1 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
8 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
9 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
10 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
13 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
16 * WPL playlist support
17 * ZPL playlist support
18 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
21 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
24 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
25 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
28 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
29 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
30 * New x11 and xv modules based on XCB
33 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
36 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
46 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
47 --------------------------------
50 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
51 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
52 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
53 * Fix Dailymotion access script
54 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
55 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
58 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
59 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
62 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
63 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
64 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
67 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
70 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
71 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
74 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
75 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
76 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
77 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
78 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
82 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
84 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
87 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
88 ---------------------------------
92 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
93 See 'Access:' for more info.
94 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
97 * Instantaneous pausing
98 * Frame-by-Frame playback
100 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
101 * Timeshift for most medias
102 * RTSP trickplay support
103 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
106 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
107 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
108 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
109 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
110 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
111 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
112 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
113 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
114 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
115 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
118 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
119 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
120 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
121 * Metadata for mod files are supported
122 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
123 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
124 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
127 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
128 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
131 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
132 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
133 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
134 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
135 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
136 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
137 * DVB scanning on linux
138 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
139 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
140 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
141 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
142 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
143 * MTP device access on Unix
144 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
145 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
148 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
149 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
150 Windows and Mac OS X.
153 * Export the playlist in HTML
154 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
155 * Better metadata handling and reading
157 Linux/Windows interface:
158 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
159 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
160 * Recently played items list
161 * Interface toolbar customizations
162 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
165 - Improvements on many dialogs
166 - New dialog for plugins listing
167 - Fixed-size mode for videos
168 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
169 * Better integration in GTK environments
172 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
173 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
174 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
175 * Additional usability improvements
178 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
179 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
180 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
181 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
182 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
185 * New Maemo port with:
186 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
187 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
190 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
193 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
194 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
195 * Support for latest iSight models
198 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
199 * Surround support for PulseAudio
202 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
203 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
204 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
205 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
206 The old image video output has been removed.
207 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
208 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
211 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
214 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
215 ---------------------------------
218 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
219 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
222 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
223 ---------------------------------
226 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
229 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
232 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
233 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
234 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
235 main controller window.
236 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
239 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
244 * Updates of other localizations
247 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
248 * Lots of small bugfixes.
249 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
250 * Telnet fixes on Windows
251 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
253 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
254 ---------------------------------
257 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
259 Bunch of small bugfixes.
262 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
263 --------------------------------
268 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
269 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
272 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
273 --------------------------------
275 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
276 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
279 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
282 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
283 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
286 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
287 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
290 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
291 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
292 * Various fixed in playlist
295 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
298 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
301 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
302 ------------------------------------
304 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
305 * Fixes several memory leaks.
308 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
309 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
310 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
313 * Stability fix for the video output.
316 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
317 --------------------------------
320 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
321 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
322 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
323 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
324 * Fixed update system bugs
325 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
328 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
329 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
330 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
331 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
332 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
333 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
334 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
335 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
336 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
337 modern Mac OS X versions
340 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
341 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
343 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
344 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
347 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
348 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
349 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
350 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
351 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
352 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
355 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
356 --------------------------------
358 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
359 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
363 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
364 --------------------------------
366 * Multiple bug fixes.
369 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
370 ---------------------------------
374 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
375 recent to work correctly
376 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
377 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
378 edit the ".hosts" file.
379 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
380 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
381 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
382 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
383 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
384 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
385 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
386 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
387 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
388 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
389 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
390 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
391 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
392 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
393 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
394 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
395 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
396 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
397 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
398 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
399 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
400 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
401 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
402 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
403 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
404 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
405 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
406 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
407 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
408 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
409 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
410 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
411 and postproc modules.
412 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
413 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
414 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
415 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
417 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
419 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
420 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
422 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
423 * Glide video output module has been removed.
429 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
431 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
432 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
435 * Vastly improved playlist support:
436 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
438 * Shoutcast TV listings
439 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
441 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
442 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
444 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
447 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
448 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
449 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
450 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
451 * JACK audio input support
452 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
453 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
454 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
455 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
456 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
457 * Experimental EyeTV access module
458 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
459 (available as a separate download).
460 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
462 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
463 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
464 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
466 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
467 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
470 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
471 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
472 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
473 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
475 * APEv1/2 tags support
476 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
477 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
479 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
480 * TiVo Series 2 support
481 * CD+G karaoke Files support
486 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
487 * Flash Screen Video support
488 * CamStudio Screen Video support
489 * DosBox Capture support
490 * Karl Morton's Video support
491 * limited atrac3 support
493 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
494 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
495 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
497 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
498 * NellyMoser ASAO support
499 * APE (Monkey audio) support
500 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
501 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
504 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
505 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
506 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
507 * AQTitle subtitles support
508 * MKV USF subtitles support
509 * HTML-based subtitles support
510 * MPSub subtitles support
511 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
512 * MPL2 subtitles support
513 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
514 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
515 * Realtext subtitle support
516 * DKS subtitle support
517 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
518 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
521 * Flash Screen Video support
522 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
524 Video outputs and filters:
525 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
526 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
527 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
528 * New puzzle video output filter
529 * Re-written motion detection video filter
530 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
532 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
533 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
534 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
535 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
536 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
537 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
538 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
539 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
540 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
541 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
542 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
543 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
544 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
545 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
547 Audio outputs and filters:
548 * Replay gain support
549 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
550 new scaletempo audio filter)
551 * New spatializer audio filter
552 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
555 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
556 * New RTP payload formats:
557 * Speex voice audio codec
558 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
559 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
560 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
561 * DCCP transport for RTP
562 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
567 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
568 end-user suitable way.
569 * Improved user interaction
570 * Improved mouse gestures
571 * Vastly improved Update checker
572 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
574 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
575 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
577 * Improved video output features
578 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
579 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
580 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
581 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
582 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
584 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
585 if libncursesw is available.
586 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
587 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
588 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
590 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
591 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
592 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
593 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
594 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
595 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
596 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
597 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
600 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
601 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
602 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
605 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
606 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
607 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
608 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
609 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
610 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
613 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
614 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
624 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
625 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
626 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
629 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
630 ----------------------------------
633 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
636 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
637 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
638 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
639 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
640 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
641 * Updated Polish translation
644 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
645 ----------------------------------
648 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
649 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
650 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
653 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
654 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
655 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
656 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
657 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
658 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
659 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
660 to an unexpected application termination
661 * New Serbian translation
662 * Updated Romanian translation
665 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
666 ----------------------------------
669 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
670 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
671 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
672 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
673 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
674 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
675 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
676 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
679 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
680 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
681 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
682 * Fixed AAC resampling
683 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
684 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
687 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
688 ----------------------------------
691 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
692 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
693 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
694 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
695 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
698 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
699 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
700 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
701 * Close MMS access on network timeout
702 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
705 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
706 ----------------------------------
709 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
710 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
713 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
714 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
715 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
716 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
718 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
722 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
725 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
728 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
731 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
734 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
735 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
736 encoding on multi-cpu systems
737 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
738 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
740 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
741 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
742 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
743 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
746 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
749 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
750 ----------------------------------
753 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
754 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
755 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
757 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
758 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
760 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
761 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
764 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
766 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
767 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
768 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
769 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
770 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
771 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
773 * Support for current Ogg file formats
774 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
775 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
778 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
781 * The automatic updating facility was removed
782 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
783 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
784 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
787 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
788 ----------------------------------
790 Various bugfixes, notably:
791 * Windows Vista compatibility
792 * Cropping in Direct3D
793 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
794 * RSS filter string overflow
796 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
798 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
799 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
802 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
803 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
806 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
809 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
812 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
815 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
816 ----------------------------------
818 Various bugfixes, notably:
819 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
820 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
821 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
822 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
823 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
824 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
827 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
828 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
831 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
833 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
834 * Diverse usability improvements
835 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
836 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
837 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
840 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
841 ---------------------------------
844 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
847 * Fullscreen controller improvements
850 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
851 --------------------------------
854 * Shoutcast TV listings support
857 * Support for RTSP authentication
858 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
859 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
860 * ATSC support for DVB input
861 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
862 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
863 * Improved support for Flash Video files
866 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
867 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
868 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
869 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
870 * Matroska WavPack support
871 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
872 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
873 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
876 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
877 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
878 * Improved libcaca support
882 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
883 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
885 * Systray support in skins
887 * Support for Apple Remote control
888 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
889 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
890 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
891 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
893 * Notifications using notification-daemon
896 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
898 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
899 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
900 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
901 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
902 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
904 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
905 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
914 * Updates to the libvlc API
915 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
918 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
919 --------------------------------
922 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
923 * Support for downloading updates
927 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
928 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
929 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
930 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
932 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
933 * Improved subtitles encoding support
934 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
937 * Cook (Real audio) support
939 Playlist / Services discovery:
940 * XSPF playlist support
942 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
945 * New JACK audio output
949 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
950 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
951 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
952 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
953 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
954 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
957 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
960 * System to inform the user and request information
961 - HTTP authentication
965 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
966 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
967 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
970 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
971 - Improved playlist handling
972 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
974 - Embedded Video output
975 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
976 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
977 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
978 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
979 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
981 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
982 - A bunch of new RPN functions
985 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
988 * Mac-Intel compatibility
989 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
990 * Growl "Now playing" support
993 * Ability to log to syslog
994 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
997 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
999 * A bit more automatic testing
1002 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1003 ---------------------------------
1006 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1007 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1010 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1011 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1014 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1017 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1018 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1024 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1027 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1028 --------------------------------
1031 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1035 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1036 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1037 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1040 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1041 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1042 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1043 * GnomeVFS input module
1044 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1045 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1048 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1049 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1050 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1053 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1054 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1060 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1061 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1064 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1065 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1066 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1069 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1071 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1072 - New extended controls panel
1073 - New bookmarks window
1074 - Fixed playlist sorting
1075 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1077 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1078 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1079 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1080 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1084 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1085 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1087 - Include macro to include other files
1091 * Should now work outside IE as well
1094 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1097 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1098 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1101 The following languages were added:
1105 * Simplified Chinese
1106 The following languages were re-added:
1110 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1111 --------------------------------
1114 * Rewrite of the playlist
1116 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1117 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1118 * Preferences improvements:
1119 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1120 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1122 * Core image manipulation support
1123 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1124 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1125 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1126 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1127 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1128 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1129 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1130 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1131 * Access filter architecture
1132 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1133 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1137 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1138 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1139 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1140 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1141 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1142 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1143 * Massive Matroska improvements
1144 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1146 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1147 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1148 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1149 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1150 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1152 Decoders / Encoders:
1153 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1154 * PNG decoder/encoder
1155 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1156 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1159 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1162 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1163 * Brand new SAP module
1164 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1165 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1166 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1167 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1168 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1169 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1173 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1176 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1177 * Image file video output (png)
1178 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1179 * Improvements to wall video filter
1180 * Support for font color and opacity
1186 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1187 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1188 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1192 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1193 - Improved preferences
1194 - Improvements to the wizard
1195 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1197 - Redesigned playlist
1198 - Improved preferences
1200 - Support for multiple actions
1203 - Support for the new playlist system
1205 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1208 * Screensaver disabling fix
1209 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1210 * Support for no-decoration windows
1213 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1214 * The OpenGL video output is back
1215 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1216 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1217 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1218 is not yet available in the new module
1219 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1222 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1231 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1234 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1237 The following languages were added:
1243 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1244 --------------------------------
1247 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1248 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1251 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1252 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1253 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1256 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1259 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1262 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1265 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1266 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1267 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1271 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1273 * Support of playlist group announcement
1276 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1277 --------------------------------
1280 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1281 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1282 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1283 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1284 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1285 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1288 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1289 (Stream your desktop)
1290 * Improved DVD support:
1291 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1292 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1293 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1294 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1295 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1296 (selection of titles/chapters).
1299 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1300 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1301 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1302 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1303 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1304 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1305 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1306 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1307 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1308 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1311 * G.726 audio support
1312 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1313 * MPEG-4 text support
1314 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1315 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1316 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1320 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1321 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1322 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1323 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1324 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1325 * DVB subtitles encoder
1326 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1327 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1329 * Text track muxing for mp4
1330 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1331 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1332 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1333 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1334 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1335 * Improved ASF muxer
1337 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1338 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1339 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1342 * New audio equalizer filter
1343 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1344 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1345 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1346 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1349 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1350 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1351 with support for effects.
1352 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1353 - New filters can be streamed.
1354 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1355 - Centralized scaling and blending
1357 - "time", to display current time
1358 - "marq", to display a marquee
1361 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1362 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1363 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1364 * A few skins2 improvements
1365 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1366 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1367 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1368 * Improved CORBA control module
1371 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1372 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1373 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1376 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1377 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1378 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1381 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1382 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1383 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1384 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1385 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1388 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1391 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1392 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1395 * Server/client network synchronization module
1396 * VBrick streams fully supported
1397 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1401 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1402 --------------------------------
1405 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1406 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1407 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1408 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1411 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1412 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1413 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1414 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1415 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1416 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1417 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1420 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1421 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1422 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1423 * Improved directory access module.
1424 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1425 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1426 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1427 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1428 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1431 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1432 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1433 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1436 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1437 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1438 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1441 * Improved session announcement system.
1442 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1443 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1444 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1445 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1446 * Improved transrater.
1447 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1448 * New configuration system.
1449 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1452 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1453 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1454 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1455 * Supports scheduling.
1456 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1457 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1460 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1461 - Ability to embed video output.
1462 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1463 - Lots of improvements.
1464 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1465 - New design and set of icons.
1466 - Ability to embed video output.
1467 - Support for hotkeys.
1468 - Support for bookmarks.
1470 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1471 - Better hotkeys handling.
1474 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1475 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1476 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1477 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1480 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1481 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1482 * Improved Windows installer.
1488 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1489 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1492 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1493 ---------------------------------
1496 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1497 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1500 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1501 --------------------------------
1504 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1505 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1508 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1509 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1510 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1511 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1514 * Internal improvments
1515 * Improved import/export
1518 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1520 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1521 small and strange formats.
1523 * New MOD audio demux.
1524 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1525 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1526 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1527 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1530 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1531 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1532 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1538 * New opengl video output plugin.
1541 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1542 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1545 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1546 --------------------------------
1549 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1550 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1551 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1552 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1553 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1554 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1555 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1556 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1559 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1564 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1565 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1566 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1567 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1568 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1569 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1570 * Better Icecast support.
1571 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1572 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1575 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1576 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1577 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1578 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1579 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1580 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1581 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1584 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1585 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1586 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1587 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1588 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1589 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1590 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1591 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1592 * Preliminary RTP support.
1593 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1598 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1599 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1601 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1602 - Improvements and help in preferences
1603 - New streaming wizard
1604 - Revised Disc Open menu
1606 - Improvements of the standard pages
1607 - Support for new commands
1608 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1611 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1612 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1615 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1616 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1617 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1618 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1619 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1620 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1621 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1622 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1623 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1626 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1628 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1629 * Support for Panther.
1630 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1631 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1634 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1635 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1636 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1637 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1638 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1639 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1640 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1641 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1644 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1645 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1646 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1649 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1652 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1653 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1654 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1655 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1658 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1659 --------------------------------
1662 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1665 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1666 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1669 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1670 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1673 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1676 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1677 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1680 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1683 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1686 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1687 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1691 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1692 --------------------------------
1695 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1696 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1700 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1701 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1702 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1704 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1705 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1708 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1711 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1714 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1715 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1719 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1720 --------------------------------
1723 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1724 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1728 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1729 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1730 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1731 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1732 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1735 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1736 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1737 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1740 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1741 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1742 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1745 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1746 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1747 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1748 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1749 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1752 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1753 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1754 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1757 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1760 * Improved build system.
1761 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1762 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1763 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1764 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1767 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1768 --------------------------------
1771 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1774 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1775 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1776 * Video 4 Linux support
1777 * CD Digital Audio support
1778 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1781 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1782 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1783 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1784 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1787 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1788 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1789 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1790 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1791 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1792 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1793 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1796 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1797 * New HTTP remote control interface
1800 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1801 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1802 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1803 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1806 * New reset option for the preferences
1807 * You can set your language in the prefences
1808 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1809 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1810 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1811 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1814 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1815 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1816 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1819 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1820 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1821 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1822 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1823 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1824 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1825 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1826 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1827 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1828 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1831 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1832 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1833 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1834 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1835 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1836 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1837 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1840 * Interface localization
1841 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1842 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1843 * New full-featured Preferences window
1846 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1847 --------------------------------
1850 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1851 * support for skins at the interface level
1852 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1853 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1854 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1855 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1856 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1859 * fixed HTTP redirects
1860 * support for opening an entire directory
1861 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1862 * new video4linux access plug-in
1863 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1866 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1867 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1868 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1871 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1872 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1873 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1874 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1875 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1876 * new codec for raw I420 video
1877 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1880 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1881 (although it still misses some important features)
1882 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1885 * new HTTP output support
1886 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1887 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1890 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1893 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1896 * reorderable playlist
1897 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1898 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1899 * support for mono audio output devices
1900 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1901 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1902 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1903 * the messages window remembers more lines
1904 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1905 * http and ogg stream output options
1906 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1909 * new skinnable interface
1910 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1912 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1913 * support for FLAC audio format
1914 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1916 * network tab in the interface
1917 * "apply" handling in preferences
1920 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1921 ---------------------------------
1924 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1925 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1926 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1927 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1929 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1930 * DTS S/PDIF support
1933 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1934 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1935 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1936 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1939 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1940 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1943 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1946 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1949 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1951 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1952 * rc interface is now fully useable
1953 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1956 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1957 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1958 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1959 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1960 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1962 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1963 * support for mouse gestures
1964 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1967 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1968 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1971 * improved ID3 tag detection
1972 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1973 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1974 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1976 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1979 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1980 ---------------------------------
1983 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1984 English was set as the preferred language
1987 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1988 --------------------------------
1991 * new mouse gesture interface
1992 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1996 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1997 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1998 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2001 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2002 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2006 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2009 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2010 without the user consent
2013 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2015 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2016 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2017 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2020 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2021 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2022 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2023 * playlist enhancements
2024 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2025 * new step forward/step backward commands
2026 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2027 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2028 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2031 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2032 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2033 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2036 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2037 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2040 * native video output is working again
2041 * only commandline interface support
2042 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2045 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2046 --------------------------------
2049 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2050 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2051 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2052 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2053 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2054 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2055 and A/52 streams are supported)
2056 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2061 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2062 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2063 * VCD entry points support
2064 * VCD image file support
2067 * support for *.asf format
2068 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2069 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2070 * support for ogg encapsulation
2071 * support for raw DV format
2072 * support for *.wav format
2073 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2076 Stream discovery & playlists:
2077 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2078 * support for .m3u file format
2079 * support for .asx file format
2080 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2083 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2084 (only available with the .avi demux)
2085 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2086 * support for raw PCM data
2087 * support for Cinepak video codec
2088 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2089 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2090 * support for Xvid codec
2091 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2092 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2093 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2095 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2097 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2100 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2103 * new WxWindows interface
2104 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2105 device and the channels configuration
2106 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2107 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2108 format that VLC can play
2109 * new swedish translation
2110 * enhancements of the playlist window
2111 * new messages window to see debug info
2112 * fixed a few crashes
2115 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2116 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2117 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2118 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working