1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
11 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
12 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
13 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
14 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
15 * Digital Cinema Package support
18 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
19 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
20 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1
21 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
22 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
23 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
24 * OpenMax IL imrpovements, notably for RaspberryPi
25 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
26 * New jpeg image decoder
29 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
30 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
31 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
34 * New CAF format module
35 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
36 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
37 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
38 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
41 * Basic support for WebVTT
42 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
43 * Support HDPR TS files
44 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
45 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
46 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
49 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
50 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
54 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
55 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
56 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
57 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
58 * New Android native window provider module
59 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
62 * New Oldmovie effect filter
63 * New VHS effect filter
64 * New Freeze effect filter
65 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
66 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
69 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
72 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
73 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
74 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
75 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
76 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
77 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
80 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
83 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
86 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
89 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
92 * ios video output: use ios2
93 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
94 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
97 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
98 --------------------------------
101 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
103 * Fix some subtitles track selection
106 * VP9 support in WebM
107 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
108 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
111 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
112 * Support Speex in ogg files
113 * Fix some .mov playlists support
114 * Support Alac in mkv
115 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
116 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
119 * Fix DVB options parsing
120 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
121 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
124 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
125 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
128 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
129 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
132 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
133 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
134 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
135 * Fix play after drag'n drop
136 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
139 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
140 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
143 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
144 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
147 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
148 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
149 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
150 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
151 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
152 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
153 * Improves interface resizings
156 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
157 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
158 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
159 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
160 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
164 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
165 --------------------------------
168 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
169 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
170 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
171 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
172 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
174 3rd party libraries (contrib):
175 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
178 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
179 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
180 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
181 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
182 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
185 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
186 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
190 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
191 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
192 * Support for Ulead DV audio
193 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
194 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
195 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
196 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
197 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
198 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
199 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
200 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
201 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
202 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
205 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
206 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
207 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
210 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
211 remove support for previous OS X releases
212 * Major improvements in DASH support
213 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
214 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
215 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
216 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
217 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
218 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
219 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
220 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
221 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
222 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
223 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
226 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
227 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
228 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
229 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
230 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
231 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
232 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
233 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
234 * Support for more MJPEG streams
235 * Add support for liveleak streams
236 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
237 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
238 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
241 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
242 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
243 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
244 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
245 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
246 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
247 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
248 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
249 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
250 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
251 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
254 * New remapping channel filter
255 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
256 * New VSXu visualization plugin
257 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
258 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
259 * New gain audio filter
262 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
263 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
264 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
265 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
266 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
267 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
268 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
269 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
270 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
273 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
274 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
275 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
276 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
277 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
278 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
279 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
282 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
283 * Options support for AVIO output module
284 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
285 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
286 * Livehttp stream encryption support
287 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
288 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
291 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
294 * configurable password for the HTTP server
295 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
296 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
297 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
298 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
299 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
300 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
301 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
305 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
308 * Add support for multiple video outputs
309 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
311 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
312 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
313 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
314 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
315 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
316 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
317 VLC's internal volume level
318 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
320 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
321 selection and to manage the list of presets
322 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
323 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
324 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
325 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
326 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
327 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
328 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
329 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
330 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
331 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
333 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
334 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
335 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
336 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
337 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
338 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
339 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
340 3rd party applications
341 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
342 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
343 (system-wide settings)
344 * Add support for the Video Title option
345 * Add support for the Boss Key
346 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
347 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
350 * Partial support for Qt5.0
351 * Menus modifications and improvements
352 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
353 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
354 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
355 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
356 * EPG display fixes and improvements
357 * Add SD pixmap sources
358 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
359 * Display playlist total duration
360 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
361 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
362 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
367 * Extend sliders, offsets options
368 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
369 * Numerous fixes and improvements
370 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
373 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
374 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
375 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
376 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
377 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
378 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
379 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
380 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
381 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
382 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
385 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
386 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
387 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
388 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
389 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
390 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
392 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
393 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
394 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
395 * Broken crop video filter
397 * OSD parser and menu
398 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
399 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
400 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
401 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
405 * Update of all translations
408 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
409 --------------------------------
412 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
413 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
416 * Fix modplug security issues
419 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
420 --------------------------------
424 * Fix crash in QTsound
425 * Fix screen mouse file location
426 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
429 * Fix use after free in sgimb
430 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
433 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
436 * Fix interface crashes
437 * Fix autostart playback option
438 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
441 * update Welsh translation
442 * New Kannada translation
445 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
446 --------------------------------
449 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
450 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
454 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
457 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
460 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
463 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
467 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
470 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
473 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
474 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
475 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
478 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
479 --------------------------------
482 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
485 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
488 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
489 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
490 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
491 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
492 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
493 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
496 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
497 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
498 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
499 * 3rd party codecs updates
502 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
503 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
504 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
505 in the advanced preferences panel
506 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
507 * Fix crash within the video output code
508 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
509 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
510 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
511 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
513 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
516 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
519 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
520 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
523 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
526 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
527 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
528 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
529 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
530 Dutch, Danish, translations
531 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
534 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
535 --------------------------------
538 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
541 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
542 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
543 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
546 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
547 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
548 * Fix koreus lua parser
549 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
550 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
551 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
552 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
555 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
556 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
559 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
562 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
563 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
564 * Fix Time counter UI look
565 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
568 * Fix https streaming
571 * Fix audio and video track selection:
572 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
573 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
576 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
577 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
578 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
579 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
580 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
583 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
584 --------------------------------
587 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
588 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
589 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
590 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
591 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
592 during playback on Mac OS X
595 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
596 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
597 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
600 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
601 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
602 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
603 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
604 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
607 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
608 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
609 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
610 * Support Youtube live streams
613 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
616 * Fix media info dialog update
617 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
618 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
619 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
620 * Fix album art display at start
623 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
624 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
625 * Fix menus display and behavior
626 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
627 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
628 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
629 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
630 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
631 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
632 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
635 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
636 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
637 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
638 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
639 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
640 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
641 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
642 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
643 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
646 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
647 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
648 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
649 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
650 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
653 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
654 --------------------------------
657 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
660 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
661 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
664 * Add GateKeeper support
665 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
666 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
667 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
670 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
673 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
674 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
675 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
676 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
677 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
680 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
681 --------------------------------
684 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
685 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
686 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
687 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
688 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
689 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
690 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
691 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
692 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
693 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
694 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
698 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
699 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
700 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
701 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
702 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
703 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
704 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
705 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
706 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
707 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
708 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
709 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
712 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
713 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
715 * Fix MP3 free format support
718 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
719 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
720 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
721 * Fix for DVB channels file support
722 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
725 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
726 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
728 Audio filters and output:
729 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
730 * Fix DirectSound device selection
731 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
732 * Do not apply volume in file output
733 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
734 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
737 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
738 the persistant media library
739 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
740 to the media library or the temporary playlist
741 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
742 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
743 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
744 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
745 press on the Play/Pause button
746 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
747 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
748 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
749 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
750 * Many Fullscreen fixes
751 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
752 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
753 Synchronization panel
754 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
755 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
756 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
757 * Fix crashes on exit
758 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
760 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
761 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
762 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
763 automatically reset on the first launch.
764 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
765 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
766 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
769 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
770 * Fixes for icecast SD
773 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
774 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
775 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
776 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
777 * Fix tags and file names display
778 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
781 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
782 * Fix for key events and focus loss
785 * Fix display of some buttons
786 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
787 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
790 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
791 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
792 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
795 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
796 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
797 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
798 Thai translations update
799 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
802 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
803 --------------------------------
806 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
807 * fix the samba module compilation
808 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
809 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
810 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
811 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
814 * Support for MXPEG files
815 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
816 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
819 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
820 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
821 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
824 * Fix ogm header creation
827 * limit spatializer filter distortions
828 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
831 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
832 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
833 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
834 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
837 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
840 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
841 * allow to hide the sidebar
842 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
843 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
844 * noticebly faster launch time
845 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
846 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
847 * improve track synchronization panel
848 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
849 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
852 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
853 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
854 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
855 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
858 * fix for menus display
859 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
860 * documentation update
863 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
864 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
867 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
868 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
869 * Update Jamendo selections
873 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
874 * fix a crash on VLM close
877 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
878 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
879 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
880 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
883 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
886 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
887 ---------------------------------
890 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
891 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
892 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
893 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
894 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
895 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
896 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
897 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
898 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
899 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
900 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
901 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
902 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
903 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
904 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
905 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
906 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
907 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
908 --http-crl (optional CRL).
909 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
910 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
911 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
912 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
913 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
914 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
915 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
917 Important changes for packagers:
918 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
919 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
920 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
921 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
922 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
923 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
924 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
925 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
926 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
927 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
930 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
931 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
932 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
933 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
934 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
935 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
936 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
939 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
940 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
941 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
942 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
943 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
944 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
945 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
946 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
947 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
948 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
949 * PulseAudio audio input support
950 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
951 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
952 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
953 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
954 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
955 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
956 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
957 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
960 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
961 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
962 are notably concerned.
963 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
964 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
965 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
966 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
967 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
968 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
969 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
970 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
971 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
972 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
973 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
974 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
975 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
976 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
977 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
980 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
981 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
982 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
983 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
984 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
985 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
986 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
987 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
988 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
989 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
990 * Improved support of tracker files
991 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
994 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
995 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
996 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
997 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
998 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
999 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1000 and important cleanups and optimisations
1001 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1002 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1003 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1004 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1005 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1006 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1007 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1008 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1009 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1010 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1011 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1012 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1013 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1014 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1015 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1016 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1017 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1018 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1019 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1020 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1021 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1024 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1025 * New video output for iOS platform
1026 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1027 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1028 * Various vmem improvements
1029 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1030 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1031 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1032 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1033 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1034 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1036 Audio Output and Filters:
1037 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1038 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1039 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1040 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1041 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1042 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1043 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1044 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1045 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1046 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1049 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1050 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1051 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1052 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1053 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1054 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1055 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1056 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1057 * New anti-flickering filter
1058 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1059 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1060 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1061 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1062 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1063 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1064 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1067 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1068 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1069 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1070 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1071 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1072 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1073 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1074 * Major rework of VoD support
1075 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1076 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1077 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1078 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1079 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1080 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1081 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1082 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1083 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1084 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1087 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1088 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1091 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1092 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1093 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1094 list of available audio and video filters
1095 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1096 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1097 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1100 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1101 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1102 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1103 * id3tag: use taglib
1104 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1105 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1106 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1107 * removal of the noise filter
1108 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1109 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1110 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1111 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1114 * Update of translations for most languages.
1115 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1118 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1119 ----------------------------------
1122 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1123 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1126 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1127 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1130 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1131 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1132 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1135 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1138 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1139 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1142 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1145 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1146 ----------------------------------
1149 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1150 including support for OS X Lion
1151 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1152 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1155 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1158 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1159 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1160 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1163 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1166 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1167 ----------------------------------
1170 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1171 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1174 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1175 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1176 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1177 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1178 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1180 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1181 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1182 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1184 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1185 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1188 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1191 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1194 * Fix quitting on Linux
1195 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1199 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1202 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1205 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1206 ---------------------------------
1208 Windows and Mac OS X:
1209 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1212 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1213 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1216 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1219 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1222 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1224 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1225 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1227 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1228 * RTP output and XML export
1229 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1233 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1234 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1235 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1236 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1239 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1240 --------------------------------
1242 Windows and Mac OS X:
1243 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1246 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1249 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1250 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1251 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1252 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1253 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1254 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1257 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1258 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1262 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1263 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1264 * New Luganda Translation
1267 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1268 --------------------------------
1271 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1274 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1275 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1276 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1277 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1280 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1282 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1283 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1284 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1285 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1286 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1287 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1288 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1289 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1291 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1292 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1293 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1294 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1295 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1296 * Configure and build system improvements
1297 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1300 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1301 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1302 * New icelandic translation
1305 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1306 --------------------------------
1309 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1310 #234484 and #260719.
1313 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1314 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1315 and stability reasons
1318 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1322 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1325 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1326 ----------------------------------
1329 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1332 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1333 ---------------------------------
1336 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1337 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1338 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1339 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1342 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1345 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1346 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1347 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1348 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1351 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1352 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1353 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1355 Subtitles and renderer:
1356 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1357 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1358 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1359 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1360 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1363 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1364 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1365 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1366 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1369 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1370 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1372 Miscellaneous fixes:
1373 * KDE device solid actions
1375 * Transcode integer overflow
1376 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1377 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1380 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1381 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1382 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1385 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1386 ----------------------------------
1389 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1393 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1396 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1399 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1400 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1401 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1402 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1405 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1409 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1412 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1415 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1416 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1418 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1422 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1423 * Miscellaneous fixes
1426 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1427 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1428 French and Ukrainian
1429 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1430 * New Asturian translation
1433 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1434 ----------------------------------
1437 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1439 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1442 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1445 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1446 * Various fixes for Windows
1449 * New Armenian translation
1450 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1451 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1454 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1455 --------------------------------
1458 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1459 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1460 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1463 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1464 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1467 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1468 --------------------------------
1470 Access and demuxers:
1471 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1472 * fix for podcasts parsing
1473 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1476 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1477 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1480 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1481 * fix m3u playlists exports
1484 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1487 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1490 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1493 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1496 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1499 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1500 --------------------------------
1503 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1504 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1507 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1508 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1511 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1512 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1513 * fix console output encoding
1515 Interface and extensions:
1516 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1517 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1520 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1521 --------------------------------
1524 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1525 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1526 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1527 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1528 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1529 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1530 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1531 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1532 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1533 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1534 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1535 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1536 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1537 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1538 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1539 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1543 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1544 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1545 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1546 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1547 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1550 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1553 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1554 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1555 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1559 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1562 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1563 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1564 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1567 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1568 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1569 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1570 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1573 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1574 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1577 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1578 --------------------------------
1580 Important changes for users:
1581 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1582 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1584 Important changes for packagers:
1585 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1586 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1587 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1588 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1589 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1591 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1593 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1594 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1595 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1596 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1597 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1600 * Support for the sftp protocol
1601 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1602 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1603 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1604 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1605 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1608 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1609 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1610 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1612 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1613 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1614 * Invmem module improvements
1615 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1616 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1617 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1618 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1619 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1620 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1621 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1622 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1623 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1624 * Support for VP8 codec
1625 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1628 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1629 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1630 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1631 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1632 * Various EGP improvements
1633 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1634 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1637 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1638 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1639 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1640 * Podcast images are now displayed
1643 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1644 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1645 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1646 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1647 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1648 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1649 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1650 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1651 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1652 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1653 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1656 * New content extensions lua framework
1659 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1660 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1661 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1662 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1663 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1664 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1665 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1668 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1669 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1670 * Service discovery based on libudev
1671 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1674 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1675 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1676 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1677 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1678 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1679 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1680 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1683 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1684 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1685 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1688 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1690 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1691 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1694 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1697 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1698 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1699 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1700 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1701 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1702 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1703 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1706 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1707 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1710 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1711 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1712 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1716 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1717 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1718 * Improved Solaris port
1721 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1722 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1725 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1726 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1727 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1728 * transrate: broken since too long
1729 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1730 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1731 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1732 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1733 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1734 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1735 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1736 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1737 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1738 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1739 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1740 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1741 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1742 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1745 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1746 --------------------------------
1749 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1751 Decoders/Packetizers:
1752 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1755 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1756 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1757 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1758 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1759 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1762 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1763 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1766 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1767 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1770 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1771 and Walloon translations updated
1772 * Sinhala translation started
1775 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1776 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1779 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1780 --------------------------------
1783 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1784 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1787 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1790 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1791 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1794 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1795 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1796 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1797 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1800 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1801 --------------------------------
1804 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1805 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1808 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1809 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1812 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1813 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1816 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1819 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1820 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1823 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1824 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1827 * New Walloon translation
1828 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1831 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1832 --------------------------------
1835 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1836 regressions in most popular drivers
1837 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1840 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1841 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1842 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1845 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1846 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1849 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1850 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1851 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1852 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1853 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1856 * New udev module for linux
1859 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1862 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1865 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1866 --------------------------------
1869 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1870 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1871 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1874 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1875 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1878 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1879 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1882 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1885 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1886 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1887 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1888 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1891 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1892 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1893 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1894 - no support for Goom and SDL
1895 - limited text rendering support
1896 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1899 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1900 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1901 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1902 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1903 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1904 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1905 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1906 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1907 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1911 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1914 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1917 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1918 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1919 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1920 Arabic and French translation updates
1923 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1924 --------------------------------
1927 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1928 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1929 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1930 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1931 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1932 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1935 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1936 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1937 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1940 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1941 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1942 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1945 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1948 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1949 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1952 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1953 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1954 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1955 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1956 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1957 * Fix various crashes
1960 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1962 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1966 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1967 ---------------------------------
1971 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1972 See 'Access:' for more info.
1973 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1976 * Instantaneous pausing
1977 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1978 * Finer speed control
1979 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1980 * Timeshift for most medias
1981 * RTSP trickplay support
1982 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1985 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1986 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1987 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1988 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1989 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1990 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1991 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1992 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1993 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1994 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1997 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1998 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1999 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2000 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2001 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2002 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2003 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2006 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2007 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2010 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2011 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2012 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2013 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2014 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2015 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2016 * DVB scanning on linux
2017 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2018 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2019 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2020 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2021 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2022 * MTP device access on Unix
2023 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2024 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2027 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2028 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2029 Windows and Mac OS X.
2032 * Export the playlist in HTML
2033 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2034 * Better metadata handling and reading
2036 Linux/Windows interface:
2037 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2038 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2039 * Recently played items list
2040 * Interface toolbar customizations
2041 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2042 - More menus actions
2043 - Finer speed slider
2044 - Improvements on many dialogs
2045 - New dialog for plugins listing
2046 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2047 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2048 * Better integration in GTK environments
2051 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2052 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2053 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2054 * Additional usability improvements
2057 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2058 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2059 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2060 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2061 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2064 * New Maemo port with:
2065 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2066 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2069 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2072 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2073 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2074 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2075 * Support for latest iSight models
2078 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2079 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2082 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2083 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2084 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2085 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2086 The old image video output has been removed.
2087 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2088 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2091 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2099 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2100 --------------------------------------
2106 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2107 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2108 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2109 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2110 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2111 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2112 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2114 Various fixes to the following modules:
2117 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2118 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2119 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2121 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2126 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2127 ---------------------------------
2130 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2131 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2134 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2135 ---------------------------------
2138 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2141 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2144 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2145 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2146 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2147 main controller window.
2148 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2151 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2156 * Updates of other localizations
2159 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2160 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2161 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2162 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2163 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2166 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2167 ---------------------------------
2170 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2172 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2175 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2176 --------------------------------
2181 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2182 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2185 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2186 --------------------------------
2188 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2189 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2192 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2195 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2196 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2199 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2200 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2203 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2204 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2205 * Various fixed in playlist
2208 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2211 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2214 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2215 ------------------------------------
2217 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2218 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2221 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2222 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2223 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2226 * Stability fix for the video output.
2229 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2230 --------------------------------
2233 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2234 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2235 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2236 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2237 * Fixed update system bugs
2238 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2241 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2242 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2243 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2244 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2245 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2246 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2247 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2248 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2249 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2250 modern Mac OS X versions
2253 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2254 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2256 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2257 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2260 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2261 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2262 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2263 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2264 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2265 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2268 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2269 --------------------------------
2271 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2272 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2273 * Multiple bugfixes.
2276 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2277 --------------------------------
2279 * Multiple bug fixes.
2282 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2283 ---------------------------------
2287 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2288 recent to work correctly
2289 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2290 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2291 edit the ".hosts" file.
2292 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2293 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2294 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2295 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2296 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2297 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2298 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2299 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2300 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2301 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2302 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2303 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2304 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2305 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2306 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2307 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2308 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2309 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2310 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2311 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2312 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2313 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2314 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2315 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2316 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2317 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2318 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2319 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2320 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2321 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2322 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2323 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2324 and postproc modules.
2325 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2326 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2327 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2328 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2330 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2331 filter. For example:
2332 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2333 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2335 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2336 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2342 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2344 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2345 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2348 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2349 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2351 * Shoutcast TV listings
2352 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2354 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2355 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2357 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2360 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2361 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2362 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2363 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2364 * JACK audio input support
2365 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2366 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2367 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2368 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2369 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2370 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2371 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2372 (available as a separate download).
2373 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2374 * RTMP input support
2375 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2376 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2377 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2379 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2380 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2383 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2384 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2385 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2386 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2388 * APEv1/2 tags support
2389 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2390 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2392 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2393 * TiVo Series 2 support
2394 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2399 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2400 * Flash Screen Video support
2401 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2402 * DosBox Capture support
2403 * Karl Morton's Video support
2404 * limited atrac3 support
2406 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2407 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2408 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2409 * H.264 PAFF support
2410 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2411 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2412 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2413 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2414 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2417 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2418 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2419 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2420 * AQTitle subtitles support
2421 * MKV USF subtitles support
2422 * HTML-based subtitles support
2423 * MPSub subtitles support
2424 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2425 * MPL2 subtitles support
2426 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2427 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2428 * Realtext subtitle support
2429 * DKS subtitle support
2430 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2431 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2434 * Flash Screen Video support
2435 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2437 Video outputs and filters:
2438 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2439 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2440 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2441 * New puzzle video output filter
2442 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2443 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2445 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2446 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2447 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2448 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2449 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2450 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2451 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2452 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2453 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2454 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2455 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2456 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2457 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2458 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2460 Audio outputs and filters:
2461 * Replay gain support
2462 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2463 new scaletempo audio filter)
2464 * New spatializer audio filter
2465 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2468 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2469 * New RTP payload formats:
2470 * Speex voice audio codec
2471 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2472 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2473 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2474 * DCCP transport for RTP
2475 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2480 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2481 end-user suitable way.
2482 * Improved user interaction
2483 * Improved mouse gestures
2484 * Vastly improved Update checker
2485 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2487 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2488 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2490 * Improved video output features
2491 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2492 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2493 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2494 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2495 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2497 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2498 if libncursesw is available.
2499 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2500 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2501 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2503 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2504 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2505 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2506 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2507 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2508 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2509 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2510 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2513 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2514 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2515 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2518 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2519 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2520 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2521 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2522 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2523 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2526 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2527 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2537 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2538 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2539 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2542 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2543 ----------------------------------
2546 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2549 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2550 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2551 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2552 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2553 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2554 * Updated Polish translation
2557 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2558 ----------------------------------
2561 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2562 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2563 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2566 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2567 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2568 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2569 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2570 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2571 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2572 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2573 to an unexpected application termination
2574 * New Serbian translation
2575 * Updated Romanian translation
2578 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2579 ----------------------------------
2582 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2583 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2584 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2585 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2586 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2587 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2588 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2589 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2592 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2593 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2594 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2595 * Fixed AAC resampling
2596 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2597 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2600 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2601 ----------------------------------
2604 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2605 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2606 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2607 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2608 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2611 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2612 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2613 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2614 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2615 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2618 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2619 ----------------------------------
2622 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2623 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2626 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2627 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2628 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2629 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2631 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2635 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2638 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2641 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2644 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2647 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2648 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2649 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2650 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2651 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2653 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2654 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2655 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2656 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2659 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2662 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2663 ----------------------------------
2666 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2667 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2668 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2670 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2671 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2673 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2674 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2677 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2679 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2680 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2681 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2682 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2683 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2684 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2685 two different movies
2686 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2687 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2688 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2691 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2694 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2695 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2696 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2697 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2700 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2701 ----------------------------------
2703 Various bugfixes, notably:
2704 * Windows Vista compatibility
2705 * Cropping in Direct3D
2706 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2707 * RSS filter string overflow
2709 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2711 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2712 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2715 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2716 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2719 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2722 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2725 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2728 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2729 ----------------------------------
2731 Various bugfixes, notably:
2732 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2733 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2734 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2735 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2736 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2737 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2740 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2741 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2744 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2746 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2747 * Diverse usability improvements
2748 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2749 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2750 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2753 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2754 ---------------------------------
2756 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2757 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2760 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2763 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2764 --------------------------------
2767 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2770 * Support for RTSP authentication
2771 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2772 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2773 * ATSC support for DVB input
2774 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2775 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2776 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2779 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2780 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2781 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2782 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2783 * Matroska WavPack support
2784 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2785 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2786 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2789 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2790 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2791 * Improved libcaca support
2795 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2796 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2798 * Systray support in skins
2800 * Support for Apple Remote control
2801 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2802 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2803 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2804 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2806 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2809 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2810 Windows 9x/ME users:
2811 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2812 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2813 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2814 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2815 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2817 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2818 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2827 * Updates to the libvlc API
2828 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2831 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2832 --------------------------------
2835 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2836 * Support for downloading updates
2840 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2841 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2842 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2843 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2845 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2846 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2847 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2850 * Cook (Real audio) support
2852 Playlist / Services discovery:
2853 * XSPF playlist support
2855 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2858 * New JACK audio output
2861 * New video filters:
2862 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2863 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2864 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2865 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2866 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2867 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2870 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2873 * System to inform the user and request information
2874 - HTTP authentication
2878 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2879 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2880 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2883 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2884 - Improved playlist handling
2885 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2887 - Embedded Video output
2888 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2889 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2890 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2891 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2892 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2894 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2895 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2898 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2901 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2902 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2903 * Growl "Now playing" support
2906 * Ability to log to syslog
2907 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2910 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2912 * A bit more automatic testing
2915 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2916 ---------------------------------
2919 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2920 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2923 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2924 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2927 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2930 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2931 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2937 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2940 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2941 --------------------------------
2944 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2948 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2949 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2950 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2953 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2954 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2955 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2956 * GnomeVFS input module
2957 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2958 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2961 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2962 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2963 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2966 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2967 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2973 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2974 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2977 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2978 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2979 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2982 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2984 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2985 - New extended controls panel
2986 - New bookmarks window
2987 - Fixed playlist sorting
2988 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2990 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2991 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2992 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2993 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2997 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2998 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3000 - Include macro to include other files
3004 * Should now work outside IE as well
3007 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3010 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3011 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3014 The following languages were added:
3018 * Simplified Chinese
3019 The following languages were re-added:
3023 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3024 --------------------------------
3027 * Rewrite of the playlist
3029 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3030 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3031 * Preferences improvements:
3032 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3033 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3035 * Core image manipulation support
3036 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3037 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3038 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3039 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3040 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3041 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3042 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3043 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3044 * Access filter architecture
3045 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3046 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3050 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3051 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3052 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3053 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3054 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3055 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3056 * Massive Matroska improvements
3057 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3059 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3060 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3061 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3062 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3063 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3065 Decoders / Encoders:
3066 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3067 * PNG decoder/encoder
3068 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3069 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3072 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3075 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3076 * Brand new SAP module
3077 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3078 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3079 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3080 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3081 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3082 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3086 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3089 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3090 * Image file video output (png)
3091 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3092 * Improvements to wall video filter
3093 * Support for font color and opacity
3099 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3100 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3101 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3105 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3106 - Improved preferences
3107 - Improvements to the wizard
3108 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3110 - Redesigned playlist
3111 - Improved preferences
3113 - Support for multiple actions
3116 - Support for the new playlist system
3118 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3121 * Screensaver disabling fix
3122 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3123 * Support for no-decoration windows
3126 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3127 * The OpenGL video output is back
3128 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3129 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3130 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3131 is not yet available in the new module
3132 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3135 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3144 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3147 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3150 The following languages were added:
3156 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3157 --------------------------------
3160 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3161 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3164 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3165 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3166 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3169 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3172 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3175 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3178 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3179 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3180 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3184 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3186 * Support of playlist group announcement
3189 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3190 --------------------------------
3193 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3194 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3195 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3196 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3197 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3198 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3201 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3202 (Stream your desktop)
3203 * Improved DVD support:
3204 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3205 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3206 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3207 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3208 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3209 (selection of titles/chapters).
3212 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3213 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3214 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3215 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3216 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3217 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3218 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3219 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3220 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3221 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3224 * G.726 audio support
3225 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3226 * MPEG-4 text support
3227 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3228 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3229 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3233 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3234 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3235 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3236 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3237 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3238 * DVB subtitles encoder
3239 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3240 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3242 * Text track muxing for mp4
3243 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3244 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3245 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3246 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3247 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3248 * Improved ASF muxer
3250 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3251 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3252 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3255 * New audio equalizer filter
3256 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3257 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3258 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3259 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3262 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3263 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3264 with support for effects.
3265 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3266 - New filters can be streamed.
3267 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3268 - Centralized scaling and blending
3270 - "time", to display current time
3271 - "marq", to display a marquee
3274 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3275 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3276 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3277 * A few skins2 improvements
3278 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3279 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3280 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3281 * Improved CORBA control module
3284 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3285 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3286 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3289 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3290 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3291 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3294 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3295 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3296 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3297 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3298 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3301 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3304 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3305 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3308 * Server/client network synchronization module
3309 * VBrick streams fully supported
3310 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3314 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3315 --------------------------------
3318 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3319 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3320 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3321 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3324 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3325 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3326 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3327 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3328 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3329 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3330 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3333 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3334 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3335 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3336 * Improved directory access module.
3337 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3338 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3339 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3340 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3341 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3344 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3345 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3346 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3349 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3350 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3351 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3354 * Improved session announcement system.
3355 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3356 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3357 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3358 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3359 * Improved transrater.
3360 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3361 * New configuration system.
3362 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3365 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3366 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3367 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3368 * Supports scheduling.
3369 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3370 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3373 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3374 - Ability to embed video output.
3375 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3376 - Lots of improvements.
3377 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3378 - New design and set of icons.
3379 - Ability to embed video output.
3380 - Support for hotkeys.
3381 - Support for bookmarks.
3383 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3384 - Better hotkeys handling.
3387 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3388 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3389 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3390 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3393 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3394 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3395 * Improved Windows installer.
3401 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3402 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3405 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3406 ---------------------------------
3409 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3410 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3413 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3414 --------------------------------
3417 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3418 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3421 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3422 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3423 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3424 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3427 * Internal improvments
3428 * Improved import/export
3431 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3433 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3434 small and strange formats.
3436 * New MOD audio demux.
3437 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3438 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3439 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3440 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3443 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3444 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3445 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3451 * New opengl video output plugin.
3454 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3455 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3458 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3459 --------------------------------
3462 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3463 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3464 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3465 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3466 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3467 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3468 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3469 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3472 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3477 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3478 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3479 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3480 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3481 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3482 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3483 * Better Icecast support.
3484 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3485 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3488 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3489 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3490 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3491 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3492 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3493 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3494 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3497 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3498 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3499 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3500 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3501 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3502 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3503 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3504 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3505 * Preliminary RTP support.
3506 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3511 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3512 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3514 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3515 - Improvements and help in preferences
3516 - New streaming wizard
3517 - Revised Disc Open menu
3519 - Improvements of the standard pages
3520 - Support for new commands
3521 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3524 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3525 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3528 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3529 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3530 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3531 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3532 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3533 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3534 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3535 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3536 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3539 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3541 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3542 * Support for Panther.
3543 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3544 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3547 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3548 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3549 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3550 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3551 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3552 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3553 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3554 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3557 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3558 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3559 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3562 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3565 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3566 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3567 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3568 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3571 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3572 --------------------------------
3575 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3578 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3579 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3582 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3583 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3586 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3589 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3590 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3593 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3596 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3599 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3600 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3604 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3605 --------------------------------
3608 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3609 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3613 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3614 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3615 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3617 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3618 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3621 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3624 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3627 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3628 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3632 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3633 --------------------------------
3636 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3637 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3641 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3642 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3643 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3644 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3645 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3648 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3649 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3650 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3653 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3654 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3655 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3658 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3659 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3660 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3661 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3662 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3665 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3666 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3667 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3670 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3673 * Improved build system.
3674 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3675 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3676 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3677 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3680 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3681 --------------------------------
3684 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3687 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3688 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3689 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3690 * Video 4 Linux support
3691 * CD Digital Audio support
3692 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3695 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3696 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3697 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3698 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3701 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3702 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3703 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3704 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3705 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3706 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3707 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3710 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3711 * New HTTP remote control interface
3714 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3715 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3716 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3717 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3718 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3721 * New reset option for the preferences
3722 * You can set your language in the prefences
3723 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3724 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3725 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3726 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3729 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3730 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3731 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3734 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3735 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3736 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3737 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3738 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3739 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3740 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3741 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3742 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3743 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3746 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3747 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3748 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3749 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3750 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3751 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3752 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3755 * Interface localization
3756 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3757 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3758 * New full-featured Preferences window
3761 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3762 --------------------------------
3765 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3766 * support for skins at the interface level
3767 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3768 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3769 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3770 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3771 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3774 * fixed HTTP redirects
3775 * support for opening an entire directory
3776 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3777 * new video4linux access plug-in
3778 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3781 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3782 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3783 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3786 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3787 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3788 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3789 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3790 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3791 * new codec for raw I420 video
3792 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3795 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3796 (although it still misses some important features)
3797 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3800 * new HTTP output support
3801 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3802 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3805 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3808 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3811 * reorderable playlist
3812 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3813 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3814 * support for mono audio output devices
3815 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3816 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3817 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3818 * the messages window remembers more lines
3819 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3820 * http and ogg stream output options
3821 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3824 * new skinnable interface
3825 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3827 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3828 * support for FLAC audio format
3829 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3831 * network tab in the interface
3832 * "apply" handling in preferences
3835 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3836 ---------------------------------
3839 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3840 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3841 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3842 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3844 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3845 * DTS S/PDIF support
3848 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3849 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3850 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3851 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3854 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3855 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3858 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3861 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3864 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3866 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3867 * rc interface is now fully useable
3868 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3871 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3872 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3873 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3874 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3875 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3877 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3878 * support for mouse gestures
3879 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3882 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3883 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3886 * improved ID3 tag detection
3887 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3888 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3889 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3891 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3894 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3895 ---------------------------------
3898 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3899 English was set as the preferred language
3902 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3903 --------------------------------
3906 * new mouse gesture interface
3907 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3911 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3912 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3913 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3916 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3917 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3921 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3924 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3925 without the user consent
3928 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3930 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3931 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3932 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3935 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3936 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3937 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3938 * playlist enhancements
3939 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3940 * new step forward/step backward commands
3941 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3942 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3943 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3946 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3947 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3948 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3951 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3952 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3955 * native video output is working again
3956 * only commandline interface support
3957 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3960 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3961 --------------------------------
3964 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3965 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3966 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3967 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3968 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3969 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3970 and A/52 streams are supported)
3971 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3976 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3977 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3978 * VCD entry points support
3979 * VCD image file support
3982 * support for *.asf format
3983 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3984 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3985 * support for ogg encapsulation
3986 * support for raw DV format
3987 * support for *.wav format
3988 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3991 Stream discovery & playlists:
3992 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3993 * support for .m3u file format
3994 * support for .asx file format
3995 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3998 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3999 (only available with the .avi demux)
4000 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4001 * support for raw PCM data
4002 * support for Cinepak video codec
4003 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4004 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4005 * support for Xvid codec
4006 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4007 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4008 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4010 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4012 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4015 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4018 * new WxWindows interface
4019 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4020 device and the channels configuration
4021 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4022 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4023 format that VLC can play
4024 * new swedish translation
4025 * enhancements of the playlist window
4026 * new messages window to see debug info
4027 * fixed a few crashes
4030 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4031 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4032 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4033 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working