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
21 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
22 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
23 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
24 * Support for Daala video
25 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
26 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
27 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
28 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
29 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
33 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
34 * Support Daala in Ogg
35 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
36 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
37 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
38 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
39 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
40 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
41 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
42 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
43 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
46 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
49 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
52 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
53 * Wayland shell surface window provider
54 * Wayland shared memory video output
55 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
56 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
57 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
60 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
61 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
64 * Chromecast output module
65 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
68 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
71 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
72 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
76 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
79 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
80 * Port to Yosemite X.10
83 * Batch convert support
86 * Support key accelerators
89 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
90 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
91 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
92 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
93 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
94 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
95 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
96 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
97 identifier (if there is one available)
100 * Support for the SystemD Journal
101 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
102 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
103 * New Android module for logging
106 * remove langfromtelx
109 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
110 --------------------------------
113 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
114 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
117 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
118 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
119 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
120 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
123 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
124 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
125 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
126 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
128 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
129 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
130 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
133 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
134 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
135 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
136 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
137 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
138 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
139 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
140 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
141 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
142 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
143 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
144 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
145 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
146 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
147 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
148 * New jpeg image decoder
149 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
150 * New SVG image decoder
151 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
152 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
153 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
156 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
157 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
158 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
159 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
160 * New png image encoder using libpng
163 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
164 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
165 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
166 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
167 synchronization and tracks exclusion
168 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
169 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
170 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
171 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
172 * Support Opus in MKV
174 * Basic support for WebVTT
175 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
176 * Support HDPR TS files
177 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
178 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
179 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
180 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
181 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
182 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
183 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
184 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
185 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
186 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
187 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
188 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
191 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
192 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
193 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
194 * New Android native window provider module
195 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
196 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
197 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
200 * New Oldmovie effect filter
201 * New VHS effect filter
202 * New Freeze effect filter
203 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
204 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
205 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
208 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
209 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
210 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
211 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
212 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
213 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
216 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
217 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
219 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
222 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
223 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
224 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
225 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
226 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
227 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
228 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
229 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
230 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
232 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
233 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
234 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
237 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
238 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
241 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
242 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
245 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
246 * Add record button in Qt menus
247 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
248 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
249 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
252 * Support for OS X Yosemite
253 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
254 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
255 * Fixes for advanced preferences
256 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
257 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
258 * Option to increase playlist font size
259 * Improved crash log reporting
262 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
263 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
264 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
265 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
268 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
271 * iOS video output: use ios2
272 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
273 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
276 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
277 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
278 * Update of all translations:
279 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
280 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
281 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
282 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
283 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
284 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
285 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
288 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
289 --------------------------------
295 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
296 * Fix buffer overflow in updater
297 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
298 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
299 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer
300 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
301 * Fix potential crash in zip access
302 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
305 * Update translations and greek encoding
308 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
309 --------------------------------
312 * Fix compilation on OS/2
315 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
317 Mac OS X audio output:
318 * Fix channel ordering
319 * Increase the buffersize
322 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
323 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
324 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
327 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
330 * Correctly support video-on-top
331 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
332 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
335 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
338 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
339 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
342 * Update British English
345 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
346 --------------------------------
349 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
352 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
355 * Fix DVD playback regression
356 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
357 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
360 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
361 --------------------------------
364 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
365 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
368 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
369 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
370 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
373 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
374 by updating codec libraries
375 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
376 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
377 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
380 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
381 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
382 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
383 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
386 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
387 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
390 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
391 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
392 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
393 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
394 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
397 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
398 * Fix record file names
401 * Fix minimal size possible on start
402 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
403 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
404 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
405 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
408 * Fix album art display on Windows
411 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
412 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
413 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
414 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
415 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
416 and Simplified Chinese translations
417 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
420 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
421 --------------------------------
424 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
425 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
426 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
427 audio devices on OS X
428 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
429 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
432 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
433 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
436 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
437 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
440 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
443 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
444 * Improve A-B loop control
445 * Fix album art update when changing media
448 * Add a language option in the interface
449 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
450 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
451 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
452 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
453 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
454 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
455 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
458 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
461 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
462 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
463 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
464 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
467 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
468 --------------------------------
471 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
473 * Fix some subtitles track selection
476 * VP9 support in WebM
477 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
478 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
481 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
482 * Support Speex in ogg files
483 * Fix some .mov playlists support
484 * Support Alac in mkv
485 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
486 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
489 * Fix DVB options parsing
490 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
491 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
494 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
495 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
498 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
499 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
502 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
503 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
504 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
505 * Fix play after drag'n drop
506 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
509 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
510 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
513 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
514 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
517 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
518 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
519 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
520 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
521 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
522 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
523 * Improves interface resizings
526 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
527 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
528 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
529 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
530 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
534 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
535 --------------------------------
538 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
539 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
540 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
541 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
542 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
544 3rd party libraries (contrib):
545 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
548 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
549 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
550 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
551 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
552 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
555 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
556 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
560 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
561 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
562 * Support for Ulead DV audio
563 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
564 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
565 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
566 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
567 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
568 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
569 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
570 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
571 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
572 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
575 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
576 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
577 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
580 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
581 remove support for previous OS X releases
582 * Major improvements in DASH support
583 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
584 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
585 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
586 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
587 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
588 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
589 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
590 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
591 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
592 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
593 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
596 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
597 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
598 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
599 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
600 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
601 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
602 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
603 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
604 * Support for more MJPEG streams
605 * Add support for liveleak streams
606 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
607 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
608 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
611 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
612 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
613 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
614 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
615 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
616 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
617 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
618 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
619 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
620 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
621 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
624 * New remapping channel filter
625 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
626 * New VSXu visualization plugin
627 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
628 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
629 * New gain audio filter
632 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
633 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
634 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
635 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
636 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
637 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
638 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
639 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
640 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
643 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
644 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
645 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
646 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
647 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
648 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
649 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
652 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
653 * Options support for AVIO output module
654 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
655 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
656 * Livehttp stream encryption support
657 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
658 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
661 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
664 * configurable password for the HTTP server
665 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
666 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
667 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
668 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
669 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
670 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
671 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
675 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
678 * Add support for multiple video outputs
679 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
681 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
682 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
683 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
684 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
685 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
686 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
687 VLC's internal volume level
688 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
690 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
691 selection and to manage the list of presets
692 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
693 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
694 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
695 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
696 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
697 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
698 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
699 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
700 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
701 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
703 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
704 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
705 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
706 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
707 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
708 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
709 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
710 3rd party applications
711 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
712 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
713 (system-wide settings)
714 * Add support for the Video Title option
715 * Add support for the Boss Key
716 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
717 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
720 * Partial support for Qt5.0
721 * Menus modifications and improvements
722 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
723 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
724 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
725 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
726 * EPG display fixes and improvements
727 * Add SD pixmap sources
728 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
729 * Display playlist total duration
730 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
731 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
732 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
737 * Extend sliders, offsets options
738 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
739 * Numerous fixes and improvements
740 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
743 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
744 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
745 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
746 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
747 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
748 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
749 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
750 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
751 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
752 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
755 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
756 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
757 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
758 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
759 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
760 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
762 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
763 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
764 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
765 * Broken crop video filter
767 * OSD parser and menu
768 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
769 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
770 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
771 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
775 * Update of all translations
778 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
779 --------------------------------
782 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
783 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
786 * Fix modplug security issues
789 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
790 --------------------------------
794 * Fix crash in QTsound
795 * Fix screen mouse file location
796 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
799 * Fix use after free in sgimb
800 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
803 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
806 * Fix interface crashes
807 * Fix autostart playback option
808 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
811 * update Welsh translation
812 * New Kannada translation
815 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
816 --------------------------------
819 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
820 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
824 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
827 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
830 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
833 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
837 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
840 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
843 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
844 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
845 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
848 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
849 --------------------------------
852 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
855 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
858 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
859 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
860 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
861 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
862 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
863 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
866 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
867 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
868 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
869 * 3rd party codecs updates
872 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
873 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
874 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
875 in the advanced preferences panel
876 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
877 * Fix crash within the video output code
878 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
879 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
880 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
881 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
883 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
886 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
889 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
890 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
893 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
896 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
897 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
898 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
899 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
900 Dutch, Danish, translations
901 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
904 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
905 --------------------------------
908 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
911 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
912 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
913 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
916 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
917 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
918 * Fix koreus lua parser
919 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
920 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
921 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
922 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
925 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
926 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
929 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
932 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
933 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
934 * Fix Time counter UI look
935 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
938 * Fix https streaming
941 * Fix audio and video track selection:
942 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
943 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
946 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
947 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
948 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
949 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
950 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
953 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
954 --------------------------------
957 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
958 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
959 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
960 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
961 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
962 during playback on Mac OS X
965 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
966 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
967 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
970 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
971 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
972 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
973 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
974 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
977 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
978 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
979 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
980 * Support Youtube live streams
983 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
986 * Fix media info dialog update
987 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
988 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
989 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
990 * Fix album art display at start
993 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
994 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
995 * Fix menus display and behavior
996 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
997 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
998 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
999 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1000 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1001 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1002 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1005 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1006 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1007 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1008 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1009 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1010 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1011 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1012 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1013 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1016 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1017 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1018 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1019 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1020 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1023 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1024 --------------------------------
1027 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1030 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1031 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1034 * Add GateKeeper support
1035 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1036 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1037 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1040 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1043 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1044 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1045 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1046 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1047 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1050 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1051 --------------------------------
1054 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1055 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1056 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1057 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1058 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1059 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1060 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1061 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1062 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1063 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1064 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1068 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1069 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1070 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1071 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1072 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1073 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1074 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1075 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1076 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1077 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1078 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1079 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1082 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1083 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1085 * Fix MP3 free format support
1088 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1089 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1090 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1091 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1092 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1095 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1096 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1098 Audio filters and output:
1099 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1100 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1101 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1102 * Do not apply volume in file output
1103 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1104 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1107 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1108 the persistant media library
1109 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1110 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1111 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1112 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1113 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1114 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1115 press on the Play/Pause button
1116 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1117 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1118 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1119 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1120 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1121 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1122 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1123 Synchronization panel
1124 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1125 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1126 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1127 * Fix crashes on exit
1128 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1130 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1131 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1132 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1133 automatically reset on the first launch.
1134 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1135 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1136 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1139 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1140 * Fixes for icecast SD
1143 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1144 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1145 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1146 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1147 * Fix tags and file names display
1148 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1151 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1152 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1155 * Fix display of some buttons
1156 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1157 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1160 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1161 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1162 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1165 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1166 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1167 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1168 Thai translations update
1169 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1172 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1173 --------------------------------
1176 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1177 * fix the samba module compilation
1178 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1179 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1180 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1181 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1184 * Support for MXPEG files
1185 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1186 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1189 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1190 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1191 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1194 * Fix ogm header creation
1197 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1198 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1201 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1202 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1203 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1204 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1207 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1210 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1211 * allow to hide the sidebar
1212 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1213 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1214 * noticebly faster launch time
1215 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1216 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1217 * improve track synchronization panel
1218 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1219 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1222 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1223 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1224 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1225 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1228 * fix for menus display
1229 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1230 * documentation update
1233 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1234 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1237 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1238 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1239 * Update Jamendo selections
1243 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1244 * fix a crash on VLM close
1247 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1248 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1249 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1250 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1253 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1256 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1257 ---------------------------------
1260 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1261 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1262 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1263 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1264 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1265 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1266 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1267 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1268 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1269 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1270 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1271 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1272 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1273 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1274 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1275 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1276 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1277 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1278 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1279 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1280 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1281 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1282 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1283 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1284 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1285 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1287 Important changes for packagers:
1288 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1289 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1290 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1291 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1292 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1293 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1294 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1295 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1296 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1297 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1300 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1301 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1302 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1303 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1304 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1305 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1306 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1309 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1310 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1311 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1312 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1313 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1314 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1315 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1316 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1317 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1318 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1319 * PulseAudio audio input support
1320 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1321 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1322 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1323 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1324 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1325 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1326 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1327 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1330 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1331 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1332 are notably concerned.
1333 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1334 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1335 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1336 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1337 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1338 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1339 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1340 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1341 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1342 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1343 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1344 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1345 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1346 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1347 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1350 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1351 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1352 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1353 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1354 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1355 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1356 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1357 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1358 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1359 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1360 * Improved support of tracker files
1361 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1364 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1365 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1366 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1367 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1368 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1369 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1370 and important cleanups and optimisations
1371 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1372 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1373 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1374 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1375 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1376 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1377 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1378 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1379 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1380 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1381 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1382 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1383 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1384 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1385 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1386 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1387 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1388 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1389 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1390 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1391 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1394 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1395 * New video output for iOS platform
1396 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1397 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1398 * Various vmem improvements
1399 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1400 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1401 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1402 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1403 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1404 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1406 Audio Output and Filters:
1407 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1408 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1409 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1410 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1411 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1412 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1413 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1414 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1415 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1416 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1419 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1420 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1421 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1422 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1423 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1424 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1425 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1426 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1427 * New anti-flickering filter
1428 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1429 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1430 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1431 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1432 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1433 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1434 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1437 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1438 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1439 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1440 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1441 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1442 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1443 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1444 * Major rework of VoD support
1445 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1446 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1447 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1448 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1449 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1450 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1451 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1452 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1453 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1454 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1457 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1458 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1461 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1462 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1463 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1464 list of available audio and video filters
1465 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1466 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1467 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1470 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1471 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1472 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1473 * id3tag: use taglib
1474 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1475 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1476 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1477 * removal of the noise filter
1478 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1479 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1480 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1481 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1484 * Update of translations for most languages.
1485 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1488 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1489 ----------------------------------
1492 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1493 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1496 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1497 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1500 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1501 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1502 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1505 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1508 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1509 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1512 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1515 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1516 ----------------------------------
1519 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1520 including support for OS X Lion
1521 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1522 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1525 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1528 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1529 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1530 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1533 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1536 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1537 ----------------------------------
1540 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1541 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1544 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1545 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1546 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1547 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1548 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1550 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1551 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1552 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1554 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1555 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1558 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1561 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1564 * Fix quitting on Linux
1565 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1569 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1572 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1575 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1576 ---------------------------------
1578 Windows and Mac OS X:
1579 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1582 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1583 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1586 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1589 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1592 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1594 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1595 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1597 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1598 * RTP output and XML export
1599 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1603 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1604 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1605 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1606 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1609 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1610 --------------------------------
1612 Windows and Mac OS X:
1613 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1616 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1619 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1620 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1621 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1622 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1623 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1624 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1627 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1628 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1632 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1633 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1634 * New Luganda Translation
1637 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1638 --------------------------------
1641 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1644 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1645 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1646 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1647 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1650 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1652 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1653 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1654 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1655 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1656 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1657 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1658 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1659 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1661 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1662 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1663 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1664 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1665 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1666 * Configure and build system improvements
1667 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1670 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1671 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1672 * New icelandic translation
1675 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1676 --------------------------------
1679 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1680 #234484 and #260719.
1683 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1684 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1685 and stability reasons
1688 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1692 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1695 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1696 ----------------------------------
1699 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1702 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1703 ---------------------------------
1706 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1707 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1708 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1709 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1712 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1715 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1716 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1717 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1718 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1721 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1722 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1723 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1725 Subtitles and renderer:
1726 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1727 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1728 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1729 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1730 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1733 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1734 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1735 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1736 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1739 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1740 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1742 Miscellaneous fixes:
1743 * KDE device solid actions
1745 * Transcode integer overflow
1746 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1747 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1750 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1751 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1752 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1755 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1756 ----------------------------------
1759 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1763 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1766 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1769 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1770 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1771 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1772 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1775 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1779 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1782 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1785 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1786 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1788 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1792 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1793 * Miscellaneous fixes
1796 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1797 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1798 French and Ukrainian
1799 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1800 * New Asturian translation
1803 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1804 ----------------------------------
1807 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1809 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1812 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1815 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1816 * Various fixes for Windows
1819 * New Armenian translation
1820 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1821 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1824 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1825 --------------------------------
1828 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1829 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1830 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1833 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1834 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1837 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1838 --------------------------------
1840 Access and demuxers:
1841 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1842 * fix for podcasts parsing
1843 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1846 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1847 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1850 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1851 * fix m3u playlists exports
1854 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1857 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1860 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1863 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1866 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1869 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1870 --------------------------------
1873 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1874 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1877 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1878 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1881 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1882 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1883 * fix console output encoding
1885 Interface and extensions:
1886 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1887 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1890 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1891 --------------------------------
1894 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1895 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1896 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1897 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1898 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1899 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1900 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1901 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1902 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1903 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1904 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1905 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1906 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1907 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1908 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1909 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1913 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1914 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1915 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1916 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1917 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1920 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1923 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1924 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1925 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1929 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1932 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1933 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1934 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1937 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1938 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1939 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1940 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1943 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1944 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1947 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1948 --------------------------------
1950 Important changes for users:
1951 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1952 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1954 Important changes for packagers:
1955 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1956 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1957 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1958 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1959 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1961 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1963 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1964 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1965 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1966 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1967 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1970 * Support for the sftp protocol
1971 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1972 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1973 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1974 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1975 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1978 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1979 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1980 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1982 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1983 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1984 * Invmem module improvements
1985 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1986 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1987 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1988 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1989 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1990 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1991 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1992 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1993 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1994 * Support for VP8 codec
1995 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1998 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1999 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2000 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2001 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2002 * Various EGP improvements
2003 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2004 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2007 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2008 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2009 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2010 * Podcast images are now displayed
2013 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2014 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2015 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2016 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2017 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2018 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2019 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2020 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2021 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2022 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2023 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2026 * New content extensions lua framework
2029 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2030 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2031 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2032 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2033 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2034 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2035 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2038 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2039 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2040 * Service discovery based on libudev
2041 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2044 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2045 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2046 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2047 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2048 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2049 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2050 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2053 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2054 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2055 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2058 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2060 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2061 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2064 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2067 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2068 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2069 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2070 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2071 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2072 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2073 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2076 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2077 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2080 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2081 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2082 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2086 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2087 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2088 * Improved Solaris port
2091 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2092 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2095 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2096 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2097 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2098 * transrate: broken since too long
2099 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2100 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2101 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2102 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2103 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2104 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2105 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2106 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2107 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2108 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2109 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2110 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2111 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2112 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2115 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2116 --------------------------------
2119 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2121 Decoders/Packetizers:
2122 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2125 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2126 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2127 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2128 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2129 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2132 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2133 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2136 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2137 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2140 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2141 and Walloon translations updated
2142 * Sinhala translation started
2145 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2146 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2149 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2150 --------------------------------
2153 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2154 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2157 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2160 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2161 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2164 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2165 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2166 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2167 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2170 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2171 --------------------------------
2174 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2175 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2178 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2179 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2182 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2183 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2186 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2189 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2190 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2193 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2194 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2197 * New Walloon translation
2198 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2201 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2202 --------------------------------
2205 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2206 regressions in most popular drivers
2207 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2210 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2211 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2212 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2215 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2216 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2219 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2220 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2221 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2222 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2223 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2226 * New udev module for linux
2229 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2232 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2235 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2236 --------------------------------
2239 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2240 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2241 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2244 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2245 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2248 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2249 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2252 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2255 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2256 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2257 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2258 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2261 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2262 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2263 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2264 - no support for Goom and SDL
2265 - limited text rendering support
2266 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2269 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2270 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2271 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2272 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2273 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2274 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2275 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2276 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2277 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2281 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2284 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2287 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2288 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2289 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2290 Arabic and French translation updates
2293 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2294 --------------------------------
2297 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2298 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2299 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2300 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2301 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2302 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2305 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2306 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2307 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2310 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2311 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2312 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2315 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2318 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2319 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2322 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2323 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2324 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2325 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2326 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2327 * Fix various crashes
2330 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2332 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2336 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2337 ---------------------------------
2341 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2342 See 'Access:' for more info.
2343 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2346 * Instantaneous pausing
2347 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2348 * Finer speed control
2349 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2350 * Timeshift for most medias
2351 * RTSP trickplay support
2352 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2355 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2356 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2357 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2358 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2359 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2360 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2361 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2362 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2363 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2364 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2367 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2368 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2369 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2370 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2371 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2372 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2373 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2376 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2377 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2380 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2381 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2382 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2383 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2384 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2385 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2386 * DVB scanning on linux
2387 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2388 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2389 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2390 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2391 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2392 * MTP device access on Unix
2393 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2394 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2397 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2398 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2399 Windows and Mac OS X.
2402 * Export the playlist in HTML
2403 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2404 * Better metadata handling and reading
2406 Linux/Windows interface:
2407 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2408 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2409 * Recently played items list
2410 * Interface toolbar customizations
2411 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2412 - More menus actions
2413 - Finer speed slider
2414 - Improvements on many dialogs
2415 - New dialog for plugins listing
2416 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2417 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2418 * Better integration in GTK environments
2421 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2422 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2423 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2424 * Additional usability improvements
2427 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2428 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2429 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2430 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2431 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2434 * New Maemo port with:
2435 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2436 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2439 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2442 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2443 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2444 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2445 * Support for latest iSight models
2448 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2449 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2452 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2453 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2454 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2455 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2456 The old image video output has been removed.
2457 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2458 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2461 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2469 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2470 --------------------------------------
2476 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2477 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2478 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2479 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2480 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2481 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2482 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2484 Various fixes to the following modules:
2487 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2488 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2489 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2491 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2496 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2497 ---------------------------------
2500 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2501 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2504 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2505 ---------------------------------
2508 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2511 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2514 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2515 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2516 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2517 main controller window.
2518 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2521 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2526 * Updates of other localizations
2529 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2530 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2531 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2532 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2533 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2536 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2537 ---------------------------------
2540 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2542 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2545 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2546 --------------------------------
2551 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2552 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2555 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2556 --------------------------------
2558 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2559 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2562 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2565 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2566 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2569 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2570 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2573 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2574 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2575 * Various fixed in playlist
2578 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2581 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2584 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2585 ------------------------------------
2587 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2588 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2591 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2592 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2593 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2596 * Stability fix for the video output.
2599 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2600 --------------------------------
2603 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2604 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2605 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2606 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2607 * Fixed update system bugs
2608 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2611 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2612 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2613 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2614 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2615 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2616 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2617 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2618 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2619 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2620 modern Mac OS X versions
2623 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2624 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2626 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2627 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2630 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2631 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2632 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2633 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2634 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2635 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2638 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2639 --------------------------------
2641 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2642 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2643 * Multiple bugfixes.
2646 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2647 --------------------------------
2649 * Multiple bug fixes.
2652 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2653 ---------------------------------
2657 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2658 recent to work correctly
2659 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2660 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2661 edit the ".hosts" file.
2662 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2663 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2664 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2665 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2666 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2667 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2668 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2669 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2670 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2671 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2672 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2673 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2674 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2675 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2676 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2677 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2678 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2679 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2680 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2681 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2682 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2683 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2684 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2685 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2686 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2687 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2688 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2689 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2690 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2691 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2692 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2693 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2694 and postproc modules.
2695 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2696 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2697 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2698 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2700 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2701 filter. For example:
2702 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2703 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2705 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2706 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2712 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2714 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2715 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2718 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2719 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2721 * Shoutcast TV listings
2722 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2724 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2725 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2727 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2730 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2731 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2732 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2733 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2734 * JACK audio input support
2735 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2736 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2737 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2738 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2739 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2740 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2741 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2742 (available as a separate download).
2743 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2744 * RTMP input support
2745 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2746 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2747 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2749 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2750 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2753 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2754 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2755 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2756 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2758 * APEv1/2 tags support
2759 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2760 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2762 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2763 * TiVo Series 2 support
2764 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2769 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2770 * Flash Screen Video support
2771 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2772 * DosBox Capture support
2773 * Karl Morton's Video support
2774 * limited atrac3 support
2776 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2777 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2778 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2779 * H.264 PAFF support
2780 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2781 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2782 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2783 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2784 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2787 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2788 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2789 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2790 * AQTitle subtitles support
2791 * MKV USF subtitles support
2792 * HTML-based subtitles support
2793 * MPSub subtitles support
2794 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2795 * MPL2 subtitles support
2796 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2797 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2798 * Realtext subtitle support
2799 * DKS subtitle support
2800 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2801 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2804 * Flash Screen Video support
2805 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2807 Video outputs and filters:
2808 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2809 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2810 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2811 * New puzzle video output filter
2812 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2813 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2815 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2816 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2817 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2818 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2819 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2820 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2821 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2822 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2823 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2824 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2825 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2826 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2827 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2828 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2830 Audio outputs and filters:
2831 * Replay gain support
2832 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2833 new scaletempo audio filter)
2834 * New spatializer audio filter
2835 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2838 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2839 * New RTP payload formats:
2840 * Speex voice audio codec
2841 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2842 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2843 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2844 * DCCP transport for RTP
2845 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2850 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2851 end-user suitable way.
2852 * Improved user interaction
2853 * Improved mouse gestures
2854 * Vastly improved Update checker
2855 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2857 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2858 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2860 * Improved video output features
2861 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2862 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2863 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2864 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2865 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2867 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2868 if libncursesw is available.
2869 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2870 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2871 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2873 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2874 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2875 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2876 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2877 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2878 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2879 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2880 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2883 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2884 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2885 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2888 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2889 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2890 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2891 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2892 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2893 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2896 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2897 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2907 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2908 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2909 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2912 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2913 ----------------------------------
2916 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2919 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2920 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2921 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2922 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2923 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2924 * Updated Polish translation
2927 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2928 ----------------------------------
2931 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2932 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2933 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2936 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2937 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2938 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2939 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2940 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2941 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2942 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2943 to an unexpected application termination
2944 * New Serbian translation
2945 * Updated Romanian translation
2948 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2949 ----------------------------------
2952 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2953 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2954 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2955 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2956 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2957 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2958 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2959 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2962 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2963 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2964 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2965 * Fixed AAC resampling
2966 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2967 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2970 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2971 ----------------------------------
2974 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2975 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2976 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2977 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2978 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2981 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2982 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2983 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2984 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2985 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2988 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2989 ----------------------------------
2992 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2993 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2996 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2997 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2998 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2999 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3001 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3005 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3008 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3011 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3014 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3017 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3018 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3019 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3020 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3021 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3023 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3024 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3025 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3026 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3029 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3032 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3033 ----------------------------------
3036 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3037 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3038 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3040 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3041 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3043 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3044 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3047 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3049 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3050 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3051 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3052 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3053 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3054 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3055 two different movies
3056 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3057 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3058 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3061 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3064 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3065 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3066 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3067 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3070 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3071 ----------------------------------
3073 Various bugfixes, notably:
3074 * Windows Vista compatibility
3075 * Cropping in Direct3D
3076 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3077 * RSS filter string overflow
3079 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3081 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3082 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3085 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3086 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3089 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3092 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3095 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3098 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3099 ----------------------------------
3101 Various bugfixes, notably:
3102 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3103 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3104 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3105 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3106 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3107 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3110 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3111 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3114 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3116 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3117 * Diverse usability improvements
3118 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3119 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3120 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3123 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3124 ---------------------------------
3126 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3127 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3130 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3133 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3134 --------------------------------
3137 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3140 * Support for RTSP authentication
3141 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3142 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3143 * ATSC support for DVB input
3144 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3145 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3146 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3149 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3150 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3151 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3152 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3153 * Matroska WavPack support
3154 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3155 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3156 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3159 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3160 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3161 * Improved libcaca support
3165 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3166 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3168 * Systray support in skins
3170 * Support for Apple Remote control
3171 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3172 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3173 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3174 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3176 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3179 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3180 Windows 9x/ME users:
3181 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3182 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3183 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3184 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3185 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3187 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3188 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3197 * Updates to the libvlc API
3198 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3201 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3202 --------------------------------
3205 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3206 * Support for downloading updates
3210 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3211 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3212 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3213 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3215 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3216 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3217 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3220 * Cook (Real audio) support
3222 Playlist / Services discovery:
3223 * XSPF playlist support
3225 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3228 * New JACK audio output
3231 * New video filters:
3232 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3233 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3234 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3235 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3236 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3237 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3240 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3243 * System to inform the user and request information
3244 - HTTP authentication
3248 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3249 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3250 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3253 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3254 - Improved playlist handling
3255 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3257 - Embedded Video output
3258 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3259 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3260 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3261 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3262 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3264 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3265 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3268 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3271 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3272 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3273 * Growl "Now playing" support
3276 * Ability to log to syslog
3277 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3280 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3282 * A bit more automatic testing
3285 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3286 ---------------------------------
3289 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3290 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3293 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3294 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3297 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3300 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3301 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3307 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3310 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3311 --------------------------------
3314 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3318 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3319 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3320 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3323 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3324 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3325 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3326 * GnomeVFS input module
3327 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3328 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3331 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3332 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3333 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3336 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3337 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3343 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3344 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3347 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3348 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3349 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3352 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3354 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3355 - New extended controls panel
3356 - New bookmarks window
3357 - Fixed playlist sorting
3358 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3360 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3361 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3362 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3363 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3367 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3368 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3370 - Include macro to include other files
3374 * Should now work outside IE as well
3377 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3380 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3381 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3384 The following languages were added:
3388 * Simplified Chinese
3389 The following languages were re-added:
3393 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3394 --------------------------------
3397 * Rewrite of the playlist
3399 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3400 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3401 * Preferences improvements:
3402 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3403 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3405 * Core image manipulation support
3406 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3407 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3408 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3409 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3410 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3411 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3412 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3413 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3414 * Access filter architecture
3415 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3416 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3420 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3421 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3422 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3423 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3424 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3425 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3426 * Massive Matroska improvements
3427 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3429 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3430 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3431 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3432 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3433 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3435 Decoders / Encoders:
3436 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3437 * PNG decoder/encoder
3438 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3439 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3442 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3445 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3446 * Brand new SAP module
3447 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3448 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3449 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3450 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3451 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3452 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3456 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3459 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3460 * Image file video output (png)
3461 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3462 * Improvements to wall video filter
3463 * Support for font color and opacity
3469 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3470 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3471 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3475 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3476 - Improved preferences
3477 - Improvements to the wizard
3478 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3480 - Redesigned playlist
3481 - Improved preferences
3483 - Support for multiple actions
3486 - Support for the new playlist system
3488 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3491 * Screensaver disabling fix
3492 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3493 * Support for no-decoration windows
3496 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3497 * The OpenGL video output is back
3498 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3499 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3500 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3501 is not yet available in the new module
3502 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3505 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3514 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3517 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3520 The following languages were added:
3526 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3527 --------------------------------
3530 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3531 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3534 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3535 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3536 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3539 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3542 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3545 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3548 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3549 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3550 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3554 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3556 * Support of playlist group announcement
3559 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3560 --------------------------------
3563 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3564 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3565 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3566 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3567 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3568 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3571 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3572 (Stream your desktop)
3573 * Improved DVD support:
3574 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3575 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3576 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3577 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3578 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3579 (selection of titles/chapters).
3582 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3583 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3584 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3585 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3586 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3587 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3588 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3589 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3590 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3591 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3594 * G.726 audio support
3595 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3596 * MPEG-4 text support
3597 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3598 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3599 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3603 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3604 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3605 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3606 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3607 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3608 * DVB subtitles encoder
3609 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3610 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3612 * Text track muxing for mp4
3613 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3614 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3615 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3616 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3617 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3618 * Improved ASF muxer
3620 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3621 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3622 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3625 * New audio equalizer filter
3626 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3627 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3628 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3629 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3632 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3633 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3634 with support for effects.
3635 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3636 - New filters can be streamed.
3637 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3638 - Centralized scaling and blending
3640 - "time", to display current time
3641 - "marq", to display a marquee
3644 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3645 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3646 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3647 * A few skins2 improvements
3648 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3649 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3650 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3651 * Improved CORBA control module
3654 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3655 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3656 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3659 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3660 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3661 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3664 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3665 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3666 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3667 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3668 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3671 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3674 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3675 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3678 * Server/client network synchronization module
3679 * VBrick streams fully supported
3680 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3684 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3685 --------------------------------
3688 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3689 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3690 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3691 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3694 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3695 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3696 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3697 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3698 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3699 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3700 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3703 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3704 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3705 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3706 * Improved directory access module.
3707 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3708 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3709 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3710 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3711 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3714 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3715 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3716 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3719 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3720 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3721 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3724 * Improved session announcement system.
3725 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3726 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3727 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3728 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3729 * Improved transrater.
3730 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3731 * New configuration system.
3732 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3735 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3736 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3737 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3738 * Supports scheduling.
3739 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3740 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3743 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3744 - Ability to embed video output.
3745 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3746 - Lots of improvements.
3747 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3748 - New design and set of icons.
3749 - Ability to embed video output.
3750 - Support for hotkeys.
3751 - Support for bookmarks.
3753 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3754 - Better hotkeys handling.
3757 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3758 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3759 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3760 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3763 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3764 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3765 * Improved Windows installer.
3771 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3772 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3775 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3776 ---------------------------------
3779 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3780 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3783 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3784 --------------------------------
3787 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3788 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3791 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3792 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3793 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3794 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3797 * Internal improvments
3798 * Improved import/export
3801 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3803 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3804 small and strange formats.
3806 * New MOD audio demux.
3807 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3808 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3809 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3810 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3813 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3814 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3815 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3821 * New opengl video output plugin.
3824 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3825 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3828 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3829 --------------------------------
3832 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3833 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3834 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3835 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3836 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3837 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3838 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3839 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3842 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3847 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3848 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3849 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3850 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3851 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3852 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3853 * Better Icecast support.
3854 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3855 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3858 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3859 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3860 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3861 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3862 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3863 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3864 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3867 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3868 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3869 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3870 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3871 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3872 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3873 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3874 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3875 * Preliminary RTP support.
3876 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3881 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3882 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3884 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3885 - Improvements and help in preferences
3886 - New streaming wizard
3887 - Revised Disc Open menu
3889 - Improvements of the standard pages
3890 - Support for new commands
3891 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3894 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3895 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3898 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3899 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3900 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3901 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3902 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3903 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3904 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3905 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3906 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3909 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3911 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3912 * Support for Panther.
3913 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3914 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3917 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3918 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3919 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3920 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3921 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3922 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3923 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3924 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3927 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3928 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3929 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3932 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3935 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3936 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3937 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3938 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3941 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3942 --------------------------------
3945 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3948 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3949 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3952 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3953 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3956 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3959 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3960 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3963 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3966 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3969 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3970 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3974 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3975 --------------------------------
3978 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3979 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3983 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3984 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3985 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3987 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3988 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3991 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3994 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3997 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3998 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4002 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4003 --------------------------------
4006 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4007 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4011 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4012 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4013 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4014 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4015 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4018 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4019 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4020 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4023 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4024 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4025 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4028 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4029 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4030 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4031 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4032 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4035 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4036 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4037 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4040 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4043 * Improved build system.
4044 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4045 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4046 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4047 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4050 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4051 --------------------------------
4054 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4057 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4058 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4059 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4060 * Video 4 Linux support
4061 * CD Digital Audio support
4062 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4065 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4066 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4067 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4068 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4071 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4072 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4073 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4074 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4075 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4076 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4077 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4080 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4081 * New HTTP remote control interface
4084 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4085 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4086 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4087 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4088 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4091 * New reset option for the preferences
4092 * You can set your language in the prefences
4093 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4094 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4095 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4096 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4099 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4100 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4101 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4104 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4105 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4106 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4107 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4108 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4109 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4110 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4111 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4112 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4113 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4116 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4117 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4118 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4119 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4120 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4121 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4122 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4125 * Interface localization
4126 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4127 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4128 * New full-featured Preferences window
4131 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4132 --------------------------------
4135 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4136 * support for skins at the interface level
4137 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4138 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4139 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4140 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4141 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4144 * fixed HTTP redirects
4145 * support for opening an entire directory
4146 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4147 * new video4linux access plug-in
4148 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4151 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4152 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4153 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4156 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4157 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4158 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4159 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4160 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4161 * new codec for raw I420 video
4162 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4165 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4166 (although it still misses some important features)
4167 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4170 * new HTTP output support
4171 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4172 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4175 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4178 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4181 * reorderable playlist
4182 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4183 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4184 * support for mono audio output devices
4185 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4186 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4187 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4188 * the messages window remembers more lines
4189 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4190 * http and ogg stream output options
4191 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4194 * new skinnable interface
4195 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4197 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4198 * support for FLAC audio format
4199 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4201 * network tab in the interface
4202 * "apply" handling in preferences
4205 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4206 ---------------------------------
4209 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4210 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4211 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4212 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4214 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4215 * DTS S/PDIF support
4218 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4219 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4220 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4221 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4224 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4225 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4228 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4231 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4234 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4236 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4237 * rc interface is now fully useable
4238 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4241 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4242 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4243 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4244 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4245 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4247 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4248 * support for mouse gestures
4249 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4252 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4253 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4256 * improved ID3 tag detection
4257 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4258 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4259 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4261 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4264 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4265 ---------------------------------
4268 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4269 English was set as the preferred language
4272 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4273 --------------------------------
4276 * new mouse gesture interface
4277 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4281 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4282 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4283 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4286 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4287 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4291 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4294 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4295 without the user consent
4298 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4300 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4301 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4302 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4305 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4306 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4307 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4308 * playlist enhancements
4309 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4310 * new step forward/step backward commands
4311 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4312 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4313 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4316 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4317 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4318 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4321 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4322 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4325 * native video output is working again
4326 * only commandline interface support
4327 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4330 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4331 --------------------------------
4334 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4335 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4336 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4337 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4338 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4339 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4340 and A/52 streams are supported)
4341 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4346 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4347 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4348 * VCD entry points support
4349 * VCD image file support
4352 * support for *.asf format
4353 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4354 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4355 * support for ogg encapsulation
4356 * support for raw DV format
4357 * support for *.wav format
4358 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4361 Stream discovery & playlists:
4362 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4363 * support for .m3u file format
4364 * support for .asx file format
4365 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4368 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4369 (only available with the .avi demux)
4370 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4371 * support for raw PCM data
4372 * support for Cinepak video codec
4373 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4374 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4375 * support for Xvid codec
4376 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4377 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4378 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4380 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4382 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4385 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4388 * new WxWindows interface
4389 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4390 device and the channels configuration
4391 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4392 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4393 format that VLC can play
4394 * new swedish translation
4395 * enhancements of the playlist window
4396 * new messages window to see debug info
4397 * fixed a few crashes
4400 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4401 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4402 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4403 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working