1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
21 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
22 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
23 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
24 * Support for Daala video
25 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
26 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
27 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
28 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
29 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
33 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
34 * Support Daala in Ogg
35 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
36 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
37 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
38 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
39 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
42 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
45 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
46 * Wayland shell surface window provider
47 * Wayland shared memory video output
48 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
49 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
50 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
53 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
54 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
57 * Chromecast output module
60 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
63 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
64 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
68 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
71 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
72 * Port to Yosemite X.10
75 * Batch convert support
78 * Support key accelerators
81 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
82 --------------------------------
85 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
86 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
89 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
90 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
91 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
92 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
95 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
96 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
97 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
98 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
100 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
101 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
104 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
105 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
106 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
107 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
108 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
109 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
110 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
111 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
112 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
113 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
114 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
115 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
116 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
117 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
118 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
119 * New jpeg image decoder
120 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
121 * New SVG image decoder
122 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
123 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
124 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
127 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
128 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
129 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
130 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
131 * New png image encoder using libpng
134 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
135 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
136 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
137 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
138 synchronization and tracks exclusion
139 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
140 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
141 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
142 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
143 * Support Opus in MKV
145 * Basic support for WebVTT
146 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
147 * Support HDPR TS files
148 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
149 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
150 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
151 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
152 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
153 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
154 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
155 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
156 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
157 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
158 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
159 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
162 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
163 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
164 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
165 * New Android native window provider module
166 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
167 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
168 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
171 * New Oldmovie effect filter
172 * New VHS effect filter
173 * New Freeze effect filter
174 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
175 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
176 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
179 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
180 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
181 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
182 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
183 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
184 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
187 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
188 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
190 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
193 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
194 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
195 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
196 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
197 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
198 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
199 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
200 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
201 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
203 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
204 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
205 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
208 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
209 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
212 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
213 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
216 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
217 * Add record button in Qt menus
218 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
219 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
220 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
223 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
224 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
225 * Fixes for advanced preferences
226 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
227 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
228 * Option to increase playlist font size
229 * Improved crash log reporting
232 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
233 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
234 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
237 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
240 * iOS video output: use ios2
241 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
242 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
245 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
246 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
247 * Update of all translations:
248 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
249 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
250 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
251 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
252 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
253 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
254 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
257 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
258 --------------------------------
261 * Fix compilation on OS/2
264 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
266 Mac OS X audio output:
267 * Fix channel ordering
268 * Increase the buffersize
271 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
272 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
273 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
276 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
279 * Correctly support video-on-top
280 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
281 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
284 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
287 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
288 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
291 * Update British English
294 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
295 --------------------------------
298 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
301 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
304 * Fix DVD playback regression
305 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
306 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
309 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
310 --------------------------------
313 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
314 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
317 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
318 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
319 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
322 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
323 by updating codec libraries
324 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
325 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
326 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
329 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
330 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
331 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
332 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
335 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
336 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
339 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
340 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
341 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
342 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
343 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
346 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
347 * Fix record file names
350 * Fix minimal size possible on start
351 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
352 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
353 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
354 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
357 * Fix album art display on Windows
360 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
361 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
362 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
363 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
364 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
365 and Simplified Chinese translations
366 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
369 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
370 --------------------------------
373 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
374 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
375 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
376 audio devices on OS X
377 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
378 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
381 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
382 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
385 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
386 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
389 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
392 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
393 * Improve A-B loop control
394 * Fix album art update when changing media
397 * Add a language option in the interface
398 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
399 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
400 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
401 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
402 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
403 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
404 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
407 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
410 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
411 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
412 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
413 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
416 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
417 --------------------------------
420 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
422 * Fix some subtitles track selection
425 * VP9 support in WebM
426 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
427 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
430 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
431 * Support Speex in ogg files
432 * Fix some .mov playlists support
433 * Support Alac in mkv
434 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
435 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
438 * Fix DVB options parsing
439 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
440 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
443 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
444 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
447 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
448 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
451 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
452 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
453 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
454 * Fix play after drag'n drop
455 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
458 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
459 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
462 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
463 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
466 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
467 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
468 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
469 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
470 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
471 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
472 * Improves interface resizings
475 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
476 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
477 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
478 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
479 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
483 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
484 --------------------------------
487 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
488 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
489 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
490 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
491 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
493 3rd party libraries (contrib):
494 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
497 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
498 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
499 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
500 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
501 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
504 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
505 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
509 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
510 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
511 * Support for Ulead DV audio
512 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
513 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
514 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
515 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
516 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
517 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
518 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
519 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
520 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
521 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
524 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
525 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
526 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
529 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
530 remove support for previous OS X releases
531 * Major improvements in DASH support
532 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
533 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
534 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
535 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
536 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
537 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
538 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
539 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
540 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
541 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
542 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
545 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
546 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
547 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
548 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
549 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
550 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
551 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
552 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
553 * Support for more MJPEG streams
554 * Add support for liveleak streams
555 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
556 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
557 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
560 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
561 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
562 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
563 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
564 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
565 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
566 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
567 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
568 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
569 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
570 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
573 * New remapping channel filter
574 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
575 * New VSXu visualization plugin
576 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
577 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
578 * New gain audio filter
581 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
582 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
583 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
584 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
585 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
586 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
587 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
588 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
589 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
592 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
593 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
594 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
595 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
596 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
597 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
598 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
601 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
602 * Options support for AVIO output module
603 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
604 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
605 * Livehttp stream encryption support
606 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
607 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
610 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
613 * configurable password for the HTTP server
614 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
615 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
616 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
617 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
618 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
619 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
620 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
624 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
627 * Add support for multiple video outputs
628 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
630 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
631 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
632 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
633 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
634 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
635 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
636 VLC's internal volume level
637 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
639 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
640 selection and to manage the list of presets
641 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
642 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
643 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
644 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
645 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
646 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
647 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
648 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
649 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
650 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
652 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
653 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
654 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
655 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
656 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
657 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
658 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
659 3rd party applications
660 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
661 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
662 (system-wide settings)
663 * Add support for the Video Title option
664 * Add support for the Boss Key
665 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
666 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
669 * Partial support for Qt5.0
670 * Menus modifications and improvements
671 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
672 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
673 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
674 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
675 * EPG display fixes and improvements
676 * Add SD pixmap sources
677 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
678 * Display playlist total duration
679 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
680 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
681 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
686 * Extend sliders, offsets options
687 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
688 * Numerous fixes and improvements
689 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
692 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
693 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
694 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
695 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
696 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
697 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
698 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
699 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
700 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
701 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
704 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
705 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
706 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
707 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
708 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
709 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
711 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
712 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
713 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
714 * Broken crop video filter
716 * OSD parser and menu
717 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
718 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
719 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
720 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
724 * Update of all translations
727 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
728 --------------------------------
731 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
732 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
735 * Fix modplug security issues
738 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
739 --------------------------------
743 * Fix crash in QTsound
744 * Fix screen mouse file location
745 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
748 * Fix use after free in sgimb
749 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
752 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
755 * Fix interface crashes
756 * Fix autostart playback option
757 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
760 * update Welsh translation
761 * New Kannada translation
764 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
765 --------------------------------
768 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
769 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
773 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
776 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
779 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
782 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
786 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
789 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
792 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
793 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
794 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
797 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
798 --------------------------------
801 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
804 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
807 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
808 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
809 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
810 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
811 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
812 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
815 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
816 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
817 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
818 * 3rd party codecs updates
821 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
822 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
823 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
824 in the advanced preferences panel
825 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
826 * Fix crash within the video output code
827 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
828 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
829 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
830 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
832 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
835 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
838 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
839 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
842 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
845 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
846 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
847 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
848 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
849 Dutch, Danish, translations
850 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
853 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
854 --------------------------------
857 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
860 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
861 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
862 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
865 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
866 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
867 * Fix koreus lua parser
868 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
869 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
870 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
871 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
874 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
875 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
878 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
881 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
882 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
883 * Fix Time counter UI look
884 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
887 * Fix https streaming
890 * Fix audio and video track selection:
891 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
892 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
895 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
896 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
897 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
898 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
899 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
902 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
903 --------------------------------
906 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
907 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
908 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
909 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
910 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
911 during playback on Mac OS X
914 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
915 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
916 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
919 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
920 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
921 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
922 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
923 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
926 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
927 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
928 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
929 * Support Youtube live streams
932 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
935 * Fix media info dialog update
936 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
937 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
938 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
939 * Fix album art display at start
942 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
943 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
944 * Fix menus display and behavior
945 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
946 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
947 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
948 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
949 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
950 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
951 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
954 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
955 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
956 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
957 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
958 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
959 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
960 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
961 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
962 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
965 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
966 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
967 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
968 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
969 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
972 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
973 --------------------------------
976 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
979 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
980 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
983 * Add GateKeeper support
984 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
985 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
986 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
989 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
992 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
993 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
994 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
995 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
996 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
999 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1000 --------------------------------
1003 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1004 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1005 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1006 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1007 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1008 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1009 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1010 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1011 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1012 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1013 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1017 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1018 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1019 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1020 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1021 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1022 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1023 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1024 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1025 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1026 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1027 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1028 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1031 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1032 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1034 * Fix MP3 free format support
1037 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1038 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1039 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1040 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1041 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1044 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1045 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1047 Audio filters and output:
1048 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1049 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1050 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1051 * Do not apply volume in file output
1052 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1053 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1056 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1057 the persistant media library
1058 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1059 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1060 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1061 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1062 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1063 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1064 press on the Play/Pause button
1065 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1066 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1067 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1068 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1069 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1070 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1071 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1072 Synchronization panel
1073 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1074 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1075 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1076 * Fix crashes on exit
1077 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1079 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1080 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1081 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1082 automatically reset on the first launch.
1083 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1084 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1085 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1088 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1089 * Fixes for icecast SD
1092 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1093 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1094 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1095 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1096 * Fix tags and file names display
1097 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1100 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1101 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1104 * Fix display of some buttons
1105 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1106 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1109 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1110 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1111 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1114 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1115 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1116 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1117 Thai translations update
1118 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1121 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1122 --------------------------------
1125 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1126 * fix the samba module compilation
1127 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1128 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1129 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1130 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1133 * Support for MXPEG files
1134 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1135 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1138 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1139 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1140 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1143 * Fix ogm header creation
1146 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1147 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1150 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1151 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1152 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1153 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1156 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1159 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1160 * allow to hide the sidebar
1161 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1162 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1163 * noticebly faster launch time
1164 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1165 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1166 * improve track synchronization panel
1167 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1168 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1171 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1172 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1173 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1174 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1177 * fix for menus display
1178 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1179 * documentation update
1182 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1183 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1186 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1187 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1188 * Update Jamendo selections
1192 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1193 * fix a crash on VLM close
1196 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1197 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1198 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1199 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1202 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1205 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1206 ---------------------------------
1209 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1210 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1211 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1212 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1213 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1214 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1215 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1216 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1217 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1218 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1219 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1220 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1221 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1222 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1223 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1224 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1225 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1226 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1227 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1228 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1229 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1230 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1231 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1232 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1233 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1234 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1236 Important changes for packagers:
1237 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1238 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1239 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1240 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1241 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1242 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1243 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1244 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1245 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1246 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1249 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1250 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1251 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1252 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1253 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1254 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1255 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1258 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1259 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1260 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1261 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1262 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1263 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1264 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1265 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1266 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1267 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1268 * PulseAudio audio input support
1269 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1270 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1271 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1272 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1273 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1274 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1275 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1276 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1279 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1280 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1281 are notably concerned.
1282 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1283 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1284 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1285 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1286 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1287 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1288 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1289 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1290 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1291 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1292 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1293 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1294 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1295 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1296 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1299 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1300 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1301 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1302 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1303 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1304 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1305 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1306 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1307 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1308 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1309 * Improved support of tracker files
1310 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1313 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1314 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1315 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1316 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1317 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1318 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1319 and important cleanups and optimisations
1320 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1321 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1322 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1323 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1324 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1325 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1326 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1327 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1328 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1329 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1330 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1331 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1332 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1333 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1334 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1335 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1336 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1337 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1338 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1339 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1340 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1343 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1344 * New video output for iOS platform
1345 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1346 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1347 * Various vmem improvements
1348 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1349 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1350 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1351 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1352 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1353 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1355 Audio Output and Filters:
1356 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1357 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1358 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1359 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1360 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1361 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1362 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1363 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1364 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1365 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1368 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1369 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1370 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1371 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1372 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1373 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1374 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1375 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1376 * New anti-flickering filter
1377 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1378 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1379 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1380 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1381 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1382 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1383 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1386 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1387 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1388 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1389 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1390 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1391 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1392 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1393 * Major rework of VoD support
1394 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1395 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1396 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1397 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1398 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1399 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1400 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1401 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1402 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1403 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1406 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1407 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1410 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1411 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1412 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1413 list of available audio and video filters
1414 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1415 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1416 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1419 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1420 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1421 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1422 * id3tag: use taglib
1423 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1424 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1425 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1426 * removal of the noise filter
1427 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1428 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1429 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1430 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1433 * Update of translations for most languages.
1434 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1437 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1438 ----------------------------------
1441 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1442 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1445 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1446 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1449 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1450 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1451 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1454 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1457 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1458 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1461 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1464 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1465 ----------------------------------
1468 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1469 including support for OS X Lion
1470 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1471 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1474 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1477 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1478 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1479 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1482 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1485 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1486 ----------------------------------
1489 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1490 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1493 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1494 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1495 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1496 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1497 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1499 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1500 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1501 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1503 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1504 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1507 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1510 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1513 * Fix quitting on Linux
1514 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1518 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1521 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1524 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1525 ---------------------------------
1527 Windows and Mac OS X:
1528 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1531 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1532 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1535 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1538 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1541 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1543 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1544 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1546 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1547 * RTP output and XML export
1548 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1552 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1553 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1554 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1555 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1558 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1559 --------------------------------
1561 Windows and Mac OS X:
1562 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1565 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1568 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1569 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1570 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1571 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1572 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1573 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1576 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1577 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1581 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1582 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1583 * New Luganda Translation
1586 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1587 --------------------------------
1590 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1593 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1594 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1595 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1596 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1599 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1601 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1602 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1603 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1604 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1605 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1606 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1607 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1608 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1610 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1611 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1612 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1613 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1614 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1615 * Configure and build system improvements
1616 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1619 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1620 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1621 * New icelandic translation
1624 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1625 --------------------------------
1628 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1629 #234484 and #260719.
1632 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1633 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1634 and stability reasons
1637 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1641 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1644 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1645 ----------------------------------
1648 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1651 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1652 ---------------------------------
1655 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1656 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1657 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1658 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1661 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1664 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1665 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1666 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1667 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1670 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1671 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1672 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1674 Subtitles and renderer:
1675 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1676 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1677 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1678 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1679 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1682 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1683 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1684 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1685 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1688 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1689 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1691 Miscellaneous fixes:
1692 * KDE device solid actions
1694 * Transcode integer overflow
1695 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1696 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1699 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1700 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1701 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1704 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1705 ----------------------------------
1708 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1712 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1715 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1718 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1719 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1720 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1721 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1724 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1728 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1731 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1734 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1735 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1737 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1741 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1742 * Miscellaneous fixes
1745 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1746 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1747 French and Ukrainian
1748 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1749 * New Asturian translation
1752 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1753 ----------------------------------
1756 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1758 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1761 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1764 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1765 * Various fixes for Windows
1768 * New Armenian translation
1769 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1770 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1773 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1774 --------------------------------
1777 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1778 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1779 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1782 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1783 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1786 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1787 --------------------------------
1789 Access and demuxers:
1790 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1791 * fix for podcasts parsing
1792 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1795 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1796 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1799 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1800 * fix m3u playlists exports
1803 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1806 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1809 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1812 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1815 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1818 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1819 --------------------------------
1822 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1823 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1826 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1827 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1830 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1831 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1832 * fix console output encoding
1834 Interface and extensions:
1835 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1836 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1839 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1840 --------------------------------
1843 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1844 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1845 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1846 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1847 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1848 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1849 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1850 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1851 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1852 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1853 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1854 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1855 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1856 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1857 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1858 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1862 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1863 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1864 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1865 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1866 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1869 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1872 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1873 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1874 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1878 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1881 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1882 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1883 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1886 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1887 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1888 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1889 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1892 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1893 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1896 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1897 --------------------------------
1899 Important changes for users:
1900 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1901 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1903 Important changes for packagers:
1904 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1905 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1906 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1907 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1908 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1910 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1912 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1913 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1914 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1915 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1916 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1919 * Support for the sftp protocol
1920 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1921 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1922 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1923 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1924 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1927 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1928 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1929 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1931 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1932 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1933 * Invmem module improvements
1934 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1935 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1936 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1937 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1938 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1939 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1940 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1941 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1942 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1943 * Support for VP8 codec
1944 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1947 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1948 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1949 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1950 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1951 * Various EGP improvements
1952 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1953 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1956 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1957 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1958 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1959 * Podcast images are now displayed
1962 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1963 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1964 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1965 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1966 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1967 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1968 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1969 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1970 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1971 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1972 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1975 * New content extensions lua framework
1978 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1979 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1980 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1981 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1982 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1983 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1984 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1987 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1988 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1989 * Service discovery based on libudev
1990 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1993 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1994 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1995 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1996 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1997 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1998 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1999 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2002 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2003 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2004 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2007 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2009 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2010 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2013 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2016 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2017 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2018 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2019 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2020 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2021 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2022 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2025 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2026 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2029 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2030 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2031 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2035 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2036 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2037 * Improved Solaris port
2040 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2041 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2044 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2045 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2046 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2047 * transrate: broken since too long
2048 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2049 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2050 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2051 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2052 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2053 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2054 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2055 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2056 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2057 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2058 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2059 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2060 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2061 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2064 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2065 --------------------------------
2068 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2070 Decoders/Packetizers:
2071 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2074 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2075 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2076 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2077 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2078 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2081 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2082 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2085 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2086 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2089 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2090 and Walloon translations updated
2091 * Sinhala translation started
2094 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2095 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2098 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2099 --------------------------------
2102 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2103 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2106 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2109 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2110 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2113 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2114 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2115 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2116 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2119 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2120 --------------------------------
2123 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2124 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2127 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2128 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2131 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2132 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2135 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2138 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2139 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2142 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2143 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2146 * New Walloon translation
2147 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2150 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2151 --------------------------------
2154 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2155 regressions in most popular drivers
2156 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2159 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2160 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2161 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2164 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2165 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2168 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2169 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2170 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2171 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2172 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2175 * New udev module for linux
2178 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2181 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2184 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2185 --------------------------------
2188 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2189 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2190 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2193 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2194 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2197 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2198 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2201 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2204 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2205 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2206 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2207 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2210 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2211 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2212 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2213 - no support for Goom and SDL
2214 - limited text rendering support
2215 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2218 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2219 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2220 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2221 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2222 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2223 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2224 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2225 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2226 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2230 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2233 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2236 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2237 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2238 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2239 Arabic and French translation updates
2242 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2243 --------------------------------
2246 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2247 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2248 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2249 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2250 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2251 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2254 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2255 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2256 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2259 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2260 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2261 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2264 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2267 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2268 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2271 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2272 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2273 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2274 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2275 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2276 * Fix various crashes
2279 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2281 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2285 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2286 ---------------------------------
2290 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2291 See 'Access:' for more info.
2292 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2295 * Instantaneous pausing
2296 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2297 * Finer speed control
2298 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2299 * Timeshift for most medias
2300 * RTSP trickplay support
2301 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2304 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2305 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2306 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2307 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2308 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2309 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2310 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2311 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2312 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2313 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2316 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2317 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2318 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2319 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2320 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2321 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2322 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2325 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2326 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2329 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2330 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2331 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2332 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2333 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2334 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2335 * DVB scanning on linux
2336 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2337 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2338 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2339 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2340 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2341 * MTP device access on Unix
2342 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2343 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2346 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2347 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2348 Windows and Mac OS X.
2351 * Export the playlist in HTML
2352 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2353 * Better metadata handling and reading
2355 Linux/Windows interface:
2356 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2357 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2358 * Recently played items list
2359 * Interface toolbar customizations
2360 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2361 - More menus actions
2362 - Finer speed slider
2363 - Improvements on many dialogs
2364 - New dialog for plugins listing
2365 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2366 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2367 * Better integration in GTK environments
2370 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2371 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2372 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2373 * Additional usability improvements
2376 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2377 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2378 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2379 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2380 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2383 * New Maemo port with:
2384 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2385 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2388 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2391 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2392 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2393 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2394 * Support for latest iSight models
2397 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2398 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2401 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2402 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2403 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2404 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2405 The old image video output has been removed.
2406 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2407 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2410 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2418 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2419 --------------------------------------
2425 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2426 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2427 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2428 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2429 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2430 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2431 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2433 Various fixes to the following modules:
2436 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2437 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2438 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2440 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2445 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2446 ---------------------------------
2449 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2450 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2453 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2454 ---------------------------------
2457 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2460 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2463 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2464 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2465 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2466 main controller window.
2467 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2470 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2475 * Updates of other localizations
2478 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2479 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2480 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2481 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2482 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2485 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2486 ---------------------------------
2489 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2491 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2494 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2495 --------------------------------
2500 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2501 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2504 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2505 --------------------------------
2507 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2508 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2511 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2514 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2515 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2518 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2519 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2522 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2523 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2524 * Various fixed in playlist
2527 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2530 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2533 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2534 ------------------------------------
2536 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2537 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2540 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2541 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2542 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2545 * Stability fix for the video output.
2548 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2549 --------------------------------
2552 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2553 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2554 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2555 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2556 * Fixed update system bugs
2557 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2560 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2561 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2562 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2563 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2564 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2565 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2566 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2567 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2568 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2569 modern Mac OS X versions
2572 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2573 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2575 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2576 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2579 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2580 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2581 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2582 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2583 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2584 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2587 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2588 --------------------------------
2590 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2591 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2592 * Multiple bugfixes.
2595 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2596 --------------------------------
2598 * Multiple bug fixes.
2601 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2602 ---------------------------------
2606 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2607 recent to work correctly
2608 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2609 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2610 edit the ".hosts" file.
2611 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2612 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2613 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2614 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2615 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2616 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2617 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2618 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2619 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2620 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2621 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2622 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2623 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2624 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2625 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2626 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2627 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2628 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2629 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2630 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2631 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2632 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2633 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2634 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2635 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2636 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2637 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2638 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2639 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2640 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2641 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2642 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2643 and postproc modules.
2644 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2645 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2646 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2647 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2649 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2650 filter. For example:
2651 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2652 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2654 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2655 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2661 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2663 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2664 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2667 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2668 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2670 * Shoutcast TV listings
2671 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2673 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2674 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2676 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2679 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2680 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2681 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2682 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2683 * JACK audio input support
2684 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2685 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2686 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2687 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2688 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2689 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2690 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2691 (available as a separate download).
2692 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2693 * RTMP input support
2694 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2695 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2696 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2698 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2699 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2702 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2703 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2704 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2705 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2707 * APEv1/2 tags support
2708 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2709 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2711 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2712 * TiVo Series 2 support
2713 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2718 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2719 * Flash Screen Video support
2720 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2721 * DosBox Capture support
2722 * Karl Morton's Video support
2723 * limited atrac3 support
2725 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2726 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2727 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2728 * H.264 PAFF support
2729 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2730 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2731 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2732 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2733 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2736 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2737 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2738 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2739 * AQTitle subtitles support
2740 * MKV USF subtitles support
2741 * HTML-based subtitles support
2742 * MPSub subtitles support
2743 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2744 * MPL2 subtitles support
2745 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2746 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2747 * Realtext subtitle support
2748 * DKS subtitle support
2749 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2750 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2753 * Flash Screen Video support
2754 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2756 Video outputs and filters:
2757 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2758 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2759 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2760 * New puzzle video output filter
2761 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2762 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2764 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2765 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2766 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2767 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2768 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2769 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2770 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2771 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2772 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2773 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2774 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2775 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2776 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2777 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2779 Audio outputs and filters:
2780 * Replay gain support
2781 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2782 new scaletempo audio filter)
2783 * New spatializer audio filter
2784 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2787 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2788 * New RTP payload formats:
2789 * Speex voice audio codec
2790 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2791 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2792 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2793 * DCCP transport for RTP
2794 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2799 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2800 end-user suitable way.
2801 * Improved user interaction
2802 * Improved mouse gestures
2803 * Vastly improved Update checker
2804 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2806 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2807 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2809 * Improved video output features
2810 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2811 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2812 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2813 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2814 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2816 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2817 if libncursesw is available.
2818 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2819 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2820 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2822 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2823 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2824 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2825 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2826 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2827 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2828 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2829 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2832 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2833 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2834 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2837 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2838 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2839 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2840 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2841 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2842 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2845 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2846 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2856 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2857 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2858 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2861 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2862 ----------------------------------
2865 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2868 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2869 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2870 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2871 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2872 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2873 * Updated Polish translation
2876 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2877 ----------------------------------
2880 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2881 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2882 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2885 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2886 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2887 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2888 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2889 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2890 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2891 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2892 to an unexpected application termination
2893 * New Serbian translation
2894 * Updated Romanian translation
2897 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2898 ----------------------------------
2901 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2902 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2903 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2904 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2905 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2906 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2907 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2908 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2911 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2912 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2913 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2914 * Fixed AAC resampling
2915 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2916 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2919 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2920 ----------------------------------
2923 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2924 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2925 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2926 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2927 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2930 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2931 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2932 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2933 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2934 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2937 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2938 ----------------------------------
2941 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2942 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2945 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2946 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2947 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2948 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2950 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2954 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2957 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2960 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2963 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2966 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2967 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2968 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2969 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2970 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2972 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2973 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2974 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2975 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2978 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2981 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2982 ----------------------------------
2985 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2986 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2987 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2989 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2990 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2992 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2993 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2996 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2998 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2999 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3000 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3001 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3002 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3003 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3004 two different movies
3005 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3006 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3007 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3010 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3013 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3014 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3015 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3016 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3019 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3020 ----------------------------------
3022 Various bugfixes, notably:
3023 * Windows Vista compatibility
3024 * Cropping in Direct3D
3025 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3026 * RSS filter string overflow
3028 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3030 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3031 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3034 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3035 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3038 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3041 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3044 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3047 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3048 ----------------------------------
3050 Various bugfixes, notably:
3051 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3052 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3053 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3054 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3055 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3056 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3059 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3060 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3063 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3065 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3066 * Diverse usability improvements
3067 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3068 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3069 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3072 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3073 ---------------------------------
3075 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3076 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3079 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3082 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3083 --------------------------------
3086 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3089 * Support for RTSP authentication
3090 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3091 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3092 * ATSC support for DVB input
3093 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3094 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3095 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3098 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3099 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3100 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3101 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3102 * Matroska WavPack support
3103 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3104 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3105 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3108 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3109 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3110 * Improved libcaca support
3114 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3115 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3117 * Systray support in skins
3119 * Support for Apple Remote control
3120 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3121 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3122 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3123 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3125 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3128 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3129 Windows 9x/ME users:
3130 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3131 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3132 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3133 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3134 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3136 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3137 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3146 * Updates to the libvlc API
3147 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3150 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3151 --------------------------------
3154 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3155 * Support for downloading updates
3159 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3160 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3161 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3162 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3164 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3165 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3166 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3169 * Cook (Real audio) support
3171 Playlist / Services discovery:
3172 * XSPF playlist support
3174 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3177 * New JACK audio output
3180 * New video filters:
3181 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3182 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3183 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3184 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3185 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3186 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3189 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3192 * System to inform the user and request information
3193 - HTTP authentication
3197 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3198 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3199 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3202 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3203 - Improved playlist handling
3204 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3206 - Embedded Video output
3207 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3208 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3209 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3210 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3211 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3213 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3214 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3217 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3220 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3221 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3222 * Growl "Now playing" support
3225 * Ability to log to syslog
3226 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3229 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3231 * A bit more automatic testing
3234 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3235 ---------------------------------
3238 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3239 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3242 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3243 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3246 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3249 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3250 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3256 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3259 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3260 --------------------------------
3263 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3267 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3268 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3269 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3272 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3273 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3274 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3275 * GnomeVFS input module
3276 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3277 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3280 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3281 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3282 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3285 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3286 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3292 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3293 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3296 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3297 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3298 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3301 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3303 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3304 - New extended controls panel
3305 - New bookmarks window
3306 - Fixed playlist sorting
3307 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3309 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3310 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3311 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3312 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3316 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3317 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3319 - Include macro to include other files
3323 * Should now work outside IE as well
3326 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3329 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3330 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3333 The following languages were added:
3337 * Simplified Chinese
3338 The following languages were re-added:
3342 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3343 --------------------------------
3346 * Rewrite of the playlist
3348 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3349 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3350 * Preferences improvements:
3351 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3352 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3354 * Core image manipulation support
3355 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3356 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3357 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3358 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3359 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3360 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3361 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3362 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3363 * Access filter architecture
3364 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3365 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3369 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3370 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3371 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3372 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3373 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3374 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3375 * Massive Matroska improvements
3376 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3378 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3379 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3380 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3381 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3382 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3384 Decoders / Encoders:
3385 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3386 * PNG decoder/encoder
3387 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3388 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3391 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3394 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3395 * Brand new SAP module
3396 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3397 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3398 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3399 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3400 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3401 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3405 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3408 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3409 * Image file video output (png)
3410 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3411 * Improvements to wall video filter
3412 * Support for font color and opacity
3418 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3419 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3420 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3424 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3425 - Improved preferences
3426 - Improvements to the wizard
3427 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3429 - Redesigned playlist
3430 - Improved preferences
3432 - Support for multiple actions
3435 - Support for the new playlist system
3437 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3440 * Screensaver disabling fix
3441 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3442 * Support for no-decoration windows
3445 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3446 * The OpenGL video output is back
3447 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3448 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3449 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3450 is not yet available in the new module
3451 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3454 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3463 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3466 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3469 The following languages were added:
3475 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3476 --------------------------------
3479 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3480 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3483 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3484 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3485 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3488 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3491 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3494 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3497 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3498 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3499 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3503 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3505 * Support of playlist group announcement
3508 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3509 --------------------------------
3512 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3513 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3514 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3515 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3516 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3517 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3520 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3521 (Stream your desktop)
3522 * Improved DVD support:
3523 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3524 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3525 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3526 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3527 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3528 (selection of titles/chapters).
3531 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3532 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3533 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3534 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3535 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3536 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3537 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3538 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3539 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3540 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3543 * G.726 audio support
3544 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3545 * MPEG-4 text support
3546 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3547 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3548 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3552 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3553 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3554 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3555 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3556 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3557 * DVB subtitles encoder
3558 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3559 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3561 * Text track muxing for mp4
3562 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3563 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3564 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3565 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3566 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3567 * Improved ASF muxer
3569 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3570 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3571 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3574 * New audio equalizer filter
3575 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3576 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3577 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3578 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3581 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3582 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3583 with support for effects.
3584 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3585 - New filters can be streamed.
3586 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3587 - Centralized scaling and blending
3589 - "time", to display current time
3590 - "marq", to display a marquee
3593 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3594 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3595 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3596 * A few skins2 improvements
3597 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3598 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3599 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3600 * Improved CORBA control module
3603 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3604 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3605 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3608 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3609 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3610 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3613 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3614 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3615 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3616 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3617 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3620 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3623 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3624 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3627 * Server/client network synchronization module
3628 * VBrick streams fully supported
3629 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3633 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3634 --------------------------------
3637 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3638 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3639 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3640 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3643 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3644 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3645 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3646 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3647 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3648 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3649 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3652 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3653 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3654 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3655 * Improved directory access module.
3656 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3657 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3658 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3659 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3660 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3663 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3664 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3665 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3668 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3669 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3670 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3673 * Improved session announcement system.
3674 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3675 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3676 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3677 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3678 * Improved transrater.
3679 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3680 * New configuration system.
3681 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3684 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3685 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3686 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3687 * Supports scheduling.
3688 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3689 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3692 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3693 - Ability to embed video output.
3694 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3695 - Lots of improvements.
3696 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3697 - New design and set of icons.
3698 - Ability to embed video output.
3699 - Support for hotkeys.
3700 - Support for bookmarks.
3702 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3703 - Better hotkeys handling.
3706 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3707 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3708 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3709 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3712 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3713 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3714 * Improved Windows installer.
3720 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3721 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3724 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3725 ---------------------------------
3728 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3729 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3732 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3733 --------------------------------
3736 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3737 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3740 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3741 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3742 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3743 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3746 * Internal improvments
3747 * Improved import/export
3750 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3752 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3753 small and strange formats.
3755 * New MOD audio demux.
3756 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3757 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3758 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3759 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3762 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3763 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3764 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3770 * New opengl video output plugin.
3773 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3774 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3777 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3778 --------------------------------
3781 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3782 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3783 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3784 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3785 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3786 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3787 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3788 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3791 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3796 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3797 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3798 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3799 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3800 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3801 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3802 * Better Icecast support.
3803 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3804 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3807 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3808 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3809 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3810 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3811 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3812 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3813 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3816 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3817 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3818 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3819 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3820 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3821 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3822 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3823 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3824 * Preliminary RTP support.
3825 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3830 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3831 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3833 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3834 - Improvements and help in preferences
3835 - New streaming wizard
3836 - Revised Disc Open menu
3838 - Improvements of the standard pages
3839 - Support for new commands
3840 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3843 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3844 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3847 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3848 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3849 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3850 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3851 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3852 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3853 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3854 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3855 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3858 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3860 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3861 * Support for Panther.
3862 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3863 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3866 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3867 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3868 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3869 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3870 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3871 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3872 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3873 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3876 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3877 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3878 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3881 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3884 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3885 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3886 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3887 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3890 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3891 --------------------------------
3894 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3897 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3898 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3901 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3902 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3905 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3908 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3909 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3912 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3915 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3918 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3919 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3923 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3924 --------------------------------
3927 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3928 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3932 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3933 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3934 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3936 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3937 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3940 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3943 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3946 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3947 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3951 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3952 --------------------------------
3955 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3956 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3960 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3961 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3962 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3963 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3964 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3967 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3968 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3969 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3972 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3973 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3974 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3977 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3978 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3979 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3980 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3981 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3984 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3985 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3986 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3989 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3992 * Improved build system.
3993 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3994 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3995 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3996 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3999 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4000 --------------------------------
4003 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4006 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4007 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4008 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4009 * Video 4 Linux support
4010 * CD Digital Audio support
4011 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4014 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4015 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4016 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4017 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4020 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4021 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4022 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4023 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4024 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4025 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4026 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4029 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4030 * New HTTP remote control interface
4033 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4034 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4035 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4036 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4037 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4040 * New reset option for the preferences
4041 * You can set your language in the prefences
4042 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4043 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4044 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4045 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4048 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4049 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4050 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4053 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4054 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4055 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4056 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4057 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4058 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4059 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4060 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4061 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4062 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4065 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4066 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4067 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4068 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4069 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4070 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4071 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4074 * Interface localization
4075 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4076 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4077 * New full-featured Preferences window
4080 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4081 --------------------------------
4084 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4085 * support for skins at the interface level
4086 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4087 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4088 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4089 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4090 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4093 * fixed HTTP redirects
4094 * support for opening an entire directory
4095 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4096 * new video4linux access plug-in
4097 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4100 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4101 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4102 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4105 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4106 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4107 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4108 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4109 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4110 * new codec for raw I420 video
4111 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4114 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4115 (although it still misses some important features)
4116 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4119 * new HTTP output support
4120 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4121 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4124 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4127 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4130 * reorderable playlist
4131 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4132 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4133 * support for mono audio output devices
4134 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4135 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4136 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4137 * the messages window remembers more lines
4138 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4139 * http and ogg stream output options
4140 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4143 * new skinnable interface
4144 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4146 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4147 * support for FLAC audio format
4148 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4150 * network tab in the interface
4151 * "apply" handling in preferences
4154 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4155 ---------------------------------
4158 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4159 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4160 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4161 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4163 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4164 * DTS S/PDIF support
4167 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4168 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4169 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4170 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4173 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4174 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4177 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4180 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4183 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4185 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4186 * rc interface is now fully useable
4187 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4190 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4191 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4192 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4193 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4194 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4196 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4197 * support for mouse gestures
4198 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4201 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4202 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4205 * improved ID3 tag detection
4206 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4207 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4208 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4210 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4213 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4214 ---------------------------------
4217 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4218 English was set as the preferred language
4221 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4222 --------------------------------
4225 * new mouse gesture interface
4226 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4230 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4231 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4232 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4235 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4236 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4240 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4243 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4244 without the user consent
4247 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4249 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4250 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4251 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4254 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4255 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4256 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4257 * playlist enhancements
4258 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4259 * new step forward/step backward commands
4260 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4261 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4262 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4265 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4266 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4267 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4270 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4271 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4274 * native video output is working again
4275 * only commandline interface support
4276 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4279 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4280 --------------------------------
4283 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4284 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4285 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4286 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4287 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4288 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4289 and A/52 streams are supported)
4290 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4295 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4296 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4297 * VCD entry points support
4298 * VCD image file support
4301 * support for *.asf format
4302 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4303 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4304 * support for ogg encapsulation
4305 * support for raw DV format
4306 * support for *.wav format
4307 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4310 Stream discovery & playlists:
4311 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4312 * support for .m3u file format
4313 * support for .asx file format
4314 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4317 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4318 (only available with the .avi demux)
4319 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4320 * support for raw PCM data
4321 * support for Cinepak video codec
4322 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4323 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4324 * support for Xvid codec
4325 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4326 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4327 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4329 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4331 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4334 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4337 * new WxWindows interface
4338 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4339 device and the channels configuration
4340 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4341 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4342 format that VLC can play
4343 * new swedish translation
4344 * enhancements of the playlist window
4345 * new messages window to see debug info
4346 * fixed a few crashes
4349 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4350 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4351 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4352 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working