1 Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Instantaneous pausing
6 * Frame-by-Frame playback
7 * Timeshift for all medias
8 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
9 * RTSP trickplay support
13 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
16 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
17 * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
18 * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
19 * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
22 * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
23 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
24 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files
27 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
28 * Shine mp3 fixed point encoder
31 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
32 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
33 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
34 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
35 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
36 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
37 * DVB scanning on linux
38 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
39 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
40 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
43 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
44 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
48 * Export the playlist in HTML
49 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
51 Linux/Windows interface:
52 * Recently played items list
53 * Interface customizations
54 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
57 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
60 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
61 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
62 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
63 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
66 * New Maemo port with:
67 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
68 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
71 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
74 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
75 * Surround support for PulseAudio
78 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
79 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
82 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
85 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
86 ---------------------------------
89 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
91 Bunch of small bugfixes.
94 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
95 --------------------------------
100 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
101 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
104 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
105 --------------------------------
107 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
108 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
111 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
114 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
115 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
118 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
119 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
122 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
123 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
124 * Various fixed in playlist
127 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
130 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
133 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
134 ------------------------------------
136 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
137 * Fixes several memory leaks.
140 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
141 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
142 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
145 * Stability fix for the video output.
148 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
149 --------------------------------
152 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
153 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
154 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
155 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
156 * Fixed update system bugs
157 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
160 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
161 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
162 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
163 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
164 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
165 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
166 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
167 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
168 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
169 modern Mac OS X versions
172 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
173 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
175 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
176 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
179 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
180 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
181 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
182 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
183 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
184 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
187 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
188 --------------------------------
190 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
191 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
195 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
196 --------------------------------
198 * Multiple bug fixes.
201 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
202 ---------------------------------
206 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
207 recent to work correctly
208 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
209 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
210 edit the ".hosts" file.
211 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
212 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
213 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
214 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
215 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
216 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
217 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
218 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
219 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
220 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
221 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
222 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
223 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
224 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
225 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
226 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
227 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
228 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
229 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
230 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
231 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
232 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
233 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
234 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
235 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
236 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
237 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
238 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
239 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
240 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
241 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
242 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
243 and postproc modules.
244 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
245 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
246 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
247 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
249 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
251 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
252 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
254 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
255 * Glide video output module has been removed.
261 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
263 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
264 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
267 * Vastly improved playlist support:
268 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
270 * Shoutcast TV listings
271 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
273 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
274 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
276 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
279 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
280 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
281 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
282 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
283 * JACK audio input support
284 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
285 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
286 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
287 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
288 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
289 * Experimental EyeTV access module
290 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
291 (available as a separate download).
292 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
294 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
295 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
296 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
298 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
299 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
302 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
303 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
304 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
305 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
307 * APEv1/2 tags support
308 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
309 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
311 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
312 * TiVo Series 2 support
313 * CD+G karaoke Files support
318 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
319 * Flash Screen Video support
320 * CamStudio Screen Video support
321 * DosBox Capture support
322 * Karl Morton's Video support
323 * limited atrac3 support
325 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
326 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
327 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
329 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
330 * NellyMoser ASAO support
331 * APE (Monkey audio) support
332 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
333 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
336 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
337 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
338 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
339 * AQTitle subtitles support
340 * MKV USF subtitles support
341 * HTML-based subtitles support
342 * MPSub subtitles support
343 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
344 * MPL2 subtitles support
345 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
346 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
347 * Realtext subtitle support
348 * DKS subtitle support
349 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
350 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
353 * Flash Screen Video support
354 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
356 Video outputs and filters:
357 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
358 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
359 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
360 * New puzzle video output filter
361 * Re-written motion detection video filter
362 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
364 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
365 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
366 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
367 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
368 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
369 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
370 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
371 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
372 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
373 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
374 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
375 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
376 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
377 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
379 Audio outputs and filters:
380 * Replay gain support
381 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
382 new scaletempo audio filter)
383 * New spatializer audio filter
384 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
387 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
388 * New RTP payload formats:
389 * Speex voice audio codec
390 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
391 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
392 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
393 * DCCP transport for RTP
394 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
399 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
400 end-user suitable way.
401 * Improved user interaction
402 * Improved mouse gestures
403 * Vastly improved Update checker
404 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
406 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
407 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
409 * Improved video output features
410 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
411 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
412 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
413 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
414 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
416 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
417 if libncursesw is available.
418 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
419 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
420 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
422 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
423 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
424 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
425 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
426 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
427 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
428 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
429 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
432 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
433 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
434 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
437 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
438 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
439 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
440 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
441 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
442 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
445 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
446 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
456 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
457 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
458 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
461 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
462 ----------------------------------
465 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
468 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
469 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
470 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
471 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
472 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
473 * Updated Polish translation
476 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
477 ----------------------------------
480 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
481 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
482 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
485 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
486 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
487 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
488 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
489 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
490 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
491 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
492 to an unexpected application termination
493 * New Serbian translation
494 * Updated Romanian translation
497 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
498 ----------------------------------
501 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
502 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
503 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
504 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
505 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
506 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
507 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
508 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
511 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
512 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
513 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
514 * Fixed AAC resampling
515 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
516 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
519 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
520 ----------------------------------
523 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
524 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
525 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
526 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
527 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
530 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
531 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
532 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
533 * Close MMS access on network timeout
534 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
537 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
538 ----------------------------------
541 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
542 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
545 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
546 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
547 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
548 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
550 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
554 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
557 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
560 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
563 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
566 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
567 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
568 encoding on multi-cpu systems
569 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
570 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
572 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
573 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
574 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
575 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
578 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
581 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
582 ----------------------------------
585 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
586 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
587 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
589 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
590 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
592 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
593 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
596 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
598 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
599 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
600 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
601 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
602 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
603 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
605 * Support for current Ogg file formats
606 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
607 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
610 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
613 * The automatic updating facility was removed
614 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
615 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
616 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
619 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
620 ----------------------------------
622 Various bugfixes, notably:
623 * Windows Vista compatibility
624 * Cropping in Direct3D
625 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
626 * RSS filter string overflow
628 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
630 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
631 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
634 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
635 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
638 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
641 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
644 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
647 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
648 ----------------------------------
650 Various bugfixes, notably:
651 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
652 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
653 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
654 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
655 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
656 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
659 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
660 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
663 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
665 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
666 * Diverse usability improvements
667 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
668 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
669 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
672 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
673 ---------------------------------
676 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
679 * Fullscreen controller improvements
682 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
683 --------------------------------
686 * Shoutcast TV listings support
689 * Support for RTSP authentication
690 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
691 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
692 * ATSC support for DVB input
693 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
694 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
695 * Improved support for Flash Video files
698 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
699 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
700 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
701 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
702 * Matroska WavPack support
703 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
704 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
705 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
708 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
709 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
710 * Improved libcaca support
714 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
715 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
717 * Systray support in skins
719 * Support for Apple Remote control
720 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
721 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
722 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
723 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
725 * Notifications using notification-daemon
728 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
730 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
731 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
732 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
733 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
734 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
736 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
737 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
746 * Updates to the libvlc API
747 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
750 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
751 --------------------------------
754 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
755 * Support for downloading updates
759 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
760 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
761 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
762 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
764 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
765 * Improved subtitles encoding support
766 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
769 * Cook (Real audio) support
771 Playlist / Services discovery:
772 * XSPF playlist support
774 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
777 * New JACK audio output
781 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
782 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
783 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
784 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
785 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
786 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
789 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
792 * System to inform the user and request information
793 - HTTP authentication
797 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
798 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
799 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
802 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
803 - Improved playlist handling
804 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
806 - Embedded Video output
807 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
808 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
809 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
810 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
811 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
813 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
814 - A bunch of new RPN functions
817 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
820 * Mac-Intel compatibility
821 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
822 * Growl "Now playing" support
825 * Ability to log to syslog
826 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
829 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
831 * A bit more automatic testing
834 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
835 ---------------------------------
838 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
839 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
842 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
843 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
846 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
849 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
850 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
856 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
859 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
860 --------------------------------
863 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
867 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
868 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
869 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
872 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
873 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
874 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
875 * GnomeVFS input module
876 * Support for RTP packet reordering
877 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
880 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
881 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
882 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
885 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
886 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
892 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
893 Mixer and Dolby Surround
896 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
897 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
898 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
901 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
903 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
904 - New extended controls panel
905 - New bookmarks window
906 - Fixed playlist sorting
907 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
909 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
910 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
911 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
912 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
916 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
917 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
919 - Include macro to include other files
923 * Should now work outside IE as well
926 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
929 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
930 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
933 The following languages were added:
938 The following languages were re-added:
942 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
943 --------------------------------
946 * Rewrite of the playlist
948 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
949 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
950 * Preferences improvements:
951 - New organization, designed to improve usability
952 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
954 * Core image manipulation support
955 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
956 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
957 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
958 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
959 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
960 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
961 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
962 now separated by ':' instead of ','
963 * Access filter architecture
964 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
965 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
969 * Support for SOCKS proxy
970 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
971 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
972 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
973 * Better support for Kasenna streams
974 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
975 * Massive Matroska improvements
976 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
978 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
979 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
980 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
981 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
982 * Support for FTP over IPv6
985 * Dirac decoder and encoder
986 * PNG decoder/encoder
987 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
988 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
991 * New Record and Timeshift filters
994 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
995 * Brand new SAP module
996 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
997 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
998 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
999 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1000 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1001 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1005 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1008 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1009 * Image file video output (png)
1010 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1011 * Improvements to wall video filter
1012 * Support for font color and opacity
1018 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1019 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1020 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1024 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1025 - Improved preferences
1026 - Improvements to the wizard
1027 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1029 - Redesigned playlist
1030 - Improved preferences
1032 - Support for multiple actions
1035 - Support for the new playlist system
1037 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1040 * Screensaver disabling fix
1041 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1042 * Support for no-decoration windows
1045 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1046 * The OpenGL video output is back
1047 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1048 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1049 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1050 is not yet available in the new module
1051 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1054 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1063 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1066 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1069 The following languages were added:
1075 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1076 --------------------------------
1079 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1080 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1083 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1084 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1085 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1088 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1091 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1094 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1097 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1098 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1099 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1103 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1105 * Support of playlist group announcement
1108 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1109 --------------------------------
1112 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1113 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1114 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1115 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1116 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1117 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1120 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1121 (Stream your desktop)
1122 * Improved DVD support:
1123 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1124 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1125 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1126 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1127 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1128 (selection of titles/chapters).
1131 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1132 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1133 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1134 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1135 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1136 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1137 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1138 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1139 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1140 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1143 * G.726 audio support
1144 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1145 * MPEG-4 text support
1146 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1147 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1148 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1152 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1153 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1154 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1155 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1156 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1157 * DVB subtitles encoder
1158 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1159 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1161 * Text track muxing for mp4
1162 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1163 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1164 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1165 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1166 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1167 * Improved ASF muxer
1169 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1170 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1171 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1174 * New audio equalizer filter
1175 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1176 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1177 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1178 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1181 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1182 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1183 with support for effects.
1184 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1185 - New filters can be streamed.
1186 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1187 - Centralized scaling and blending
1189 - "time", to display current time
1190 - "marq", to display a marquee
1193 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1194 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1195 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1196 * A few skins2 improvements
1197 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1198 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1199 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1200 * Improved CORBA control module
1203 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1204 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1205 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1208 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1209 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1210 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1213 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1214 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1215 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1216 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1217 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1220 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1223 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1224 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1227 * Server/client network synchronization module
1228 * VBrick streams fully supported
1229 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1233 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1234 --------------------------------
1237 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1238 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1239 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1240 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1243 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1244 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1245 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1246 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1247 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1248 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1249 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1252 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1253 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1254 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1255 * Improved directory access module.
1256 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1257 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1258 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1259 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1260 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1263 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1264 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1265 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1268 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1269 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1270 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1273 * Improved session announcement system.
1274 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1275 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1276 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1277 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1278 * Improved transrater.
1279 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1280 * New configuration system.
1281 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1284 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1285 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1286 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1287 * Supports scheduling.
1288 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1289 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1292 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1293 - Ability to embed video output.
1294 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1295 - Lots of improvements.
1296 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1297 - New design and set of icons.
1298 - Ability to embed video output.
1299 - Support for hotkeys.
1300 - Support for bookmarks.
1302 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1303 - Better hotkeys handling.
1306 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1307 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1308 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1309 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1312 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1313 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1314 * Improved Windows installer.
1320 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1321 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1324 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1325 ---------------------------------
1328 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1329 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1332 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1333 --------------------------------
1336 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1337 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1340 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1341 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1342 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1343 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1346 * Internal improvments
1347 * Improved import/export
1350 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1352 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1353 small and strange formats.
1355 * New MOD audio demux.
1356 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1357 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1358 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1359 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1362 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1363 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1364 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1370 * New opengl video output plugin.
1373 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1374 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1377 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1378 --------------------------------
1381 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1382 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1383 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1384 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1385 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1386 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1387 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1388 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1391 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1396 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1397 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1398 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1399 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1400 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1401 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1402 * Better Icecast support.
1403 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1404 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1407 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1408 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1409 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1410 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1411 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1412 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1413 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1416 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1417 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1418 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1419 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1420 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1421 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1422 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1423 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1424 * Preliminary RTP support.
1425 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1430 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1431 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1433 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1434 - Improvements and help in preferences
1435 - New streaming wizard
1436 - Revised Disc Open menu
1438 - Improvements of the standard pages
1439 - Support for new commands
1440 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1443 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1444 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1447 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1448 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1449 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1450 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1451 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1452 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1453 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1454 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1455 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1458 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1460 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1461 * Support for Panther.
1462 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1463 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1466 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1467 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1468 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1469 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1470 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1471 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1472 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1473 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1476 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1477 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1478 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1481 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1484 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1485 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1486 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1487 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1490 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1491 --------------------------------
1494 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1497 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1498 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1501 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1502 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1505 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1508 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1509 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1512 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1515 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1518 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1519 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1523 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1524 --------------------------------
1527 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1528 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1532 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1533 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1534 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1536 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1537 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1540 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1543 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1546 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1547 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1551 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1552 --------------------------------
1555 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1556 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1560 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1561 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1562 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1563 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1564 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1567 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1568 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1569 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1572 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1573 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1574 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1577 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1578 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1579 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1580 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1581 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1584 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1585 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1586 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1589 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1592 * Improved build system.
1593 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1594 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1595 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1596 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1599 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1600 --------------------------------
1603 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1606 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1607 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1608 * Video 4 Linux support
1609 * CD Digital Audio support
1610 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1613 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1614 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1615 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1616 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1619 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1620 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1621 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1622 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1623 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1624 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1625 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1628 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1629 * New HTTP remote control interface
1632 * 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.
1633 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1634 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1635 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1638 * New reset option for the preferences
1639 * You can set your language in the prefences
1640 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1641 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1642 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1643 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1646 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1647 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1648 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1651 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1652 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1653 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1654 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1655 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1656 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1657 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1658 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1659 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1660 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1663 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1664 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1665 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1666 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1667 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1668 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1669 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1672 * Interface localization
1673 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1674 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1675 * New full-featured Preferences window
1678 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1679 --------------------------------
1682 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1683 * support for skins at the interface level
1684 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1685 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1686 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1687 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1688 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1691 * fixed HTTP redirects
1692 * support for opening an entire directory
1693 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1694 * new video4linux access plug-in
1695 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1698 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1699 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1700 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1703 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1704 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1705 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1706 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1707 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1708 * new codec for raw I420 video
1709 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1712 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1713 (although it still misses some important features)
1714 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1717 * new HTTP output support
1718 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1719 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1722 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1725 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1728 * reorderable playlist
1729 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1730 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1731 * support for mono audio output devices
1732 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1733 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1734 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1735 * the messages window remembers more lines
1736 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1737 * http and ogg stream output options
1738 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1741 * new skinnable interface
1742 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1744 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1745 * support for FLAC audio format
1746 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1748 * network tab in the interface
1749 * "apply" handling in preferences
1752 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1753 ---------------------------------
1756 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1757 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1758 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1759 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1761 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1762 * DTS S/PDIF support
1765 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1766 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1767 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1768 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1771 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1772 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1775 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1778 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1781 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1783 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1784 * rc interface is now fully useable
1785 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1788 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1789 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1790 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1791 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1792 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1794 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1795 * support for mouse gestures
1796 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1799 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1800 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1803 * improved ID3 tag detection
1804 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1805 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1806 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1808 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1811 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1812 ---------------------------------
1815 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1816 English was set as the preferred language
1819 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1820 --------------------------------
1823 * new mouse gesture interface
1824 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1828 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1829 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1830 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1833 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1834 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1838 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1841 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1842 without the user consent
1845 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1847 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1848 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1849 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1852 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1853 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1854 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1855 * playlist enhancements
1856 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1857 * new step forward/step backward commands
1858 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1859 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1860 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1863 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1864 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1865 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1868 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1869 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1872 * native video output is working again
1873 * only commandline interface support
1874 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1877 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1878 --------------------------------
1881 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1882 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1883 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1884 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1885 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1886 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1887 and A/52 streams are supported)
1888 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1893 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1894 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1895 * VCD entry points support
1896 * VCD image file support
1899 * support for *.asf format
1900 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1901 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1902 * support for ogg encapsulation
1903 * support for raw DV format
1904 * support for *.wav format
1905 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1908 Stream discovery & playlists:
1909 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1910 * support for .m3u file format
1911 * support for .asx file format
1912 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1915 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1916 (only available with the .avi demux)
1917 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1918 * support for raw PCM data
1919 * support for Cinepak video codec
1920 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1921 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1922 * support for Xvid codec
1923 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1924 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1925 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1927 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1929 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1932 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1935 * new WxWindows interface
1936 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1937 device and the channels configuration
1938 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1939 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1940 format that VLC can play
1941 * new swedish translation
1942 * enhancements of the playlist window
1943 * new messages window to see debug info
1944 * fixed a few crashes
1947 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1948 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1949 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1950 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working