1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
11 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
12 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
13 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
14 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
17 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
18 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
19 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1
20 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
21 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
22 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
23 * OpenMax IL imrpovements, notably for RaspberryPi
24 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
27 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
28 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
29 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
32 * New CAF format module
33 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
34 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
35 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
36 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
38 * Basic support for WebVTT
39 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
40 * Support HDPR TS files
41 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
42 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
45 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
46 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
49 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
50 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
51 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
52 * New Android native window provider module
55 * New Oldmovie effect filter
56 * New VHS effect filter
57 * New Freeze effect filter
58 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
59 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
62 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
65 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
66 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
67 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
68 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
69 * GSM, VP8, Opus RTP packetization
70 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
73 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
76 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
79 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
82 * ios video output: use ios2
83 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
86 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
87 --------------------------------
90 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
92 * Fix some subtitles track selection
96 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
97 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
100 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
101 * Support Speex in ogg files
102 * Fix some .mov playlists support
103 * Support Alac in mkv
104 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
105 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
108 * Fix DVB options parsing
109 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
110 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
113 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
114 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
117 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
118 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
121 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
122 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
123 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
124 * Fix play after drag'n drop
125 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
128 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
129 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
132 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
133 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
136 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
137 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
138 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
139 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
140 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
141 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
142 * Improves interface resizings
145 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
146 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
147 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
148 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
149 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
153 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
154 --------------------------------
157 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
158 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
159 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
160 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
161 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
163 3rd party libraries (contrib):
164 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
167 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
168 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
169 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
170 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
171 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
174 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
175 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
179 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
180 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
181 * Support for Ulead DV audio
182 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
183 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
184 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
185 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
186 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
187 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
188 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
189 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
190 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
191 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
194 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
195 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
196 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
199 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
200 remove support for previous OS X releases
201 * Major improvements in DASH support
202 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
203 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
204 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
205 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
206 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
207 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
208 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
209 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
210 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
211 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
212 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
215 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
216 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
217 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
218 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
219 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
220 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
221 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
222 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
223 * Support for more MJPEG streams
224 * Add support for liveleak streams
225 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
226 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
227 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
230 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
231 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
232 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
233 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
234 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
235 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
236 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
237 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
238 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
239 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
240 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
243 * New remapping channel filter
244 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
245 * New VSXu visualization plugin
246 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
247 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
248 * New gain audio filter
251 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
252 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
253 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
254 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
255 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
256 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
257 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
258 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
259 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
262 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
263 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
264 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
265 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
266 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
267 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
268 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
271 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
272 * Options support for AVIO output module
273 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
274 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
275 * Livehttp stream encryption support
276 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
277 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
280 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
283 * configurable password for the HTTP server
284 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
285 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
286 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
287 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
288 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
289 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
290 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
294 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
297 * Add support for multiple video outputs
298 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
300 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
301 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
302 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
303 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
304 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
305 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
306 VLC's internal volume level
307 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
309 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
310 selection and to manage the list of presets
311 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
312 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
313 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
314 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
315 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
316 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
317 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
318 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
319 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
320 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
322 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
323 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
324 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
325 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
326 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
327 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
328 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
329 3rd party applications
330 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
331 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
332 (system-wide settings)
333 * Add support for the Video Title option
334 * Add support for the Boss Key
335 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
336 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
339 * Partial support for Qt5.0
340 * Menus modifications and improvements
341 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
342 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
343 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
344 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
345 * EPG display fixes and improvements
346 * Add SD pixmap sources
347 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
348 * Display playlist total duration
349 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
350 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
351 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
356 * Extend sliders, offsets options
357 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
358 * Numerous fixes and improvements
359 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
362 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
363 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
364 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
365 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
366 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
367 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
368 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
369 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
370 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
371 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
374 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
375 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
376 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
377 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
378 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
379 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
381 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
382 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
383 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
384 * Broken crop video filter
386 * OSD parser and menu
387 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
388 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
389 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
390 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
394 * Update of all translations
397 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
398 --------------------------------
401 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
402 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
405 * Fix modplug security issues
408 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
409 --------------------------------
413 * Fix crash in QTsound
414 * Fix screen mouse file location
415 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
418 * Fix use after free in sgimb
419 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
422 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
425 * Fix interface crashes
426 * Fix autostart playback option
427 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
430 * update Welsh translation
431 * New Kannada translation
434 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
435 --------------------------------
438 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
439 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
443 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
446 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
449 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
452 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
456 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
459 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
462 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
463 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
464 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
467 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
468 --------------------------------
471 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
474 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
477 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
478 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
479 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
480 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
481 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
482 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
485 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
486 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
487 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
488 * 3rd party codecs updates
491 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
492 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
493 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
494 in the advanced preferences panel
495 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
496 * Fix crash within the video output code
497 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
498 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
499 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
500 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
502 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
505 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
508 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
509 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
512 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
515 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
516 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
517 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
518 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
519 Dutch, Danish, translations
520 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
523 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
524 --------------------------------
527 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
530 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
531 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
532 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
535 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
536 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
537 * Fix koreus lua parser
538 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
539 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
540 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
541 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
544 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
545 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
548 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
551 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
552 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
553 * Fix Time counter UI look
554 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
557 * Fix https streaming
560 * Fix audio and video track selection:
561 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
562 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
565 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
566 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
567 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
568 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
569 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
572 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
573 --------------------------------
576 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
577 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
578 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
579 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
580 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
581 during playback on Mac OS X
584 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
585 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
586 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
589 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
590 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
591 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
592 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
593 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
596 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
597 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
598 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
599 * Support Youtube live streams
602 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
605 * Fix media info dialog update
606 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
607 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
608 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
609 * Fix album art display at start
612 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
613 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
614 * Fix menus display and behavior
615 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
616 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
617 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
618 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
619 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
620 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
621 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
624 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
625 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
626 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
627 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
628 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
629 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
630 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
631 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
632 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
635 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
636 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
637 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
638 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
639 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
642 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
643 --------------------------------
646 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
649 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
650 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
653 * Add GateKeeper support
654 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
655 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
656 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
659 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
662 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
663 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
664 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
665 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
666 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
669 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
670 --------------------------------
673 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
674 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
675 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
676 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
677 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
678 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
679 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
680 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
681 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
682 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
683 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
687 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
688 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
689 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
690 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
691 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
692 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
693 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
694 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
695 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
696 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
697 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
698 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
701 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
702 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
704 * Fix MP3 free format support
707 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
708 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
709 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
710 * Fix for DVB channels file support
711 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
714 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
715 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
717 Audio filters and output:
718 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
719 * Fix DirectSound device selection
720 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
721 * Do not apply volume in file output
722 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
723 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
726 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
727 the persistant media library
728 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
729 to the media library or the temporary playlist
730 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
731 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
732 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
733 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
734 press on the Play/Pause button
735 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
736 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
737 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
738 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
739 * Many Fullscreen fixes
740 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
741 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
742 Synchronization panel
743 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
744 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
745 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
746 * Fix crashes on exit
747 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
749 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
750 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
751 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
752 automatically reset on the first launch.
753 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
754 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
755 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
758 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
759 * Fixes for icecast SD
762 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
763 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
764 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
765 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
766 * Fix tags and file names display
767 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
770 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
771 * Fix for key events and focus loss
774 * Fix display of some buttons
775 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
776 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
779 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
780 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
781 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
784 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
785 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
786 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
787 Thai translations update
788 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
791 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
792 --------------------------------
795 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
796 * fix the samba module compilation
797 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
798 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
799 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
800 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
803 * Support for MXPEG files
804 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
805 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
808 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
809 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
810 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
813 * Fix ogm header creation
816 * limit spatializer filter distortions
817 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
820 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
821 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
822 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
823 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
826 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
829 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
830 * allow to hide the sidebar
831 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
832 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
833 * noticebly faster launch time
834 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
835 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
836 * improve track synchronization panel
837 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
838 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
841 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
842 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
843 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
844 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
847 * fix for menus display
848 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
849 * documentation update
852 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
853 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
856 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
857 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
858 * Update Jamendo selections
862 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
863 * fix a crash on VLM close
866 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
867 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
868 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
869 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
872 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
875 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
876 ---------------------------------
879 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
880 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
881 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
882 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
883 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
884 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
885 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
886 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
887 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
888 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
889 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
890 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
891 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
892 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
893 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
894 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
895 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
896 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
897 --http-crl (optional CRL).
898 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
899 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
900 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
901 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
902 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
903 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
904 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
906 Important changes for packagers:
907 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
908 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
909 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
910 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
911 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
912 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
913 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
914 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
915 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
916 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
919 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
920 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
921 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
922 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
923 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
924 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
925 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
928 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
929 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
930 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
931 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
932 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
933 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
934 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
935 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
936 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
937 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
938 * PulseAudio audio input support
939 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
940 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
941 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
942 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
943 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
944 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
945 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
946 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
949 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
950 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
951 are notably concerned.
952 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
953 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
954 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
955 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
956 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
957 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
958 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
959 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
960 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
961 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
962 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
963 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
964 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
965 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
966 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
969 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
970 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
971 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
972 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
973 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
974 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
975 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
976 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
977 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
978 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
979 * Improved support of tracker files
980 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
983 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
984 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
985 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
986 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
987 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
988 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
989 and important cleanups and optimisations
990 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
991 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
992 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
993 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
994 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
995 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
996 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
997 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
998 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
999 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1000 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1001 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1002 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1003 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1004 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1005 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1006 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1007 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1008 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1009 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1010 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1013 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1014 * New video output for iOS platform
1015 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1016 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1017 * Various vmem improvements
1018 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1019 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1020 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1021 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1022 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1023 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1025 Audio Output and Filters:
1026 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1027 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1028 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1029 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1030 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1031 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1032 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1033 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1034 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1035 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1038 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1039 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1040 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1041 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1042 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1043 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1044 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1045 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1046 * New anti-flickering filter
1047 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1048 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1049 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1050 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1051 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1052 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1053 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1056 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1057 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1058 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1059 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1060 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1061 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1062 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1063 * Major rework of VoD support
1064 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1065 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1066 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1067 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1068 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1069 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1070 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1071 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1072 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1073 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1076 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1077 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1080 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1081 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1082 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1083 list of available audio and video filters
1084 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1085 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1086 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1089 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1090 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1091 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1092 * id3tag: use taglib
1093 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1094 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1095 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1096 * removal of the noise filter
1097 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1098 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1099 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1100 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1103 * Update of translations for most languages.
1104 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1107 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1108 ----------------------------------
1111 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1112 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1115 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1116 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1119 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1120 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1121 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1124 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1127 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1128 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1131 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1134 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1135 ----------------------------------
1138 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1139 including support for OS X Lion
1140 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1141 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1144 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1147 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1148 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1149 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1152 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1155 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1156 ----------------------------------
1159 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1160 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1163 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1164 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1165 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1166 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1167 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1169 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1170 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1171 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1173 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1174 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1177 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1180 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1183 * Fix quitting on Linux
1184 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1188 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1191 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1194 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1195 ---------------------------------
1197 Windows and Mac OS X:
1198 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1201 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1202 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1205 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1208 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1211 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1213 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1214 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1216 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1217 * RTP output and XML export
1218 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1222 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1223 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1224 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1225 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1228 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1229 --------------------------------
1231 Windows and Mac OS X:
1232 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1235 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1238 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1239 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1240 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1241 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1242 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1243 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1246 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1247 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1251 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1252 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1253 * New Luganda Translation
1256 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1257 --------------------------------
1260 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1263 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1264 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1265 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1266 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1269 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1271 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1272 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1273 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1274 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1275 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1276 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1277 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1278 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1280 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1281 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1282 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1283 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1284 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1285 * Configure and build system improvements
1286 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1289 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1290 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1291 * New icelandic translation
1294 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1295 --------------------------------
1298 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1299 #234484 and #260719.
1302 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1303 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1304 and stability reasons
1307 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1311 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1314 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1315 ----------------------------------
1318 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1321 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1322 ---------------------------------
1325 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1326 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1327 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1328 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1331 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1334 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1335 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1336 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1337 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1340 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1341 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1342 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1344 Subtitles and renderer:
1345 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1346 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1347 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1348 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1349 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1352 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1353 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1354 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1355 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1358 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1359 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1361 Miscellaneous fixes:
1362 * KDE device solid actions
1364 * Transcode integer overflow
1365 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1366 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1369 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1370 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1371 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1374 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1375 ----------------------------------
1378 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1382 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1385 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1388 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1389 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1390 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1391 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1394 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1398 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1401 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1404 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1405 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1407 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1411 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1412 * Miscellaneous fixes
1415 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1416 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1417 French and Ukrainian
1418 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1419 * New Asturian translation
1422 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1423 ----------------------------------
1426 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1428 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1431 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1434 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1435 * Various fixes for Windows
1438 * New Armenian translation
1439 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1440 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1443 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1444 --------------------------------
1447 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1448 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1449 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1452 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1453 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1456 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1457 --------------------------------
1459 Access and demuxers:
1460 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1461 * fix for podcasts parsing
1462 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1465 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1466 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1469 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1470 * fix m3u playlists exports
1473 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1476 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1479 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1482 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1485 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1488 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1489 --------------------------------
1492 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1493 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1496 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1497 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1500 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1501 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1502 * fix console output encoding
1504 Interface and extensions:
1505 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1506 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1509 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1510 --------------------------------
1513 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1514 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1515 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1516 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1517 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1518 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1519 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1520 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1521 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1522 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1523 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1524 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1525 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1526 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1527 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1528 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1532 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1533 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1534 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1535 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1536 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1539 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1542 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1543 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1544 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1548 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1551 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1552 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1553 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1556 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1557 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1558 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1559 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1562 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1563 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1566 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1567 --------------------------------
1569 Important changes for users:
1570 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1571 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1573 Important changes for packagers:
1574 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1575 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1576 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1577 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1578 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1580 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1582 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1583 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1584 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1585 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1586 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1589 * Support for the sftp protocol
1590 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1591 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1592 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1593 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1594 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1597 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1598 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1599 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1601 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1602 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1603 * Invmem module improvements
1604 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1605 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1606 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1607 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1608 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1609 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1610 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1611 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1612 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1613 * Support for VP8 codec
1614 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1617 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1618 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1619 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1620 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1621 * Various EGP improvements
1622 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1623 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1626 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1627 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1628 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1629 * Podcast images are now displayed
1632 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1633 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1634 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1635 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1636 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1637 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1638 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1639 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1640 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1641 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1642 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1645 * New content extensions lua framework
1648 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1649 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1650 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1651 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1652 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1653 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1654 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1657 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1658 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1659 * Service discovery based on libudev
1660 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1663 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1664 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1665 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1666 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1667 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1668 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1669 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1672 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1673 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1674 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1677 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1679 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1680 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1683 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1686 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1687 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1688 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1689 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1690 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1691 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1692 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1695 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1696 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1699 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1700 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1701 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1705 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1706 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1707 * Improved Solaris port
1710 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1711 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1714 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1715 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1716 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1717 * transrate: broken since too long
1718 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1719 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1720 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1721 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1722 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1723 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1724 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1725 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1726 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1727 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1728 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1729 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1730 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1731 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1734 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1735 --------------------------------
1738 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1740 Decoders/Packetizers:
1741 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1744 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1745 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1746 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1747 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1748 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1751 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1752 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1755 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1756 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1759 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1760 and Walloon translations updated
1761 * Sinhala translation started
1764 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1765 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1768 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1769 --------------------------------
1772 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1773 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1776 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1779 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1780 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1783 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1784 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1785 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1786 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1789 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1790 --------------------------------
1793 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1794 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1797 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1798 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1801 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1802 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1805 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1808 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1809 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1812 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1813 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1816 * New Walloon translation
1817 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1820 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1821 --------------------------------
1824 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1825 regressions in most popular drivers
1826 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1829 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1830 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1831 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1834 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1835 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1838 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1839 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1840 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1841 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1842 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1845 * New udev module for linux
1848 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1851 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1854 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1855 --------------------------------
1858 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1859 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1860 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1863 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1864 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1867 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1868 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1871 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1874 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1875 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1876 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1877 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1880 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1881 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1882 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1883 - no support for Goom and SDL
1884 - limited text rendering support
1885 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1888 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1889 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1890 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1891 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1892 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1893 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1894 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1895 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1896 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1900 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1903 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1906 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1907 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1908 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1909 Arabic and French translation updates
1912 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1913 --------------------------------
1916 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1917 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1918 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1919 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1920 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1921 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1924 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1925 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1926 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1929 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1930 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1931 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1934 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1937 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1938 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1941 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1942 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1943 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1944 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1945 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1946 * Fix various crashes
1949 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1951 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1955 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1956 ---------------------------------
1960 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1961 See 'Access:' for more info.
1962 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1965 * Instantaneous pausing
1966 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1967 * Finer speed control
1968 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1969 * Timeshift for most medias
1970 * RTSP trickplay support
1971 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1974 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1975 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1976 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1977 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1978 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1979 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1980 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1981 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1982 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1983 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1986 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1987 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1988 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1989 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1990 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1991 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1992 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1995 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1996 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1999 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2000 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2001 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2002 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2003 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2004 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2005 * DVB scanning on linux
2006 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2007 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2008 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2009 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2010 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2011 * MTP device access on Unix
2012 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2013 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2016 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2017 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2018 Windows and Mac OS X.
2021 * Export the playlist in HTML
2022 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2023 * Better metadata handling and reading
2025 Linux/Windows interface:
2026 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2027 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2028 * Recently played items list
2029 * Interface toolbar customizations
2030 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2031 - More menus actions
2032 - Finer speed slider
2033 - Improvements on many dialogs
2034 - New dialog for plugins listing
2035 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2036 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2037 * Better integration in GTK environments
2040 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2041 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2042 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2043 * Additional usability improvements
2046 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2047 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2048 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2049 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2050 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2053 * New Maemo port with:
2054 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2055 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2058 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2061 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2062 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2063 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2064 * Support for latest iSight models
2067 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2068 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2071 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2072 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2073 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2074 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2075 The old image video output has been removed.
2076 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2077 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2080 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2088 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2089 --------------------------------------
2095 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2096 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2097 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2098 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2099 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2100 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2101 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2103 Various fixes to the following modules:
2106 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2107 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2108 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2110 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2115 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2116 ---------------------------------
2119 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2120 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2123 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2124 ---------------------------------
2127 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2130 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2133 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2134 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2135 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2136 main controller window.
2137 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2140 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2145 * Updates of other localizations
2148 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2149 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2150 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2151 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2152 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2155 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2156 ---------------------------------
2159 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2161 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2164 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2165 --------------------------------
2170 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2171 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2174 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2175 --------------------------------
2177 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2178 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2181 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2184 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2185 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2188 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2189 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2192 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2193 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2194 * Various fixed in playlist
2197 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2200 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2203 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2204 ------------------------------------
2206 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2207 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2210 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2211 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2212 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2215 * Stability fix for the video output.
2218 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2219 --------------------------------
2222 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2223 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2224 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2225 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2226 * Fixed update system bugs
2227 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2230 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2231 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2232 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2233 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2234 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2235 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2236 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2237 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2238 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2239 modern Mac OS X versions
2242 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2243 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2245 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2246 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2249 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2250 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2251 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2252 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2253 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2254 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2257 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2258 --------------------------------
2260 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2261 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2262 * Multiple bugfixes.
2265 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2266 --------------------------------
2268 * Multiple bug fixes.
2271 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2272 ---------------------------------
2276 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2277 recent to work correctly
2278 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2279 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2280 edit the ".hosts" file.
2281 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2282 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2283 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2284 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2285 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2286 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2287 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2288 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2289 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2290 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2291 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2292 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2293 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2294 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2295 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2296 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2297 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2298 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2299 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2300 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2301 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2302 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2303 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2304 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2305 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2306 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2307 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2308 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2309 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2310 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2311 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2312 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2313 and postproc modules.
2314 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2315 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2316 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2317 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2319 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2320 filter. For example:
2321 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2322 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2324 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2325 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2331 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2333 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2334 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2337 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2338 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2340 * Shoutcast TV listings
2341 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2343 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2344 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2346 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2349 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2350 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2351 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2352 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2353 * JACK audio input support
2354 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2355 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2356 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2357 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2358 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2359 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2360 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2361 (available as a separate download).
2362 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2363 * RTMP input support
2364 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2365 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2366 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2368 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2369 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2372 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2373 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2374 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2375 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2377 * APEv1/2 tags support
2378 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2379 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2381 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2382 * TiVo Series 2 support
2383 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2388 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2389 * Flash Screen Video support
2390 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2391 * DosBox Capture support
2392 * Karl Morton's Video support
2393 * limited atrac3 support
2395 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2396 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2397 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2398 * H.264 PAFF support
2399 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2400 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2401 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2402 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2403 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2406 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2407 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2408 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2409 * AQTitle subtitles support
2410 * MKV USF subtitles support
2411 * HTML-based subtitles support
2412 * MPSub subtitles support
2413 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2414 * MPL2 subtitles support
2415 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2416 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2417 * Realtext subtitle support
2418 * DKS subtitle support
2419 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2420 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2423 * Flash Screen Video support
2424 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2426 Video outputs and filters:
2427 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2428 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2429 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2430 * New puzzle video output filter
2431 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2432 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2434 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2435 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2436 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2437 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2438 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2439 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2440 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2441 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2442 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2443 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2444 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2445 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2446 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2447 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2449 Audio outputs and filters:
2450 * Replay gain support
2451 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2452 new scaletempo audio filter)
2453 * New spatializer audio filter
2454 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2457 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2458 * New RTP payload formats:
2459 * Speex voice audio codec
2460 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2461 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2462 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2463 * DCCP transport for RTP
2464 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2469 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2470 end-user suitable way.
2471 * Improved user interaction
2472 * Improved mouse gestures
2473 * Vastly improved Update checker
2474 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2476 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2477 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2479 * Improved video output features
2480 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2481 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2482 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2483 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2484 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2486 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2487 if libncursesw is available.
2488 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2489 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2490 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2492 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2493 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2494 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2495 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2496 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2497 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2498 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2499 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2502 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2503 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2504 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2507 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2508 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2509 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2510 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2511 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2512 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2515 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2516 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2526 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2527 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2528 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2531 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2532 ----------------------------------
2535 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2538 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2539 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2540 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2541 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2542 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2543 * Updated Polish translation
2546 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2547 ----------------------------------
2550 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2551 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2552 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2555 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2556 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2557 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2558 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2559 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2560 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2561 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2562 to an unexpected application termination
2563 * New Serbian translation
2564 * Updated Romanian translation
2567 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2568 ----------------------------------
2571 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2572 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2573 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2574 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2575 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2576 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2577 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2578 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2581 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2582 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2583 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2584 * Fixed AAC resampling
2585 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2586 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2589 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2590 ----------------------------------
2593 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2594 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2595 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2596 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2597 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2600 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2601 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2602 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2603 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2604 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2607 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2608 ----------------------------------
2611 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2612 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2615 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2616 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2617 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2618 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2620 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2624 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2627 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2630 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2633 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2636 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2637 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2638 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2639 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2640 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2642 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2643 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2644 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2645 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2648 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2651 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2652 ----------------------------------
2655 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2656 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2657 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2659 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2660 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2662 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2663 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2666 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2668 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2669 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2670 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2671 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2672 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2673 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2674 two different movies
2675 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2676 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2677 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2680 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2683 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2684 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2685 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2686 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2689 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2690 ----------------------------------
2692 Various bugfixes, notably:
2693 * Windows Vista compatibility
2694 * Cropping in Direct3D
2695 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2696 * RSS filter string overflow
2698 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2700 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2701 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2704 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2705 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2708 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2711 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2714 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2717 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2718 ----------------------------------
2720 Various bugfixes, notably:
2721 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2722 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2723 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2724 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2725 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2726 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2729 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2730 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2733 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2735 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2736 * Diverse usability improvements
2737 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2738 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2739 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2742 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2743 ---------------------------------
2745 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2746 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2749 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2752 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2753 --------------------------------
2756 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2759 * Support for RTSP authentication
2760 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2761 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2762 * ATSC support for DVB input
2763 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2764 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2765 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2768 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2769 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2770 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2771 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2772 * Matroska WavPack support
2773 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2774 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2775 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2778 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2779 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2780 * Improved libcaca support
2784 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2785 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2787 * Systray support in skins
2789 * Support for Apple Remote control
2790 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2791 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2792 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2793 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2795 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2798 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2799 Windows 9x/ME users:
2800 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2801 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2802 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2803 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2804 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2806 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2807 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2816 * Updates to the libvlc API
2817 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2820 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2821 --------------------------------
2824 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2825 * Support for downloading updates
2829 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2830 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2831 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2832 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2834 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2835 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2836 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2839 * Cook (Real audio) support
2841 Playlist / Services discovery:
2842 * XSPF playlist support
2844 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2847 * New JACK audio output
2850 * New video filters:
2851 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2852 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2853 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2854 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2855 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2856 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2859 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2862 * System to inform the user and request information
2863 - HTTP authentication
2867 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2868 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2869 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2872 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2873 - Improved playlist handling
2874 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2876 - Embedded Video output
2877 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2878 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2879 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2880 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2881 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2883 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2884 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2887 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2890 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2891 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2892 * Growl "Now playing" support
2895 * Ability to log to syslog
2896 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2899 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2901 * A bit more automatic testing
2904 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2905 ---------------------------------
2908 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2909 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2912 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2913 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2916 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2919 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2920 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2926 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2929 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2930 --------------------------------
2933 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2937 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2938 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2939 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2942 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2943 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2944 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2945 * GnomeVFS input module
2946 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2947 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2950 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2951 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2952 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2955 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2956 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2962 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2963 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2966 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2967 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2968 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2971 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2973 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2974 - New extended controls panel
2975 - New bookmarks window
2976 - Fixed playlist sorting
2977 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2979 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2980 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2981 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2982 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2986 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2987 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2989 - Include macro to include other files
2993 * Should now work outside IE as well
2996 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2999 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3000 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3003 The following languages were added:
3007 * Simplified Chinese
3008 The following languages were re-added:
3012 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3013 --------------------------------
3016 * Rewrite of the playlist
3018 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3019 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3020 * Preferences improvements:
3021 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3022 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3024 * Core image manipulation support
3025 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3026 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3027 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3028 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3029 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3030 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3031 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3032 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3033 * Access filter architecture
3034 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3035 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3039 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3040 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3041 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3042 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3043 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3044 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3045 * Massive Matroska improvements
3046 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3048 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3049 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3050 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3051 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3052 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3054 Decoders / Encoders:
3055 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3056 * PNG decoder/encoder
3057 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3058 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3061 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3064 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3065 * Brand new SAP module
3066 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3067 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3068 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3069 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3070 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3071 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3075 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3078 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3079 * Image file video output (png)
3080 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3081 * Improvements to wall video filter
3082 * Support for font color and opacity
3088 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3089 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3090 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3094 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3095 - Improved preferences
3096 - Improvements to the wizard
3097 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3099 - Redesigned playlist
3100 - Improved preferences
3102 - Support for multiple actions
3105 - Support for the new playlist system
3107 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3110 * Screensaver disabling fix
3111 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3112 * Support for no-decoration windows
3115 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3116 * The OpenGL video output is back
3117 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3118 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3119 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3120 is not yet available in the new module
3121 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3124 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3133 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3136 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3139 The following languages were added:
3145 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3146 --------------------------------
3149 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3150 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3153 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3154 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3155 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3158 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3161 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3164 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3167 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3168 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3169 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3173 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3175 * Support of playlist group announcement
3178 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3179 --------------------------------
3182 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3183 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3184 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3185 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3186 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3187 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3190 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3191 (Stream your desktop)
3192 * Improved DVD support:
3193 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3194 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3195 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3196 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3197 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3198 (selection of titles/chapters).
3201 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3202 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3203 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3204 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3205 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3206 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3207 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3208 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3209 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3210 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3213 * G.726 audio support
3214 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3215 * MPEG-4 text support
3216 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3217 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3218 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3222 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3223 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3224 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3225 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3226 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3227 * DVB subtitles encoder
3228 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3229 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3231 * Text track muxing for mp4
3232 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3233 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3234 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3235 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3236 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3237 * Improved ASF muxer
3239 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3240 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3241 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3244 * New audio equalizer filter
3245 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3246 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3247 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3248 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3251 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3252 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3253 with support for effects.
3254 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3255 - New filters can be streamed.
3256 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3257 - Centralized scaling and blending
3259 - "time", to display current time
3260 - "marq", to display a marquee
3263 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3264 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3265 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3266 * A few skins2 improvements
3267 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3268 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3269 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3270 * Improved CORBA control module
3273 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3274 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3275 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3278 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3279 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3280 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3283 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3284 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3285 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3286 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3287 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3290 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3293 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3294 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3297 * Server/client network synchronization module
3298 * VBrick streams fully supported
3299 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3303 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3304 --------------------------------
3307 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3308 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3309 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3310 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3313 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3314 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3315 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3316 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3317 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3318 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3319 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3322 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3323 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3324 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3325 * Improved directory access module.
3326 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3327 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3328 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3329 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3330 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3333 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3334 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3335 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3338 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3339 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3340 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3343 * Improved session announcement system.
3344 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3345 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3346 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3347 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3348 * Improved transrater.
3349 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3350 * New configuration system.
3351 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3354 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3355 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3356 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3357 * Supports scheduling.
3358 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3359 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3362 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3363 - Ability to embed video output.
3364 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3365 - Lots of improvements.
3366 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3367 - New design and set of icons.
3368 - Ability to embed video output.
3369 - Support for hotkeys.
3370 - Support for bookmarks.
3372 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3373 - Better hotkeys handling.
3376 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3377 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3378 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3379 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3382 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3383 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3384 * Improved Windows installer.
3390 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3391 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3394 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3395 ---------------------------------
3398 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3399 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3402 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3403 --------------------------------
3406 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3407 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3410 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3411 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3412 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3413 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3416 * Internal improvments
3417 * Improved import/export
3420 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3422 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3423 small and strange formats.
3425 * New MOD audio demux.
3426 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3427 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3428 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3429 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3432 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3433 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3434 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3440 * New opengl video output plugin.
3443 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3444 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3447 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3448 --------------------------------
3451 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3452 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3453 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3454 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3455 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3456 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3457 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3458 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3461 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3466 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3467 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3468 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3469 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3470 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3471 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3472 * Better Icecast support.
3473 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3474 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3477 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3478 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3479 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3480 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3481 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3482 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3483 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3486 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3487 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3488 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3489 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3490 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3491 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3492 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3493 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3494 * Preliminary RTP support.
3495 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3500 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3501 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3503 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3504 - Improvements and help in preferences
3505 - New streaming wizard
3506 - Revised Disc Open menu
3508 - Improvements of the standard pages
3509 - Support for new commands
3510 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3513 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3514 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3517 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3518 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3519 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3520 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3521 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3522 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3523 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3524 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3525 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3528 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3530 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3531 * Support for Panther.
3532 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3533 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3536 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3537 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3538 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3539 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3540 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3541 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3542 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3543 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3546 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3547 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3548 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3551 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3554 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3555 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3556 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3557 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3560 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3561 --------------------------------
3564 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3567 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3568 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3571 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3572 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3575 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3578 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3579 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3582 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3585 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3588 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3589 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3593 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3594 --------------------------------
3597 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3598 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3602 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3603 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3604 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3606 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3607 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3610 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3613 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3616 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3617 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3621 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3622 --------------------------------
3625 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3626 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3630 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3631 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3632 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3633 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3634 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3637 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3638 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3639 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3642 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3643 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3644 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3647 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3648 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3649 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3650 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3651 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3654 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3655 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3656 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3659 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3662 * Improved build system.
3663 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3664 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3665 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3666 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3669 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3670 --------------------------------
3673 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3676 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3677 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3678 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3679 * Video 4 Linux support
3680 * CD Digital Audio support
3681 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3684 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3685 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3686 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3687 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3690 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3691 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3692 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3693 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3694 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3695 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3696 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3699 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3700 * New HTTP remote control interface
3703 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3704 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3705 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3706 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3707 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3710 * New reset option for the preferences
3711 * You can set your language in the prefences
3712 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3713 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3714 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3715 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3718 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3719 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3720 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3723 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3724 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3725 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3726 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3727 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3728 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3729 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3730 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3731 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3732 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3735 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3736 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3737 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3738 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3739 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3740 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3741 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3744 * Interface localization
3745 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3746 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3747 * New full-featured Preferences window
3750 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3751 --------------------------------
3754 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3755 * support for skins at the interface level
3756 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3757 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3758 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3759 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3760 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3763 * fixed HTTP redirects
3764 * support for opening an entire directory
3765 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3766 * new video4linux access plug-in
3767 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3770 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3771 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3772 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3775 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3776 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3777 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3778 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3779 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3780 * new codec for raw I420 video
3781 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3784 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3785 (although it still misses some important features)
3786 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3789 * new HTTP output support
3790 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3791 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3794 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3797 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3800 * reorderable playlist
3801 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3802 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3803 * support for mono audio output devices
3804 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3805 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3806 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3807 * the messages window remembers more lines
3808 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3809 * http and ogg stream output options
3810 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3813 * new skinnable interface
3814 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3816 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3817 * support for FLAC audio format
3818 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3820 * network tab in the interface
3821 * "apply" handling in preferences
3824 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3825 ---------------------------------
3828 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3829 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3830 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3831 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3833 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3834 * DTS S/PDIF support
3837 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3838 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3839 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3840 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3843 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3844 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3847 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3850 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3853 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3855 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3856 * rc interface is now fully useable
3857 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3860 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3861 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3862 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3863 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3864 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3866 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3867 * support for mouse gestures
3868 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3871 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3872 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3875 * improved ID3 tag detection
3876 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3877 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3878 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3880 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3883 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3884 ---------------------------------
3887 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3888 English was set as the preferred language
3891 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3892 --------------------------------
3895 * new mouse gesture interface
3896 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3900 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3901 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3902 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3905 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3906 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3910 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3913 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3914 without the user consent
3917 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3919 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3920 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3921 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3924 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3925 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3926 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3927 * playlist enhancements
3928 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3929 * new step forward/step backward commands
3930 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3931 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3932 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3935 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3936 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3937 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3940 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3941 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3944 * native video output is working again
3945 * only commandline interface support
3946 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3949 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3950 --------------------------------
3953 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3954 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3955 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3956 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3957 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3958 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3959 and A/52 streams are supported)
3960 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3965 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3966 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3967 * VCD entry points support
3968 * VCD image file support
3971 * support for *.asf format
3972 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3973 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3974 * support for ogg encapsulation
3975 * support for raw DV format
3976 * support for *.wav format
3977 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3980 Stream discovery & playlists:
3981 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3982 * support for .m3u file format
3983 * support for .asx file format
3984 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3987 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3988 (only available with the .avi demux)
3989 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3990 * support for raw PCM data
3991 * support for Cinepak video codec
3992 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3993 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3994 * support for Xvid codec
3995 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3996 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3997 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3999 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4001 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4004 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4007 * new WxWindows interface
4008 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4009 device and the channels configuration
4010 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4011 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4012 format that VLC can play
4013 * new swedish translation
4014 * enhancements of the playlist window
4015 * new messages window to see debug info
4016 * fixed a few crashes
4019 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4020 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4021 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4022 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working