1 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
10 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
11 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
14 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
17 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
20 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
23 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
26 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
29 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
30 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
31 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
32 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
33 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
34 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
37 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2
38 -------------------------------
41 * Avformat fps displaying fix
42 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
45 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoqued issues when playback
46 of mono streams, especially on Windows
49 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
50 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
51 * fix console output encoding
53 Interface and extensions:
54 * Youtube and other scripts updates
55 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
58 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
59 --------------------------------
62 * New capabilities for libVLC:
63 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
64 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
65 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
66 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
67 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
68 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
69 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
70 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
71 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
72 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
73 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
74 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
75 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
76 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
77 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
81 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
82 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
83 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
84 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
85 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
88 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
91 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
92 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
93 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
97 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
100 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
101 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
102 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
105 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
106 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
107 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
108 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
111 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
112 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
115 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
116 --------------------------------
118 Important changes for users:
119 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
120 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
122 Important changes for packagers:
123 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
124 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
125 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
126 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
127 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
129 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
131 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
132 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
133 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
134 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
135 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
138 * Support for the sftp protocol
139 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
140 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
141 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
142 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
143 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
146 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
147 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
148 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
150 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
151 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
152 * Invmem module improvements
153 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
154 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
155 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
156 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
157 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
158 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
159 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
160 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
161 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
162 * Support for VP8 codec
163 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
166 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
167 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
168 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
169 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
170 * Various EGP improvements
171 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
172 * Metadata and cover art improvements
175 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
176 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
177 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
178 * Podcast images are now displayed
181 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
182 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
183 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
184 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
185 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
186 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
187 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
188 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
189 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
190 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
191 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
194 * New content extensions lua framework
197 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
198 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
199 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
200 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
201 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
202 * NEON assembly audio converter module
203 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
206 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
207 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
208 * Service discovery based on libudev
209 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
212 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
213 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
214 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
215 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
216 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
217 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
218 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
221 * New smem module, streaming to memory
222 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
223 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
226 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
228 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
229 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
232 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
235 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
236 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
237 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
238 by Andy Matuschak et al.
239 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
240 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
241 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
244 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
245 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
248 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
249 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
250 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
254 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
255 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
256 * Improved Solaris port
259 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
260 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
263 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
264 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
265 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
266 * transrate: broken since too long
267 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
268 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
269 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
270 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
271 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
272 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
273 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
274 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
275 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
276 * cddax: use cdda instead.
277 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
278 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
279 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
280 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
283 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
284 --------------------------------
287 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
289 Decoders/Packetizers:
290 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
293 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
294 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
295 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
296 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
297 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
300 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
301 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
304 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
305 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
308 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
309 and Walloon translations updated
310 * Sinhala translation started
313 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
314 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
317 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
318 --------------------------------
321 * SubRip extra styles improvements
322 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
325 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
328 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
329 increase performance and fix x264 issues
332 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
333 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
334 Russian, Slovak translation updates
335 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
338 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
339 --------------------------------
342 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
343 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
346 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
347 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
350 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
351 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
354 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
357 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
358 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
361 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
362 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
365 * New Walloon translation
366 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
369 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
370 --------------------------------
373 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
374 regressions in most popular drivers
375 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
378 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
379 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
380 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
383 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
384 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
387 * Update for appletrailers lua script
388 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
389 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
390 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
391 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
394 * New udev module for linux
397 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
400 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
403 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
404 --------------------------------
407 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
408 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
409 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
412 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
413 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
416 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
417 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
420 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
423 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
424 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
425 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
426 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
429 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
430 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
431 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
432 - no support for Goom and SDL
433 - limited text rendering support
434 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
437 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
438 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
439 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
440 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
441 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
442 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
443 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
444 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
445 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
449 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
452 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
455 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
456 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
457 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
458 Arabic and French translation updates
461 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
462 --------------------------------
465 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
466 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
467 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
468 * Fix Dailymotion access script
469 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
470 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
473 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
474 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
477 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
478 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
479 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
482 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
485 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
486 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
489 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
490 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
491 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
492 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
493 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
494 * Fix various crashes
497 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
499 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
502 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
503 ---------------------------------
507 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
508 See 'Access:' for more info.
509 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
512 * Instantaneous pausing
513 * Frame-by-Frame playback
514 * Finer speed control
515 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
516 * Timeshift for most medias
517 * RTSP trickplay support
518 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
521 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
522 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
523 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
524 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
525 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
526 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
527 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
528 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
529 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
530 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
533 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
534 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
535 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
536 * Metadata for mod files are supported
537 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
538 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
539 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
542 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
543 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
546 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
547 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
548 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
549 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
550 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
551 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
552 * DVB scanning on linux
553 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
554 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
555 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
556 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
557 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
558 * MTP device access on Unix
559 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
560 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
563 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
564 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
565 Windows and Mac OS X.
568 * Export the playlist in HTML
569 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
570 * Better metadata handling and reading
572 Linux/Windows interface:
573 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
574 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
575 * Recently played items list
576 * Interface toolbar customizations
577 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
580 - Improvements on many dialogs
581 - New dialog for plugins listing
582 - Fixed-size mode for videos
583 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
584 * Better integration in GTK environments
587 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
588 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
589 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
590 * Additional usability improvements
593 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
594 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
595 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
596 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
597 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
600 * New Maemo port with:
601 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
602 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
605 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
608 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
609 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
610 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
611 * Support for latest iSight models
614 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
615 * Surround support for PulseAudio
618 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
619 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
620 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
621 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
622 The old image video output has been removed.
623 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
624 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
627 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
635 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
636 --------------------------------------
642 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
643 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
644 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
645 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
646 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
647 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
648 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
650 Various fixes to the following modules:
653 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
654 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
657 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
662 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
663 ---------------------------------
666 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
667 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
670 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
671 ---------------------------------
674 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
677 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
680 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
681 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
682 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
683 main controller window.
684 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
687 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
692 * Updates of other localizations
695 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
696 * Lots of small bugfixes.
697 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
698 * Telnet fixes on Windows
699 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
702 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
703 ---------------------------------
706 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
708 Bunch of small bugfixes.
711 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
712 --------------------------------
717 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
718 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
721 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
722 --------------------------------
724 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
725 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
728 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
731 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
732 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
735 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
736 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
739 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
740 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
741 * Various fixed in playlist
744 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
747 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
750 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
751 ------------------------------------
753 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
754 * Fixes several memory leaks.
757 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
758 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
759 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
762 * Stability fix for the video output.
765 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
766 --------------------------------
769 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
770 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
771 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
772 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
773 * Fixed update system bugs
774 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
777 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
778 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
779 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
780 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
781 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
782 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
783 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
784 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
785 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
786 modern Mac OS X versions
789 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
790 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
792 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
793 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
796 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
797 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
798 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
799 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
800 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
801 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
804 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
805 --------------------------------
807 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
808 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
812 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
813 --------------------------------
815 * Multiple bug fixes.
818 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
819 ---------------------------------
823 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
824 recent to work correctly
825 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
826 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
827 edit the ".hosts" file.
828 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
829 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
830 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
831 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
832 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
833 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
834 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
835 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
836 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
837 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
838 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
839 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
840 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
841 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
842 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
843 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
844 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
845 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
846 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
847 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
848 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
849 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
850 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
851 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
852 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
853 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
854 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
855 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
856 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
857 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
858 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
859 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
860 and postproc modules.
861 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
862 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
863 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
864 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
866 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
868 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
869 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
871 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
872 * Glide video output module has been removed.
878 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
880 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
881 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
884 * Vastly improved playlist support:
885 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
887 * Shoutcast TV listings
888 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
890 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
891 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
893 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
896 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
897 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
898 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
899 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
900 * JACK audio input support
901 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
902 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
903 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
904 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
905 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
906 * Experimental EyeTV access module
907 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
908 (available as a separate download).
909 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
911 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
912 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
913 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
915 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
916 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
919 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
920 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
921 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
922 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
924 * APEv1/2 tags support
925 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
926 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
928 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
929 * TiVo Series 2 support
930 * CD+G karaoke Files support
935 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
936 * Flash Screen Video support
937 * CamStudio Screen Video support
938 * DosBox Capture support
939 * Karl Morton's Video support
940 * limited atrac3 support
942 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
943 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
944 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
946 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
947 * NellyMoser ASAO support
948 * APE (Monkey audio) support
949 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
950 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
953 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
954 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
955 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
956 * AQTitle subtitles support
957 * MKV USF subtitles support
958 * HTML-based subtitles support
959 * MPSub subtitles support
960 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
961 * MPL2 subtitles support
962 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
963 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
964 * Realtext subtitle support
965 * DKS subtitle support
966 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
967 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
970 * Flash Screen Video support
971 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
973 Video outputs and filters:
974 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
975 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
976 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
977 * New puzzle video output filter
978 * Re-written motion detection video filter
979 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
981 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
982 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
983 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
984 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
985 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
986 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
987 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
988 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
989 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
990 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
991 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
992 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
993 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
994 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
996 Audio outputs and filters:
997 * Replay gain support
998 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
999 new scaletempo audio filter)
1000 * New spatializer audio filter
1001 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1004 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1005 * New RTP payload formats:
1006 * Speex voice audio codec
1007 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1008 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1009 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1010 * DCCP transport for RTP
1011 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1016 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1017 end-user suitable way.
1018 * Improved user interaction
1019 * Improved mouse gestures
1020 * Vastly improved Update checker
1021 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1023 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1024 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1026 * Improved video output features
1027 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1028 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1029 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1030 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1031 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1033 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1034 if libncursesw is available.
1035 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1036 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1037 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1039 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1040 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1041 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1042 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1043 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1044 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1045 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1046 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1049 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1050 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1051 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1054 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1055 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1056 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1057 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1058 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1059 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1062 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1063 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1073 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1074 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1075 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1078 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1079 ----------------------------------
1082 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1085 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1086 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1087 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1088 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1089 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1090 * Updated Polish translation
1093 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1094 ----------------------------------
1097 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1098 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1099 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1102 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1103 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1104 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1105 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1106 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1107 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1108 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1109 to an unexpected application termination
1110 * New Serbian translation
1111 * Updated Romanian translation
1114 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1115 ----------------------------------
1118 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1119 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1120 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1121 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1122 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1123 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1124 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1125 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1128 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1129 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1130 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1131 * Fixed AAC resampling
1132 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1133 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1136 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1137 ----------------------------------
1140 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1141 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1142 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1143 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1144 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1147 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1148 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1149 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1150 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1151 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1154 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1155 ----------------------------------
1158 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1159 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1162 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1163 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1164 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1165 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1167 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1171 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1174 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1177 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1180 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1183 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1184 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1185 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1186 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1187 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1189 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1190 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1191 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1192 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1195 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1198 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1199 ----------------------------------
1202 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1203 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1204 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1206 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1207 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1209 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1210 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1213 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1215 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1216 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1217 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1218 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1219 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1220 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1221 two different movies
1222 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1223 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1224 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1227 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1230 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1231 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1232 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1233 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1236 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1237 ----------------------------------
1239 Various bugfixes, notably:
1240 * Windows Vista compatibility
1241 * Cropping in Direct3D
1242 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1243 * RSS filter string overflow
1245 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1247 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1248 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1251 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1252 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1255 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1258 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1261 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1264 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1265 ----------------------------------
1267 Various bugfixes, notably:
1268 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1269 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1270 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1271 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1272 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1273 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1276 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1277 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1280 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1282 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1283 * Diverse usability improvements
1284 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1285 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1286 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1289 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1290 ---------------------------------
1292 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1293 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1296 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1299 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1300 --------------------------------
1303 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1306 * Support for RTSP authentication
1307 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1308 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1309 * ATSC support for DVB input
1310 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1311 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1312 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1315 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1316 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1317 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1318 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1319 * Matroska WavPack support
1320 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1321 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1322 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1325 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1326 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1327 * Improved libcaca support
1331 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1332 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1334 * Systray support in skins
1336 * Support for Apple Remote control
1337 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1338 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1339 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1340 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1342 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1345 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1346 Windows 9x/ME users:
1347 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1348 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1349 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1350 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1351 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1353 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1354 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1363 * Updates to the libvlc API
1364 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1367 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1368 --------------------------------
1371 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1372 * Support for downloading updates
1376 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1377 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1378 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1379 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1381 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1382 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1383 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1386 * Cook (Real audio) support
1388 Playlist / Services discovery:
1389 * XSPF playlist support
1391 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1394 * New JACK audio output
1397 * New video filters:
1398 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1399 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1400 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1401 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1402 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1403 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1406 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1409 * System to inform the user and request information
1410 - HTTP authentication
1414 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1415 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1416 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1419 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1420 - Improved playlist handling
1421 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1423 - Embedded Video output
1424 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1425 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1426 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1427 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1428 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1430 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1431 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1434 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1437 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1438 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1439 * Growl "Now playing" support
1442 * Ability to log to syslog
1443 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1446 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1448 * A bit more automatic testing
1451 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1452 ---------------------------------
1455 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1456 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1459 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1460 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1463 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1466 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1467 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1473 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1476 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1477 --------------------------------
1480 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1484 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1485 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1486 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1489 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1490 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1491 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1492 * GnomeVFS input module
1493 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1494 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1497 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1498 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1499 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1502 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1503 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1509 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1510 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1513 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1514 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1515 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1518 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1520 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1521 - New extended controls panel
1522 - New bookmarks window
1523 - Fixed playlist sorting
1524 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1526 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1527 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1528 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1529 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1533 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1534 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1536 - Include macro to include other files
1540 * Should now work outside IE as well
1543 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1546 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1547 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1550 The following languages were added:
1554 * Simplified Chinese
1555 The following languages were re-added:
1559 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1560 --------------------------------
1563 * Rewrite of the playlist
1565 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1566 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1567 * Preferences improvements:
1568 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1569 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1571 * Core image manipulation support
1572 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1573 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1574 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1575 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1576 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1577 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1578 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1579 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1580 * Access filter architecture
1581 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1582 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1586 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1587 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1588 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1589 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1590 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1591 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1592 * Massive Matroska improvements
1593 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1595 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1596 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1597 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1598 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1599 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1601 Decoders / Encoders:
1602 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1603 * PNG decoder/encoder
1604 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1605 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1608 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1611 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1612 * Brand new SAP module
1613 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1614 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1615 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1616 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1617 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1618 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1622 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1625 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1626 * Image file video output (png)
1627 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1628 * Improvements to wall video filter
1629 * Support for font color and opacity
1635 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1636 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1637 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1641 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1642 - Improved preferences
1643 - Improvements to the wizard
1644 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1646 - Redesigned playlist
1647 - Improved preferences
1649 - Support for multiple actions
1652 - Support for the new playlist system
1654 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1657 * Screensaver disabling fix
1658 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1659 * Support for no-decoration windows
1662 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1663 * The OpenGL video output is back
1664 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1665 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1666 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1667 is not yet available in the new module
1668 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1671 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1680 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1683 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1686 The following languages were added:
1692 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1693 --------------------------------
1696 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1697 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1700 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1701 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1702 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1705 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1708 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1711 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1714 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1715 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1716 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1720 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1722 * Support of playlist group announcement
1725 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1726 --------------------------------
1729 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1730 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1731 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1732 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1733 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1734 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1737 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1738 (Stream your desktop)
1739 * Improved DVD support:
1740 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1741 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1742 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1743 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1744 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1745 (selection of titles/chapters).
1748 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1749 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1750 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1751 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1752 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1753 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1754 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1755 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1756 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1757 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1760 * G.726 audio support
1761 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1762 * MPEG-4 text support
1763 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1764 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1765 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1769 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1770 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1771 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1772 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1773 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1774 * DVB subtitles encoder
1775 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1776 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1778 * Text track muxing for mp4
1779 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1780 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1781 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1782 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1783 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1784 * Improved ASF muxer
1786 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1787 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1788 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1791 * New audio equalizer filter
1792 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1793 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1794 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1795 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1798 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1799 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1800 with support for effects.
1801 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1802 - New filters can be streamed.
1803 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1804 - Centralized scaling and blending
1806 - "time", to display current time
1807 - "marq", to display a marquee
1810 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1811 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1812 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1813 * A few skins2 improvements
1814 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1815 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1816 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1817 * Improved CORBA control module
1820 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1821 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1822 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1825 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1826 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1827 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1830 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1831 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1832 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1833 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1834 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1837 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1840 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1841 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1844 * Server/client network synchronization module
1845 * VBrick streams fully supported
1846 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1850 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1851 --------------------------------
1854 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1855 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1856 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1857 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1860 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1861 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1862 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1863 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1864 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1865 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1866 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1869 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1870 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1871 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1872 * Improved directory access module.
1873 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1874 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1875 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1876 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1877 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1880 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1881 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1882 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1885 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1886 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1887 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1890 * Improved session announcement system.
1891 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1892 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1893 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1894 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1895 * Improved transrater.
1896 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1897 * New configuration system.
1898 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1901 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1902 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1903 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1904 * Supports scheduling.
1905 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1906 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1909 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1910 - Ability to embed video output.
1911 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1912 - Lots of improvements.
1913 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1914 - New design and set of icons.
1915 - Ability to embed video output.
1916 - Support for hotkeys.
1917 - Support for bookmarks.
1919 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1920 - Better hotkeys handling.
1923 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1924 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1925 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1926 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1929 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1930 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1931 * Improved Windows installer.
1937 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1938 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1941 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1942 ---------------------------------
1945 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1946 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1949 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1950 --------------------------------
1953 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1954 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1957 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1958 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1959 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1960 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1963 * Internal improvments
1964 * Improved import/export
1967 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1969 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1970 small and strange formats.
1972 * New MOD audio demux.
1973 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1974 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1975 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1976 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1979 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1980 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1981 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1987 * New opengl video output plugin.
1990 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1991 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1994 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1995 --------------------------------
1998 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1999 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2000 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2001 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2002 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2003 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2004 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2005 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2008 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2013 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2014 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2015 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2016 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2017 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2018 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2019 * Better Icecast support.
2020 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2021 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2024 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2025 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2026 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2027 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2028 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2029 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2030 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2033 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2034 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2035 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2036 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2037 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2038 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2039 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2040 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2041 * Preliminary RTP support.
2042 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2047 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2048 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2050 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2051 - Improvements and help in preferences
2052 - New streaming wizard
2053 - Revised Disc Open menu
2055 - Improvements of the standard pages
2056 - Support for new commands
2057 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2060 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2061 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2064 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2065 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2066 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2067 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2068 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2069 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2070 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2071 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2072 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2075 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2077 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2078 * Support for Panther.
2079 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2080 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2083 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2084 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2085 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2086 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2087 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2088 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2089 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2090 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2093 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2094 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2095 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2098 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2101 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2102 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2103 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2104 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2107 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2108 --------------------------------
2111 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2114 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2115 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2118 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2119 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2122 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2125 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2126 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2129 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2132 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2135 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2136 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2140 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2141 --------------------------------
2144 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2145 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2149 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2150 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2151 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2153 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2154 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2157 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2160 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2163 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2164 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2168 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2169 --------------------------------
2172 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2173 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2177 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2178 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2179 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2180 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2181 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2184 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2185 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2186 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2189 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2190 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2191 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2194 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2195 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2196 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2197 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2198 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2201 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2202 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2203 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2206 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2209 * Improved build system.
2210 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2211 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2212 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2213 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2216 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2217 --------------------------------
2220 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2223 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2224 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2225 * Video 4 Linux support
2226 * CD Digital Audio support
2227 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2230 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2231 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2232 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2233 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2236 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2237 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2238 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2239 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2240 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2241 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2242 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2245 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2246 * New HTTP remote control interface
2249 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2250 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2251 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2252 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2255 * New reset option for the preferences
2256 * You can set your language in the prefences
2257 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2258 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2259 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2260 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2263 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2264 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2265 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2268 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2269 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2270 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2271 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2272 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2273 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2274 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2275 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2276 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2277 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2280 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2281 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2282 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2283 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2284 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2285 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2286 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2289 * Interface localization
2290 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2291 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2292 * New full-featured Preferences window
2295 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2296 --------------------------------
2299 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2300 * support for skins at the interface level
2301 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2302 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2303 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2304 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2305 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2308 * fixed HTTP redirects
2309 * support for opening an entire directory
2310 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2311 * new video4linux access plug-in
2312 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2315 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2316 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2317 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2320 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2321 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2322 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2323 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2324 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2325 * new codec for raw I420 video
2326 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2329 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2330 (although it still misses some important features)
2331 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2334 * new HTTP output support
2335 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2336 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2339 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2342 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2345 * reorderable playlist
2346 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2347 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2348 * support for mono audio output devices
2349 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2350 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2351 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2352 * the messages window remembers more lines
2353 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2354 * http and ogg stream output options
2355 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2358 * new skinnable interface
2359 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2361 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2362 * support for FLAC audio format
2363 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2365 * network tab in the interface
2366 * "apply" handling in preferences
2369 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2370 ---------------------------------
2373 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2374 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2375 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2376 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2378 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2379 * DTS S/PDIF support
2382 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2383 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2384 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2385 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2388 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2389 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2392 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2395 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2398 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2400 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2401 * rc interface is now fully useable
2402 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2405 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2406 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2407 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2408 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2409 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2411 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2412 * support for mouse gestures
2413 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2416 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2417 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2420 * improved ID3 tag detection
2421 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2422 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2423 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2425 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2428 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2429 ---------------------------------
2432 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2433 English was set as the preferred language
2436 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2437 --------------------------------
2440 * new mouse gesture interface
2441 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2445 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2446 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2447 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2450 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2451 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2455 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2458 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2459 without the user consent
2462 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2464 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2465 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2466 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2469 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2470 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2471 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2472 * playlist enhancements
2473 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2474 * new step forward/step backward commands
2475 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2476 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2477 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2480 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2481 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2482 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2485 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2486 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2489 * native video output is working again
2490 * only commandline interface support
2491 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2494 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2495 --------------------------------
2498 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2499 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2500 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2501 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2502 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2503 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2504 and A/52 streams are supported)
2505 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2510 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2511 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2512 * VCD entry points support
2513 * VCD image file support
2516 * support for *.asf format
2517 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2518 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2519 * support for ogg encapsulation
2520 * support for raw DV format
2521 * support for *.wav format
2522 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2525 Stream discovery & playlists:
2526 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2527 * support for .m3u file format
2528 * support for .asx file format
2529 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2532 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2533 (only available with the .avi demux)
2534 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2535 * support for raw PCM data
2536 * support for Cinepak video codec
2537 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2538 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2539 * support for Xvid codec
2540 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2541 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2542 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2544 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2546 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2549 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2552 * new WxWindows interface
2553 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2554 device and the channels configuration
2555 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2556 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2557 format that VLC can play
2558 * new swedish translation
2559 * enhancements of the playlist window
2560 * new messages window to see debug info
2561 * fixed a few crashes
2564 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2565 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2566 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2567 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working