036 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1037 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1038 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1039 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1040 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1041 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1042 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1044 Important changes for packagers:
1045 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1046 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1047 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1048 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1049 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1050 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1051 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1052 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1053 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1054 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1057 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1058 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1059 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1060 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1061 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1062 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1063 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1066 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1067 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1068 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1069 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1070 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1071 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1072 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1073 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1074 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1075 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1076 * PulseAudio audio input support
1077 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1078 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1079 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1080 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1081 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1082 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1083 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1084 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1087 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1088 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1089 are notably concerned.
1090 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1091 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1092 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1093 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1094 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1095 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1096 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1097 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1098 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1099 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1100 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1101 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1102 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1103 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1104 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1107 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1108 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1109 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1110 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1111 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1112 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1113 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1114 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1115 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1116 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1117 * Improved support of tracker files
1118 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1121 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1122 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1123 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1124 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1125 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1126 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1127 and important cleanups and optimisations
1128 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1129 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1130 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1131 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1132 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1133 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1134 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1135 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1136 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1137 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1138 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1139 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1140 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1141 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1142 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1143 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1144 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1145 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1146 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1147 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1148 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1151 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1152 * New video output for iOS platform
1153 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1154 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1155 * Various vmem improvements
1156 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1157 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1158 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1159 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1160 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1161 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1163 Audio Output and Filters:
1164 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1165 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1166 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1167 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1168 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1169 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1170 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1171 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1172 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1173 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1176 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1177 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1178 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1179 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1180 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1181 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1182 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1183 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1184 * New anti-flickering filter
1185 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1186 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1187 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1188 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1189 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1190 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1191 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1194 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1195 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1196 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1197 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1198 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1199 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1200 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1201 * Major rework of VoD support
1202 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1203 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1204 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1205 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1206 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1207 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1208 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1209 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1210 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1211 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1214 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1215 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1218 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1219 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1220 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1221 list of available audio and video filters
1222 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1223 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1224 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1227 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1228 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1229 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1230 * id3tag: use taglib
1231 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1232 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1233 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1234 * removal of the noise filter
1235 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1236 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1237 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1238 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1241 * Update of translations for most languages.
1242 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1245 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1246 ----------------------------------
1249 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1250 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1253 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1254 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1257 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1258 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1259 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1262 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1265 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1266 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1269 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1272 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1273 ----------------------------------
1276 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1277 including support for OS X Lion
1278 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1279 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1282 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1285 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1286 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1287 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1290 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1293 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1294 ----------------------------------
1297 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1298 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1301 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1302 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1303 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1304 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1305 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1307 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1308 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1309 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1311 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1312 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1315 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1318 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1321 * Fix quitting on Linux
1322 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1326 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1329 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1332 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1333 ---------------------------------
1335 Windows and Mac OS X:
1336 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1339 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1340 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1343 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1346 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1349 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1351 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1352 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1354 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1355 * RTP output and XML export
1356 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1360 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1361 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1362 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1363 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1366 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1367 --------------------------------
1369 Windows and Mac OS X:
1370 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1373 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1376 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1377 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1378 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1379 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1380 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1381 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1384 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1385 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1389 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1390 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1391 * New Luganda Translation
1394 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1395 --------------------------------
1398 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1401 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1402 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1403 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1404 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1407 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1409 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1410 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1411 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1412 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1413 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1414 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1415 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1416 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1418 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1419 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1420 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1421 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1422 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1423 * Configure and build system improvements
1424 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1427 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1428 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1429 * New icelandic translation
1432 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1433 --------------------------------
1436 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1437 #234484 and #260719.
1440 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1441 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1442 and stability reasons
1445 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1449 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1452 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1453 ----------------------------------
1456 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1459 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1460 ---------------------------------
1463 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1464 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1465 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1466 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1469 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1472 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1473 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1474 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1475 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1478 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1479 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1480 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1482 Subtitles and renderer:
1483 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1484 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1485 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1486 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1487 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1490 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1491 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1492 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1493 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1496 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1497 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1499 Miscellaneous fixes:
1500 * KDE device solid actions
1502 * Transcode integer overflow
1503 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1504 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1507 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1508 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1509 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1512 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1513 ----------------------------------
1516 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1520 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1523 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1526 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1527 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1528 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1529 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1532 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1536 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1539 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1542 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1543 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1545 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1549 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1550 * Miscellaneous fixes
1553 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1554 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1555 French and Ukrainian
1556 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1557 * New Asturian translation
1560 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1561 ----------------------------------
1564 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1566 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1569 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1572 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1573 * Various fixes for Windows
1576 * New Armenian translation
1577 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1578 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1581 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1582 --------------------------------
1585 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1586 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1587 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1590 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1591 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1594 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1595 --------------------------------
1597 Access and demuxers:
1598 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1599 * fix for podcasts parsing
1600 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1603 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1604 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1607 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1608 * fix m3u playlists exports
1611 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1614 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1617 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1620 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1623 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1626 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1627 --------------------------------
1630 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1631 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1634 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1635 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1638 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1639 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1640 * fix console output encoding
1642 Interface and extensions:
1643 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1644 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1647 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1648 --------------------------------
1651 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1652 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1653 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1654 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1655 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1656 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1657 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1658 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1659 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1660 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1661 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1662 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1663 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1664 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1665 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1666 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1670 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1671 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1672 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1673 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1674 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1677 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1680 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1681 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1682 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1686 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1689 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1690 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1691 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1694 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1695 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1696 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1697 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1700 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1701 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1704 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1705 --------------------------------
1707 Important changes for users:
1708 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1709 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1711 Important changes for packagers:
1712 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1713 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1714 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1715 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1716 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1718 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1720 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1721 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1722 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1723 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1724 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1727 * Support for the sftp protocol
1728 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1729 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1730 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1731 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1732 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1735 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1736 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1737 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1739 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1740 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1741 * Invmem module improvements
1742 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1743 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1744 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1745 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1746 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1747 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1748 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1749 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1750 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1751 * Support for VP8 codec
1752 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1755 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1756 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1757 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1758 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1759 * Various EGP improvements
1760 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1761 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1764 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1765 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1766 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1767 * Podcast images are now displayed
1770 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1771 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1772 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1773 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1774 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1775 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1776 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1777 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1778 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1779 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1780 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1783 * New content extensions lua framework
1786 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1787 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1788 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1789 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1790 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1791 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1792 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1795 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1796 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1797 * Service discovery based on libudev
1798 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1801 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1802 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1803 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1804 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1805 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1806 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1807 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1810 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1811 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1812 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1815 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1817 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1818 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1821 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1824 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1825 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1826 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1827 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1828 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1829 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1830 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1833 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1834 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1837 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1838 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1839 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1843 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1844 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1845 * Improved Solaris port
1848 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1849 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1852 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1853 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1854 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1855 * transrate: broken since too long
1856 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1857 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1858 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1859 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1860 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1861 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1862 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1863 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1864 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1865 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1866 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1867 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1868 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1869 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1872 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1873 --------------------------------
1876 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1878 Decoders/Packetizers:
1879 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1882 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1883 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1884 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1885 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1886 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1889 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1890 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1893 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1894 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1897 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1898 and Walloon translations updated
1899 * Sinhala translation started
1902 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1903 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1906 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1907 --------------------------------
1910 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1911 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1914 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1917 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1918 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1921 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1922 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1923 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1924 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1927 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1928 --------------------------------
1931 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1932 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1935 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1936 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1939 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1940 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1943 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1946 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1947 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1950 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1951 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1954 * New Walloon translation
1955 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1958 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1959 --------------------------------
1962 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1963 regressions in most popular drivers
1964 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1967 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1968 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1969 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1972 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1973 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1976 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1977 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1978 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1979 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1980 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1983 * New udev module for linux
1986 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1989 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1992 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1993 --------------------------------
1996 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1997 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1998 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2001 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2002 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2005 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2006 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2009 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2012 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2013 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2014 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2015 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2018 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2019 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2020 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2021 - no support for Goom and SDL
2022 - limited text rendering support
2023 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2026 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2027 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2028 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2029 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2030 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2031 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2032 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2033 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2034 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2038 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2041 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2044 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2045 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2046 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2047 Arabic and French translation updates
2050 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2051 --------------------------------
2054 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2055 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2056 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2057 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2058 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2059 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2062 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2063 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2064 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2067 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2068 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2069 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2072 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2075 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2076 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2079 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2080 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2081 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2082 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2083 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2084 * Fix various crashes
2087 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2089 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2093 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2094 ---------------------------------
2098 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2099 See 'Access:' for more info.
2100 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2103 * Instantaneous pausing
2104 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2105 * Finer speed control
2106 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2107 * Timeshift for most medias
2108 * RTSP trickplay support
2109 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2112 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2113 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2114 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2115 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2116 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2117 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2118 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2119 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2120 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2121 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2124 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2125 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2126 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2127 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2128 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2129 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2130 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2133 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2134 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2137 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2138 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2139 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2140 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2141 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2142 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2143 * DVB scanning on linux
2144 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2145 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2146 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2147 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2148 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2149 * MTP device access on Unix
2150 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2151 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2154 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2155 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2156 Windows and Mac OS X.
2159 * Export the playlist in HTML
2160 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2161 * Better metadata handling and reading
2163 Linux/Windows interface:
2164 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2165 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2166 * Recently played items list
2167 * Interface toolbar customizations
2168 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2169 - More menus actions
2170 - Finer speed slider
2171 - Improvements on many dialogs
2172 - New dialog for plugins listing
2173 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2174 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2175 * Better integration in GTK environments
2178 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2179 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2180 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2181 * Additional usability improvements
2184 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2185 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2186 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2187 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2188 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2191 * New Maemo port with:
2192 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2193 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2196 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2199 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2200 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2201 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2202 * Support for latest iSight models
2205 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2206 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2209 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2210 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2211 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2212 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2213 The old image video output has been removed.
2214 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2215 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2218 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2226 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2227 --------------------------------------
2233 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2234 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2235 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2236 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2237 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2238 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2239 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2241 Various fixes to the following modules:
2244 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2245 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2246 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2248 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2253 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2254 ---------------------------------
2257 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2258 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2261 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2262 ---------------------------------
2265 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2268 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2271 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2272 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2273 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2274 main controller window.
2275 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2278 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2283 * Updates of other localizations
2286 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2287 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2288 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2289 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2290 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2293 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2294 ---------------------------------
2297 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2299 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2302 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2303 --------------------------------
2308 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2309 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2312 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2313 --------------------------------
2315 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2316 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2319 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2322 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2323 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2326 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2327 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2330 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2331 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2332 * Various fixed in playlist
2335 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2338 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2341 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2342 ------------------------------------
2344 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2345 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2348 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2349 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2350 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2353 * Stability fix for the video output.
2356 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2357 --------------------------------
2360 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2361 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2362 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2363 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2364 * Fixed update system bugs
2365 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2368 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2369 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2370 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2371 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2372 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2373 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2374 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2375 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2376 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2377 modern Mac OS X versions
2380 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2381 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2383 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2384 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2387 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2388 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2389 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2390 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2391 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2392 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2395 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2396 --------------------------------
2398 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2399 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2400 * Multiple bugfixes.
2403 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2404 --------------------------------
2406 * Multiple bug fixes.
2409 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2410 ---------------------------------
2414 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2415 recent to work correctly
2416 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2417 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2418 edit the ".hosts" file.
2419 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2420 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2421 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2422 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2423 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2424 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2425 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2426 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2427 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2428 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2429 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2430 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2431 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2432 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2433 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2434 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2435 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2436 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2437 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2438 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2439 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2440 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2441 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2442 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2443 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2444 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2445 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2446 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2447 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2448 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2449 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2450 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2451 and postproc modules.
2452 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2453 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2454 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2455 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2457 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2458 filter. For example:
2459 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2460 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2462 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2463 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2469 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2471 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2472 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2475 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2476 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2478 * Shoutcast TV listings
2479 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2481 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2482 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2484 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2487 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2488 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2489 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2490 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2491 * JACK audio input support
2492 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2493 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2494 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2495 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2496 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2497 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2498 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2499 (available as a separate download).
2500 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2501 * RTMP input support
2502 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2503 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2504 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2506 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2507 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2510 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2511 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2512 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2513 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2515 * APEv1/2 tags support
2516 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2517 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2519 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2520 * TiVo Series 2 support
2521 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2526 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2527 * Flash Screen Video support
2528 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2529 * DosBox Capture support
2530 * Karl Morton's Video support
2531 * limited atrac3 support
2533 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2534 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2535 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2536 * H.264 PAFF support
2537 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2538 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2539 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2540 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2541 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2544 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2545 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2546 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2547 * AQTitle subtitles support
2548 * MKV USF subtitles support
2549 * HTML-based subtitles support
2550 * MPSub subtitles support
2551 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2552 * MPL2 subtitles support
2553 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2554 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2555 * Realtext subtitle support
2556 * DKS subtitle support
2557 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2558 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2561 * Flash Screen Video support
2562 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2564 Video outputs and filters:
2565 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2566 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2567 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2568 * New puzzle video output filter
2569 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2570 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2572 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2573 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2574 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2575 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2576 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2577 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2578 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2579 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2580 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2581 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2582 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2583 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2584 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2585 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2587 Audio outputs and filters:
2588 * Replay gain support
2589 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2590 new scaletempo audio filter)
2591 * New spatializer audio filter
2592 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2595 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2596 * New RTP payload formats:
2597 * Speex voice audio codec
2598 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2599 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2600 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2601 * DCCP transport for RTP
2602 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2607 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2608 end-user suitable way.
2609 * Improved user interaction
2610 * Improved mouse gestures
2611 * Vastly improved Update checker
2612 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2614 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2615 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2617 * Improved video output features
2618 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2619 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2620 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2621 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2622 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2624 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2625 if libncursesw is available.
2626 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2627 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2628 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2630 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2631 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2632 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2633 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2634 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2635 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2636 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2637 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2640 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2641 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2642 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2645 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2646 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2647 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2648 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2649 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2650 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2653 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2654 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2664 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2665 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2666 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2669 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2670 ----------------------------------
2673 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2676 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2677 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2678 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2679 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2680 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2681 * Updated Polish translation
2684 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2685 ----------------------------------
2688 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2689 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2690 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2693 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2694 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2695 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2696 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2697 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2698 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2699 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2700 to an unexpected application termination
2701 * New Serbian translation
2702 * Updated Romanian translation
2705 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2706 ----------------------------------
2709 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2710 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2711 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2712 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2713 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2714 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2715 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2716 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2719 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2720 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2721 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2722 * Fixed AAC resampling
2723 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2724 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2727 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2728 ----------------------------------
2731 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2732 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2733 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2734 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2735 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2738 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2739 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2740 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2741 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2742 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2745 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2746 ----------------------------------
2749 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2750 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2753 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2754 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2755 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2756 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2758 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2762 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2765 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2768 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2771 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2774 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2775 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2776 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2777 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2778 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2780 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2781 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2782 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2783 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2786 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2789 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2790 ----------------------------------
2793 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2794 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2795 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2797 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2798 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2800 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2801 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2804 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2806 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2807 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2808 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2809 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2810 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2811 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2812 two different movies
2813 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2814 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2815 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2818 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2821 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2822 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2823 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2824 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2827 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2828 ----------------------------------
2830 Various bugfixes, notably:
2831 * Windows Vista compatibility
2832 * Cropping in Direct3D
2833 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2834 * RSS filter string overflow
2836 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2838 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2839 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2842 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2843 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2846 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2849 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2852 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2855 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2856 ----------------------------------
2858 Various bugfixes, notably:
2859 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2860 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2861 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2862 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2863 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2864 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2867 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2868 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2871 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2873 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2874 * Diverse usability improvements
2875 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2876 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2877 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2880 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2881 ---------------------------------
2883 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2884 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2887 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2890 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2891 --------------------------------
2894 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2897 * Support for RTSP authentication
2898 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2899 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2900 * ATSC support for DVB input
2901 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2902 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2903 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2906 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2907 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2908 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2909 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2910 * Matroska WavPack support
2911 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2912 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2913 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2916 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2917 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2918 * Improved libcaca support
2922 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2923 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2925 * Systray support in skins
2927 * Support for Apple Remote control
2928 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2929 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2930 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2931 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2933 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2936 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2937 Windows 9x/ME users:
2938 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2939 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2940 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2941 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2942 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2944 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2945 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2954 * Updates to the libvlc API
2955 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2958 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2959 --------------------------------
2962 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2963 * Support for downloading updates
2967 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2968 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2969 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2970 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2972 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2973 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2974 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2977 * Cook (Real audio) support
2979 Playlist / Services discovery:
2980 * XSPF playlist support
2982 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2985 * New JACK audio output
2988 * New video filters:
2989 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2990 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2991 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2992 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2993 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2994 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2997 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3000 * System to inform the user and request information
3001 - HTTP authentication
3005 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3006 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3007 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3010 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3011 - Improved playlist handling
3012 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3014 - Embedded Video output
3015 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3016 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3017 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3018 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3019 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3021 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3022 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3025 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3028 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3029 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3030 * Growl "Now playing" support
3033 * Ability to log to syslog
3034 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3037 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3039 * A bit more automatic testing
3042 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3043 ---------------------------------
3046 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3047 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3050 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3051 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3054 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3057 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3058 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3064 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3067 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3068 --------------------------------
3071 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3075 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3076 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3077 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3080 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3081 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3082 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3083 * GnomeVFS input module
3084 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3085 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3088 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3089 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3090 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3093 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3094 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3100 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3101 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3104 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3105 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3106 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3109 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3111 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3112 - New extended controls panel
3113 - New bookmarks window
3114 - Fixed playlist sorting
3115 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3117 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3118 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3119 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3120 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3124 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3125 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3127 - Include macro to include other files
3131 * Should now work outside IE as well
3134 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3137 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3138 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3141 The following languages were added:
3145 * Simplified Chinese
3146 The following languages were re-added:
3150 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3151 --------------------------------
3154 * Rewrite of the playlist
3156 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3157 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3158 * Preferences improvements:
3159 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3160 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3162 * Core image manipulation support
3163 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3164 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3165 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3166 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3167 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3168 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3169 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3170 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3171 * Access filter architecture
3172 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3173 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3177 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3178 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3179 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3180 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3181 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3182 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3183 * Massive Matroska improvements
3184 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3186 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3187 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3188 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3189 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3190 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3192 Decoders / Encoders:
3193 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3194 * PNG decoder/encoder
3195 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3196 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3199 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3202 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3203 * Brand new SAP module
3204 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3205 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3206 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3207 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3208 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3209 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3213 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3216 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3217 * Image file video output (png)
3218 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3219 * Improvements to wall video filter
3220 * Support for font color and opacity
3226 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3227 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3228 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3232 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3233 - Improved preferences
3234 - Improvements to the wizard
3235 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3237 - Redesigned playlist
3238 - Improved preferences
3240 - Support for multiple actions
3243 - Support for the new playlist system
3245 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3248 * Screensaver disabling fix
3249 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3250 * Support for no-decoration windows
3253 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3254 * The OpenGL video output is back
3255 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3256 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3257 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3258 is not yet available in the new module
3259 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3262 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3271 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3274 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3277 The following languages were added:
3283 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3284 --------------------------------
3287 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3288 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3291 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3292 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3293 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3296 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3299 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3302 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3305 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3306 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3307 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3311 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3313 * Support of playlist group announcement
3316 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3317 --------------------------------
3320 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3321 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3322 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3323 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3324 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3325 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3328 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3329 (Stream your desktop)
3330 * Improved DVD support:
3331 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3332 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3333 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3334 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3335 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3336 (selection of titles/chapters).
3339 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3340 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3341 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3342 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3343 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3344 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3345 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3346 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3347 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3348 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3351 * G.726 audio support
3352 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3353 * MPEG-4 text support
3354 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3355 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3356 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3360 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3361 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3362 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3363 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3364 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3365 * DVB subtitles encoder
3366 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3367 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3369 * Text track muxing for mp4
3370 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3371 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3372 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3373 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3374 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3375 * Improved ASF muxer
3377 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3378 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3379 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3382 * New audio equalizer filter
3383 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3384 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3385 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3386 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3389 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3390 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3391 with support for effects.
3392 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3393 - New filters can be streamed.
3394 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3395 - Centralized scaling and blending
3397 - "time", to display current time
3398 - "marq", to display a marquee
3401 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3402 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3403 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3404 * A few skins2 improvements
3405 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3406 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3407 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3408 * Improved CORBA control module
3411 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3412 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3413 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3416 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3417 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3418 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3421 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3422 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3423 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3424 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3425 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3428 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3431 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3432 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3435 * Server/client network synchronization module
3436 * VBrick streams fully supported
3437 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3441 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3442 --------------------------------
3445 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3446 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3447 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3448 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3451 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3452 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3453 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3454 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3455 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3456 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3457 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3460 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3461 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3462 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3463 * Improved directory access module.
3464 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3465 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3466 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3467 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3468 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3471 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3472 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3473 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3476 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3477 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3478 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3481 * Improved session announcement system.
3482 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3483 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3484 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3485 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3486 * Improved transrater.
3487 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3488 * New configuration system.
3489 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3492 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3493 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3494 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3495 * Supports scheduling.
3496 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3497 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3500 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3501 - Ability to embed video output.
3502 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3503 - Lots of improvements.
3504 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3505 - New design and set of icons.
3506 - Ability to embed video output.
3507 - Support for hotkeys.
3508 - Support for bookmarks.
3510 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3511 - Better hotkeys handling.
3514 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3515 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3516 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3517 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3520 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3521 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3522 * Improved Windows installer.
3528 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3529 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3532 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3533 ---------------------------------
3536 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3537 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3540 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3541 --------------------------------
3544 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3545 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3548 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3549 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3550 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3551 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3554 * Internal improvments
3555 * Improved import/export
3558 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3560 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3561 small and strange formats.
3563 * New MOD audio demux.
3564 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3565 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3566 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3567 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3570 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3571 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3572 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3578 * New opengl video output plugin.
3581 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3582 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3585 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3586 --------------------------------
3589 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3590 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3591 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3592 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3593 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3594 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3595 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3596 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3599 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3604 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3605 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3606 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3607 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3608 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3609 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3610 * Better Icecast support.
3611 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3612 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3615 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3616 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3617 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3618 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3619 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3620 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3621 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3624 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3625 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3626 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3627 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3628 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3629 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3630 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3631 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3632 * Preliminary RTP support.
3633 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3638 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3639 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3641 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3642 - Improvements and help in preferences
3643 - New streaming wizard
3644 - Revised Disc Open menu
3646 - Improvements of the standard pages
3647 - Support for new commands
3648 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3651 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3652 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3655 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3656 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3657 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3658 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3659 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3660 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3661 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3662 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3663 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3666 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3668 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3669 * Support for Panther.
3670 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3671 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3674 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3675 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3676 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3677 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3678 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3679 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3680 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3681 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3684 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3685 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3686 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3689 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3692 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3693 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3694 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3695 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3698 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3699 --------------------------------
3702 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3705 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3706 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3709 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3710 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3713 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3716 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3717 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3720 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3723 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3726 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3727 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3731 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3732 --------------------------------
3735 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3736 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3740 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3741 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3742 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3744 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3745 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3748 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3751 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3754 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3755 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3759 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3760 --------------------------------
3763 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3764 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3768 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3769 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3770 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3771 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3772 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3775 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3776 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3777 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3780 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3781 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3782 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3785 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3786 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3787 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3788 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3789 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3792 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3793 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3794 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3797 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3800 * Improved build system.
3801 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3802 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3803 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3804 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3807 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3808 --------------------------------
3811 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3814 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3815 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3816 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3817 * Video 4 Linux support
3818 * CD Digital Audio support
3819 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3822 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3823 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3824 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3825 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3828 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3829 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3830 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3831 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3832 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3833 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3834 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3837 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3838 * New HTTP remote control interface
3841 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3842 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3843 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3844 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3845 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3848 * New reset option for the preferences
3849 * You can set your language in the prefences
3850 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3851 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3852 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3853 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3856 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3857 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3858 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3861 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3862 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3863 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3864 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3865 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3866 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3867 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3868 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3869 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3870 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3873 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3874 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3875 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3876 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3877 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3878 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3879 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3882 * Interface localization
3883 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3884 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3885 * New full-featured Preferences window
3888 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3889 --------------------------------
3892 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3893 * support for skins at the interface level
3894 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3895 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3896 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3897 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3898 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3901 * fixed HTTP redirects
3902 * support for opening an entire directory
3903 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3904 * new video4linux access plug-in
3905 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3908 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3909 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3910 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3913 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3914 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3915 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3916 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3917 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3918 * new codec for raw I420 video
3919 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3922 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3923 (although it still misses some important features)
3924 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3927 * new HTTP output support
3928 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3929 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3932 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3935 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3938 * reorderable playlist
3939 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3940 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3941 * support for mono audio output devices
3942 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3943 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3944 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3945 * the messages window remembers more lines
3946 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3947 * http and ogg stream output options
3948 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3951 * new skinnable interface
3952 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3954 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3955 * support for FLAC audio format
3956 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3958 * network tab in the interface
3959 * "apply" handling in preferences
3962 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3963 ---------------------------------
3966 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3967 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3968 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3969 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3971 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3972 * DTS S/PDIF support
3975 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3976 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3977 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3978 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3981 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3982 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3985 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3988 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3991 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3993 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3994 * rc interface is now fully useable
3995 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3998 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3999 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4000 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4001 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4002 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4004 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4005 * support for mouse gestures
4006 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4009 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4010 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4013 * improved ID3 tag detection
4014 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4015 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4016 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4018 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4021 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4022 ---------------------------------
4025 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4026 English was set as the preferred language
4029 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4030 --------------------------------
4033 * new mouse gesture interface
4034 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4038 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4039 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4040 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4043 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4044 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4048 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4051 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4052 without the user consent
4055 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4057 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4058 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4059 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4062 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4063 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4064 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4065 * playlist enhancements
4066 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4067 * new step forward/step backward commands
4068 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4069 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4070 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4073 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4074 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4075 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4078 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4079 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4082 * native video output is working again
4083 * only commandline interface support
4084 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4087 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4088 --------------------------------
4091 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4092 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4093 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4094 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4095 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4096 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4097 and A/52 streams are supported)
4098 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4103 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4104 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4105 * VCD entry points support
4106 * VCD image file support
4109 * support for *.asf format
4110 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4111 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4112 * support for ogg encapsulation
4113 * support for raw DV format
4114 * support for *.wav format
4115 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4118 Stream discovery & playlists:
4119 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4120 * support for .m3u file format
4121 * support for .asx file format
4122 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4125 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4126 (only available with the .avi demux)
4127 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4128 * support for raw PCM data
4129 * support for Cinepak video codec
4130 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4131 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4132 * support for Xvid codec
4133 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4134 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4135 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4137 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4139 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4142 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4145 * new WxWindows interface
4146 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4147 device and the channels configuration
4148 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4149 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4150 format that VLC can play
4151 * new swedish translation
4152 * enhancements of the playlist window
4153 * new messages window to see debug info
4154 * fixed a few crashes
4157 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4158 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4159 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4160 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working