3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
21 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
22 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
23 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
24 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
25 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
26 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
27 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
28 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
29 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
30 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
31 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
32 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
33 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
34 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
35 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
36 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
37 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
43 * Vastly improved playlist support:
44 * Media library support
46 * Shoutcast TV listings
47 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
49 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
50 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
51 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
52 share/lua/meta/README.txt
55 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
56 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
57 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
58 * JACK audio input support
59 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
60 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
61 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
62 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
63 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
65 * APEv1/2 tags support
66 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
67 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
69 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
70 * TiVo Series 2 support
71 * v4l2 access module support
72 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
73 * CD+G karaoke Files support
75 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X using OpenGL
77 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
78 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
79 (available as a separate download).
80 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
84 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
85 * Flash Screen Video support
86 * CamStudio Screen Video support
87 * DosBox Capture support
88 * Karl Morton's Video support
89 * limited atrac3 support
90 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
91 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
92 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
93 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
95 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
96 * NellyMoser ASAO support
97 * APE (Monkey audio) support
98 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
101 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
102 * AQTitle subtitles support
103 * MKV USF subtitles support
104 * HTML-based subtitles support
105 * MPSub subtitles support
106 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
107 * MPL2 subtitles support
108 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
109 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
110 * Realtext subtitle support
111 * DKS subtitle support
112 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
115 * Flash Screen Video support
116 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
118 Video output and filters:
119 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
120 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
121 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
122 * New puzzle video output filter
123 * Re-written motion detection video filter
124 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
126 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
127 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
128 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
129 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
130 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
131 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
132 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
133 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
134 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
135 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
136 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
137 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
139 Audio output and filters
140 * Replay gain support
141 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
142 * New spatializer audio filter
143 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
146 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
147 * New RTP payload formats:
148 * Speex voice audio codec
149 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
150 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
151 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
152 * DCCP transport for RTP
153 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
157 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
159 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
160 end-user suitable way.
161 * Improved user interaction
162 * Improved mouse gestures
163 * Fastly improved Update checker
164 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
166 * Improved video output features
167 * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
168 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
169 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
170 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
172 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
173 if libncursesw is available.
174 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
175 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
177 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
178 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
179 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
180 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
181 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
182 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
183 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
184 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
187 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
188 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
189 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
192 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
193 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
194 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
195 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
196 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
199 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
200 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
208 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
209 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
210 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
212 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
213 ----------------------------------
216 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
217 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
218 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
219 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
220 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
223 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
224 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
225 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
226 * Close MMS access on network timeout
227 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
230 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
231 ----------------------------------
234 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
235 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
238 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
239 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
240 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
241 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
243 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
247 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
250 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
253 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
256 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
259 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
260 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
261 encoding on multi-cpu systems
262 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
263 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
265 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
266 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
267 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
268 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
271 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
274 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
275 ----------------------------------
278 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
279 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
280 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
282 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
283 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
285 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
286 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
289 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
291 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
292 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
293 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
294 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
295 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
296 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
298 * Support for current Ogg file formats
299 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
300 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
303 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
306 * The automatic updating facility was removed
307 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
308 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
309 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
312 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
313 ----------------------------------
315 Various bugfixes, notably:
316 * Windows Vista compatibility
317 * Cropping in Direct3D
318 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
319 * RSS filter string overflow
321 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
323 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
324 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
327 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
328 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
331 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
334 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
337 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
340 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
341 ----------------------------------
343 Various bugfixes, notably:
344 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
345 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
346 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
347 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
348 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
349 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
352 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
353 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
356 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
358 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
359 * Diverse usability improvements
360 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
361 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
362 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
365 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
366 ---------------------------------
369 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
372 * Fullscreen controller improvements
375 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
376 --------------------------------
379 * Shoutcast TV listings support
382 * Support for RTSP authentication
383 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
384 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
385 * ATSC support for DVB input
386 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
387 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
388 * Improved support for Flash Video files
391 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
392 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
393 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
394 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
395 * Matroska WavPack support
396 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
397 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
398 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
401 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
402 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
403 * Improved libcaca support
407 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
408 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
410 * Systray support in skins
412 * Support for Apple Remote control
413 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
414 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
415 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
416 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
418 * Notifications using notification-daemon
421 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
423 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
424 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
425 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
426 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
427 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
429 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
430 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
439 * Updates to the libvlc API
440 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
443 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
444 --------------------------------
447 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
448 * Support for downloading updates
452 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
453 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
454 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
455 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
457 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
458 * Improved subtitles encoding support
459 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
462 * Cook (Real audio) support
464 Playlist / Services discovery:
465 * XSPF playlist support
467 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
470 * New JACK audio output
474 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
475 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
476 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
477 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
478 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
479 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
482 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
485 * System to inform the user and request information
486 - HTTP authentication
490 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
491 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
492 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
495 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
496 - Improved playlist handling
497 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
499 - Embedded Video output
500 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
501 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
502 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
503 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
504 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
506 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
507 - A bunch of new RPN functions
510 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
513 * Mac-Intel compatibility
514 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
515 * Growl "Now playing" support
518 * Ability to log to syslog
519 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
522 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
524 * A bit more automatic testing
527 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
528 ---------------------------------
531 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
532 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
535 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
536 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
539 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
542 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
543 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
549 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
552 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
553 --------------------------------
556 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
560 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
561 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
562 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
565 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
566 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
567 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
568 * GnomeVFS input module
569 * Support for RTP packet reordering
570 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
573 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
574 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
575 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
578 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
579 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
585 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
586 Mixer and Dolby Surround
589 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
590 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
591 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
594 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
596 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
597 - New extended controls panel
598 - New bookmarks window
599 - Fixed playlist sorting
600 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
602 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
603 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
604 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
605 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
609 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
610 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
612 - Include macro to include other files
616 * Should now work outside IE as well
619 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
622 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
623 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
626 The following languages were added:
631 The following languages were re-added:
635 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
636 --------------------------------
639 * Rewrite of the playlist
641 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
642 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
643 * Preferences improvements:
644 - New organization, designed to improve usability
645 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
647 * Core image manipulation support
648 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
649 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
650 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
651 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
652 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
653 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
654 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
655 now separated by ':' instead of ','
656 * Access filter architecture
657 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
658 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
662 * Support for SOCKS proxy
663 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
664 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
665 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
666 * Better support for Kasenna streams
667 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
668 * Massive Matroska improvements
669 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
671 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
672 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
673 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
674 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
675 * Support for FTP over IPv6
678 * Dirac decoder and encoder
679 * PNG decoder/encoder
680 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
681 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
684 * New Record and Timeshift filters
687 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
688 * Brand new SAP module
689 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
690 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
691 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
692 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
693 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
694 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
698 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
701 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
702 * Image file video output (png)
703 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
704 * Improvements to wall video filter
705 * Support for font color and opacity
711 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
712 - Seeking support in VoD streams
713 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
717 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
718 - Improved preferences
719 - Improvements to the wizard
720 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
722 - Redesigned playlist
723 - Improved preferences
725 - Support for multiple actions
728 - Support for the new playlist system
730 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
733 * Screensaver disabling fix
734 * DirectShow tuner configuration
735 * Support for no-decoration windows
738 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
739 * The OpenGL video output is back
740 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
741 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
742 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
743 is not yet available in the new module
744 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
747 * Support for single-buffered overlay
756 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
759 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
762 The following languages were added:
768 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
769 --------------------------------
772 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
773 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
776 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
777 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
778 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
781 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
784 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
787 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
790 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
791 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
792 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
796 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
798 * Support of playlist group announcement
801 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
802 --------------------------------
805 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
806 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
807 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
808 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
809 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
810 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
813 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
814 (Stream your desktop)
815 * Improved DVD support:
816 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
817 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
818 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
819 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
820 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
821 (selection of titles/chapters).
824 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
825 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
826 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
827 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
828 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
829 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
830 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
831 * Improved Ogg demuxer
832 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
833 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
836 * G.726 audio support
837 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
838 * MPEG-4 text support
839 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
840 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
841 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
845 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
846 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
847 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
848 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
849 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
850 * DVB subtitles encoder
851 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
852 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
854 * Text track muxing for mp4
855 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
856 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
857 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
858 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
859 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
862 * H.263 RTP streaming support
863 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
864 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
867 * New audio equalizer filter
868 * Very trivial volume normalizer
869 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
870 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
871 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
874 * Roku HD1000 Video output
875 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
876 with support for effects.
877 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
878 - New filters can be streamed.
879 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
880 - Centralized scaling and blending
882 - "time", to display current time
883 - "marq", to display a marquee
886 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
887 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
888 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
889 * A few skins2 improvements
890 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
891 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
892 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
893 * Improved CORBA control module
896 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
897 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
898 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
901 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
902 * Experimental SVG rendering module
903 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
906 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
907 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
908 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
909 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
910 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
913 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
916 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
917 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
920 * Server/client network synchronization module
921 * VBrick streams fully supported
922 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
926 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
927 --------------------------------
930 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
931 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
932 * Improved HTTP daemon.
933 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
936 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
937 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
938 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
939 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
940 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
941 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
942 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
945 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
946 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
947 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
948 * Improved directory access module.
949 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
950 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
951 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
952 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
953 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
956 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
957 * mmsh streaming fixes.
958 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
961 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
962 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
963 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
966 * Improved session announcement system.
967 * Minimize threads usage by default.
968 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
969 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
970 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
971 * Improved transrater.
972 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
973 * New configuration system.
974 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
977 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
978 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
979 * Supports live streams and VoD.
980 * Supports scheduling.
981 * Telnet interface for vlm.
982 * HTTP interface for vlm.
985 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
986 - Ability to embed video output.
987 - Support for bitmap fonts.
988 - Lots of improvements.
989 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
990 - New design and set of icons.
991 - Ability to embed video output.
992 - Support for hotkeys.
993 - Support for bookmarks.
995 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
996 - Better hotkeys handling.
999 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1000 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1001 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1002 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1005 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1006 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1007 * Improved Windows installer.
1013 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1014 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1017 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1018 ---------------------------------
1021 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1022 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1025 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1026 --------------------------------
1029 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1030 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1033 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1034 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1035 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1036 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1039 * Internal improvments
1040 * Improved import/export
1043 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1045 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1046 small and strange formats.
1048 * New MOD audio demux.
1049 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1050 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1051 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1052 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1055 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1056 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1057 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1063 * New opengl video output plugin.
1066 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1067 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1070 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1071 --------------------------------
1074 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1075 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1076 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1077 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1078 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1079 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1080 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1081 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1084 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1089 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1090 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1091 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1092 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1093 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1094 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1095 * Better Icecast support.
1096 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1097 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1100 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1101 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1102 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1103 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1104 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1105 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1106 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1109 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1110 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1111 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1112 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1113 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1114 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1115 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1116 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1117 * Preliminary RTP support.
1118 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1123 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1124 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1126 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1127 - Improvements and help in preferences
1128 - New streaming wizard
1129 - Revised Disc Open menu
1131 - Improvements of the standard pages
1132 - Support for new commands
1133 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1136 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1137 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1140 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1141 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1142 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1143 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1144 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1145 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1146 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1147 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1148 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1151 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1153 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1154 * Support for Panther.
1155 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1156 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1159 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1160 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1161 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1162 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1163 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1164 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1165 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1166 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1169 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1170 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1171 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1174 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1177 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1178 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1179 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1180 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1183 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1184 --------------------------------
1187 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1190 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1191 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1194 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1195 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1198 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1201 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1202 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1205 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1208 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1211 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1212 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1216 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1217 --------------------------------
1220 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1221 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1225 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1226 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1227 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1229 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1230 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1233 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1236 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1239 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1240 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1244 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1245 --------------------------------
1248 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1249 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1253 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1254 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1255 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1256 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1257 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1260 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1261 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1262 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1265 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1266 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1267 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1270 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1271 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1272 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1273 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1274 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1277 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1278 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1279 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1282 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1285 * Improved build system.
1286 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1287 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1288 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1289 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1292 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1293 --------------------------------
1296 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1299 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1300 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1301 * Video 4 Linux support
1302 * CD Digital Audio support
1303 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1306 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1307 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1308 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1309 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1312 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1313 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1314 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1315 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1316 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1317 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1318 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1321 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1322 * New HTTP remote control interface
1325 * 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.
1326 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1327 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1328 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1331 * New reset option for the preferences
1332 * You can set your language in the prefences
1333 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1334 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1335 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1336 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1339 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1340 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1341 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1344 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1345 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1346 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1347 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1348 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1349 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1350 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1351 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1352 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1353 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1356 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1357 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1358 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1359 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1360 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1361 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1362 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1365 * Interface localization
1366 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1367 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1368 * New full-featured Preferences window
1371 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1372 --------------------------------
1375 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1376 * support for skins at the interface level
1377 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1378 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1379 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1380 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1381 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1384 * fixed HTTP redirects
1385 * support for opening an entire directory
1386 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1387 * new video4linux access plug-in
1388 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1391 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1392 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1393 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1396 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1397 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1398 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1399 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1400 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1401 * new codec for raw I420 video
1402 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1405 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1406 (although it still misses some important features)
1407 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1410 * new HTTP output support
1411 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1412 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1415 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1418 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1421 * reorderable playlist
1422 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1423 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1424 * support for mono audio output devices
1425 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1426 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1427 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1428 * the messages window remembers more lines
1429 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1430 * http and ogg stream output options
1431 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1434 * new skinnable interface
1435 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1437 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1438 * support for FLAC audio format
1439 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1441 * network tab in the interface
1442 * "apply" handling in preferences
1445 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1446 ---------------------------------
1449 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1450 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1451 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1452 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1454 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1455 * DTS S/PDIF support
1458 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1459 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1460 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1461 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1464 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1465 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1468 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1471 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1474 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1476 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1477 * rc interface is now fully useable
1478 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1481 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1482 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1483 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1484 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1485 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1487 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1488 * support for mouse gestures
1489 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1492 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1493 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1496 * improved ID3 tag detection
1497 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1498 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1499 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1501 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1504 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1505 ---------------------------------
1508 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1509 English was set as the preferred language
1512 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1513 --------------------------------
1516 * new mouse gesture interface
1517 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1521 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1522 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1523 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1526 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1527 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1531 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1534 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1535 without the user consent
1538 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1540 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1541 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1542 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1545 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1546 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1547 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1548 * playlist enhancements
1549 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1550 * new step forward/step backward commands
1551 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1552 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1553 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1556 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1557 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1558 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1561 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1562 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1565 * native video output is working again
1566 * only commandline interface support
1567 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1570 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1571 --------------------------------
1574 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1575 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1576 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1577 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1578 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1579 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1580 and A/52 streams are supported)
1581 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1586 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1587 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1588 * VCD entry points support
1589 * VCD image file support
1592 * support for *.asf format
1593 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1594 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1595 * support for ogg encapsulation
1596 * support for raw DV format
1597 * support for *.wav format
1598 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1601 Stream discovery & playlists:
1602 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1603 * support for .m3u file format
1604 * support for .asx file format
1605 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1608 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1609 (only available with the .avi demux)
1610 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1611 * support for raw PCM data
1612 * support for Cinepak video codec
1613 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1614 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1615 * support for Xvid codec
1616 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1617 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1618 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1620 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1622 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1625 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1628 * new WxWindows interface
1629 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1630 device and the channels configuration
1631 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1632 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1633 format that VLC can play
1634 * new swedish translation
1635 * enhancements of the playlist window
1636 * new messages window to see debug info
1637 * fixed a few crashes
1640 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1641 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1642 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1643 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working