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
10 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
11 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
14 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
15 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
16 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
17 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
19 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
20 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
23 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
24 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
25 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
26 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
27 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
28 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
29 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
30 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
31 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
32 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
33 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
34 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
35 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
36 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
37 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
38 * New jpeg image decoder
39 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
40 * New SVG image decoder
41 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
42 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
43 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
46 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
47 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
48 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
49 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
50 * New png image encoder using libpng
53 * New CAF format module
54 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
55 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
56 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
57 synchronization and tracks exclusion
58 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
59 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
62 * Basic support for WebVTT
63 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
64 * Support HDPR TS files
65 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
66 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
67 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
68 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
69 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
70 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
71 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
72 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
73 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
74 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
75 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
76 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
77 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
80 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
81 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
83 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
86 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
87 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
88 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
89 * New Android native window provider module
90 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
91 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
92 * Add mmal based video output
95 * New Oldmovie effect filter
96 * New VHS effect filter
97 * New Freeze effect filter
98 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
99 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
100 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
103 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
104 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
105 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
106 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
107 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
108 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
111 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
112 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
113 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
114 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
115 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
116 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
117 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
118 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
119 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
121 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
122 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
123 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
126 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
127 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
130 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
131 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
134 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
135 * Add record button in Qt menus
136 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
137 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
138 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
141 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
142 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
143 * Fixes for advanced preferences
144 * Option to increase playlist font size
147 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
148 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
149 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
152 * ios video output: use ios2
153 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
154 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
157 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
158 --------------------------------
161 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
164 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
167 * Fix DVD playback regression
168 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
169 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
172 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
173 --------------------------------
176 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
177 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
180 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
181 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
182 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
185 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
186 by updating codec libraries
187 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
188 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
189 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
192 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
193 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
194 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
195 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
198 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
199 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
202 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
203 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
204 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
205 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
206 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
209 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
210 * Fix record file names
213 * Fix minimal size possible on start
214 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
215 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
216 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
217 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
220 * Fix album art display on Windows
223 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
224 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
225 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
226 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
227 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
228 and Simplified Chinese translations
229 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
232 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
233 --------------------------------
236 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
237 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
238 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
239 audio devices on OS X
240 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
241 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
244 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
245 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
248 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
249 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
252 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
255 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
256 * Improve A-B loop control
257 * Fix album art update when changing media
260 * Add a language option in the interface
261 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
262 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
263 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
264 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
265 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
266 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
267 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
270 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
273 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
274 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
275 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
276 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
279 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
280 --------------------------------
283 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
285 * Fix some subtitles track selection
288 * VP9 support in WebM
289 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
290 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
293 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
294 * Support Speex in ogg files
295 * Fix some .mov playlists support
296 * Support Alac in mkv
297 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
298 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
301 * Fix DVB options parsing
302 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
303 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
306 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
307 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
310 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
311 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
314 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
315 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
316 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
317 * Fix play after drag'n drop
318 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
321 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
322 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
325 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
326 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
329 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
330 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
331 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
332 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
333 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
334 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
335 * Improves interface resizings
338 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
339 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
340 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
341 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
342 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
346 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
347 --------------------------------
350 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
351 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
352 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
353 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
354 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
356 3rd party libraries (contrib):
357 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
360 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
361 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
362 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
363 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
364 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
367 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
368 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
372 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
373 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
374 * Support for Ulead DV audio
375 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
376 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
377 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
378 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
379 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
380 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
381 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
382 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
383 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
384 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
387 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
388 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
389 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
392 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
393 remove support for previous OS X releases
394 * Major improvements in DASH support
395 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
396 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
397 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
398 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
399 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
400 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
401 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
402 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
403 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
404 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
405 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
408 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
409 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
410 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
411 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
412 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
413 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
414 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
415 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
416 * Support for more MJPEG streams
417 * Add support for liveleak streams
418 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
419 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
420 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
423 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
424 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
425 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
426 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
427 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
428 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
429 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
430 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
431 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
432 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
433 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
436 * New remapping channel filter
437 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
438 * New VSXu visualization plugin
439 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
440 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
441 * New gain audio filter
444 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
445 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
446 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
447 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
448 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
449 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
450 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
451 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
452 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
455 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
456 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
457 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
458 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
459 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
460 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
461 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
464 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
465 * Options support for AVIO output module
466 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
467 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
468 * Livehttp stream encryption support
469 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
470 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
473 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
476 * configurable password for the HTTP server
477 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
478 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
479 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
480 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
481 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
482 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
483 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
487 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
490 * Add support for multiple video outputs
491 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
493 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
494 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
495 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
496 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
497 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
498 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
499 VLC's internal volume level
500 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
502 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
503 selection and to manage the list of presets
504 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
505 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
506 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
507 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
508 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
509 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
510 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
511 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
512 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
513 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
515 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
516 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
517 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
518 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
519 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
520 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
521 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
522 3rd party applications
523 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
524 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
525 (system-wide settings)
526 * Add support for the Video Title option
527 * Add support for the Boss Key
528 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
529 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
532 * Partial support for Qt5.0
533 * Menus modifications and improvements
534 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
535 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
536 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
537 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
538 * EPG display fixes and improvements
539 * Add SD pixmap sources
540 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
541 * Display playlist total duration
542 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
543 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
544 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
549 * Extend sliders, offsets options
550 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
551 * Numerous fixes and improvements
552 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
555 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
556 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
557 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
558 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
559 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
560 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
561 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
562 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
563 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
564 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
567 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
568 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
569 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
570 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
571 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
572 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
574 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
575 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
576 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
577 * Broken crop video filter
579 * OSD parser and menu
580 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
581 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
582 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
583 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
587 * Update of all translations
590 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
591 --------------------------------
594 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
595 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
598 * Fix modplug security issues
601 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
602 --------------------------------
606 * Fix crash in QTsound
607 * Fix screen mouse file location
608 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
611 * Fix use after free in sgimb
612 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
615 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
618 * Fix interface crashes
619 * Fix autostart playback option
620 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
623 * update Welsh translation
624 * New Kannada translation
627 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
628 --------------------------------
631 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
632 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
636 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
639 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
642 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
645 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
649 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
652 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
655 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
656 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
657 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
660 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
661 --------------------------------
664 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
667 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
670 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
671 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
672 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
673 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
674 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
675 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
678 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
679 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
680 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
681 * 3rd party codecs updates
684 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
685 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
686 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
687 in the advanced preferences panel
688 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
689 * Fix crash within the video output code
690 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
691 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
692 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
693 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
695 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
698 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
701 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
702 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
705 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
708 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
709 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
710 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
711 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
712 Dutch, Danish, translations
713 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
716 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
717 --------------------------------
720 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
723 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
724 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
725 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
728 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
729 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
730 * Fix koreus lua parser
731 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
732 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
733 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
734 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
737 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
738 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
741 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
744 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
745 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
746 * Fix Time counter UI look
747 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
750 * Fix https streaming
753 * Fix audio and video track selection:
754 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
755 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
758 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
759 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
760 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
761 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
762 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
765 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
766 --------------------------------
769 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
770 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
771 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
772 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
773 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
774 during playback on Mac OS X
777 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
778 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
779 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
782 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
783 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
784 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
785 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
786 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
789 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
790 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
791 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
792 * Support Youtube live streams
795 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
798 * Fix media info dialog update
799 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
800 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
801 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
802 * Fix album art display at start
805 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
806 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
807 * Fix menus display and behavior
808 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
809 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
810 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
811 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
812 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
813 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
814 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
817 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
818 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
819 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
820 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
821 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
822 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
823 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
824 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
825 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
828 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
829 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
830 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
831 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
832 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
835 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
836 --------------------------------
839 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
842 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
843 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
846 * Add GateKeeper support
847 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
848 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
849 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
852 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
855 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
856 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
857 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
858 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
859 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
862 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
863 --------------------------------
866 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
867 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
868 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
869 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
870 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
871 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
872 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
873 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
874 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
875 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
876 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
880 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
881 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
882 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
883 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
884 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
885 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
886 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
887 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
888 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
889 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
890 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
891 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
894 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
895 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
897 * Fix MP3 free format support
900 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
901 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
902 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
903 * Fix for DVB channels file support
904 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
907 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
908 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
910 Audio filters and output:
911 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
912 * Fix DirectSound device selection
913 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
914 * Do not apply volume in file output
915 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
916 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
919 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
920 the persistant media library
921 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
922 to the media library or the temporary playlist
923 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
924 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
925 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
926 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
927 press on the Play/Pause button
928 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
929 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
930 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
931 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
932 * Many Fullscreen fixes
933 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
934 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
935 Synchronization panel
936 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
937 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
938 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
939 * Fix crashes on exit
940 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
942 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
943 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
944 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
945 automatically reset on the first launch.
946 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
947 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
948 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
951 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
952 * Fixes for icecast SD
955 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
956 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
957 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
958 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
959 * Fix tags and file names display
960 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
963 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
964 * Fix for key events and focus loss
967 * Fix display of some buttons
968 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
969 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
972 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
973 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
974 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
977 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
978 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
979 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
980 Thai translations update
981 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
984 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
985 --------------------------------
988 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
989 * fix the samba module compilation
990 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
991 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
992 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
993 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
996 * Support for MXPEG files
997 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
998 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1001 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1002 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1003 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1006 * Fix ogm header creation
1009 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1010 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1013 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1014 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1015 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1016 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1019 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1022 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1023 * allow to hide the sidebar
1024 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1025 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1026 * noticebly faster launch time
1027 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1028 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1029 * improve track synchronization panel
1030 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1031 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1034 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1035 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1036 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1037 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1040 * fix for menus display
1041 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1042 * documentation update
1045 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1046 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1049 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1050 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1051 * Update Jamendo selections
1055 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1056 * fix a crash on VLM close
1059 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1060 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1061 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1062 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1065 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1068 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1069 ---------------------------------
1072 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1073 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1074 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1075 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1076 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1077 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1078 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1079 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1080 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1081 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1082 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1083 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1084 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1085 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1086 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1087 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1088 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1089 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1090 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1091 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1092 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1093 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1094 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1095 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1096 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1097 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1099 Important changes for packagers:
1100 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1101 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1102 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1103 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1104 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1105 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1106 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1107 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1108 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1109 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1112 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1113 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1114 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1115 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1116 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1117 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1118 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1121 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1122 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1123 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1124 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1125 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1126 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1127 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1128 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1129 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1130 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1131 * PulseAudio audio input support
1132 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1133 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1134 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1135 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1136 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1137 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1138 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1139 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1142 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1143 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1144 are notably concerned.
1145 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1146 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1147 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1148 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1149 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1150 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1151 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1152 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1153 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1154 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1155 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1156 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1157 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1158 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1159 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1162 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1163 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1164 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1165 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1166 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1167 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1168 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1169 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1170 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1171 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1172 * Improved support of tracker files
1173 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1176 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1177 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1178 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1179 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1180 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1181 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1182 and important cleanups and optimisations
1183 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1184 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1185 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1186 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1187 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1188 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1189 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1190 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1191 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1192 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1193 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1194 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1195 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1196 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1197 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1198 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1199 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1200 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1201 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1202 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1203 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1206 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1207 * New video output for iOS platform
1208 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1209 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1210 * Various vmem improvements
1211 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1212 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1213 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1214 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1215 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1216 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1218 Audio Output and Filters:
1219 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1220 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1221 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1222 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1223 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1224 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1225 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1226 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1227 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1228 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1231 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1232 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1233 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1234 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1235 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1236 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1237 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1238 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1239 * New anti-flickering filter
1240 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1241 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1242 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1243 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1244 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1245 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1246 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1249 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1250 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1251 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1252 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1253 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1254 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1255 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1256 * Major rework of VoD support
1257 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1258 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1259 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1260 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1261 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1262 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1263 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1264 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1265 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1266 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1269 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1270 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1273 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1274 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1275 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1276 list of available audio and video filters
1277 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1278 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1279 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1282 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1283 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1284 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1285 * id3tag: use taglib
1286 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1287 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1288 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1289 * removal of the noise filter
1290 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1291 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1292 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1293 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1296 * Update of translations for most languages.
1297 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1300 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1301 ----------------------------------
1304 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1305 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1308 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1309 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1312 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1313 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1314 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1317 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1320 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1321 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1324 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1327 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1328 ----------------------------------
1331 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1332 including support for OS X Lion
1333 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1334 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1337 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1340 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1341 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1342 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1345 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1348 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1349 ----------------------------------
1352 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1353 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1356 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1357 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1358 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1359 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1360 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1362 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1363 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1364 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1366 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1367 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1370 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1373 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1376 * Fix quitting on Linux
1377 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1381 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1384 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1387 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1388 ---------------------------------
1390 Windows and Mac OS X:
1391 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1394 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1395 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1398 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1401 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1404 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1406 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1407 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1409 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1410 * RTP output and XML export
1411 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1415 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1416 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1417 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1418 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1421 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1422 --------------------------------
1424 Windows and Mac OS X:
1425 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1428 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1431 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1432 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1433 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1434 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1435 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1436 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1439 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1440 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1444 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1445 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1446 * New Luganda Translation
1449 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1450 --------------------------------
1453 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1456 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1457 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1458 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1459 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1462 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1464 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1465 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1466 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1467 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1468 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1469 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1470 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1471 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1473 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1474 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1475 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1476 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1477 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1478 * Configure and build system improvements
1479 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1482 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1483 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1484 * New icelandic translation
1487 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1488 --------------------------------
1491 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1492 #234484 and #260719.
1495 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1496 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1497 and stability reasons
1500 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1504 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1507 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1508 ----------------------------------
1511 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1514 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1515 ---------------------------------
1518 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1519 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1520 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1521 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1524 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1527 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1528 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1529 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1530 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1533 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1534 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1535 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1537 Subtitles and renderer:
1538 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1539 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1540 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1541 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1542 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1545 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1546 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1547 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1548 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1551 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1552 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1554 Miscellaneous fixes:
1555 * KDE device solid actions
1557 * Transcode integer overflow
1558 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1559 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1562 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1563 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1564 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1567 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1568 ----------------------------------
1571 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1575 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1578 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1581 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1582 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1583 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1584 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1587 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1591 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1594 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1597 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1598 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1600 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1604 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1605 * Miscellaneous fixes
1608 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1609 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1610 French and Ukrainian
1611 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1612 * New Asturian translation
1615 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1616 ----------------------------------
1619 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1621 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1624 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1627 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1628 * Various fixes for Windows
1631 * New Armenian translation
1632 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1633 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1636 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1637 --------------------------------
1640 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1641 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1642 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1645 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1646 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1649 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1650 --------------------------------
1652 Access and demuxers:
1653 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1654 * fix for podcasts parsing
1655 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1658 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1659 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1662 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1663 * fix m3u playlists exports
1666 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1669 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1672 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1675 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1678 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1681 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1682 --------------------------------
1685 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1686 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1689 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1690 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1693 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1694 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1695 * fix console output encoding
1697 Interface and extensions:
1698 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1699 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1702 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1703 --------------------------------
1706 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1707 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1708 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1709 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1710 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1711 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1712 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1713 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1714 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1715 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1716 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1717 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1718 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1719 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1720 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1721 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1725 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1726 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1727 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1728 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1729 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1732 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1735 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1736 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1737 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1741 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1744 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1745 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1746 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1749 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1750 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1751 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1752 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1755 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1756 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1759 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1760 --------------------------------
1762 Important changes for users:
1763 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1764 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1766 Important changes for packagers:
1767 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1768 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1769 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1770 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1771 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1773 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1775 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1776 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1777 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1778 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1779 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1782 * Support for the sftp protocol
1783 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1784 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1785 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1786 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1787 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1790 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1791 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1792 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1794 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1795 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1796 * Invmem module improvements
1797 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1798 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1799 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1800 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1801 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1802 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1803 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1804 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1805 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1806 * Support for VP8 codec
1807 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1810 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1811 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1812 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1813 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1814 * Various EGP improvements
1815 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1816 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1819 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1820 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1821 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1822 * Podcast images are now displayed
1825 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1826 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1827 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1828 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1829 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1830 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1831 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1832 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1833 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1834 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1835 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1838 * New content extensions lua framework
1841 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1842 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1843 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1844 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1845 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1846 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1847 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1850 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1851 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1852 * Service discovery based on libudev
1853 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1856 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1857 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1858 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1859 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1860 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1861 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1862 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1865 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1866 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1867 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1870 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1872 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1873 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1876 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1879 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1880 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1881 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1882 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1883 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1884 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1885 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1888 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1889 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1892 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1893 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1894 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1898 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1899 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1900 * Improved Solaris port
1903 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1904 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1907 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1908 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1909 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1910 * transrate: broken since too long
1911 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1912 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1913 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1914 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1915 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1916 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1917 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1918 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1919 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1920 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1921 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1922 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1923 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1924 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1927 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1928 --------------------------------
1931 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1933 Decoders/Packetizers:
1934 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1937 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1938 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1939 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1940 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1941 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1944 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1945 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1948 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1949 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1952 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1953 and Walloon translations updated
1954 * Sinhala translation started
1957 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1958 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1961 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1962 --------------------------------
1965 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1966 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1969 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1972 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1973 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1976 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1977 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1978 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1979 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1982 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1983 --------------------------------
1986 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1987 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1990 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1991 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1994 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1995 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1998 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2001 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2002 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2005 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2006 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2009 * New Walloon translation
2010 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2013 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2014 --------------------------------
2017 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2018 regressions in most popular drivers
2019 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2022 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2023 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2024 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2027 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2028 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2031 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2032 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2033 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2034 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2035 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2038 * New udev module for linux
2041 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2044 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2047 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2048 --------------------------------
2051 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2052 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2053 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2056 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2057 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2060 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2061 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2064 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2067 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2068 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2069 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2070 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2073 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2074 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2075 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2076 - no support for Goom and SDL
2077 - limited text rendering support
2078 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2081 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2082 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2083 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2084 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2085 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2086 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2087 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2088 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2089 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2093 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2096 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2099 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2100 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2101 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2102 Arabic and French translation updates
2105 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2106 --------------------------------
2109 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2110 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2111 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2112 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2113 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2114 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2117 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2118 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2119 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2122 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2123 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2124 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2127 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2130 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2131 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2134 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2135 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2136 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2137 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2138 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2139 * Fix various crashes
2142 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2144 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2148 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2149 ---------------------------------
2153 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2154 See 'Access:' for more info.
2155 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2158 * Instantaneous pausing
2159 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2160 * Finer speed control
2161 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2162 * Timeshift for most medias
2163 * RTSP trickplay support
2164 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2167 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2168 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2169 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2170 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2171 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2172 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2173 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2174 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2175 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2176 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2179 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2180 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2181 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2182 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2183 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2184 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2185 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2188 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2189 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2192 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2193 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2194 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2195 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2196 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2197 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2198 * DVB scanning on linux
2199 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2200 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2201 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2202 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2203 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2204 * MTP device access on Unix
2205 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2206 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2209 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2210 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2211 Windows and Mac OS X.
2214 * Export the playlist in HTML
2215 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2216 * Better metadata handling and reading
2218 Linux/Windows interface:
2219 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2220 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2221 * Recently played items list
2222 * Interface toolbar customizations
2223 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2224 - More menus actions
2225 - Finer speed slider
2226 - Improvements on many dialogs
2227 - New dialog for plugins listing
2228 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2229 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2230 * Better integration in GTK environments
2233 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2234 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2235 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2236 * Additional usability improvements
2239 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2240 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2241 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2242 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2243 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2246 * New Maemo port with:
2247 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2248 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2251 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2254 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2255 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2256 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2257 * Support for latest iSight models
2260 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2261 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2264 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2265 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2266 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2267 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2268 The old image video output has been removed.
2269 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2270 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2273 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2281 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2282 --------------------------------------
2288 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2289 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2290 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2291 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2292 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2293 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2294 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2296 Various fixes to the following modules:
2299 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2300 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2301 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2303 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2308 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2309 ---------------------------------
2312 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2313 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2316 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2317 ---------------------------------
2320 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2323 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2326 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2327 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2328 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2329 main controller window.
2330 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2333 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2338 * Updates of other localizations
2341 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2342 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2343 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2344 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2345 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2348 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2349 ---------------------------------
2352 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2354 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2357 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2358 --------------------------------
2363 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2364 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2367 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2368 --------------------------------
2370 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2371 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2374 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2377 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2378 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2381 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2382 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2385 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2386 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2387 * Various fixed in playlist
2390 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2393 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2396 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2397 ------------------------------------
2399 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2400 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2403 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2404 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2405 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2408 * Stability fix for the video output.
2411 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2412 --------------------------------
2415 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2416 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2417 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2418 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2419 * Fixed update system bugs
2420 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2423 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2424 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2425 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2426 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2427 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2428 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2429 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2430 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2431 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2432 modern Mac OS X versions
2435 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2436 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2438 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2439 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2442 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2443 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2444 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2445 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2446 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2447 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2450 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2451 --------------------------------
2453 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2454 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2455 * Multiple bugfixes.
2458 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2459 --------------------------------
2461 * Multiple bug fixes.
2464 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2465 ---------------------------------
2469 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2470 recent to work correctly
2471 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2472 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2473 edit the ".hosts" file.
2474 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2475 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2476 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2477 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2478 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2479 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2480 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2481 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2482 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2483 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2484 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2485 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2486 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2487 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2488 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2489 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2490 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2491 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2492 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2493 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2494 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2495 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2496 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2497 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2498 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2499 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2500 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2501 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2502 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2503 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2504 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2505 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2506 and postproc modules.
2507 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2508 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2509 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2510 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2512 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2513 filter. For example:
2514 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2515 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2517 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2518 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2524 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2526 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2527 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2530 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2531 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2533 * Shoutcast TV listings
2534 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2536 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2537 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2539 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2542 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2543 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2544 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2545 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2546 * JACK audio input support
2547 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2548 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2549 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2550 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2551 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2552 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2553 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2554 (available as a separate download).
2555 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2556 * RTMP input support
2557 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2558 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2559 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2561 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2562 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2565 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2566 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2567 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2568 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2570 * APEv1/2 tags support
2571 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2572 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2574 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2575 * TiVo Series 2 support
2576 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2581 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2582 * Flash Screen Video support
2583 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2584 * DosBox Capture support
2585 * Karl Morton's Video support
2586 * limited atrac3 support
2588 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2589 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2590 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2591 * H.264 PAFF support
2592 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2593 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2594 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2595 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2596 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2599 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2600 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2601 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2602 * AQTitle subtitles support
2603 * MKV USF subtitles support
2604 * HTML-based subtitles support
2605 * MPSub subtitles support
2606 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2607 * MPL2 subtitles support
2608 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2609 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2610 * Realtext subtitle support
2611 * DKS subtitle support
2612 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2613 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2616 * Flash Screen Video support
2617 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2619 Video outputs and filters:
2620 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2621 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2622 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2623 * New puzzle video output filter
2624 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2625 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2627 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2628 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2629 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2630 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2631 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2632 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2633 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2634 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2635 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2636 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2637 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2638 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2639 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2640 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2642 Audio outputs and filters:
2643 * Replay gain support
2644 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2645 new scaletempo audio filter)
2646 * New spatializer audio filter
2647 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2650 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2651 * New RTP payload formats:
2652 * Speex voice audio codec
2653 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2654 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2655 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2656 * DCCP transport for RTP
2657 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2662 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2663 end-user suitable way.
2664 * Improved user interaction
2665 * Improved mouse gestures
2666 * Vastly improved Update checker
2667 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2669 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2670 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2672 * Improved video output features
2673 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2674 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2675 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2676 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2677 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2679 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2680 if libncursesw is available.
2681 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2682 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2683 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2685 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2686 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2687 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2688 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2689 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2690 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2691 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2692 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2695 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2696 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2697 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2700 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2701 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2702 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2703 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2704 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2705 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2708 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2709 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2719 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2720 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2721 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2724 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2725 ----------------------------------
2728 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2731 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2732 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2733 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2734 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2735 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2736 * Updated Polish translation
2739 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2740 ----------------------------------
2743 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2744 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2745 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2748 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2749 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2750 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2751 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2752 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2753 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2754 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2755 to an unexpected application termination
2756 * New Serbian translation
2757 * Updated Romanian translation
2760 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2761 ----------------------------------
2764 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2765 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2766 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2767 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2768 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2769 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2770 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2771 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2774 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2775 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2776 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2777 * Fixed AAC resampling
2778 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2779 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2782 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2783 ----------------------------------
2786 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2787 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2788 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2789 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2790 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2793 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2794 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2795 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2796 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2797 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2800 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2801 ----------------------------------
2804 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2805 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2808 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2809 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2810 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2811 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2813 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2817 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2820 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2823 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2826 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2829 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2830 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2831 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2832 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2833 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2835 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2836 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2837 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2838 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2841 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2844 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2845 ----------------------------------
2848 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2849 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2850 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2852 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2853 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2855 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2856 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2859 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2861 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2862 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2863 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2864 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2865 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2866 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2867 two different movies
2868 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2869 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2870 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2873 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2876 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2877 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2878 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2879 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2882 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2883 ----------------------------------
2885 Various bugfixes, notably:
2886 * Windows Vista compatibility
2887 * Cropping in Direct3D
2888 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2889 * RSS filter string overflow
2891 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2893 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2894 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2897 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2898 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2901 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2904 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2907 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2910 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2911 ----------------------------------
2913 Various bugfixes, notably:
2914 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2915 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2916 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2917 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2918 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2919 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2922 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2923 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2926 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2928 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2929 * Diverse usability improvements
2930 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2931 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2932 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2935 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2936 ---------------------------------
2938 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2939 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2942 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2945 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2946 --------------------------------
2949 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2952 * Support for RTSP authentication
2953 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2954 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2955 * ATSC support for DVB input
2956 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2957 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2958 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2961 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2962 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2963 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2964 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2965 * Matroska WavPack support
2966 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2967 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2968 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2971 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2972 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2973 * Improved libcaca support
2977 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2978 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2980 * Systray support in skins
2982 * Support for Apple Remote control
2983 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2984 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2985 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2986 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2988 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2991 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2992 Windows 9x/ME users:
2993 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2994 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2995 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2996 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2997 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2999 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3000 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3009 * Updates to the libvlc API
3010 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3013 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3014 --------------------------------
3017 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3018 * Support for downloading updates
3022 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3023 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3024 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3025 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3027 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3028 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3029 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3032 * Cook (Real audio) support
3034 Playlist / Services discovery:
3035 * XSPF playlist support
3037 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3040 * New JACK audio output
3043 * New video filters:
3044 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3045 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3046 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3047 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3048 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3049 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3052 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3055 * System to inform the user and request information
3056 - HTTP authentication
3060 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3061 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3062 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3065 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3066 - Improved playlist handling
3067 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3069 - Embedded Video output
3070 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3071 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3072 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3073 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3074 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3076 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3077 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3080 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3083 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3084 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3085 * Growl "Now playing" support
3088 * Ability to log to syslog
3089 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3092 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3094 * A bit more automatic testing
3097 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3098 ---------------------------------
3101 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3102 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3105 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3106 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3109 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3112 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3113 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3119 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3122 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3123 --------------------------------
3126 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3130 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3131 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3132 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3135 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3136 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3137 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3138 * GnomeVFS input module
3139 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3140 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3143 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3144 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3145 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3148 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3149 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3155 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3156 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3159 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3160 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3161 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3164 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3166 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3167 - New extended controls panel
3168 - New bookmarks window
3169 - Fixed playlist sorting
3170 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3172 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3173 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3174 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3175 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3179 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3180 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3182 - Include macro to include other files
3186 * Should now work outside IE as well
3189 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3192 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3193 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3196 The following languages were added:
3200 * Simplified Chinese
3201 The following languages were re-added:
3205 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3206 --------------------------------
3209 * Rewrite of the playlist
3211 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3212 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3213 * Preferences improvements:
3214 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3215 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3217 * Core image manipulation support
3218 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3219 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3220 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3221 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3222 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3223 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3224 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3225 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3226 * Access filter architecture
3227 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3228 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3232 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3233 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3234 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3235 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3236 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3237 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3238 * Massive Matroska improvements
3239 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3241 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3242 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3243 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3244 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3245 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3247 Decoders / Encoders:
3248 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3249 * PNG decoder/encoder
3250 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3251 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3254 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3257 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3258 * Brand new SAP module
3259 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3260 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3261 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3262 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3263 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3264 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3268 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3271 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3272 * Image file video output (png)
3273 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3274 * Improvements to wall video filter
3275 * Support for font color and opacity
3281 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3282 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3283 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3287 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3288 - Improved preferences
3289 - Improvements to the wizard
3290 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3292 - Redesigned playlist
3293 - Improved preferences
3295 - Support for multiple actions
3298 - Support for the new playlist system
3300 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3303 * Screensaver disabling fix
3304 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3305 * Support for no-decoration windows
3308 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3309 * The OpenGL video output is back
3310 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3311 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3312 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3313 is not yet available in the new module
3314 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3317 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3326 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3329 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3332 The following languages were added:
3338 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3339 --------------------------------
3342 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3343 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3346 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3347 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3348 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3351 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3354 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3357 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3360 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3361 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3362 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3366 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3368 * Support of playlist group announcement
3371 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3372 --------------------------------
3375 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3376 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3377 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3378 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3379 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3380 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3383 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3384 (Stream your desktop)
3385 * Improved DVD support:
3386 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3387 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3388 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3389 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3390 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3391 (selection of titles/chapters).
3394 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3395 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3396 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3397 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3398 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3399 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3400 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3401 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3402 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3403 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3406 * G.726 audio support
3407 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3408 * MPEG-4 text support
3409 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3410 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3411 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3415 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3416 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3417 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3418 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3419 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3420 * DVB subtitles encoder
3421 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3422 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3424 * Text track muxing for mp4
3425 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3426 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3427 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3428 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3429 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3430 * Improved ASF muxer
3432 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3433 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3434 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3437 * New audio equalizer filter
3438 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3439 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3440 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3441 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3444 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3445 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3446 with support for effects.
3447 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3448 - New filters can be streamed.
3449 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3450 - Centralized scaling and blending
3452 - "time", to display current time
3453 - "marq", to display a marquee
3456 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3457 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3458 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3459 * A few skins2 improvements
3460 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3461 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3462 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3463 * Improved CORBA control module
3466 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3467 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3468 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3471 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3472 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3473 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3476 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3477 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3478 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3479 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3480 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3483 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3486 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3487 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3490 * Server/client network synchronization module
3491 * VBrick streams fully supported
3492 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3496 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3497 --------------------------------
3500 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3501 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3502 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3503 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3506 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3507 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3508 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3509 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3510 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3511 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3512 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3515 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3516 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3517 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3518 * Improved directory access module.
3519 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3520 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3521 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3522 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3523 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3526 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3527 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3528 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3531 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3532 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3533 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3536 * Improved session announcement system.
3537 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3538 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3539 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3540 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3541 * Improved transrater.
3542 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3543 * New configuration system.
3544 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3547 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3548 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3549 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3550 * Supports scheduling.
3551 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3552 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3555 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3556 - Ability to embed video output.
3557 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3558 - Lots of improvements.
3559 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3560 - New design and set of icons.
3561 - Ability to embed video output.
3562 - Support for hotkeys.
3563 - Support for bookmarks.
3565 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3566 - Better hotkeys handling.
3569 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3570 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3571 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3572 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3575 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3576 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3577 * Improved Windows installer.
3583 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3584 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3587 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3588 ---------------------------------
3591 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3592 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3595 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3596 --------------------------------
3599 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3600 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3603 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3604 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3605 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3606 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3609 * Internal improvments
3610 * Improved import/export
3613 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3615 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3616 small and strange formats.
3618 * New MOD audio demux.
3619 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3620 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3621 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3622 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3625 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3626 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3627 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3633 * New opengl video output plugin.
3636 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3637 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3640 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3641 --------------------------------
3644 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3645 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3646 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3647 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3648 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3649 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3650 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3651 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3654 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3659 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3660 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3661 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3662 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3663 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3664 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3665 * Better Icecast support.
3666 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3667 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3670 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3671 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3672 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3673 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3674 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3675 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3676 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3679 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3680 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3681 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3682 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3683 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3684 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3685 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3686 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3687 * Preliminary RTP support.
3688 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3693 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3694 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3696 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3697 - Improvements and help in preferences
3698 - New streaming wizard
3699 - Revised Disc Open menu
3701 - Improvements of the standard pages
3702 - Support for new commands
3703 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3706 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3707 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3710 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3711 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3712 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3713 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3714 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3715 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3716 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3717 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3718 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3721 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3723 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3724 * Support for Panther.
3725 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3726 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3729 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3730 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3731 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3732 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3733 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3734 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3735 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3736 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3739 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3740 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3741 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3744 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3747 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3748 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3749 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3750 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3753 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3754 --------------------------------
3757 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3760 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3761 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3764 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3765 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3768 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3771 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3772 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3775 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3778 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3781 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3782 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3786 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3787 --------------------------------
3790 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3791 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3795 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3796 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3797 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3799 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3800 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3803 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3806 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3809 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3810 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3814 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3815 --------------------------------
3818 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3819 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3823 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3824 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3825 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3826 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3827 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3830 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3831 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3832 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3835 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3836 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3837 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3840 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3841 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3842 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3843 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3844 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3847 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3848 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3849 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3852 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3855 * Improved build system.
3856 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3857 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3858 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3859 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3862 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3863 --------------------------------
3866 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3869 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3870 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3871 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3872 * Video 4 Linux support
3873 * CD Digital Audio support
3874 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3877 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3878 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3879 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3880 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3883 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3884 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3885 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3886 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3887 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3888 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3889 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3892 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3893 * New HTTP remote control interface
3896 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3897 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3898 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3899 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3900 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3903 * New reset option for the preferences
3904 * You can set your language in the prefences
3905 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3906 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3907 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3908 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3911 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3912 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3913 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3916 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3917 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3918 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3919 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3920 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3921 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3922 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3923 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3924 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3925 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3928 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3929 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3930 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3931 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3932 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3933 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3934 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3937 * Interface localization
3938 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3939 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3940 * New full-featured Preferences window
3943 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3944 --------------------------------
3947 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3948 * support for skins at the interface level
3949 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3950 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3951 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3952 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3953 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3956 * fixed HTTP redirects
3957 * support for opening an entire directory
3958 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3959 * new video4linux access plug-in
3960 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3963 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3964 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3965 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3968 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3969 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3970 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3971 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3972 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3973 * new codec for raw I420 video
3974 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3977 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3978 (although it still misses some important features)
3979 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3982 * new HTTP output support
3983 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3984 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3987 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3990 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3993 * reorderable playlist
3994 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3995 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3996 * support for mono audio output devices
3997 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3998 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3999 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4000 * the messages window remembers more lines
4001 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4002 * http and ogg stream output options
4003 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4006 * new skinnable interface
4007 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4009 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4010 * support for FLAC audio format
4011 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4013 * network tab in the interface
4014 * "apply" handling in preferences
4017 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4018 ---------------------------------
4021 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4022 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4023 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4024 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4026 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4027 * DTS S/PDIF support
4030 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4031 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4032 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4033 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4036 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4037 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4040 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4043 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4046 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4048 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4049 * rc interface is now fully useable
4050 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4053 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4054 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4055 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4056 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4057 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4059 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4060 * support for mouse gestures
4061 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4064 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4065 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4068 * improved ID3 tag detection
4069 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4070 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4071 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4073 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4076 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4077 ---------------------------------
4080 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4081 English was set as the preferred language
4084 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4085 --------------------------------
4088 * new mouse gesture interface
4089 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4093 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4094 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4095 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4098 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4099 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4103 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4106 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4107 without the user consent
4110 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4112 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4113 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4114 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4117 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4118 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4119 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4120 * playlist enhancements
4121 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4122 * new step forward/step backward commands
4123 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4124 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4125 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4128 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4129 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4130 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4133 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4134 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4137 * native video output is working again
4138 * only commandline interface support
4139 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4142 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4143 --------------------------------
4146 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4147 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4148 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4149 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4150 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4151 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4152 and A/52 streams are supported)
4153 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4158 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4159 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4160 * VCD entry points support
4161 * VCD image file support
4164 * support for *.asf format
4165 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4166 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4167 * support for ogg encapsulation
4168 * support for raw DV format
4169 * support for *.wav format
4170 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4173 Stream discovery & playlists:
4174 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4175 * support for .m3u file format
4176 * support for .asx file format
4177 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4180 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4181 (only available with the .avi demux)
4182 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4183 * support for raw PCM data
4184 * support for Cinepak video codec
4185 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4186 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4187 * support for Xvid codec
4188 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4189 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4190 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4192 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4194 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4197 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4200 * new WxWindows interface
4201 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4202 device and the channels configuration
4203 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4204 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4205 format that VLC can play
4206 * new swedish translation
4207 * enhancements of the playlist window
4208 * new messages window to see debug info
4209 * fixed a few crashes
4212 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4213 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4214 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4215 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working