1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
6 * New SMB access module using libdsm
8 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
9 --------------------------------
12 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
15 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
16 * Add extensions download from external repositories
17 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
18 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
21 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
22 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
23 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
24 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
26 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
27 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
30 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
31 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
32 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
33 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
34 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
35 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
36 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
37 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
38 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
39 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
40 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
41 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
42 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
43 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
44 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
45 * New jpeg image decoder
46 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
47 * New SVG image decoder
48 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
49 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
50 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
53 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
54 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
55 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
56 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
57 * New png image encoder using libpng
60 * New CAF format module
61 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
62 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
63 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
64 synchronization and tracks exclusion
65 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
66 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
69 * Basic support for WebVTT
70 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
71 * Support HDPR TS files
72 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
73 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
74 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
75 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
76 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
77 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
78 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
79 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
80 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
81 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
82 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
83 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
84 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
87 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
88 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
90 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
93 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
94 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
95 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
96 * New Android native window provider module
97 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
98 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
99 * Add mmal based video output
102 * New Oldmovie effect filter
103 * New VHS effect filter
104 * New Freeze effect filter
105 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
106 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
107 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
110 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
111 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
112 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
113 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
114 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
115 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
118 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
119 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
120 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
121 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
122 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
123 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
124 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
125 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
126 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
128 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
129 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
130 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
133 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
134 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
137 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
138 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
141 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
142 * Add record button in Qt menus
143 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
144 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
145 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
148 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
149 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
150 * Fixes for advanced preferences
151 * Option to increase playlist font size
154 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
155 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
156 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
159 * ios video output: use ios2
160 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
161 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
164 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
165 --------------------------------
168 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
171 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
174 * Fix DVD playback regression
175 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
176 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
179 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
180 --------------------------------
183 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
184 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
187 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
188 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
189 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
192 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
193 by updating codec libraries
194 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
195 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
196 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
199 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
200 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
201 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
202 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
205 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
206 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
209 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
210 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
211 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
212 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
213 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
216 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
217 * Fix record file names
220 * Fix minimal size possible on start
221 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
222 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
223 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
224 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
227 * Fix album art display on Windows
230 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
231 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
232 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
233 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
234 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
235 and Simplified Chinese translations
236 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
239 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
240 --------------------------------
243 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
244 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
245 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
246 audio devices on OS X
247 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
248 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
251 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
252 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
255 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
256 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
259 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
262 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
263 * Improve A-B loop control
264 * Fix album art update when changing media
267 * Add a language option in the interface
268 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
269 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
270 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
271 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
272 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
273 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
274 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
277 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
280 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
281 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
282 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
283 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
286 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
287 --------------------------------
290 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
292 * Fix some subtitles track selection
295 * VP9 support in WebM
296 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
297 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
300 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
301 * Support Speex in ogg files
302 * Fix some .mov playlists support
303 * Support Alac in mkv
304 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
305 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
308 * Fix DVB options parsing
309 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
310 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
313 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
314 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
317 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
318 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
321 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
322 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
323 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
324 * Fix play after drag'n drop
325 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
328 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
329 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
332 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
333 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
336 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
337 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
338 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
339 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
340 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
341 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
342 * Improves interface resizings
345 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
346 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
347 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
348 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
349 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
353 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
354 --------------------------------
357 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
358 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
359 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
360 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
361 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
363 3rd party libraries (contrib):
364 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
367 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
368 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
369 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
370 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
371 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
374 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
375 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
379 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
380 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
381 * Support for Ulead DV audio
382 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
383 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
384 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
385 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
386 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
387 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
388 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
389 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
390 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
391 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
394 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
395 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
396 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
399 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
400 remove support for previous OS X releases
401 * Major improvements in DASH support
402 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
403 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
404 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
405 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
406 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
407 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
408 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
409 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
410 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
411 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
412 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
415 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
416 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
417 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
418 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
419 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
420 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
421 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
422 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
423 * Support for more MJPEG streams
424 * Add support for liveleak streams
425 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
426 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
427 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
430 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
431 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
432 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
433 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
434 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
435 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
436 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
437 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
438 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
439 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
440 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
443 * New remapping channel filter
444 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
445 * New VSXu visualization plugin
446 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
447 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
448 * New gain audio filter
451 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
452 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
453 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
454 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
455 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
456 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
457 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
458 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
459 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
462 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
463 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
464 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
465 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
466 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
467 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
468 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
471 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
472 * Options support for AVIO output module
473 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
474 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
475 * Livehttp stream encryption support
476 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
477 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
480 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
483 * configurable password for the HTTP server
484 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
485 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
486 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
487 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
488 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
489 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
490 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
494 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
497 * Add support for multiple video outputs
498 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
500 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
501 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
502 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
503 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
504 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
505 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
506 VLC's internal volume level
507 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
509 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
510 selection and to manage the list of presets
511 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
512 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
513 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
514 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
515 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
516 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
517 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
518 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
519 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
520 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
522 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
523 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
524 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
525 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
526 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
527 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
528 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
529 3rd party applications
530 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
531 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
532 (system-wide settings)
533 * Add support for the Video Title option
534 * Add support for the Boss Key
535 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
536 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
539 * Partial support for Qt5.0
540 * Menus modifications and improvements
541 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
542 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
543 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
544 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
545 * EPG display fixes and improvements
546 * Add SD pixmap sources
547 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
548 * Display playlist total duration
549 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
550 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
551 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
556 * Extend sliders, offsets options
557 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
558 * Numerous fixes and improvements
559 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
562 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
563 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
564 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
565 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
566 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
567 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
568 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
569 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
570 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
571 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
574 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
575 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
576 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
577 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
578 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
579 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
581 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
582 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
583 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
584 * Broken crop video filter
586 * OSD parser and menu
587 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
588 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
589 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
590 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
594 * Update of all translations
597 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
598 --------------------------------
601 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
602 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
605 * Fix modplug security issues
608 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
609 --------------------------------
613 * Fix crash in QTsound
614 * Fix screen mouse file location
615 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
618 * Fix use after free in sgimb
619 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
622 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
625 * Fix interface crashes
626 * Fix autostart playback option
627 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
630 * update Welsh translation
631 * New Kannada translation
634 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
635 --------------------------------
638 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
639 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
643 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
646 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
649 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
652 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
656 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
659 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
662 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
663 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
664 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
667 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
668 --------------------------------
671 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
674 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
677 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
678 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
679 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
680 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
681 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
682 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
685 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
686 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
687 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
688 * 3rd party codecs updates
691 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
692 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
693 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
694 in the advanced preferences panel
695 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
696 * Fix crash within the video output code
697 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
698 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
699 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
700 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
702 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
705 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
708 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
709 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
712 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
715 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
716 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
717 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
718 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
719 Dutch, Danish, translations
720 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
723 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
724 --------------------------------
727 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
730 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
731 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
732 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
735 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
736 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
737 * Fix koreus lua parser
738 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
739 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
740 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
741 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
744 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
745 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
748 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
751 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
752 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
753 * Fix Time counter UI look
754 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
757 * Fix https streaming
760 * Fix audio and video track selection:
761 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
762 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
765 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
766 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
767 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
768 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
769 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
772 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
773 --------------------------------
776 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
777 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
778 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
779 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
780 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
781 during playback on Mac OS X
784 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
785 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
786 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
789 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
790 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
791 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
792 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
793 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
796 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
797 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
798 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
799 * Support Youtube live streams
802 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
805 * Fix media info dialog update
806 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
807 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
808 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
809 * Fix album art display at start
812 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
813 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
814 * Fix menus display and behavior
815 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
816 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
817 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
818 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
819 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
820 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
821 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
824 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
825 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
826 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
827 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
828 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
829 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
830 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
831 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
832 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
835 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
836 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
837 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
838 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
839 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
842 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
843 --------------------------------
846 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
849 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
850 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
853 * Add GateKeeper support
854 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
855 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
856 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
859 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
862 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
863 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
864 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
865 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
866 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
869 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
870 --------------------------------
873 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
874 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
875 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
876 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
877 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
878 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
879 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
880 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
881 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
882 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
883 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
887 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
888 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
889 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
890 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
891 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
892 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
893 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
894 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
895 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
896 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
897 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
898 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
901 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
902 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
904 * Fix MP3 free format support
907 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
908 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
909 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
910 * Fix for DVB channels file support
911 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
914 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
915 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
917 Audio filters and output:
918 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
919 * Fix DirectSound device selection
920 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
921 * Do not apply volume in file output
922 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
923 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
926 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
927 the persistant media library
928 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
929 to the media library or the temporary playlist
930 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
931 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
932 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
933 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
934 press on the Play/Pause button
935 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
936 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
937 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
938 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
939 * Many Fullscreen fixes
940 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
941 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
942 Synchronization panel
943 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
944 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
945 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
946 * Fix crashes on exit
947 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
949 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
950 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
951 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
952 automatically reset on the first launch.
953 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
954 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
955 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
958 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
959 * Fixes for icecast SD
962 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
963 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
964 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
965 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
966 * Fix tags and file names display
967 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
970 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
971 * Fix for key events and focus loss
974 * Fix display of some buttons
975 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
976 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
979 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
980 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
981 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
984 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
985 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
986 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
987 Thai translations update
988 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
991 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
992 --------------------------------
995 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
996 * fix the samba module compilation
997 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
998 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
999 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1000 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1003 * Support for MXPEG files
1004 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1005 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1008 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1009 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1010 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1013 * Fix ogm header creation
1016 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1017 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1020 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1021 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1022 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1023 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1026 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1029 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1030 * allow to hide the sidebar
1031 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1032 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1033 * noticebly faster launch time
1034 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1035 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1036 * improve track synchronization panel
1037 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1038 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1041 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1042 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1043 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1044 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1047 * fix for menus display
1048 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1049 * documentation update
1052 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1053 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1056 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1057 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1058 * Update Jamendo selections
1062 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1063 * fix a crash on VLM close
1066 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1067 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1068 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1069 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1072 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1075 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1076 ---------------------------------
1079 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1080 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1081 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1082 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1083 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1084 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1085 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1086 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1087 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1088 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1089 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1090 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1091 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1092 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1093 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1094 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1095 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1096 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1097 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1098 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1099 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1100 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1101 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1102 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1103 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1104 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1106 Important changes for packagers:
1107 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1108 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1109 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1110 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1111 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1112 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1113 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1114 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1115 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1116 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1119 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1120 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1121 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1122 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1123 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1124 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1125 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1128 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1129 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1130 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1131 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1132 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1133 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1134 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1135 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1136 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1137 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1138 * PulseAudio audio input support
1139 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1140 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1141 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1142 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1143 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1144 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1145 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1146 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1149 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1150 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1151 are notably concerned.
1152 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1153 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1154 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1155 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1156 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1157 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1158 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1159 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1160 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1161 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1162 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1163 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1164 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1165 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1166 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1169 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1170 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1171 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1172 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1173 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1174 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1175 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1176 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1177 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1178 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1179 * Improved support of tracker files
1180 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1183 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1184 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1185 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1186 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1187 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1188 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1189 and important cleanups and optimisations
1190 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1191 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1192 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1193 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1194 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1195 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1196 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1197 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1198 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1199 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1200 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1201 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1202 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1203 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1204 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1205 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1206 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1207 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1208 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1209 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1210 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1213 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1214 * New video output for iOS platform
1215 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1216 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1217 * Various vmem improvements
1218 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1219 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1220 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1221 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1222 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1223 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1225 Audio Output and Filters:
1226 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1227 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1228 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1229 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1230 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1231 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1232 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1233 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1234 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1235 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1238 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1239 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1240 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1241 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1242 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1243 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1244 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1245 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1246 * New anti-flickering filter
1247 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1248 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1249 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1250 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1251 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1252 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1253 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1256 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1257 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1258 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1259 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1260 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1261 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1262 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1263 * Major rework of VoD support
1264 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1265 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1266 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1267 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1268 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1269 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1270 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1271 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1272 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1273 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1276 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1277 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1280 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1281 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1282 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1283 list of available audio and video filters
1284 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1285 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1286 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1289 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1290 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1291 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1292 * id3tag: use taglib
1293 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1294 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1295 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1296 * removal of the noise filter
1297 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1298 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1299 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1300 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1303 * Update of translations for most languages.
1304 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1307 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1308 ----------------------------------
1311 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1312 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1315 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1316 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1319 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1320 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1321 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1324 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1327 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1328 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1331 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1334 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1335 ----------------------------------
1338 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1339 including support for OS X Lion
1340 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1341 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1344 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1347 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1348 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1349 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1352 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1355 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1356 ----------------------------------
1359 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1360 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1363 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1364 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1365 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1366 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1367 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1369 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1370 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1371 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1373 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1374 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1377 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1380 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1383 * Fix quitting on Linux
1384 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1388 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1391 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1394 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1395 ---------------------------------
1397 Windows and Mac OS X:
1398 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1401 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1402 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1405 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1408 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1411 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1413 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1414 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1416 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1417 * RTP output and XML export
1418 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1422 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1423 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1424 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1425 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1428 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1429 --------------------------------
1431 Windows and Mac OS X:
1432 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1435 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1438 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1439 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1440 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1441 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1442 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1443 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1446 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1447 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1451 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1452 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1453 * New Luganda Translation
1456 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1457 --------------------------------
1460 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1463 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1464 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1465 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1466 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1469 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1471 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1472 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1473 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1474 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1475 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1476 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1477 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1478 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1480 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1481 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1482 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1483 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1484 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1485 * Configure and build system improvements
1486 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1489 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1490 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1491 * New icelandic translation
1494 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1495 --------------------------------
1498 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1499 #234484 and #260719.
1502 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1503 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1504 and stability reasons
1507 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1511 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1514 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1515 ----------------------------------
1518 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1521 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1522 ---------------------------------
1525 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1526 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1527 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1528 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1531 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1534 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1535 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1536 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1537 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1540 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1541 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1542 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1544 Subtitles and renderer:
1545 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1546 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1547 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1548 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1549 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1552 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1553 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1554 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1555 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1558 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1559 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1561 Miscellaneous fixes:
1562 * KDE device solid actions
1564 * Transcode integer overflow
1565 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1566 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1569 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1570 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1571 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1574 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1575 ----------------------------------
1578 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1582 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1585 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1588 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1589 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1590 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1591 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1594 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1598 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1601 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1604 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1605 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1607 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1611 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1612 * Miscellaneous fixes
1615 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1616 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1617 French and Ukrainian
1618 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1619 * New Asturian translation
1622 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1623 ----------------------------------
1626 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1628 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1631 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1634 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1635 * Various fixes for Windows
1638 * New Armenian translation
1639 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1640 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1643 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1644 --------------------------------
1647 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1648 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1649 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1652 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1653 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1656 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1657 --------------------------------
1659 Access and demuxers:
1660 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1661 * fix for podcasts parsing
1662 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1665 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1666 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1669 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1670 * fix m3u playlists exports
1673 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1676 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1679 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1682 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1685 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1688 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1689 --------------------------------
1692 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1693 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1696 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1697 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1700 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1701 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1702 * fix console output encoding
1704 Interface and extensions:
1705 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1706 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1709 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1710 --------------------------------
1713 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1714 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1715 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1716 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1717 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1718 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1719 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1720 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1721 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1722 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1723 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1724 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1725 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1726 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1727 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1728 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1732 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1733 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1734 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1735 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1736 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1739 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1742 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1743 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1744 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1748 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1751 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1752 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1753 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1756 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1757 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1758 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1759 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1762 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1763 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1766 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1767 --------------------------------
1769 Important changes for users:
1770 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1771 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1773 Important changes for packagers:
1774 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1775 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1776 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1777 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1778 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1780 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1782 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1783 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1784 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1785 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1786 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1789 * Support for the sftp protocol
1790 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1791 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1792 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1793 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1794 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1797 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1798 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1799 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1801 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1802 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1803 * Invmem module improvements
1804 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1805 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1806 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1807 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1808 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1809 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1810 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1811 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1812 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1813 * Support for VP8 codec
1814 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1817 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1818 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1819 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1820 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1821 * Various EGP improvements
1822 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1823 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1826 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1827 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1828 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1829 * Podcast images are now displayed
1832 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1833 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1834 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1835 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1836 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1837 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1838 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1839 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1840 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1841 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1842 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1845 * New content extensions lua framework
1848 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1849 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1850 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1851 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1852 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1853 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1854 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1857 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1858 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1859 * Service discovery based on libudev
1860 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1863 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1864 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1865 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1866 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1867 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1868 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1869 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1872 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1873 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1874 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1877 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1879 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1880 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1883 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1886 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1887 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1888 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1889 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1890 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1891 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1892 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1895 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1896 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1899 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1900 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1901 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1905 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1906 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1907 * Improved Solaris port
1910 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1911 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1914 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1915 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1916 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1917 * transrate: broken since too long
1918 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1919 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1920 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1921 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1922 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1923 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1924 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1925 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1926 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1927 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1928 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1929 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1930 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1931 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1934 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1935 --------------------------------
1938 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1940 Decoders/Packetizers:
1941 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1944 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1945 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1946 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1947 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1948 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1951 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1952 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1955 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1956 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1959 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1960 and Walloon translations updated
1961 * Sinhala translation started
1964 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1965 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1968 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1969 --------------------------------
1972 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1973 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1976 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1979 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1980 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1983 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1984 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1985 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1986 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1989 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1990 --------------------------------
1993 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1994 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1997 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1998 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2001 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2002 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2005 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2008 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2009 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2012 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2013 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2016 * New Walloon translation
2017 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2020 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2021 --------------------------------
2024 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2025 regressions in most popular drivers
2026 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2029 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2030 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2031 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2034 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2035 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2038 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2039 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2040 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2041 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2042 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2045 * New udev module for linux
2048 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2051 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2054 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2055 --------------------------------
2058 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2059 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2060 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2063 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2064 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2067 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2068 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2071 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2074 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2075 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2076 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2077 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2080 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2081 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2082 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2083 - no support for Goom and SDL
2084 - limited text rendering support
2085 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2088 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2089 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2090 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2091 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2092 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2093 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2094 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2095 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2096 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2100 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2103 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2106 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2107 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2108 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2109 Arabic and French translation updates
2112 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2113 --------------------------------
2116 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2117 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2118 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2119 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2120 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2121 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2124 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2125 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2126 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2129 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2130 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2131 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2134 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2137 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2138 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2141 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2142 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2143 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2144 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2145 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2146 * Fix various crashes
2149 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2151 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2155 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2156 ---------------------------------
2160 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2161 See 'Access:' for more info.
2162 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2165 * Instantaneous pausing
2166 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2167 * Finer speed control
2168 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2169 * Timeshift for most medias
2170 * RTSP trickplay support
2171 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2174 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2175 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2176 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2177 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2178 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2179 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2180 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2181 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2182 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2183 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2186 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2187 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2188 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2189 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2190 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2191 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2192 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2195 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2196 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2199 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2200 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2201 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2202 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2203 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2204 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2205 * DVB scanning on linux
2206 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2207 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2208 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2209 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2210 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2211 * MTP device access on Unix
2212 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2213 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2216 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2217 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2218 Windows and Mac OS X.
2221 * Export the playlist in HTML
2222 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2223 * Better metadata handling and reading
2225 Linux/Windows interface:
2226 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2227 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2228 * Recently played items list
2229 * Interface toolbar customizations
2230 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2231 - More menus actions
2232 - Finer speed slider
2233 - Improvements on many dialogs
2234 - New dialog for plugins listing
2235 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2236 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2237 * Better integration in GTK environments
2240 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2241 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2242 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2243 * Additional usability improvements
2246 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2247 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2248 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2249 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2250 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2253 * New Maemo port with:
2254 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2255 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2258 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2261 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2262 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2263 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2264 * Support for latest iSight models
2267 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2268 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2271 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2272 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2273 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2274 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2275 The old image video output has been removed.
2276 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2277 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2280 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2288 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2289 --------------------------------------
2295 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2296 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2297 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2298 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2299 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2300 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2301 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2303 Various fixes to the following modules:
2306 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2307 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2308 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2310 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2315 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2316 ---------------------------------
2319 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2320 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2323 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2324 ---------------------------------
2327 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2330 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2333 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2334 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2335 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2336 main controller window.
2337 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2340 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2345 * Updates of other localizations
2348 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2349 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2350 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2351 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2352 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2355 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2356 ---------------------------------
2359 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2361 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2364 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2365 --------------------------------
2370 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2371 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2374 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2375 --------------------------------
2377 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2378 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2381 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2384 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2385 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2388 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2389 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2392 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2393 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2394 * Various fixed in playlist
2397 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2400 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2403 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2404 ------------------------------------
2406 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2407 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2410 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2411 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2412 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2415 * Stability fix for the video output.
2418 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2419 --------------------------------
2422 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2423 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2424 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2425 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2426 * Fixed update system bugs
2427 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2430 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2431 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2432 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2433 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2434 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2435 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2436 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2437 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2438 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2439 modern Mac OS X versions
2442 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2443 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2445 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2446 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2449 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2450 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2451 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2452 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2453 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2454 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2457 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2458 --------------------------------
2460 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2461 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2462 * Multiple bugfixes.
2465 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2466 --------------------------------
2468 * Multiple bug fixes.
2471 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2472 ---------------------------------
2476 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2477 recent to work correctly
2478 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2479 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2480 edit the ".hosts" file.
2481 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2482 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2483 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2484 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2485 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2486 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2487 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2488 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2489 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2490 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2491 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2492 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2493 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2494 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2495 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2496 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2497 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2498 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2499 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2500 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2501 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2502 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2503 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2504 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2505 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2506 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2507 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2508 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2509 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2510 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2511 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2512 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2513 and postproc modules.
2514 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2515 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2516 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2517 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2519 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2520 filter. For example:
2521 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2522 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2524 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2525 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2531 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2533 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2534 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2537 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2538 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2540 * Shoutcast TV listings
2541 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2543 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2544 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2546 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2549 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2550 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2551 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2552 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2553 * JACK audio input support
2554 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2555 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2556 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2557 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2558 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2559 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2560 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2561 (available as a separate download).
2562 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2563 * RTMP input support
2564 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2565 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2566 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2568 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2569 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2572 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2573 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2574 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2575 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2577 * APEv1/2 tags support
2578 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2579 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2581 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2582 * TiVo Series 2 support
2583 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2588 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2589 * Flash Screen Video support
2590 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2591 * DosBox Capture support
2592 * Karl Morton's Video support
2593 * limited atrac3 support
2595 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2596 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2597 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2598 * H.264 PAFF support
2599 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2600 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2601 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2602 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2603 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2606 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2607 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2608 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2609 * AQTitle subtitles support
2610 * MKV USF subtitles support
2611 * HTML-based subtitles support
2612 * MPSub subtitles support
2613 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2614 * MPL2 subtitles support
2615 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2616 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2617 * Realtext subtitle support
2618 * DKS subtitle support
2619 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2620 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2623 * Flash Screen Video support
2624 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2626 Video outputs and filters:
2627 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2628 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2629 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2630 * New puzzle video output filter
2631 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2632 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2634 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2635 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2636 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2637 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2638 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2639 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2640 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2641 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2642 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2643 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2644 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2645 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2646 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2647 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2649 Audio outputs and filters:
2650 * Replay gain support
2651 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2652 new scaletempo audio filter)
2653 * New spatializer audio filter
2654 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2657 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2658 * New RTP payload formats:
2659 * Speex voice audio codec
2660 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2661 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2662 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2663 * DCCP transport for RTP
2664 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2669 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2670 end-user suitable way.
2671 * Improved user interaction
2672 * Improved mouse gestures
2673 * Vastly improved Update checker
2674 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2676 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2677 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2679 * Improved video output features
2680 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2681 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2682 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2683 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2684 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2686 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2687 if libncursesw is available.
2688 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2689 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2690 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2692 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2693 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2694 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2695 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2696 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2697 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2698 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2699 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2702 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2703 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2704 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2707 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2708 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2709 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2710 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2711 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2712 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2715 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2716 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2726 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2727 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2728 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2731 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2732 ----------------------------------
2735 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2738 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2739 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2740 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2741 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2742 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2743 * Updated Polish translation
2746 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2747 ----------------------------------
2750 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2751 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2752 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2755 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2756 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2757 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2758 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2759 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2760 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2761 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2762 to an unexpected application termination
2763 * New Serbian translation
2764 * Updated Romanian translation
2767 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2768 ----------------------------------
2771 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2772 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2773 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2774 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2775 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2776 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2777 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2778 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2781 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2782 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2783 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2784 * Fixed AAC resampling
2785 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2786 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2789 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2790 ----------------------------------
2793 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2794 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2795 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2796 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2797 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2800 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2801 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2802 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2803 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2804 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2807 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2808 ----------------------------------
2811 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2812 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2815 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2816 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2817 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2818 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2820 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2824 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2827 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2830 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2833 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2836 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2837 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2838 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2839 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2840 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2842 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2843 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2844 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2845 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2848 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2851 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2852 ----------------------------------
2855 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2856 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2857 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2859 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2860 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2862 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2863 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2866 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2868 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2869 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2870 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2871 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2872 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2873 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2874 two different movies
2875 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2876 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2877 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2880 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2883 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2884 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2885 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2886 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2889 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2890 ----------------------------------
2892 Various bugfixes, notably:
2893 * Windows Vista compatibility
2894 * Cropping in Direct3D
2895 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2896 * RSS filter string overflow
2898 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2900 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2901 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2904 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2905 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2908 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2911 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2914 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2917 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2918 ----------------------------------
2920 Various bugfixes, notably:
2921 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2922 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2923 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2924 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2925 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2926 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2929 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2930 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2933 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2935 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2936 * Diverse usability improvements
2937 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2938 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2939 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2942 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2943 ---------------------------------
2945 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2946 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2949 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2952 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2953 --------------------------------
2956 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2959 * Support for RTSP authentication
2960 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2961 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2962 * ATSC support for DVB input
2963 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2964 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2965 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2968 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2969 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2970 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2971 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2972 * Matroska WavPack support
2973 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2974 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2975 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2978 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2979 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2980 * Improved libcaca support
2984 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2985 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2987 * Systray support in skins
2989 * Support for Apple Remote control
2990 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2991 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2992 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2993 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2995 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2998 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2999 Windows 9x/ME users:
3000 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3001 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3002 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3003 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3004 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3006 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3007 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3016 * Updates to the libvlc API
3017 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3020 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3021 --------------------------------
3024 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3025 * Support for downloading updates
3029 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3030 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3031 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3032 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3034 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3035 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3036 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3039 * Cook (Real audio) support
3041 Playlist / Services discovery:
3042 * XSPF playlist support
3044 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3047 * New JACK audio output
3050 * New video filters:
3051 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3052 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3053 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3054 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3055 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3056 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3059 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3062 * System to inform the user and request information
3063 - HTTP authentication
3067 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3068 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3069 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3072 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3073 - Improved playlist handling
3074 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3076 - Embedded Video output
3077 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3078 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3079 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3080 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3081 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3083 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3084 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3087 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3090 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3091 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3092 * Growl "Now playing" support
3095 * Ability to log to syslog
3096 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3099 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3101 * A bit more automatic testing
3104 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3105 ---------------------------------
3108 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3109 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3112 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3113 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3116 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3119 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3120 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3126 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3129 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3130 --------------------------------
3133 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3137 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3138 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3139 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3142 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3143 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3144 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3145 * GnomeVFS input module
3146 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3147 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3150 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3151 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3152 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3155 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3156 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3162 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3163 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3166 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3167 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3168 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3171 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3173 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3174 - New extended controls panel
3175 - New bookmarks window
3176 - Fixed playlist sorting
3177 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3179 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3180 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3181 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3182 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3186 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3187 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3189 - Include macro to include other files
3193 * Should now work outside IE as well
3196 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3199 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3200 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3203 The following languages were added:
3207 * Simplified Chinese
3208 The following languages were re-added:
3212 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3213 --------------------------------
3216 * Rewrite of the playlist
3218 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3219 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3220 * Preferences improvements:
3221 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3222 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3224 * Core image manipulation support
3225 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3226 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3227 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3228 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3229 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3230 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3231 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3232 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3233 * Access filter architecture
3234 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3235 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3239 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3240 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3241 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3242 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3243 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3244 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3245 * Massive Matroska improvements
3246 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3248 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3249 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3250 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3251 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3252 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3254 Decoders / Encoders:
3255 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3256 * PNG decoder/encoder
3257 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3258 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3261 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3264 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3265 * Brand new SAP module
3266 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3267 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3268 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3269 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3270 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3271 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3275 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3278 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3279 * Image file video output (png)
3280 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3281 * Improvements to wall video filter
3282 * Support for font color and opacity
3288 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3289 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3290 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3294 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3295 - Improved preferences
3296 - Improvements to the wizard
3297 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3299 - Redesigned playlist
3300 - Improved preferences
3302 - Support for multiple actions
3305 - Support for the new playlist system
3307 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3310 * Screensaver disabling fix
3311 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3312 * Support for no-decoration windows
3315 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3316 * The OpenGL video output is back
3317 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3318 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3319 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3320 is not yet available in the new module
3321 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3324 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3333 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3336 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3339 The following languages were added:
3345 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3346 --------------------------------
3349 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3350 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3353 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3354 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3355 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3358 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3361 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3364 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3367 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3368 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3369 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3373 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3375 * Support of playlist group announcement
3378 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3379 --------------------------------
3382 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3383 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3384 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3385 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3386 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3387 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3390 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3391 (Stream your desktop)
3392 * Improved DVD support:
3393 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3394 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3395 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3396 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3397 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3398 (selection of titles/chapters).
3401 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3402 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3403 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3404 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3405 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3406 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3407 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3408 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3409 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3410 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3413 * G.726 audio support
3414 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3415 * MPEG-4 text support
3416 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3417 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3418 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3422 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3423 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3424 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3425 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3426 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3427 * DVB subtitles encoder
3428 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3429 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3431 * Text track muxing for mp4
3432 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3433 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3434 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3435 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3436 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3437 * Improved ASF muxer
3439 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3440 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3441 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3444 * New audio equalizer filter
3445 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3446 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3447 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3448 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3451 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3452 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3453 with support for effects.
3454 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3455 - New filters can be streamed.
3456 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3457 - Centralized scaling and blending
3459 - "time", to display current time
3460 - "marq", to display a marquee
3463 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3464 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3465 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3466 * A few skins2 improvements
3467 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3468 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3469 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3470 * Improved CORBA control module
3473 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3474 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3475 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3478 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3479 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3480 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3483 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3484 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3485 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3486 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3487 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3490 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3493 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3494 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3497 * Server/client network synchronization module
3498 * VBrick streams fully supported
3499 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3503 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3504 --------------------------------
3507 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3508 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3509 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3510 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3513 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3514 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3515 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3516 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3517 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3518 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3519 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3522 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3523 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3524 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3525 * Improved directory access module.
3526 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3527 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3528 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3529 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3530 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3533 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3534 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3535 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3538 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3539 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3540 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3543 * Improved session announcement system.
3544 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3545 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3546 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3547 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3548 * Improved transrater.
3549 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3550 * New configuration system.
3551 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3554 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3555 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3556 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3557 * Supports scheduling.
3558 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3559 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3562 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3563 - Ability to embed video output.
3564 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3565 - Lots of improvements.
3566 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3567 - New design and set of icons.
3568 - Ability to embed video output.
3569 - Support for hotkeys.
3570 - Support for bookmarks.
3572 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3573 - Better hotkeys handling.
3576 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3577 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3578 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3579 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3582 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3583 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3584 * Improved Windows installer.
3590 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3591 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3594 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3595 ---------------------------------
3598 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3599 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3602 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3603 --------------------------------
3606 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3607 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3610 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3611 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3612 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3613 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3616 * Internal improvments
3617 * Improved import/export
3620 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3622 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3623 small and strange formats.
3625 * New MOD audio demux.
3626 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3627 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3628 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3629 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3632 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3633 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3634 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3640 * New opengl video output plugin.
3643 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3644 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3647 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3648 --------------------------------
3651 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3652 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3653 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3654 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3655 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3656 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3657 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3658 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3661 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3666 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3667 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3668 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3669 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3670 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3671 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3672 * Better Icecast support.
3673 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3674 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3677 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3678 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3679 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3680 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3681 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3682 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3683 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3686 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3687 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3688 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3689 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3690 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3691 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3692 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3693 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3694 * Preliminary RTP support.
3695 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3700 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3701 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3703 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3704 - Improvements and help in preferences
3705 - New streaming wizard
3706 - Revised Disc Open menu
3708 - Improvements of the standard pages
3709 - Support for new commands
3710 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3713 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3714 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3717 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3718 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3719 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3720 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3721 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3722 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3723 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3724 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3725 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3728 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3730 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3731 * Support for Panther.
3732 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3733 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3736 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3737 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3738 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3739 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3740 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3741 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3742 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3743 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3746 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3747 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3748 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3751 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3754 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3755 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3756 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3757 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3760 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3761 --------------------------------
3764 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3767 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3768 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3771 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3772 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3775 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3778 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3779 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3782 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3785 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3788 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3789 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3793 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3794 --------------------------------
3797 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3798 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3802 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3803 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3804 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3806 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3807 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3810 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3813 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3816 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3817 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3821 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3822 --------------------------------
3825 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3826 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3830 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3831 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3832 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3833 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3834 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3837 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3838 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3839 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3842 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3843 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3844 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3847 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3848 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3849 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3850 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3851 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3854 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3855 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3856 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3859 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3862 * Improved build system.
3863 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3864 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3865 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3866 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3869 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3870 --------------------------------
3873 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3876 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3877 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3878 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3879 * Video 4 Linux support
3880 * CD Digital Audio support
3881 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3884 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3885 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3886 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3887 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3890 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3891 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3892 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3893 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3894 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3895 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3896 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3899 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3900 * New HTTP remote control interface
3903 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3904 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3905 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3906 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3907 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3910 * New reset option for the preferences
3911 * You can set your language in the prefences
3912 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3913 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3914 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3915 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3918 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3919 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3920 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3923 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3924 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3925 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3926 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3927 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3928 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3929 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3930 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3931 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3932 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3935 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3936 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3937 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3938 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3939 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3940 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3941 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3944 * Interface localization
3945 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3946 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3947 * New full-featured Preferences window
3950 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3951 --------------------------------
3954 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3955 * support for skins at the interface level
3956 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3957 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3958 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3959 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3960 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3963 * fixed HTTP redirects
3964 * support for opening an entire directory
3965 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3966 * new video4linux access plug-in
3967 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3970 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3971 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3972 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3975 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3976 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3977 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3978 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3979 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3980 * new codec for raw I420 video
3981 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3984 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3985 (although it still misses some important features)
3986 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3989 * new HTTP output support
3990 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3991 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3994 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3997 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4000 * reorderable playlist
4001 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4002 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4003 * support for mono audio output devices
4004 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4005 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4006 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4007 * the messages window remembers more lines
4008 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4009 * http and ogg stream output options
4010 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4013 * new skinnable interface
4014 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4016 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4017 * support for FLAC audio format
4018 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4020 * network tab in the interface
4021 * "apply" handling in preferences
4024 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4025 ---------------------------------
4028 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4029 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4030 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4031 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4033 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4034 * DTS S/PDIF support
4037 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4038 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4039 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4040 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4043 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4044 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4047 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4050 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4053 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4055 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4056 * rc interface is now fully useable
4057 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4060 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4061 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4062 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4063 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4064 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4066 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4067 * support for mouse gestures
4068 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4071 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4072 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4075 * improved ID3 tag detection
4076 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4077 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4078 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4080 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4083 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4084 ---------------------------------
4087 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4088 English was set as the preferred language
4091 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4092 --------------------------------
4095 * new mouse gesture interface
4096 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4100 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4101 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4102 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4105 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4106 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4110 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4113 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4114 without the user consent
4117 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4119 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4120 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4121 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4124 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4125 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4126 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4127 * playlist enhancements
4128 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4129 * new step forward/step backward commands
4130 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4131 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4132 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4135 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4136 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4137 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4140 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4141 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4144 * native video output is working again
4145 * only commandline interface support
4146 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4149 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4150 --------------------------------
4153 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4154 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4155 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4156 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4157 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4158 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4159 and A/52 streams are supported)
4160 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4165 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4166 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4167 * VCD entry points support
4168 * VCD image file support
4171 * support for *.asf format
4172 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4173 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4174 * support for ogg encapsulation
4175 * support for raw DV format
4176 * support for *.wav format
4177 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4180 Stream discovery & playlists:
4181 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4182 * support for .m3u file format
4183 * support for .asx file format
4184 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4187 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4188 (only available with the .avi demux)
4189 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4190 * support for raw PCM data
4191 * support for Cinepak video codec
4192 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4193 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4194 * support for Xvid codec
4195 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4196 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4197 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4199 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4201 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4204 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4207 * new WxWindows interface
4208 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4209 device and the channels configuration
4210 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4211 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4212 format that VLC can play
4213 * new swedish translation
4214 * enhancements of the playlist window
4215 * new messages window to see debug info
4216 * fixed a few crashes
4219 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4220 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4221 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4222 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working