1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
15 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
16 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
17 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
18 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
21 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
24 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
25 * Major improvements in DASH support
26 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
27 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
28 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
31 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
32 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
33 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
34 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
35 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
36 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
37 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
38 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
39 * Support for more MJPEG streams
42 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
43 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
44 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
47 * new remapping channel filter
48 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
49 * new VSXu visualization plugin
52 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
53 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
56 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
57 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
58 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
59 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
60 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
61 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
64 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
67 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
68 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
69 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
70 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
71 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
74 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
75 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
78 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
79 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
80 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
81 VLC's internal volume level
82 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
83 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
84 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
86 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
87 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
88 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
89 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
93 * Partial support for Qt5.0
94 * Menus modifications and improvements
95 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
96 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
100 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
101 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
102 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
103 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
106 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
107 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
108 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
109 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
110 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
112 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
113 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
116 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
117 --------------------------------
120 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
123 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
124 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
127 * Add GateKeeper support
128 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
129 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
130 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
133 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
136 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
137 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
138 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
139 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
140 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
143 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
144 --------------------------------
147 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
148 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
149 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
150 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
151 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
152 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
153 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
154 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
155 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
156 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
157 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
161 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
162 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
163 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
164 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
165 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
166 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
167 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
168 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
169 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
170 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
171 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
172 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
175 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
176 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
178 * Fix MP3 free format support
181 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
182 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
183 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
184 * Fix for DVB channels file support
185 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
188 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
189 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
191 Audio filters and output:
192 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
193 * Fix DirectSound device selection
194 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
195 * Do not apply volume in file output
196 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
197 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
200 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
201 the persistant media library
202 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
203 to the media library or the temporary playlist
204 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
205 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
206 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
207 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
208 press on the Play/Pause button
209 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
210 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
211 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
212 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
213 * Many Fullscreen fixes
214 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
215 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
216 Synchronization panel
217 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
218 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
219 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
220 * Fix crashes on exit
221 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
223 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
224 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
225 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
226 automatically reset on the first launch.
227 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
228 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
229 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
232 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
233 * Fixes for icecast SD
236 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
237 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
238 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
239 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
240 * Fix tags and file names display
241 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
244 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
245 * Fix for key events and focus loss
248 * Fix display of some buttons
249 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
250 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
253 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
254 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
255 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
258 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
259 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
260 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
261 Thai translations update
262 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
265 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
266 --------------------------------
269 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
270 * fix the samba module compilation
271 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
272 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
273 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
274 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
277 * Support for MXPEG files
278 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
279 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
282 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
283 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
284 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
287 * Fix ogm header creation
290 * limit spatializer filter distortions
291 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
294 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
295 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
296 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
297 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
300 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
303 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
304 * allow to hide the sidebar
305 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
306 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
307 * noticebly faster launch time
308 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
309 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
310 * improve track synchronization panel
311 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
312 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
315 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
316 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
317 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
318 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
321 * fix for menus display
322 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
323 * documentation update
326 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
327 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
330 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
331 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
332 * Update Jamendo selections
336 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
337 * fix a crash on VLM close
340 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
341 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
342 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
343 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
346 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
349 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
350 ---------------------------------
353 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
354 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
355 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
356 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
357 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
358 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
359 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
360 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
361 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
362 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
363 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
364 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
365 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
366 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
367 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
368 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
369 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
370 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
371 --http-crl (optional CRL).
372 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
373 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
374 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
375 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
376 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
377 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
378 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
380 Important changes for packagers:
381 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
382 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
383 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
384 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
385 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
386 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
387 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
388 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
389 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
390 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
393 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
394 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
395 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
396 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
397 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
398 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
399 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
402 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
403 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
404 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
405 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
406 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
407 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
408 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
409 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
410 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
411 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
412 * PulseAudio audio input support
413 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
414 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
415 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
416 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
417 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
418 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
419 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
420 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
423 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
424 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
425 are notably concerned.
426 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
427 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
428 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
429 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
430 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
431 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
432 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
433 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
434 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
435 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
436 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
437 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
438 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
439 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
440 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
443 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
444 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
445 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
446 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
447 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
448 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
449 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
450 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
451 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
452 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
453 * Improved support of tracker files
454 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
457 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
458 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
459 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
460 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
461 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
462 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
463 and important cleanups and optimisations
464 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
465 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
466 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
467 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
468 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
469 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
470 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
471 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
472 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
473 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
474 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
475 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
476 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
477 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
478 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
479 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
480 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
481 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
482 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
483 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
484 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
487 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
488 * New video output for iOS platform
489 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
490 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
491 * Various vmem improvements
492 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
493 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
494 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
495 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
496 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
497 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
499 Audio Output and Filters:
500 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
501 * New audio output in memory (amem)
502 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
503 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
504 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
505 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
506 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
507 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
508 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
509 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
512 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
513 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
514 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
515 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
516 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
517 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
518 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
519 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
520 * New anti-flickering filter
521 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
522 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
523 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
524 blackbox and customizable shadow.
525 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
526 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
527 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
530 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
531 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
532 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
533 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
534 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
535 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
536 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
537 * Major rework of VoD support
538 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
539 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
540 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
541 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
542 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
543 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
544 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
545 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
546 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
547 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
550 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
551 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
554 * New capabilities for libVLC:
555 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
556 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
557 list of available audio and video filters
558 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
559 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
560 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
563 * asademux, subsass: use libass
564 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
565 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
567 * upnp: use upnp_intel
568 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
569 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
570 * removal of the noise filter
571 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
572 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
573 removed in Growl's next release, too.
574 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
577 * Update of translations for most languages.
578 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
581 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
582 ----------------------------------
585 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
586 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
589 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
590 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
593 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
594 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
595 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
598 * Camtasia decoding fix.
601 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
602 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
605 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
608 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
609 ----------------------------------
612 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
613 including support for OS X Lion
614 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
615 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
618 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
621 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
622 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
623 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
626 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
629 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
630 ----------------------------------
633 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
634 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
637 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
638 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
639 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
640 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
641 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
643 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
644 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
645 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
647 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
648 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
651 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
654 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
657 * Fix quitting on Linux
658 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
662 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
665 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
668 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
669 ---------------------------------
671 Windows and Mac OS X:
672 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
675 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
676 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
679 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
682 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
685 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
687 Miscellaneous fixes in:
688 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
690 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
691 * RTP output and XML export
692 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
696 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
697 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
698 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
699 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
702 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
703 --------------------------------
705 Windows and Mac OS X:
706 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
709 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
712 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
713 * Improve Apple Remote handling
714 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
715 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
716 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
717 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
720 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
721 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
725 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
726 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
727 * New Luganda Translation
730 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
731 --------------------------------
734 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
737 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
738 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
739 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
740 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
743 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
745 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
746 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
747 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
748 * mp4 demuxer improvements
749 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
750 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
751 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
752 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
754 Miscellaneous fixes in:
755 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
756 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
757 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
758 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
759 * Configure and build system improvements
760 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
763 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
764 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
765 * New icelandic translation
768 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
769 --------------------------------
772 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
776 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
777 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
778 and stability reasons
781 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
785 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
788 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
789 ----------------------------------
792 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
795 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
796 ---------------------------------
799 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
800 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
801 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
802 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
805 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
808 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
809 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
810 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
811 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
814 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
815 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
816 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
818 Subtitles and renderer:
819 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
820 * Mark more freetype options as safe
821 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
822 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
823 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
826 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
827 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
828 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
829 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
832 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
833 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
836 * KDE device solid actions
838 * Transcode integer overflow
839 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
840 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
843 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
844 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
845 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
848 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
849 ----------------------------------
852 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
856 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
859 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
862 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
863 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
864 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
865 * Taglib thread-safety fix
868 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
872 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
875 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
878 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
879 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
881 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
885 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
886 * Miscellaneous fixes
889 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
890 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
892 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
893 * New Asturian translation
896 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
897 ----------------------------------
900 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
902 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
905 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
908 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
909 * Various fixes for Windows
912 * New Armenian translation
913 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
914 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
917 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
918 --------------------------------
921 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
923 * Fix folders opening from the interface
926 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
927 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
930 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
931 --------------------------------
934 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
935 * fix for podcasts parsing
936 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
939 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
940 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
943 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
944 * fix m3u playlists exports
947 * fix video autoresize behaviour
950 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
953 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
956 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
959 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
962 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
963 --------------------------------
966 * Avformat fps displaying fix
967 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
970 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
971 of mono streams, especially on Windows
974 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
975 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
976 * fix console output encoding
978 Interface and extensions:
979 * Youtube and other scripts updates
980 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
983 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
984 --------------------------------
987 * New capabilities for libVLC:
988 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
989 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
990 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
991 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
992 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
993 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
994 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
995 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
996 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
997 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
998 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
999 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1000 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1001 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1002 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1006 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1007 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1008 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1009 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1010 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1013 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1016 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1017 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1018 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1022 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1025 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1026 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1027 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1030 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1031 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1032 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1033 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1036 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1037 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1040 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1041 --------------------------------
1043 Important changes for users:
1044 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1045 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1047 Important changes for packagers:
1048 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1049 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1050 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1051 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1052 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1054 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1056 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1057 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1058 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1059 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1060 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1063 * Support for the sftp protocol
1064 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1065 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1066 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1067 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1068 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1071 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1072 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1073 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1075 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1076 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1077 * Invmem module improvements
1078 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1079 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1080 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1081 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1082 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1083 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1084 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1085 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1086 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1087 * Support for VP8 codec
1088 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1091 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1092 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1093 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1094 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1095 * Various EGP improvements
1096 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1097 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1100 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1101 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1102 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1103 * Podcast images are now displayed
1106 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1107 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1108 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1109 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1110 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1111 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1112 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1113 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1114 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1115 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1116 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1119 * New content extensions lua framework
1122 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1123 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1124 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1125 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1126 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1127 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1128 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1131 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1132 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1133 * Service discovery based on libudev
1134 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1137 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1138 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1139 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1140 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1141 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1142 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1143 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1146 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1147 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1148 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1151 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1153 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1154 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1157 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1160 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1161 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1162 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1163 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1164 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1165 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1166 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1169 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1170 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1173 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1174 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1175 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1179 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1180 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1181 * Improved Solaris port
1184 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1185 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1188 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1189 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1190 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1191 * transrate: broken since too long
1192 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1193 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1194 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1195 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1196 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1197 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1198 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1199 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1200 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1201 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1202 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1203 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1204 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1205 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1208 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1209 --------------------------------
1212 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1214 Decoders/Packetizers:
1215 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1218 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1219 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1220 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1221 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1222 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1225 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1226 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1229 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1230 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1233 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1234 and Walloon translations updated
1235 * Sinhala translation started
1238 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1239 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1242 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1243 --------------------------------
1246 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1247 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1250 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1253 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1254 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1257 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1258 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1259 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1260 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1263 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1264 --------------------------------
1267 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1268 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1271 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1272 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1275 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1276 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1279 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1282 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1283 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1286 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1287 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1290 * New Walloon translation
1291 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1294 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1295 --------------------------------
1298 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1299 regressions in most popular drivers
1300 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1303 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1304 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1305 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1308 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1309 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1312 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1313 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1314 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1315 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1316 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1319 * New udev module for linux
1322 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1325 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1328 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1329 --------------------------------
1332 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1333 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1334 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1337 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1338 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1341 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1342 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1345 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1348 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1349 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1350 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1351 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1354 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1355 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1356 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1357 - no support for Goom and SDL
1358 - limited text rendering support
1359 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1362 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1363 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1364 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1365 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1366 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1367 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1368 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1369 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1370 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1374 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1377 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1380 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1381 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1382 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1383 Arabic and French translation updates
1386 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1387 --------------------------------
1390 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1391 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1392 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1393 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1394 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1395 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1398 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1399 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1400 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1403 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1404 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1405 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1408 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1411 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1412 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1415 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1416 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1417 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1418 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1419 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1420 * Fix various crashes
1423 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1425 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1429 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1430 ---------------------------------
1434 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1435 See 'Access:' for more info.
1436 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1439 * Instantaneous pausing
1440 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1441 * Finer speed control
1442 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1443 * Timeshift for most medias
1444 * RTSP trickplay support
1445 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1448 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1449 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1450 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1451 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1452 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1453 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1454 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1455 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1456 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1457 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1460 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1461 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1462 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1463 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1464 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1465 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1466 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1469 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1470 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1473 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1474 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1475 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1476 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1477 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1478 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1479 * DVB scanning on linux
1480 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1481 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1482 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1483 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1484 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1485 * MTP device access on Unix
1486 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1487 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1490 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1491 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1492 Windows and Mac OS X.
1495 * Export the playlist in HTML
1496 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1497 * Better metadata handling and reading
1499 Linux/Windows interface:
1500 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1501 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1502 * Recently played items list
1503 * Interface toolbar customizations
1504 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1505 - More menus actions
1506 - Finer speed slider
1507 - Improvements on many dialogs
1508 - New dialog for plugins listing
1509 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1510 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1511 * Better integration in GTK environments
1514 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1515 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1516 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1517 * Additional usability improvements
1520 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1521 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1522 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1523 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1524 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1527 * New Maemo port with:
1528 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1529 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1532 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1535 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1536 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1537 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1538 * Support for latest iSight models
1541 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1542 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1545 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1546 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1547 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1548 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1549 The old image video output has been removed.
1550 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1551 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1554 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1562 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1563 --------------------------------------
1569 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1570 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1571 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1572 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1573 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1574 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1575 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1577 Various fixes to the following modules:
1580 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1581 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1582 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1584 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1589 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1590 ---------------------------------
1593 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1594 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1597 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1598 ---------------------------------
1601 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1604 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1607 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1608 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1609 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1610 main controller window.
1611 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1614 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1619 * Updates of other localizations
1622 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1623 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1624 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1625 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1626 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1629 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1630 ---------------------------------
1633 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1635 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1638 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1639 --------------------------------
1644 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1645 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1648 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1649 --------------------------------
1651 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1652 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1655 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1658 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1659 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1662 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1663 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1666 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1667 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1668 * Various fixed in playlist
1671 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1674 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1677 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1678 ------------------------------------
1680 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1681 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1684 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1685 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1686 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1689 * Stability fix for the video output.
1692 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1693 --------------------------------
1696 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1697 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1698 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1699 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1700 * Fixed update system bugs
1701 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1704 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1705 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1706 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1707 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1708 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1709 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1710 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1711 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1712 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1713 modern Mac OS X versions
1716 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1717 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1719 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1720 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1723 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1724 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1725 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1726 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1727 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1728 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1731 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1732 --------------------------------
1734 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1735 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1736 * Multiple bugfixes.
1739 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1740 --------------------------------
1742 * Multiple bug fixes.
1745 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1746 ---------------------------------
1750 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1751 recent to work correctly
1752 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1753 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1754 edit the ".hosts" file.
1755 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1756 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1757 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1758 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1759 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1760 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1761 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1762 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1763 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1764 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1765 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1766 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1767 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1768 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1769 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1770 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1771 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1772 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1773 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1774 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1775 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1776 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1777 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1778 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1779 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1780 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1781 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1782 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1783 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1784 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1785 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1786 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1787 and postproc modules.
1788 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1789 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1790 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1791 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1793 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1794 filter. For example:
1795 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1796 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1798 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1799 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1805 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1807 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1808 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1811 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1812 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1814 * Shoutcast TV listings
1815 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1817 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1818 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1820 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1823 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1824 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1825 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1826 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1827 * JACK audio input support
1828 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1829 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1830 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1831 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1832 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1833 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1834 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1835 (available as a separate download).
1836 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1837 * RTMP input support
1838 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1839 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1840 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1842 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1843 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1846 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1847 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1848 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1849 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1851 * APEv1/2 tags support
1852 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1853 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1855 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1856 * TiVo Series 2 support
1857 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1862 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1863 * Flash Screen Video support
1864 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1865 * DosBox Capture support
1866 * Karl Morton's Video support
1867 * limited atrac3 support
1869 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1870 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1871 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1872 * H.264 PAFF support
1873 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1874 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1875 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1876 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1877 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1880 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1881 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1882 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1883 * AQTitle subtitles support
1884 * MKV USF subtitles support
1885 * HTML-based subtitles support
1886 * MPSub subtitles support
1887 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1888 * MPL2 subtitles support
1889 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1890 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1891 * Realtext subtitle support
1892 * DKS subtitle support
1893 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1894 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1897 * Flash Screen Video support
1898 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1900 Video outputs and filters:
1901 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1902 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1903 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1904 * New puzzle video output filter
1905 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1906 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1908 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1909 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1910 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1911 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1912 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1913 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1914 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1915 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1916 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1917 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1918 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1919 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1920 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1921 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1923 Audio outputs and filters:
1924 * Replay gain support
1925 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1926 new scaletempo audio filter)
1927 * New spatializer audio filter
1928 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1931 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1932 * New RTP payload formats:
1933 * Speex voice audio codec
1934 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1935 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1936 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1937 * DCCP transport for RTP
1938 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1943 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1944 end-user suitable way.
1945 * Improved user interaction
1946 * Improved mouse gestures
1947 * Vastly improved Update checker
1948 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1950 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1951 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1953 * Improved video output features
1954 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1955 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1956 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1957 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1958 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1960 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1961 if libncursesw is available.
1962 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1963 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1964 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1966 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1967 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1968 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1969 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1970 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1971 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1972 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1973 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1976 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1977 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1978 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1981 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1982 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1983 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1984 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1985 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1986 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1989 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1990 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2000 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2001 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2002 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2005 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2006 ----------------------------------
2009 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2012 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2013 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2014 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2015 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2016 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2017 * Updated Polish translation
2020 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2021 ----------------------------------
2024 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2025 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2026 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2029 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2030 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2031 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2032 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2033 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2034 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2035 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2036 to an unexpected application termination
2037 * New Serbian translation
2038 * Updated Romanian translation
2041 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2042 ----------------------------------
2045 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2046 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2047 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2048 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2049 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2050 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2051 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2052 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2055 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2056 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2057 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2058 * Fixed AAC resampling
2059 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2060 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2063 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2064 ----------------------------------
2067 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2068 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2069 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2070 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2071 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2074 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2075 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2076 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2077 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2078 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2081 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2082 ----------------------------------
2085 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2086 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2089 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2090 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2091 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2092 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2094 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2098 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2101 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2104 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2107 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2110 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2111 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2112 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2113 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2114 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2116 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2117 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2118 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2119 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2122 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2125 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2126 ----------------------------------
2129 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2130 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2131 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2133 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2134 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2136 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2137 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2140 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2142 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2143 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2144 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2145 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2146 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2147 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2148 two different movies
2149 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2150 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2151 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2154 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2157 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2158 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2159 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2160 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2163 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2164 ----------------------------------
2166 Various bugfixes, notably:
2167 * Windows Vista compatibility
2168 * Cropping in Direct3D
2169 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2170 * RSS filter string overflow
2172 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2174 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2175 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2178 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2179 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2182 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2185 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2188 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2191 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2192 ----------------------------------
2194 Various bugfixes, notably:
2195 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2196 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2197 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2198 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2199 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2200 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2203 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2204 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2207 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2209 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2210 * Diverse usability improvements
2211 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2212 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2213 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2216 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2217 ---------------------------------
2219 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2220 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2223 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2226 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2227 --------------------------------
2230 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2233 * Support for RTSP authentication
2234 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2235 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2236 * ATSC support for DVB input
2237 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2238 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2239 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2242 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2243 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2244 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2245 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2246 * Matroska WavPack support
2247 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2248 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2249 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2252 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2253 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2254 * Improved libcaca support
2258 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2259 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2261 * Systray support in skins
2263 * Support for Apple Remote control
2264 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2265 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2266 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2267 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2269 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2272 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2273 Windows 9x/ME users:
2274 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2275 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2276 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2277 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2278 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2280 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2281 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2290 * Updates to the libvlc API
2291 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2294 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2295 --------------------------------
2298 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2299 * Support for downloading updates
2303 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2304 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2305 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2306 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2308 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2309 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2310 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2313 * Cook (Real audio) support
2315 Playlist / Services discovery:
2316 * XSPF playlist support
2318 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2321 * New JACK audio output
2324 * New video filters:
2325 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2326 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2327 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2328 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2329 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2330 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2333 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2336 * System to inform the user and request information
2337 - HTTP authentication
2341 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2342 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2343 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2346 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2347 - Improved playlist handling
2348 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2350 - Embedded Video output
2351 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2352 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2353 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2354 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2355 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2357 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2358 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2361 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2364 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2365 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2366 * Growl "Now playing" support
2369 * Ability to log to syslog
2370 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2373 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2375 * A bit more automatic testing
2378 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2379 ---------------------------------
2382 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2383 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2386 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2387 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2390 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2393 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2394 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2400 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2403 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2404 --------------------------------
2407 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2411 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2412 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2413 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2416 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2417 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2418 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2419 * GnomeVFS input module
2420 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2421 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2424 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2425 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2426 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2429 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2430 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2436 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2437 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2440 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2441 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2442 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2445 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2447 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2448 - New extended controls panel
2449 - New bookmarks window
2450 - Fixed playlist sorting
2451 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2453 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2454 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2455 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2456 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2460 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2461 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2463 - Include macro to include other files
2467 * Should now work outside IE as well
2470 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2473 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2474 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2477 The following languages were added:
2481 * Simplified Chinese
2482 The following languages were re-added:
2486 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2487 --------------------------------
2490 * Rewrite of the playlist
2492 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2493 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2494 * Preferences improvements:
2495 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2496 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2498 * Core image manipulation support
2499 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2500 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2501 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2502 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2503 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2504 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2505 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2506 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2507 * Access filter architecture
2508 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2509 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2513 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2514 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2515 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2516 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2517 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2518 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2519 * Massive Matroska improvements
2520 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2522 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2523 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2524 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2525 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2526 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2528 Decoders / Encoders:
2529 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2530 * PNG decoder/encoder
2531 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2532 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2535 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2538 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2539 * Brand new SAP module
2540 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2541 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2542 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2543 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2544 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2545 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2549 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2552 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2553 * Image file video output (png)
2554 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2555 * Improvements to wall video filter
2556 * Support for font color and opacity
2562 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2563 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2564 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2568 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2569 - Improved preferences
2570 - Improvements to the wizard
2571 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2573 - Redesigned playlist
2574 - Improved preferences
2576 - Support for multiple actions
2579 - Support for the new playlist system
2581 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2584 * Screensaver disabling fix
2585 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2586 * Support for no-decoration windows
2589 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2590 * The OpenGL video output is back
2591 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2592 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2593 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2594 is not yet available in the new module
2595 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2598 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2607 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2610 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2613 The following languages were added:
2619 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2620 --------------------------------
2623 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2624 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2627 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2628 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2629 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2632 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2635 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2638 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2641 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2642 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2643 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2647 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2649 * Support of playlist group announcement
2652 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2653 --------------------------------
2656 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2657 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2658 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2659 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2660 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2661 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2664 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2665 (Stream your desktop)
2666 * Improved DVD support:
2667 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2668 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2669 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2670 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2671 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2672 (selection of titles/chapters).
2675 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2676 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2677 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2678 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2679 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2680 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2681 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2682 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2683 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2684 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2687 * G.726 audio support
2688 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2689 * MPEG-4 text support
2690 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2691 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2692 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2696 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2697 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2698 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2699 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2700 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2701 * DVB subtitles encoder
2702 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2703 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2705 * Text track muxing for mp4
2706 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2707 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2708 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2709 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2710 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2711 * Improved ASF muxer
2713 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2714 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2715 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2718 * New audio equalizer filter
2719 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2720 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2721 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2722 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2725 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2726 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2727 with support for effects.
2728 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2729 - New filters can be streamed.
2730 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2731 - Centralized scaling and blending
2733 - "time", to display current time
2734 - "marq", to display a marquee
2737 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2738 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2739 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2740 * A few skins2 improvements
2741 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2742 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2743 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2744 * Improved CORBA control module
2747 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2748 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2749 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2752 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2753 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2754 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2757 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2758 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2759 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2760 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2761 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2764 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2767 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2768 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2771 * Server/client network synchronization module
2772 * VBrick streams fully supported
2773 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2777 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2778 --------------------------------
2781 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2782 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2783 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2784 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2787 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2788 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2789 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2790 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2791 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2792 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2793 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2796 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2797 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2798 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2799 * Improved directory access module.
2800 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2801 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2802 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2803 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2804 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2807 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2808 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2809 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2812 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2813 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2814 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2817 * Improved session announcement system.
2818 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2819 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2820 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2821 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2822 * Improved transrater.
2823 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2824 * New configuration system.
2825 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2828 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2829 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2830 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2831 * Supports scheduling.
2832 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2833 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2836 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2837 - Ability to embed video output.
2838 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2839 - Lots of improvements.
2840 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2841 - New design and set of icons.
2842 - Ability to embed video output.
2843 - Support for hotkeys.
2844 - Support for bookmarks.
2846 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2847 - Better hotkeys handling.
2850 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2851 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2852 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2853 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2856 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2857 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2858 * Improved Windows installer.
2864 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2865 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2868 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2869 ---------------------------------
2872 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2873 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2876 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2877 --------------------------------
2880 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2881 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2884 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2885 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2886 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2887 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2890 * Internal improvments
2891 * Improved import/export
2894 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2896 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2897 small and strange formats.
2899 * New MOD audio demux.
2900 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2901 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2902 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2903 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2906 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2907 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2908 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2914 * New opengl video output plugin.
2917 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2918 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2921 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2922 --------------------------------
2925 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2926 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2927 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2928 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2929 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2930 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2931 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2932 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2935 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2940 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2941 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2942 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2943 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2944 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2945 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2946 * Better Icecast support.
2947 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2948 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2951 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2952 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2953 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2954 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2955 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2956 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2957 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2960 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2961 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2962 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2963 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2964 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2965 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2966 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2967 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2968 * Preliminary RTP support.
2969 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2974 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2975 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2977 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2978 - Improvements and help in preferences
2979 - New streaming wizard
2980 - Revised Disc Open menu
2982 - Improvements of the standard pages
2983 - Support for new commands
2984 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2987 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2988 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2991 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2992 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2993 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2994 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2995 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2996 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2997 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2998 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2999 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3002 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3004 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3005 * Support for Panther.
3006 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3007 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3010 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3011 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3012 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3013 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3014 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3015 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3016 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3017 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3020 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3021 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3022 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3025 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3028 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3029 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3030 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3031 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3034 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3035 --------------------------------
3038 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3041 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3042 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3045 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3046 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3049 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3052 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3053 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3056 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3059 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3062 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3063 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3067 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3068 --------------------------------
3071 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3072 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3076 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3077 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3078 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3080 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3081 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3084 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3087 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3090 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3091 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3095 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3096 --------------------------------
3099 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3100 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3104 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3105 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3106 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3107 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3108 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3111 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3112 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3113 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3116 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3117 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3118 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3121 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3122 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3123 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3124 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3125 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3128 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3129 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3130 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3133 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3136 * Improved build system.
3137 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3138 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3139 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3140 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3143 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3144 --------------------------------
3147 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3150 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3151 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3152 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3153 * Video 4 Linux support
3154 * CD Digital Audio support
3155 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3158 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3159 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3160 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3161 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3164 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3165 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3166 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3167 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3168 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3169 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3170 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3173 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3174 * New HTTP remote control interface
3177 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3178 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3179 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3180 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3181 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3184 * New reset option for the preferences
3185 * You can set your language in the prefences
3186 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3187 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3188 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3189 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3192 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3193 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3194 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3197 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3198 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3199 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3200 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3201 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3202 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3203 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3204 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3205 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3206 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3209 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3210 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3211 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3212 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3213 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3214 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3215 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3218 * Interface localization
3219 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3220 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3221 * New full-featured Preferences window
3224 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3225 --------------------------------
3228 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3229 * support for skins at the interface level
3230 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3231 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3232 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3233 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3234 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3237 * fixed HTTP redirects
3238 * support for opening an entire directory
3239 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3240 * new video4linux access plug-in
3241 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3244 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3245 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3246 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3249 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3250 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3251 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3252 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3253 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3254 * new codec for raw I420 video
3255 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3258 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3259 (although it still misses some important features)
3260 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3263 * new HTTP output support
3264 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3265 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3268 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3271 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3274 * reorderable playlist
3275 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3276 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3277 * support for mono audio output devices
3278 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3279 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3280 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3281 * the messages window remembers more lines
3282 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3283 * http and ogg stream output options
3284 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3287 * new skinnable interface
3288 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3290 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3291 * support for FLAC audio format
3292 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3294 * network tab in the interface
3295 * "apply" handling in preferences
3298 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3299 ---------------------------------
3302 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3303 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3304 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3305 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3307 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3308 * DTS S/PDIF support
3311 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3312 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3313 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3314 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3317 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3318 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3321 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3324 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3327 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3329 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3330 * rc interface is now fully useable
3331 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3334 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3335 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3336 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3337 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3338 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3340 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3341 * support for mouse gestures
3342 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3345 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3346 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3349 * improved ID3 tag detection
3350 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3351 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3352 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3354 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3357 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3358 ---------------------------------
3361 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3362 English was set as the preferred language
3365 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3366 --------------------------------
3369 * new mouse gesture interface
3370 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3374 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3375 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3376 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3379 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3380 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3384 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3387 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3388 without the user consent
3391 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3393 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3394 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3395 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3398 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3399 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3400 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3401 * playlist enhancements
3402 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3403 * new step forward/step backward commands
3404 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3405 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3406 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3409 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3410 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3411 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3414 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3415 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3418 * native video output is working again
3419 * only commandline interface support
3420 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3423 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3424 --------------------------------
3427 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3428 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3429 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3430 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3431 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3432 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3433 and A/52 streams are supported)
3434 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3439 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3440 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3441 * VCD entry points support
3442 * VCD image file support
3445 * support for *.asf format
3446 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3447 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3448 * support for ogg encapsulation
3449 * support for raw DV format
3450 * support for *.wav format
3451 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3454 Stream discovery & playlists:
3455 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3456 * support for .m3u file format
3457 * support for .asx file format
3458 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3461 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3462 (only available with the .avi demux)
3463 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3464 * support for raw PCM data
3465 * support for Cinepak video codec
3466 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3467 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3468 * support for Xvid codec
3469 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3470 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3471 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3473 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3475 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3478 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3481 * new WxWindows interface
3482 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3483 device and the channels configuration
3484 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3485 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3486 format that VLC can play
3487 * new swedish translation
3488 * enhancements of the playlist window
3489 * new messages window to see debug info
3490 * fixed a few crashes
3493 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3494 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3495 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3496 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working