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
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
22 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
23 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
24 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
25 * Support for Daala video
26 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
27 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
28 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
29 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
30 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
33 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
34 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
35 * Support Daala in Ogg
36 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
37 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
38 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
39 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
40 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
41 * Fixed selecting recorded program from TopField TS files
44 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
47 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
48 * Wayland shell surface window provider
49 * Wayland shared memory video output
50 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
51 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
52 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
55 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
56 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
59 * Chromecast output module
62 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
65 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
66 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
70 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
73 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
74 * Port to Yosemite X.10
77 * Batch convert support
80 * Support key accelerators
83 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
84 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
85 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
86 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
87 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
88 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
89 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
92 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
93 --------------------------------
96 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
97 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
100 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
101 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
102 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
103 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
106 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
107 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
108 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
109 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
111 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
112 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
115 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
116 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
117 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
118 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
119 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
120 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
121 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
122 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
123 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
124 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
125 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
126 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
127 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
128 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
129 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
130 * New jpeg image decoder
131 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
132 * New SVG image decoder
133 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
134 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
135 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
138 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
139 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
140 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
141 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
142 * New png image encoder using libpng
145 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
146 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
147 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
148 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
149 synchronization and tracks exclusion
150 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
151 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
152 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
153 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
154 * Support Opus in MKV
156 * Basic support for WebVTT
157 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
158 * Support HDPR TS files
159 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
160 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
161 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
162 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
163 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
164 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
165 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
166 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
167 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
168 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
169 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
170 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
173 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
174 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
175 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
176 * New Android native window provider module
177 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
178 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
179 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
182 * New Oldmovie effect filter
183 * New VHS effect filter
184 * New Freeze effect filter
185 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
186 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
187 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
190 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
191 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
192 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
193 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
194 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
195 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
198 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
199 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
201 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
204 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
205 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
206 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
207 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
208 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
209 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
210 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
211 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
212 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
214 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
215 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
216 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
219 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
220 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
223 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
224 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
227 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
228 * Add record button in Qt menus
229 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
230 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
231 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
234 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
235 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
236 * Fixes for advanced preferences
237 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
238 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
239 * Option to increase playlist font size
240 * Improved crash log reporting
243 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
244 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
245 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
248 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
251 * iOS video output: use ios2
252 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
253 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
256 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
257 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
258 * Update of all translations:
259 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
260 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
261 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
262 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
263 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
264 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
265 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
268 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
269 --------------------------------
272 * Fix compilation on OS/2
275 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
277 Mac OS X audio output:
278 * Fix channel ordering
279 * Increase the buffersize
282 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
283 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
284 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
287 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
290 * Correctly support video-on-top
291 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
292 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
295 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
298 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
299 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
302 * Update British English
305 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
306 --------------------------------
309 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
312 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
315 * Fix DVD playback regression
316 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
317 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
320 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
321 --------------------------------
324 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
325 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
328 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
329 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
330 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
333 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
334 by updating codec libraries
335 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
336 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
337 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
340 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
341 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
342 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
343 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
346 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
347 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
350 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
351 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
352 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
353 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
354 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
357 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
358 * Fix record file names
361 * Fix minimal size possible on start
362 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
363 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
364 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
365 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
368 * Fix album art display on Windows
371 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
372 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
373 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
374 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
375 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
376 and Simplified Chinese translations
377 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
380 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
381 --------------------------------
384 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
385 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
386 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
387 audio devices on OS X
388 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
389 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
392 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
393 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
396 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
397 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
400 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
403 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
404 * Improve A-B loop control
405 * Fix album art update when changing media
408 * Add a language option in the interface
409 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
410 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
411 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
412 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
413 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
414 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
415 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
418 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
421 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
422 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
423 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
424 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
427 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
428 --------------------------------
431 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
433 * Fix some subtitles track selection
436 * VP9 support in WebM
437 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
438 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
441 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
442 * Support Speex in ogg files
443 * Fix some .mov playlists support
444 * Support Alac in mkv
445 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
446 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
449 * Fix DVB options parsing
450 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
451 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
454 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
455 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
458 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
459 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
462 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
463 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
464 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
465 * Fix play after drag'n drop
466 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
469 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
470 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
473 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
474 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
477 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
478 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
479 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
480 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
481 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
482 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
483 * Improves interface resizings
486 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
487 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
488 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
489 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
490 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
494 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
495 --------------------------------
498 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
499 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
500 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
501 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
502 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
504 3rd party libraries (contrib):
505 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
508 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
509 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
510 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
511 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
512 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
515 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
516 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
520 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
521 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
522 * Support for Ulead DV audio
523 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
524 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
525 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
526 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
527 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
528 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
529 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
530 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
531 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
532 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
535 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
536 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
537 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
540 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
541 remove support for previous OS X releases
542 * Major improvements in DASH support
543 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
544 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
545 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
546 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
547 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
548 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
549 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
550 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
551 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
552 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
553 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
556 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
557 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
558 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
559 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
560 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
561 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
562 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
563 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
564 * Support for more MJPEG streams
565 * Add support for liveleak streams
566 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
567 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
568 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
571 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
572 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
573 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
574 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
575 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
576 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
577 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
578 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
579 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
580 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
581 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
584 * New remapping channel filter
585 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
586 * New VSXu visualization plugin
587 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
588 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
589 * New gain audio filter
592 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
593 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
594 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
595 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
596 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
597 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
598 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
599 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
600 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
603 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
604 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
605 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
606 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
607 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
608 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
609 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
612 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
613 * Options support for AVIO output module
614 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
615 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
616 * Livehttp stream encryption support
617 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
618 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
621 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
624 * configurable password for the HTTP server
625 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
626 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
627 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
628 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
629 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
630 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
631 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
635 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
638 * Add support for multiple video outputs
639 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
641 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
642 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
643 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
644 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
645 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
646 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
647 VLC's internal volume level
648 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
650 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
651 selection and to manage the list of presets
652 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
653 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
654 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
655 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
656 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
657 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
658 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
659 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
660 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
661 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
663 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
664 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
665 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
666 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
667 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
668 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
669 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
670 3rd party applications
671 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
672 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
673 (system-wide settings)
674 * Add support for the Video Title option
675 * Add support for the Boss Key
676 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
677 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
680 * Partial support for Qt5.0
681 * Menus modifications and improvements
682 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
683 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
684 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
685 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
686 * EPG display fixes and improvements
687 * Add SD pixmap sources
688 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
689 * Display playlist total duration
690 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
691 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
692 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
697 * Extend sliders, offsets options
698 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
699 * Numerous fixes and improvements
700 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
703 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
704 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
705 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
706 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
707 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
708 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
709 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
710 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
711 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
712 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
715 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
716 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
717 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
718 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
719 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
720 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
722 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
723 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
724 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
725 * Broken crop video filter
727 * OSD parser and menu
728 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
729 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
730 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
731 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
735 * Update of all translations
738 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
739 --------------------------------
742 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
743 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
746 * Fix modplug security issues
749 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
750 --------------------------------
754 * Fix crash in QTsound
755 * Fix screen mouse file location
756 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
759 * Fix use after free in sgimb
760 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
763 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
766 * Fix interface crashes
767 * Fix autostart playback option
768 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
771 * update Welsh translation
772 * New Kannada translation
775 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
776 --------------------------------
779 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
780 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
784 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
787 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
790 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
793 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
797 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
800 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
803 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
804 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
805 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
808 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
809 --------------------------------
812 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
815 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
818 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
819 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
820 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
821 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
822 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
823 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
826 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
827 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
828 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
829 * 3rd party codecs updates
832 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
833 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
834 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
835 in the advanced preferences panel
836 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
837 * Fix crash within the video output code
838 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
839 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
840 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
841 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
843 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
846 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
849 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
850 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
853 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
856 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
857 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
858 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
859 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
860 Dutch, Danish, translations
861 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
864 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
865 --------------------------------
868 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
871 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
872 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
873 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
876 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
877 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
878 * Fix koreus lua parser
879 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
880 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
881 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
882 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
885 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
886 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
889 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
892 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
893 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
894 * Fix Time counter UI look
895 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
898 * Fix https streaming
901 * Fix audio and video track selection:
902 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
903 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
906 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
907 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
908 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
909 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
910 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
913 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
914 --------------------------------
917 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
918 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
919 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
920 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
921 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
922 during playback on Mac OS X
925 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
926 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
927 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
930 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
931 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
932 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
933 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
934 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
937 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
938 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
939 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
940 * Support Youtube live streams
943 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
946 * Fix media info dialog update
947 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
948 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
949 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
950 * Fix album art display at start
953 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
954 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
955 * Fix menus display and behavior
956 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
957 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
958 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
959 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
960 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
961 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
962 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
965 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
966 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
967 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
968 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
969 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
970 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
971 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
972 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
973 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
976 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
977 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
978 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
979 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
980 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
983 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
984 --------------------------------
987 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
990 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
991 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
994 * Add GateKeeper support
995 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
996 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
997 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1000 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1003 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1004 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1005 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1006 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1007 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1010 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1011 --------------------------------
1014 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1015 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1016 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1017 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1018 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1019 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1020 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1021 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1022 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1023 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1024 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1028 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1029 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1030 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1031 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1032 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1033 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1034 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1035 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1036 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1037 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1038 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1039 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1042 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1043 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1045 * Fix MP3 free format support
1048 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1049 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1050 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1051 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1052 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1055 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1056 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1058 Audio filters and output:
1059 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1060 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1061 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1062 * Do not apply volume in file output
1063 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1064 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1067 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1068 the persistant media library
1069 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1070 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1071 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1072 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1073 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1074 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1075 press on the Play/Pause button
1076 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1077 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1078 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1079 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1080 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1081 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1082 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1083 Synchronization panel
1084 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1085 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1086 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1087 * Fix crashes on exit
1088 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1090 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1091 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1092 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1093 automatically reset on the first launch.
1094 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1095 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1096 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1099 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1100 * Fixes for icecast SD
1103 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1104 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1105 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1106 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1107 * Fix tags and file names display
1108 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1111 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1112 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1115 * Fix display of some buttons
1116 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1117 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1120 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1121 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1122 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1125 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1126 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1127 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1128 Thai translations update
1129 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1132 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1133 --------------------------------
1136 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1137 * fix the samba module compilation
1138 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1139 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1140 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1141 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1144 * Support for MXPEG files
1145 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1146 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1149 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1150 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1151 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1154 * Fix ogm header creation
1157 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1158 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1161 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1162 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1163 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1164 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1167 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1170 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1171 * allow to hide the sidebar
1172 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1173 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1174 * noticebly faster launch time
1175 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1176 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1177 * improve track synchronization panel
1178 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1179 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1182 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1183 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1184 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1185 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1188 * fix for menus display
1189 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1190 * documentation update
1193 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1194 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1197 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1198 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1199 * Update Jamendo selections
1203 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1204 * fix a crash on VLM close
1207 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1208 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1209 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1210 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1213 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1216 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1217 ---------------------------------
1220 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1221 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1222 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1223 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1224 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1225 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1226 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1227 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1228 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1229 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1230 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1231 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1232 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1233 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1234 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1235 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1236 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1237 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1238 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1239 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1240 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1241 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1242 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1243 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1244 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1245 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1247 Important changes for packagers:
1248 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1249 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1250 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1251 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1252 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1253 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1254 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1255 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1256 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1257 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1260 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1261 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1262 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1263 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1264 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1265 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1266 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1269 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1270 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1271 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1272 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1273 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1274 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1275 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1276 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1277 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1278 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1279 * PulseAudio audio input support
1280 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1281 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1282 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1283 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1284 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1285 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1286 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1287 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1290 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1291 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1292 are notably concerned.
1293 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1294 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1295 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1296 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1297 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1298 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1299 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1300 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1301 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1302 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1303 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1304 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1305 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1306 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1307 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1310 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1311 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1312 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1313 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1314 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1315 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1316 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1317 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1318 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1319 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1320 * Improved support of tracker files
1321 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1324 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1325 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1326 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1327 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1328 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1329 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1330 and important cleanups and optimisations
1331 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1332 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1333 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1334 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1335 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1336 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1337 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1338 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1339 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1340 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1341 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1342 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1343 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1344 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1345 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1346 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1347 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1348 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1349 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1350 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1351 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1354 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1355 * New video output for iOS platform
1356 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1357 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1358 * Various vmem improvements
1359 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1360 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1361 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1362 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1363 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1364 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1366 Audio Output and Filters:
1367 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1368 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1369 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1370 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1371 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1372 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1373 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1374 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1375 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1376 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1379 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1380 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1381 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1382 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1383 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1384 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1385 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1386 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1387 * New anti-flickering filter
1388 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1389 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1390 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1391 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1392 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1393 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1394 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1397 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1398 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1399 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1400 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1401 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1402 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1403 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1404 * Major rework of VoD support
1405 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1406 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1407 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1408 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1409 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1410 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1411 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1412 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1413 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1414 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1417 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1418 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1421 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1422 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1423 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1424 list of available audio and video filters
1425 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1426 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1427 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1430 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1431 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1432 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1433 * id3tag: use taglib
1434 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1435 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1436 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1437 * removal of the noise filter
1438 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1439 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1440 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1441 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1444 * Update of translations for most languages.
1445 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1448 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1449 ----------------------------------
1452 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1453 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1456 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1457 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1460 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1461 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1462 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1465 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1468 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1469 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1472 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1475 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1476 ----------------------------------
1479 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1480 including support for OS X Lion
1481 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1482 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1485 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1488 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1489 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1490 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1493 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1496 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1497 ----------------------------------
1500 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1501 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1504 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1505 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1506 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1507 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1508 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1510 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1511 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1512 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1514 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1515 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1518 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1521 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1524 * Fix quitting on Linux
1525 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1529 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1532 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1535 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1536 ---------------------------------
1538 Windows and Mac OS X:
1539 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1542 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1543 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1546 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1549 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1552 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1554 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1555 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1557 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1558 * RTP output and XML export
1559 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1563 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1564 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1565 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1566 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1569 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1570 --------------------------------
1572 Windows and Mac OS X:
1573 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1576 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1579 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1580 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1581 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1582 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1583 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1584 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1587 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1588 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1592 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1593 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1594 * New Luganda Translation
1597 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1598 --------------------------------
1601 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1604 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1605 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1606 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1607 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1610 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1612 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1613 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1614 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1615 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1616 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1617 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1618 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1619 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1621 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1622 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1623 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1624 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1625 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1626 * Configure and build system improvements
1627 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1630 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1631 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1632 * New icelandic translation
1635 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1636 --------------------------------
1639 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1640 #234484 and #260719.
1643 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1644 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1645 and stability reasons
1648 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1652 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1655 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1656 ----------------------------------
1659 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1662 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1663 ---------------------------------
1666 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1667 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1668 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1669 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1672 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1675 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1676 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1677 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1678 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1681 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1682 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1683 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1685 Subtitles and renderer:
1686 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1687 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1688 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1689 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1690 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1693 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1694 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1695 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1696 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1699 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1700 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1702 Miscellaneous fixes:
1703 * KDE device solid actions
1705 * Transcode integer overflow
1706 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1707 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1710 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1711 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1712 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1715 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1716 ----------------------------------
1719 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1723 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1726 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1729 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1730 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1731 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1732 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1735 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1739 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1742 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1745 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1746 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1748 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1752 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1753 * Miscellaneous fixes
1756 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1757 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1758 French and Ukrainian
1759 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1760 * New Asturian translation
1763 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1764 ----------------------------------
1767 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1769 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1772 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1775 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1776 * Various fixes for Windows
1779 * New Armenian translation
1780 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1781 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1784 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1785 --------------------------------
1788 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1789 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1790 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1793 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1794 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1797 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1798 --------------------------------
1800 Access and demuxers:
1801 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1802 * fix for podcasts parsing
1803 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1806 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1807 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1810 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1811 * fix m3u playlists exports
1814 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1817 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1820 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1823 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1826 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1829 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1830 --------------------------------
1833 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1834 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1837 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1838 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1841 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1842 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1843 * fix console output encoding
1845 Interface and extensions:
1846 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1847 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1850 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1851 --------------------------------
1854 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1855 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1856 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1857 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1858 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1859 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1860 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1861 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1862 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1863 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1864 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1865 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1866 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1867 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1868 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1869 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1873 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1874 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1875 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1876 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1877 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1880 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1883 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1884 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1885 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1889 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1892 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1893 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1894 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1897 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1898 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1899 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1900 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1903 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1904 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1907 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1908 --------------------------------
1910 Important changes for users:
1911 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1912 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1914 Important changes for packagers:
1915 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1916 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1917 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1918 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1919 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1921 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1923 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1924 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1925 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1926 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1927 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1930 * Support for the sftp protocol
1931 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1932 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1933 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1934 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1935 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1938 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1939 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1940 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1942 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1943 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1944 * Invmem module improvements
1945 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1946 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1947 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1948 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1949 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1950 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1951 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1952 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1953 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1954 * Support for VP8 codec
1955 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1958 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1959 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1960 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1961 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1962 * Various EGP improvements
1963 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1964 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1967 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1968 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1969 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1970 * Podcast images are now displayed
1973 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1974 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1975 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1976 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1977 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1978 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1979 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1980 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1981 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1982 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1983 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1986 * New content extensions lua framework
1989 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1990 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1991 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1992 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1993 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1994 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1995 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1998 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1999 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2000 * Service discovery based on libudev
2001 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2004 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2005 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2006 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2007 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2008 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2009 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2010 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2013 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2014 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2015 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2018 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2020 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2021 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2024 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2027 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2028 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2029 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2030 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2031 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2032 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2033 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2036 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2037 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2040 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2041 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2042 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2046 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2047 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2048 * Improved Solaris port
2051 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2052 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2055 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2056 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2057 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2058 * transrate: broken since too long
2059 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2060 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2061 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2062 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2063 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2064 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2065 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2066 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2067 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2068 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2069 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2070 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2071 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2072 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2075 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2076 --------------------------------
2079 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2081 Decoders/Packetizers:
2082 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2085 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2086 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2087 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2088 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2089 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2092 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2093 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2096 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2097 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2100 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2101 and Walloon translations updated
2102 * Sinhala translation started
2105 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2106 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2109 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2110 --------------------------------
2113 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2114 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2117 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2120 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2121 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2124 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2125 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2126 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2127 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2130 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2131 --------------------------------
2134 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2135 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2138 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2139 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2142 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2143 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2146 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2149 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2150 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2153 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2154 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2157 * New Walloon translation
2158 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2161 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2162 --------------------------------
2165 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2166 regressions in most popular drivers
2167 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2170 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2171 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2172 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2175 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2176 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2179 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2180 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2181 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2182 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2183 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2186 * New udev module for linux
2189 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2192 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2195 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2196 --------------------------------
2199 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2200 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2201 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2204 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2205 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2208 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2209 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2212 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2215 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2216 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2217 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2218 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2221 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2222 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2223 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2224 - no support for Goom and SDL
2225 - limited text rendering support
2226 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2229 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2230 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2231 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2232 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2233 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2234 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2235 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2236 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2237 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2241 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2244 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2247 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2248 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2249 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2250 Arabic and French translation updates
2253 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2254 --------------------------------
2257 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2258 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2259 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2260 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2261 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2262 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2265 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2266 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2267 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2270 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2271 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2272 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2275 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2278 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2279 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2282 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2283 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2284 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2285 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2286 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2287 * Fix various crashes
2290 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2292 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2296 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2297 ---------------------------------
2301 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2302 See 'Access:' for more info.
2303 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2306 * Instantaneous pausing
2307 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2308 * Finer speed control
2309 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2310 * Timeshift for most medias
2311 * RTSP trickplay support
2312 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2315 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2316 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2317 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2318 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2319 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2320 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2321 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2322 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2323 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2324 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2327 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2328 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2329 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2330 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2331 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2332 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2333 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2336 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2337 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2340 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2341 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2342 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2343 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2344 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2345 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2346 * DVB scanning on linux
2347 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2348 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2349 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2350 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2351 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2352 * MTP device access on Unix
2353 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2354 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2357 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2358 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2359 Windows and Mac OS X.
2362 * Export the playlist in HTML
2363 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2364 * Better metadata handling and reading
2366 Linux/Windows interface:
2367 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2368 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2369 * Recently played items list
2370 * Interface toolbar customizations
2371 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2372 - More menus actions
2373 - Finer speed slider
2374 - Improvements on many dialogs
2375 - New dialog for plugins listing
2376 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2377 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2378 * Better integration in GTK environments
2381 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2382 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2383 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2384 * Additional usability improvements
2387 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2388 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2389 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2390 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2391 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2394 * New Maemo port with:
2395 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2396 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2399 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2402 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2403 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2404 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2405 * Support for latest iSight models
2408 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2409 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2412 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2413 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2414 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2415 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2416 The old image video output has been removed.
2417 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2418 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2421 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2429 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2430 --------------------------------------
2436 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2437 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2438 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2439 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2440 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2441 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2442 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2444 Various fixes to the following modules:
2447 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2448 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2449 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2451 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2456 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2457 ---------------------------------
2460 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2461 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2464 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2465 ---------------------------------
2468 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2471 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2474 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2475 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2476 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2477 main controller window.
2478 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2481 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2486 * Updates of other localizations
2489 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2490 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2491 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2492 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2493 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2496 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2497 ---------------------------------
2500 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2502 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2505 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2506 --------------------------------
2511 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2512 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2515 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2516 --------------------------------
2518 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2519 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2522 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2525 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2526 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2529 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2530 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2533 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2534 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2535 * Various fixed in playlist
2538 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2541 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2544 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2545 ------------------------------------
2547 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2548 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2551 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2552 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2553 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2556 * Stability fix for the video output.
2559 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2560 --------------------------------
2563 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2564 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2565 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2566 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2567 * Fixed update system bugs
2568 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2571 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2572 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2573 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2574 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2575 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2576 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2577 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2578 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2579 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2580 modern Mac OS X versions
2583 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2584 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2586 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2587 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2590 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2591 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2592 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2593 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2594 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2595 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2598 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2599 --------------------------------
2601 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2602 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2603 * Multiple bugfixes.
2606 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2607 --------------------------------
2609 * Multiple bug fixes.
2612 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2613 ---------------------------------
2617 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2618 recent to work correctly
2619 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2620 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2621 edit the ".hosts" file.
2622 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2623 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2624 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2625 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2626 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2627 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2628 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2629 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2630 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2631 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2632 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2633 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2634 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2635 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2636 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2637 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2638 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2639 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2640 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2641 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2642 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2643 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2644 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2645 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2646 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2647 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2648 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2649 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2650 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2651 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2652 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2653 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2654 and postproc modules.
2655 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2656 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2657 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2658 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2660 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2661 filter. For example:
2662 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2663 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2665 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2666 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2672 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2674 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2675 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2678 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2679 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2681 * Shoutcast TV listings
2682 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2684 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2685 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2687 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2690 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2691 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2692 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2693 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2694 * JACK audio input support
2695 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2696 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2697 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2698 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2699 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2700 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2701 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2702 (available as a separate download).
2703 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2704 * RTMP input support
2705 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2706 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2707 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2709 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2710 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2713 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2714 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2715 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2716 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2718 * APEv1/2 tags support
2719 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2720 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2722 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2723 * TiVo Series 2 support
2724 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2729 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2730 * Flash Screen Video support
2731 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2732 * DosBox Capture support
2733 * Karl Morton's Video support
2734 * limited atrac3 support
2736 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2737 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2738 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2739 * H.264 PAFF support
2740 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2741 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2742 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2743 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2744 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2747 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2748 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2749 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2750 * AQTitle subtitles support
2751 * MKV USF subtitles support
2752 * HTML-based subtitles support
2753 * MPSub subtitles support
2754 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2755 * MPL2 subtitles support
2756 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2757 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2758 * Realtext subtitle support
2759 * DKS subtitle support
2760 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2761 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2764 * Flash Screen Video support
2765 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2767 Video outputs and filters:
2768 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2769 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2770 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2771 * New puzzle video output filter
2772 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2773 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2775 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2776 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2777 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2778 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2779 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2780 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2781 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2782 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2783 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2784 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2785 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2786 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2787 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2788 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2790 Audio outputs and filters:
2791 * Replay gain support
2792 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2793 new scaletempo audio filter)
2794 * New spatializer audio filter
2795 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2798 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2799 * New RTP payload formats:
2800 * Speex voice audio codec
2801 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2802 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2803 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2804 * DCCP transport for RTP
2805 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2810 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2811 end-user suitable way.
2812 * Improved user interaction
2813 * Improved mouse gestures
2814 * Vastly improved Update checker
2815 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2817 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2818 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2820 * Improved video output features
2821 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2822 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2823 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2824 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2825 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2827 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2828 if libncursesw is available.
2829 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2830 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2831 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2833 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2834 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2835 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2836 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2837 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2838 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2839 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2840 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2843 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2844 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2845 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2848 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2849 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2850 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2851 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2852 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2853 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2856 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2857 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2867 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2868 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2869 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2872 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2873 ----------------------------------
2876 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2879 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2880 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2881 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2882 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2883 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2884 * Updated Polish translation
2887 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2888 ----------------------------------
2891 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2892 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2893 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2896 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2897 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2898 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2899 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2900 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2901 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2902 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2903 to an unexpected application termination
2904 * New Serbian translation
2905 * Updated Romanian translation
2908 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2909 ----------------------------------
2912 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2913 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2914 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2915 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2916 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2917 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2918 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2919 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2922 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2923 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2924 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2925 * Fixed AAC resampling
2926 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2927 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2930 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2931 ----------------------------------
2934 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2935 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2936 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2937 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2938 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2941 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2942 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2943 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2944 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2945 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2948 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2949 ----------------------------------
2952 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2953 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2956 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2957 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2958 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2959 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2961 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2965 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2968 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2971 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2974 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2977 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2978 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2979 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2980 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2981 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2983 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2984 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2985 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2986 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2989 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2992 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2993 ----------------------------------
2996 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2997 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2998 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3000 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3001 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3003 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3004 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3007 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3009 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3010 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3011 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3012 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3013 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3014 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3015 two different movies
3016 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3017 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3018 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3021 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3024 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3025 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3026 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3027 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3030 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3031 ----------------------------------
3033 Various bugfixes, notably:
3034 * Windows Vista compatibility
3035 * Cropping in Direct3D
3036 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3037 * RSS filter string overflow
3039 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3041 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3042 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3045 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3046 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3049 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3052 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3055 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3058 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3059 ----------------------------------
3061 Various bugfixes, notably:
3062 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3063 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3064 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3065 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3066 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3067 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3070 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3071 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3074 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3076 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3077 * Diverse usability improvements
3078 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3079 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3080 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3083 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3084 ---------------------------------
3086 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3087 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3090 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3093 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3094 --------------------------------
3097 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3100 * Support for RTSP authentication
3101 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3102 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3103 * ATSC support for DVB input
3104 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3105 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3106 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3109 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3110 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3111 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3112 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3113 * Matroska WavPack support
3114 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3115 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3116 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3119 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3120 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3121 * Improved libcaca support
3125 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3126 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3128 * Systray support in skins
3130 * Support for Apple Remote control
3131 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3132 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3133 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3134 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3136 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3139 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3140 Windows 9x/ME users:
3141 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3142 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3143 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3144 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3145 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3147 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3148 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3157 * Updates to the libvlc API
3158 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3161 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3162 --------------------------------
3165 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3166 * Support for downloading updates
3170 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3171 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3172 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3173 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3175 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3176 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3177 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3180 * Cook (Real audio) support
3182 Playlist / Services discovery:
3183 * XSPF playlist support
3185 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3188 * New JACK audio output
3191 * New video filters:
3192 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3193 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3194 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3195 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3196 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3197 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3200 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3203 * System to inform the user and request information
3204 - HTTP authentication
3208 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3209 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3210 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3213 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3214 - Improved playlist handling
3215 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3217 - Embedded Video output
3218 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3219 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3220 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3221 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3222 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3224 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3225 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3228 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3231 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3232 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3233 * Growl "Now playing" support
3236 * Ability to log to syslog
3237 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3240 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3242 * A bit more automatic testing
3245 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3246 ---------------------------------
3249 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3250 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3253 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3254 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3257 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3260 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3261 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3267 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3270 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3271 --------------------------------
3274 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3278 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3279 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3280 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3283 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3284 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3285 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3286 * GnomeVFS input module
3287 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3288 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3291 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3292 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3293 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3296 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3297 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3303 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3304 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3307 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3308 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3309 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3312 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3314 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3315 - New extended controls panel
3316 - New bookmarks window
3317 - Fixed playlist sorting
3318 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3320 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3321 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3322 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3323 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3327 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3328 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3330 - Include macro to include other files
3334 * Should now work outside IE as well
3337 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3340 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3341 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3344 The following languages were added:
3348 * Simplified Chinese
3349 The following languages were re-added:
3353 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3354 --------------------------------
3357 * Rewrite of the playlist
3359 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3360 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3361 * Preferences improvements:
3362 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3363 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3365 * Core image manipulation support
3366 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3367 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3368 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3369 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3370 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3371 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3372 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3373 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3374 * Access filter architecture
3375 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3376 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3380 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3381 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3382 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3383 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3384 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3385 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3386 * Massive Matroska improvements
3387 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3389 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3390 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3391 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3392 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3393 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3395 Decoders / Encoders:
3396 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3397 * PNG decoder/encoder
3398 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3399 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3402 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3405 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3406 * Brand new SAP module
3407 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3408 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3409 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3410 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3411 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3412 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3416 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3419 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3420 * Image file video output (png)
3421 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3422 * Improvements to wall video filter
3423 * Support for font color and opacity
3429 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3430 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3431 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3435 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3436 - Improved preferences
3437 - Improvements to the wizard
3438 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3440 - Redesigned playlist
3441 - Improved preferences
3443 - Support for multiple actions
3446 - Support for the new playlist system
3448 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3451 * Screensaver disabling fix
3452 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3453 * Support for no-decoration windows
3456 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3457 * The OpenGL video output is back
3458 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3459 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3460 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3461 is not yet available in the new module
3462 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3465 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3474 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3477 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3480 The following languages were added:
3486 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3487 --------------------------------
3490 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3491 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3494 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3495 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3496 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3499 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3502 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3505 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3508 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3509 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3510 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3514 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3516 * Support of playlist group announcement
3519 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3520 --------------------------------
3523 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3524 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3525 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3526 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3527 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3528 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3531 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3532 (Stream your desktop)
3533 * Improved DVD support:
3534 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3535 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3536 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3537 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3538 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3539 (selection of titles/chapters).
3542 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3543 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3544 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3545 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3546 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3547 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3548 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3549 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3550 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3551 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3554 * G.726 audio support
3555 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3556 * MPEG-4 text support
3557 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3558 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3559 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3563 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3564 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3565 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3566 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3567 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3568 * DVB subtitles encoder
3569 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3570 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3572 * Text track muxing for mp4
3573 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3574 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3575 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3576 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3577 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3578 * Improved ASF muxer
3580 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3581 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3582 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3585 * New audio equalizer filter
3586 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3587 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3588 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3589 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3592 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3593 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3594 with support for effects.
3595 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3596 - New filters can be streamed.
3597 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3598 - Centralized scaling and blending
3600 - "time", to display current time
3601 - "marq", to display a marquee
3604 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3605 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3606 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3607 * A few skins2 improvements
3608 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3609 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3610 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3611 * Improved CORBA control module
3614 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3615 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3616 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3619 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3620 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3621 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3624 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3625 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3626 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3627 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3628 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3631 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3634 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3635 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3638 * Server/client network synchronization module
3639 * VBrick streams fully supported
3640 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3644 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3645 --------------------------------
3648 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3649 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3650 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3651 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3654 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3655 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3656 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3657 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3658 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3659 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3660 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3663 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3664 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3665 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3666 * Improved directory access module.
3667 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3668 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3669 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3670 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3671 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3674 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3675 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3676 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3679 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3680 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3681 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3684 * Improved session announcement system.
3685 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3686 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3687 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3688 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3689 * Improved transrater.
3690 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3691 * New configuration system.
3692 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3695 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3696 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3697 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3698 * Supports scheduling.
3699 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3700 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3703 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3704 - Ability to embed video output.
3705 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3706 - Lots of improvements.
3707 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3708 - New design and set of icons.
3709 - Ability to embed video output.
3710 - Support for hotkeys.
3711 - Support for bookmarks.
3713 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3714 - Better hotkeys handling.
3717 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3718 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3719 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3720 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3723 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3724 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3725 * Improved Windows installer.
3731 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3732 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3735 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3736 ---------------------------------
3739 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3740 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3743 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3744 --------------------------------
3747 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3748 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3751 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3752 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3753 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3754 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3757 * Internal improvments
3758 * Improved import/export
3761 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3763 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3764 small and strange formats.
3766 * New MOD audio demux.
3767 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3768 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3769 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3770 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3773 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3774 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3775 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3781 * New opengl video output plugin.
3784 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3785 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3788 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3789 --------------------------------
3792 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3793 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3794 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3795 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3796 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3797 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3798 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3799 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3802 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3807 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3808 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3809 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3810 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3811 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3812 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3813 * Better Icecast support.
3814 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3815 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3818 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3819 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3820 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3821 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3822 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3823 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3824 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3827 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3828 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3829 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3830 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3831 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3832 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3833 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3834 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3835 * Preliminary RTP support.
3836 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3841 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3842 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3844 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3845 - Improvements and help in preferences
3846 - New streaming wizard
3847 - Revised Disc Open menu
3849 - Improvements of the standard pages
3850 - Support for new commands
3851 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3854 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3855 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3858 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3859 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3860 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3861 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3862 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3863 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3864 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3865 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3866 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3869 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3871 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3872 * Support for Panther.
3873 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3874 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3877 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3878 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3879 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3880 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3881 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3882 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3883 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3884 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3887 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3888 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3889 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3892 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3895 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3896 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3897 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3898 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3901 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3902 --------------------------------
3905 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3908 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3909 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3912 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3913 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3916 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3919 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3920 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3923 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3926 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3929 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3930 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3934 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3935 --------------------------------
3938 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3939 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3943 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3944 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3945 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3947 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3948 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3951 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3954 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3957 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3958 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3962 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3963 --------------------------------
3966 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3967 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3971 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3972 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3973 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3974 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3975 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3978 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3979 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3980 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3983 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3984 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3985 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3988 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3989 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3990 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3991 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3992 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3995 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3996 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3997 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4000 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4003 * Improved build system.
4004 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4005 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4006 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4007 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4010 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4011 --------------------------------
4014 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4017 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4018 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4019 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4020 * Video 4 Linux support
4021 * CD Digital Audio support
4022 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4025 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4026 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4027 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4028 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4031 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4032 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4033 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4034 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4035 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4036 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4037 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4040 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4041 * New HTTP remote control interface
4044 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4045 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4046 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4047 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4048 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4051 * New reset option for the preferences
4052 * You can set your language in the prefences
4053 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4054 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4055 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4056 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4059 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4060 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4061 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4064 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4065 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4066 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4067 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4068 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4069 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4070 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4071 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4072 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4073 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4076 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4077 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4078 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4079 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4080 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4081 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4082 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4085 * Interface localization
4086 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4087 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4088 * New full-featured Preferences window
4091 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4092 --------------------------------
4095 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4096 * support for skins at the interface level
4097 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4098 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4099 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4100 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4101 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4104 * fixed HTTP redirects
4105 * support for opening an entire directory
4106 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4107 * new video4linux access plug-in
4108 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4111 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4112 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4113 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4116 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4117 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4118 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4119 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4120 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4121 * new codec for raw I420 video
4122 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4125 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4126 (although it still misses some important features)
4127 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4130 * new HTTP output support
4131 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4132 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4135 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4138 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4141 * reorderable playlist
4142 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4143 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4144 * support for mono audio output devices
4145 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4146 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4147 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4148 * the messages window remembers more lines
4149 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4150 * http and ogg stream output options
4151 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4154 * new skinnable interface
4155 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4157 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4158 * support for FLAC audio format
4159 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4161 * network tab in the interface
4162 * "apply" handling in preferences
4165 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4166 ---------------------------------
4169 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4170 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4171 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4172 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4174 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4175 * DTS S/PDIF support
4178 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4179 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4180 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4181 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4184 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4185 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4188 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4191 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4194 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4196 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4197 * rc interface is now fully useable
4198 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4201 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4202 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4203 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4204 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4205 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4207 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4208 * support for mouse gestures
4209 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4212 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4213 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4216 * improved ID3 tag detection
4217 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4218 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4219 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4221 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4224 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4225 ---------------------------------
4228 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4229 English was set as the preferred language
4232 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4233 --------------------------------
4236 * new mouse gesture interface
4237 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4241 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4242 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4243 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4246 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4247 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4251 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4254 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4255 without the user consent
4258 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4260 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4261 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4262 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4265 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4266 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4267 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4268 * playlist enhancements
4269 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4270 * new step forward/step backward commands
4271 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4272 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4273 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4276 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4277 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4278 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4281 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4282 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4285 * native video output is working again
4286 * only commandline interface support
4287 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4290 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4291 --------------------------------
4294 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4295 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4296 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4297 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4298 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4299 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4300 and A/52 streams are supported)
4301 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4306 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4307 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4308 * VCD entry points support
4309 * VCD image file support
4312 * support for *.asf format
4313 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4314 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4315 * support for ogg encapsulation
4316 * support for raw DV format
4317 * support for *.wav format
4318 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4321 Stream discovery & playlists:
4322 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4323 * support for .m3u file format
4324 * support for .asx file format
4325 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4328 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4329 (only available with the .avi demux)
4330 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4331 * support for raw PCM data
4332 * support for Cinepak video codec
4333 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4334 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4335 * support for Xvid codec
4336 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4337 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4338 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4340 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4342 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4345 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4348 * new WxWindows interface
4349 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4350 device and the channels configuration
4351 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4352 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4353 format that VLC can play
4354 * new swedish translation
4355 * enhancements of the playlist window
4356 * new messages window to see debug info
4357 * fixed a few crashes
4360 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4361 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4362 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4363 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working