3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
4 -------------------------------------------------------
7 * Vastly improved playlist support:
8 * Media library support
10 * Shoutcast TV listings
11 * Audioscrobbler / last.fm support
14 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
18 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splited into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
19 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
23 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
25 * Improved user interaction
27 * Full Screen controller panel
29 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
30 --------------------------------
33 * Shoutcast TV listings support
36 * Support for RTSP authentication
37 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
38 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
39 * ATSC support for DVB
42 * Native WMV3 / VC-1 support
43 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
46 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
47 * Improved libcaca support
50 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
51 * Systray support in skins (Windows only)
52 * Notifications using notification-daemon on Linux
53 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
55 - Support for Apple Remote control
56 - Right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
57 - Main Menu keeps accessible when playing in fullscreen mode
64 * Updates to the libvlc API
67 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
68 ---------------------------------
71 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
72 * Support for downloading updates
76 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
77 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
78 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
79 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
81 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
82 * Improved subtitles encoding support
83 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
86 * Cook (Real audio) support
88 Playlist / Services discovery:
89 * XSPF playlist support
91 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
94 * New JACK audio output
98 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
99 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
100 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
101 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
102 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
103 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
106 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
109 * System to inform the user and request information
110 - HTTP authentication
114 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
115 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
116 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
119 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
120 - Improved playlist handling
121 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
123 - Embedded Video output
124 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
125 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
126 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
127 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
128 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
130 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
131 - A bunch of new RPN functions
134 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
137 * Mac-Intel compatibility
138 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
139 * Growl "Now playing" support
142 * Ability to log to syslog
143 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
146 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
148 * A bit more automatic testing
150 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
151 ---------------------------------
154 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
155 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
158 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
159 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
162 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
165 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
166 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
172 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
174 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
175 --------------------------------
178 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
182 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
183 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
184 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
187 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
188 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
189 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
190 * GnomeVFS input module
191 * Support for RTP packet reordering
192 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
195 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
196 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
197 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
200 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
201 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
207 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
208 Mixer and Dolby Surround
211 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
212 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
213 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
216 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
218 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
219 - New extended controls panel
220 - New bookmarks window
221 - Fixed playlist sorting
222 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
224 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
225 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
226 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
227 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
231 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
232 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
234 - Include macro to include other files
238 * Should now work outside IE as well
241 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
244 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
245 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
248 The following languages were added:
253 The following languages were re-added:
256 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
257 --------------------------------
260 * Rewrite of the playlist
262 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
263 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
264 * Preferences improvements:
265 - New organization, designed to improve usability
266 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
268 * Core image manipulation support
269 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
270 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
271 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
272 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
273 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
274 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
275 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
276 now separated by ':' instead of ','
277 * Access filter architecture
278 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
279 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
283 * Support for SOCKS proxy
284 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
285 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
286 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
287 * Better support for Kasenna streams
288 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
289 * Massive Matroska improvements
290 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
292 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
293 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
294 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
295 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
296 * Support for FTP over IPv6
299 * Dirac decoder and encoder
300 * PNG decoder/encoder
301 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
302 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
305 * New Record and Timeshift filters
308 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
309 * Brand new SAP module
310 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
311 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
312 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
313 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
314 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
315 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
319 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
322 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
323 * Image file video output (png)
324 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
325 * Improvements to wall video filter
326 * Support for font color and opacity
332 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
333 - Seeking support in VoD streams
334 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
338 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
339 - Improved preferences
340 - Improvements to the wizard
341 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
343 - Redesigned playlist
344 - Improved preferences
346 - Support for multiple actions
349 - Support for the new playlist system
351 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
354 * Screensaver disabling fix
355 * DirectShow tuner configuration
356 * Support for no-decoration windows
359 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
360 * The OpenGL video output is back
361 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
362 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
363 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
364 is not yet available in the new module
365 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
368 * Support for single-buffered overlay
377 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
380 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
383 The following languages were added:
389 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
390 -----------------------------------------------------
393 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
394 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
397 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
398 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
399 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
402 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
405 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
408 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
411 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
412 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
413 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
417 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
419 * Support of playlist group announcement
421 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
422 -----------------------------------------------------
425 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
426 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
427 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
428 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
429 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
430 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
433 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
434 (Stream your desktop)
435 * Improved DVD support:
436 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
437 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
438 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
439 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
440 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
441 (selection of titles/chapters).
444 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
445 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
446 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
447 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
448 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
449 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
450 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
451 * Improved Ogg demuxer
452 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
453 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
456 * G.726 audio support
457 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
458 * MPEG-4 text support
459 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
460 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
461 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
465 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
466 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
467 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
468 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
469 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
470 * DVB subtitles encoder
471 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
472 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
474 * Text track muxing for mp4
475 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
476 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
477 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
478 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
479 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
482 * H.263 RTP streaming support
483 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
484 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
487 * New audio equalizer filter
488 * Very trivial volume normalizer
489 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
490 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
491 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
494 * Roku HD1000 Video output
495 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
496 with support for effects.
497 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
498 - New filters can be streamed.
499 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
500 - Centralized scaling and blending
502 - "time", to display current time
503 - "marq", to display a marquee
506 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
507 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
508 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
509 * A few skins2 improvements
510 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
511 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
512 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
513 * Improved CORBA control module
516 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
517 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
518 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
521 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
522 * Experimental SVG rendering module
523 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
526 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
527 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
528 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
529 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
530 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
533 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
536 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
537 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
540 * Server/client network synchronization module
541 * VBrick streams fully supported
542 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
545 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
546 --------------------------------
549 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
550 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
551 * Improved HTTP daemon.
552 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
555 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
556 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
557 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
558 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
559 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
560 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
561 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
564 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
565 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
566 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
567 * Improved directory access module.
568 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
569 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
570 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
571 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
572 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
575 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
576 * mmsh streaming fixes.
577 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
580 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
581 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
582 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
585 * Improved session announcement system.
586 * Minimize threads usage by default.
587 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
588 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
589 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
590 * Improved transrater.
591 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
592 * New configuration system.
593 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
596 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
597 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
598 * Supports live streams and VoD.
599 * Supports scheduling.
600 * Telnet interface for vlm.
601 * HTTP interface for vlm.
604 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
605 - Ability to embed video output.
606 - Support for bitmap fonts.
607 - Lots of improvements.
608 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
609 - New design and set of icons.
610 - Ability to embed video output.
611 - Support for hotkeys.
612 - Support for bookmarks.
614 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
615 - Better hotkeys handling.
618 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
619 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
620 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
621 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
624 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
625 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
626 * Improved Windows installer.
632 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
633 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
635 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
636 ---------------------------------
639 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
640 * Playing MOD files is working now.
643 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
644 ---------------------------------
647 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
648 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
651 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
652 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
653 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
654 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
657 * Internal improvments
658 * Improved import/export
661 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
663 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
664 small and strange formats.
666 * New MOD audio demux.
667 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
668 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
669 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
670 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
673 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
674 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
675 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
681 * New opengl video output plugin.
684 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
685 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
687 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
688 ---------------------------------
691 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
692 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
693 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
694 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
695 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
696 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
697 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
698 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
701 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
706 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
707 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
708 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
709 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
710 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
711 * Reworked DVB tuning.
712 * Better Icecast support.
713 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
714 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
717 * Support for Theora video encoding.
718 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
719 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
720 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
721 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
722 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
723 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
726 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
727 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
728 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
729 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
730 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
731 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
732 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
733 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
734 * Preliminary RTP support.
735 * Fixes to SAP announces.
740 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
741 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
743 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
744 - Improvements and help in preferences
745 - New streaming wizard
746 - Revised Disc Open menu
748 - Improvements of the standard pages
749 - Support for new commands
750 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
753 * Many fixes to the SAP module
754 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
757 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
758 * Text subtitles autodetection.
759 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
760 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
761 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
762 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
763 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
764 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
765 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
768 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
770 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
771 * Support for Panther.
772 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
773 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
776 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
777 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
778 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
779 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
780 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
781 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
782 * Multimonitor support (untested).
783 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
786 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
787 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
788 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
791 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
794 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
795 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
796 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
797 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
799 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
800 ---------------------------------
803 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
806 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
807 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
810 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
811 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
814 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
817 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
818 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
821 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
824 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
827 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
828 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
831 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
832 ---------------------------------
835 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
836 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
840 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
841 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
842 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
844 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
845 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
848 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
851 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
854 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
855 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
858 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
859 ---------------------------------
862 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
863 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
867 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
868 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
869 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
870 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
871 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
874 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
875 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
876 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
879 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
880 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
881 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
884 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
885 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
886 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
887 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
888 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
891 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
892 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
893 * A new CORBA control plugin.
896 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
899 * Improved build system.
900 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
901 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
902 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
903 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
906 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
907 ---------------------------------
910 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
913 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
914 * Fixed large file support on Windows
915 * Video 4 Linux support
916 * CD Digital Audio support
917 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
920 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
921 * Support for OpenDML avi files
922 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
923 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
926 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
927 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
928 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
929 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
930 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
931 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
932 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
935 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
936 * New HTTP remote control interface
939 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
940 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
941 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
942 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
945 * New reset option for the preferences
946 * You can set your language in the prefences
947 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
948 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
949 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
950 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
953 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
954 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
955 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
958 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
959 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
960 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
961 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
962 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
963 * New icons by Davor Orel.
964 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
965 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
966 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
967 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
970 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
971 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
972 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
973 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
974 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
975 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
976 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
979 * Interface localization
980 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
981 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
982 * New full-featured Preferences window
984 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
985 ---------------------------------
988 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
989 * support for skins at the interface level
990 * new OSD module using Freetype2
991 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
992 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
993 input level before dropping out of date frames.
994 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
997 * fixed HTTP redirects
998 * support for opening an entire directory
999 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1000 * new video4linux access plug-in
1001 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1004 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1005 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1006 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1009 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1010 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1011 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1012 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1013 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1014 * new codec for raw I420 video
1015 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1018 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1019 (although it still misses some important features)
1020 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1023 * new HTTP output support
1024 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1025 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1028 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1031 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1034 * reorderable playlist
1035 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1036 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1037 * support for mono audio output devices
1038 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1039 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1040 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1041 * the messages window remembers more lines
1042 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1043 * http and ogg stream output options
1044 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1047 * new skinnable interface
1048 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1050 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1051 * support for FLAC audio format
1052 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1054 * network tab in the interface
1055 * "apply" handling in preferences
1058 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1059 ---------------------------------
1062 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1063 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1064 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1065 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1067 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1068 * DTS S/PDIF support
1071 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1072 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1073 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1074 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1077 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1078 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1081 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1084 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1087 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1089 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1090 * rc interface is now fully useable
1091 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1094 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1095 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1096 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1097 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1098 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1100 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1101 * support for mouse gestures
1102 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1105 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1106 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1109 * improved ID3 tag detection
1110 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1111 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1112 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1114 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1117 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1118 ---------------------------------
1121 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1122 English was set as the preferred language
1125 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1126 --------------------------------
1129 * new mouse gesture interface
1130 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1134 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1135 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1136 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1139 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1140 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1144 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1147 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1148 without the user consent
1151 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1153 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1154 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1155 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1158 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1159 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1160 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1161 * playlist enhancements
1162 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1163 * new step forward/step backward commands
1164 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1165 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1166 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1169 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1170 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1171 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1174 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1175 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1178 * native video output is working again
1179 * only commandline interface support
1180 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1183 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1184 --------------------------------
1187 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1188 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1189 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1190 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1191 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1192 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1193 and A/52 streams are supported)
1194 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1199 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1200 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1201 * VCD entry points support
1202 * VCD image file support
1205 * support for *.asf format
1206 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1207 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1208 * support for ogg encapsulation
1209 * support for raw DV format
1210 * support for *.wav format
1211 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1214 Stream discovery & playlists:
1215 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1216 * support for .m3u file format
1217 * support for .asx file format
1218 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1221 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1222 (only available with the .avi demux)
1223 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1224 * support for raw PCM data
1225 * support for Cinepak video codec
1226 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1227 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1228 * support for Xvid codec
1229 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1230 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1231 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1233 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1235 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1238 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1241 * new WxWindows interface
1242 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1243 device and the channels configuration
1244 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1245 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1246 format that VLC can play
1247 * new swedish translation
1248 * enhancements of the playlist window
1249 * new messages window to see debug info
1250 * fixed a few crashes
1253 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1254 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1255 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1256 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working