1 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
11 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
12 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
13 * DVB-S scanning support
14 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
15 * Support for VDR recordings
18 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
21 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
22 * Ogg seeking improvements
25 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
26 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements
27 * Qt: port to Mac platform
30 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
33 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
36 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
39 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
40 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
43 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
44 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
45 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
46 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
47 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
48 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
51 * New Armenian translation
54 * New capabilities for libVLC:
55 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
58 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
59 --------------------------------
62 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
64 * Fix folders opening from the interface
67 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
68 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
71 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
72 --------------------------------
75 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
76 * fix for podcasts parsing
77 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
80 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
81 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
84 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
85 * fix m3u playlists exports
88 * fix video autoresize behaviour
91 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
94 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
97 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
100 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
103 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
104 --------------------------------
107 * Avformat fps displaying fix
108 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
111 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
112 of mono streams, especially on Windows
115 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
116 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
117 * fix console output encoding
119 Interface and extensions:
120 * Youtube and other scripts updates
121 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
124 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
125 --------------------------------
128 * New capabilities for libVLC:
129 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
130 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
131 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
132 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
133 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
134 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
135 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
136 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
137 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
138 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
139 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
140 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
141 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
142 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
143 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
147 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
148 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
149 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
150 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
151 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
154 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
157 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
158 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
159 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
163 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
166 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
167 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
168 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
171 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
172 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
173 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
174 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
177 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
178 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
181 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
182 --------------------------------
184 Important changes for users:
185 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
186 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
188 Important changes for packagers:
189 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
190 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
191 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
192 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
193 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
195 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
197 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
198 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
199 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
200 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
201 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
204 * Support for the sftp protocol
205 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
206 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
207 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
208 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
209 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
212 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
213 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
214 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
216 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
217 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
218 * Invmem module improvements
219 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
220 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
221 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
222 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
223 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
224 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
225 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
226 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
227 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
228 * Support for VP8 codec
229 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
232 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
233 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
234 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
235 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
236 * Various EGP improvements
237 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
238 * Metadata and cover art improvements
241 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
242 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
243 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
244 * Podcast images are now displayed
247 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
248 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
249 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
250 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
251 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
252 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
253 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
254 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
255 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
256 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
257 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
260 * New content extensions lua framework
263 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
264 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
265 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
266 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
267 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
268 * NEON assembly audio converter module
269 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
272 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
273 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
274 * Service discovery based on libudev
275 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
278 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
279 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
280 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
281 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
282 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
283 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
284 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
287 * New smem module, streaming to memory
288 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
289 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
292 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
294 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
295 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
298 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
301 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
302 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
303 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
304 by Andy Matuschak et al.
305 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
306 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
307 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
310 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
311 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
314 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
315 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
316 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
320 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
321 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
322 * Improved Solaris port
325 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
326 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
329 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
330 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
331 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
332 * transrate: broken since too long
333 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
334 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
335 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
336 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
337 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
338 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
339 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
340 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
341 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
342 * cddax: use cdda instead.
343 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
344 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
345 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
346 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
349 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
350 --------------------------------
353 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
355 Decoders/Packetizers:
356 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
359 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
360 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
361 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
362 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
363 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
366 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
367 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
370 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
371 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
374 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
375 and Walloon translations updated
376 * Sinhala translation started
379 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
380 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
383 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
384 --------------------------------
387 * SubRip extra styles improvements
388 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
391 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
394 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
395 increase performance and fix x264 issues
398 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
399 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
400 Russian, Slovak translation updates
401 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
404 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
405 --------------------------------
408 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
409 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
412 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
413 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
416 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
417 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
420 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
423 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
424 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
427 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
428 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
431 * New Walloon translation
432 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
435 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
436 --------------------------------
439 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
440 regressions in most popular drivers
441 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
444 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
445 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
446 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
449 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
450 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
453 * Update for appletrailers lua script
454 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
455 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
456 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
457 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
460 * New udev module for linux
463 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
466 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
469 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
470 --------------------------------
473 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
474 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
475 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
478 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
479 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
482 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
483 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
486 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
489 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
490 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
491 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
492 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
495 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
496 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
497 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
498 - no support for Goom and SDL
499 - limited text rendering support
500 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
503 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
504 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
505 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
506 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
507 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
508 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
509 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
510 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
511 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
515 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
518 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
521 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
522 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
523 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
524 Arabic and French translation updates
527 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
528 --------------------------------
531 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
532 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
533 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
534 * Fix Dailymotion access script
535 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
536 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
539 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
540 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
543 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
544 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
545 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
548 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
551 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
552 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
555 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
556 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
557 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
558 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
559 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
560 * Fix various crashes
563 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
565 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
568 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
569 ---------------------------------
573 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
574 See 'Access:' for more info.
575 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
578 * Instantaneous pausing
579 * Frame-by-Frame playback
580 * Finer speed control
581 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
582 * Timeshift for most medias
583 * RTSP trickplay support
584 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
587 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
588 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
589 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
590 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
591 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
592 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
593 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
594 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
595 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
596 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
599 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
600 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
601 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
602 * Metadata for mod files are supported
603 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
604 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
605 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
608 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
609 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
612 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
613 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
614 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
615 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
616 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
617 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
618 * DVB scanning on linux
619 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
620 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
621 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
622 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
623 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
624 * MTP device access on Unix
625 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
626 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
629 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
630 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
631 Windows and Mac OS X.
634 * Export the playlist in HTML
635 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
636 * Better metadata handling and reading
638 Linux/Windows interface:
639 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
640 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
641 * Recently played items list
642 * Interface toolbar customizations
643 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
646 - Improvements on many dialogs
647 - New dialog for plugins listing
648 - Fixed-size mode for videos
649 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
650 * Better integration in GTK environments
653 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
654 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
655 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
656 * Additional usability improvements
659 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
660 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
661 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
662 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
663 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
666 * New Maemo port with:
667 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
668 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
671 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
674 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
675 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
676 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
677 * Support for latest iSight models
680 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
681 * Surround support for PulseAudio
684 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
685 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
686 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
687 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
688 The old image video output has been removed.
689 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
690 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
693 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
701 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
702 --------------------------------------
708 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
709 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
710 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
711 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
712 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
713 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
714 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
716 Various fixes to the following modules:
719 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
720 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
723 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
728 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
729 ---------------------------------
732 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
733 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
736 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
737 ---------------------------------
740 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
743 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
746 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
747 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
748 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
749 main controller window.
750 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
753 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
758 * Updates of other localizations
761 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
762 * Lots of small bugfixes.
763 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
764 * Telnet fixes on Windows
765 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
768 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
769 ---------------------------------
772 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
774 Bunch of small bugfixes.
777 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
778 --------------------------------
783 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
784 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
787 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
788 --------------------------------
790 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
791 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
794 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
797 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
798 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
801 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
802 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
805 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
806 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
807 * Various fixed in playlist
810 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
813 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
816 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
817 ------------------------------------
819 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
820 * Fixes several memory leaks.
823 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
824 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
825 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
828 * Stability fix for the video output.
831 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
832 --------------------------------
835 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
836 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
837 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
838 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
839 * Fixed update system bugs
840 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
843 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
844 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
845 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
846 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
847 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
848 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
849 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
850 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
851 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
852 modern Mac OS X versions
855 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
856 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
858 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
859 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
862 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
863 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
864 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
865 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
866 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
867 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
870 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
871 --------------------------------
873 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
874 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
878 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
879 --------------------------------
881 * Multiple bug fixes.
884 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
885 ---------------------------------
889 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
890 recent to work correctly
891 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
892 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
893 edit the ".hosts" file.
894 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
895 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
896 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
897 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
898 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
899 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
900 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
901 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
902 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
903 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
904 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
905 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
906 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
907 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
908 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
909 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
910 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
911 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
912 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
913 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
914 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
915 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
916 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
917 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
918 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
919 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
920 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
921 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
922 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
923 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
924 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
925 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
926 and postproc modules.
927 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
928 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
929 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
930 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
932 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
934 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
935 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
937 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
938 * Glide video output module has been removed.
944 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
946 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
947 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
950 * Vastly improved playlist support:
951 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
953 * Shoutcast TV listings
954 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
956 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
957 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
959 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
962 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
963 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
964 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
965 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
966 * JACK audio input support
967 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
968 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
969 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
970 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
971 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
972 * Experimental EyeTV access module
973 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
974 (available as a separate download).
975 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
977 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
978 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
979 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
981 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
982 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
985 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
986 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
987 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
988 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
990 * APEv1/2 tags support
991 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
992 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
994 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
995 * TiVo Series 2 support
996 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1001 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1002 * Flash Screen Video support
1003 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1004 * DosBox Capture support
1005 * Karl Morton's Video support
1006 * limited atrac3 support
1008 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1009 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1010 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1011 * H.264 PAFF support
1012 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1013 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1014 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1015 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1016 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1019 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1020 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1021 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1022 * AQTitle subtitles support
1023 * MKV USF subtitles support
1024 * HTML-based subtitles support
1025 * MPSub subtitles support
1026 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1027 * MPL2 subtitles support
1028 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1029 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1030 * Realtext subtitle support
1031 * DKS subtitle support
1032 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1033 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1036 * Flash Screen Video support
1037 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1039 Video outputs and filters:
1040 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1041 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1042 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1043 * New puzzle video output filter
1044 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1045 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1047 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1048 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1049 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1050 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1051 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1052 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1053 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1054 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1055 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1056 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1057 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1058 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1059 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1060 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1062 Audio outputs and filters:
1063 * Replay gain support
1064 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1065 new scaletempo audio filter)
1066 * New spatializer audio filter
1067 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1070 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1071 * New RTP payload formats:
1072 * Speex voice audio codec
1073 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1074 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1075 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1076 * DCCP transport for RTP
1077 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1082 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1083 end-user suitable way.
1084 * Improved user interaction
1085 * Improved mouse gestures
1086 * Vastly improved Update checker
1087 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1089 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1090 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1092 * Improved video output features
1093 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1094 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1095 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1096 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1097 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1099 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1100 if libncursesw is available.
1101 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1102 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1103 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1105 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1106 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1107 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1108 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1109 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1110 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1111 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1112 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1115 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1116 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1117 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1120 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1121 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1122 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1123 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1124 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1125 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1128 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1129 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1139 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1140 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1141 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1144 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1145 ----------------------------------
1148 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1151 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1152 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1153 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1154 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1155 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1156 * Updated Polish translation
1159 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1160 ----------------------------------
1163 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1164 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1165 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1168 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1169 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1170 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1171 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1172 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1173 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1174 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1175 to an unexpected application termination
1176 * New Serbian translation
1177 * Updated Romanian translation
1180 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1181 ----------------------------------
1184 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1185 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1186 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1187 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1188 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1189 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1190 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1191 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1194 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1195 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1196 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1197 * Fixed AAC resampling
1198 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1199 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1202 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1203 ----------------------------------
1206 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1207 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1208 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1209 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1210 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1213 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1214 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1215 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1216 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1217 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1220 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1221 ----------------------------------
1224 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1225 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1228 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1229 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1230 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1231 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1233 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1237 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1240 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1243 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1246 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1249 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1250 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1251 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1252 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1253 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1255 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1256 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1257 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1258 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1261 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1264 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1265 ----------------------------------
1268 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1269 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1270 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1272 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1273 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1275 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1276 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1279 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1281 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1282 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1283 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1284 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1285 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1286 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1287 two different movies
1288 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1289 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1290 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1293 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1296 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1297 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1298 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1299 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1302 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1303 ----------------------------------
1305 Various bugfixes, notably:
1306 * Windows Vista compatibility
1307 * Cropping in Direct3D
1308 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1309 * RSS filter string overflow
1311 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1313 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1314 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1317 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1318 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1321 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1324 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1327 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1330 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1331 ----------------------------------
1333 Various bugfixes, notably:
1334 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1335 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1336 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1337 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1338 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1339 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1342 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1343 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1346 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1348 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1349 * Diverse usability improvements
1350 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1351 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1352 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1355 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1356 ---------------------------------
1358 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1359 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1362 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1365 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1366 --------------------------------
1369 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1372 * Support for RTSP authentication
1373 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1374 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1375 * ATSC support for DVB input
1376 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1377 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1378 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1381 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1382 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1383 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1384 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1385 * Matroska WavPack support
1386 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1387 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1388 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1391 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1392 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1393 * Improved libcaca support
1397 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1398 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1400 * Systray support in skins
1402 * Support for Apple Remote control
1403 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1404 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1405 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1406 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1408 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1411 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1412 Windows 9x/ME users:
1413 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1414 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1415 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1416 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1417 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1419 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1420 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1429 * Updates to the libvlc API
1430 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1433 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1434 --------------------------------
1437 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1438 * Support for downloading updates
1442 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1443 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1444 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1445 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1447 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1448 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1449 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1452 * Cook (Real audio) support
1454 Playlist / Services discovery:
1455 * XSPF playlist support
1457 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1460 * New JACK audio output
1463 * New video filters:
1464 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1465 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1466 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1467 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1468 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1469 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1472 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1475 * System to inform the user and request information
1476 - HTTP authentication
1480 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1481 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1482 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1485 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1486 - Improved playlist handling
1487 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1489 - Embedded Video output
1490 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1491 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1492 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1493 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1494 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1496 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1497 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1500 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1503 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1504 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1505 * Growl "Now playing" support
1508 * Ability to log to syslog
1509 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1512 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1514 * A bit more automatic testing
1517 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1518 ---------------------------------
1521 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1522 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1525 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1526 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1529 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1532 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1533 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1539 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1542 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1543 --------------------------------
1546 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1550 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1551 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1552 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1555 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1556 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1557 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1558 * GnomeVFS input module
1559 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1560 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1563 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1564 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1565 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1568 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1569 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1575 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1576 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1579 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1580 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1581 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1584 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1586 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1587 - New extended controls panel
1588 - New bookmarks window
1589 - Fixed playlist sorting
1590 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1592 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1593 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1594 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1595 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1599 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1600 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1602 - Include macro to include other files
1606 * Should now work outside IE as well
1609 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1612 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1613 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1616 The following languages were added:
1620 * Simplified Chinese
1621 The following languages were re-added:
1625 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1626 --------------------------------
1629 * Rewrite of the playlist
1631 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1632 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1633 * Preferences improvements:
1634 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1635 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1637 * Core image manipulation support
1638 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1639 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1640 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1641 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1642 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1643 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1644 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1645 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1646 * Access filter architecture
1647 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1648 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1652 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1653 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1654 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1655 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1656 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1657 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1658 * Massive Matroska improvements
1659 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1661 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1662 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1663 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1664 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1665 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1667 Decoders / Encoders:
1668 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1669 * PNG decoder/encoder
1670 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1671 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1674 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1677 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1678 * Brand new SAP module
1679 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1680 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1681 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1682 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1683 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1684 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1688 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1691 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1692 * Image file video output (png)
1693 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1694 * Improvements to wall video filter
1695 * Support for font color and opacity
1701 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1702 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1703 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1707 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1708 - Improved preferences
1709 - Improvements to the wizard
1710 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1712 - Redesigned playlist
1713 - Improved preferences
1715 - Support for multiple actions
1718 - Support for the new playlist system
1720 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1723 * Screensaver disabling fix
1724 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1725 * Support for no-decoration windows
1728 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1729 * The OpenGL video output is back
1730 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1731 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1732 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1733 is not yet available in the new module
1734 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1737 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1746 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1749 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1752 The following languages were added:
1758 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1759 --------------------------------
1762 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1763 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1766 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1767 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1768 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1771 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1774 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1777 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1780 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1781 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1782 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1786 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1788 * Support of playlist group announcement
1791 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1792 --------------------------------
1795 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1796 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1797 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1798 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1799 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1800 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1803 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1804 (Stream your desktop)
1805 * Improved DVD support:
1806 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1807 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1808 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1809 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1810 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1811 (selection of titles/chapters).
1814 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1815 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1816 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1817 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1818 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1819 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1820 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1821 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1822 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1823 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1826 * G.726 audio support
1827 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1828 * MPEG-4 text support
1829 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1830 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1831 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1835 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1836 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1837 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1838 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1839 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1840 * DVB subtitles encoder
1841 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1842 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1844 * Text track muxing for mp4
1845 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1846 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1847 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1848 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1849 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1850 * Improved ASF muxer
1852 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1853 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1854 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1857 * New audio equalizer filter
1858 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1859 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1860 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1861 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1864 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1865 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1866 with support for effects.
1867 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1868 - New filters can be streamed.
1869 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1870 - Centralized scaling and blending
1872 - "time", to display current time
1873 - "marq", to display a marquee
1876 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1877 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1878 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1879 * A few skins2 improvements
1880 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1881 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1882 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1883 * Improved CORBA control module
1886 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1887 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1888 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1891 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1892 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1893 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1896 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1897 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1898 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1899 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1900 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1903 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1906 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1907 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1910 * Server/client network synchronization module
1911 * VBrick streams fully supported
1912 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1916 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1917 --------------------------------
1920 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1921 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1922 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1923 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1926 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1927 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1928 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1929 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1930 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1931 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1932 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1935 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1936 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1937 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1938 * Improved directory access module.
1939 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1940 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1941 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1942 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1943 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1946 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1947 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1948 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1951 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1952 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1953 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1956 * Improved session announcement system.
1957 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1958 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1959 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1960 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1961 * Improved transrater.
1962 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1963 * New configuration system.
1964 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1967 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1968 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1969 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1970 * Supports scheduling.
1971 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1972 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1975 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1976 - Ability to embed video output.
1977 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1978 - Lots of improvements.
1979 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1980 - New design and set of icons.
1981 - Ability to embed video output.
1982 - Support for hotkeys.
1983 - Support for bookmarks.
1985 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1986 - Better hotkeys handling.
1989 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1990 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1991 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1992 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1995 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1996 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1997 * Improved Windows installer.
2003 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2004 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2007 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2008 ---------------------------------
2011 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2012 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2015 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2016 --------------------------------
2019 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2020 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2023 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2024 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2025 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2026 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2029 * Internal improvments
2030 * Improved import/export
2033 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2035 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2036 small and strange formats.
2038 * New MOD audio demux.
2039 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2040 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2041 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2042 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2045 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2046 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2047 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2053 * New opengl video output plugin.
2056 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2057 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2060 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2061 --------------------------------
2064 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2065 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2066 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2067 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2068 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2069 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2070 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2071 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2074 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2079 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2080 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2081 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2082 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2083 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2084 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2085 * Better Icecast support.
2086 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2087 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2090 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2091 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2092 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2093 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2094 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2095 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2096 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2099 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2100 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2101 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2102 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2103 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2104 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2105 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2106 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2107 * Preliminary RTP support.
2108 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2113 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2114 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2116 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2117 - Improvements and help in preferences
2118 - New streaming wizard
2119 - Revised Disc Open menu
2121 - Improvements of the standard pages
2122 - Support for new commands
2123 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2126 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2127 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2130 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2131 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2132 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2133 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2134 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2135 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2136 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2137 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2138 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2141 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2143 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2144 * Support for Panther.
2145 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2146 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2149 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2150 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2151 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2152 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2153 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2154 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2155 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2156 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2159 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2160 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2161 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2164 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2167 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2168 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2169 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2170 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2173 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2174 --------------------------------
2177 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2180 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2181 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2184 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2185 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2188 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2191 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2192 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2195 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2198 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2201 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2202 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2206 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2207 --------------------------------
2210 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2211 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2215 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2216 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2217 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2219 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2220 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2223 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2226 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2229 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2230 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2234 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2235 --------------------------------
2238 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2239 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2243 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2244 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2245 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2246 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2247 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2250 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2251 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2252 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2255 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2256 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2257 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2260 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2261 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2262 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2263 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2264 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2267 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2268 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2269 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2272 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2275 * Improved build system.
2276 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2277 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2278 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2279 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2282 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2283 --------------------------------
2286 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2289 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2290 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2291 * Video 4 Linux support
2292 * CD Digital Audio support
2293 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2296 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2297 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2298 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2299 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2302 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2303 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2304 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2305 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2306 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2307 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2308 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2311 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2312 * New HTTP remote control interface
2315 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2316 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2317 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2318 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2321 * New reset option for the preferences
2322 * You can set your language in the prefences
2323 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2324 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2325 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2326 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2329 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2330 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2331 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2334 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2335 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2336 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2337 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2338 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2339 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2340 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2341 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2342 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2343 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2346 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2347 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2348 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2349 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2350 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2351 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2352 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2355 * Interface localization
2356 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2357 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2358 * New full-featured Preferences window
2361 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2362 --------------------------------
2365 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2366 * support for skins at the interface level
2367 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2368 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2369 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2370 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2371 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2374 * fixed HTTP redirects
2375 * support for opening an entire directory
2376 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2377 * new video4linux access plug-in
2378 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2381 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2382 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2383 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2386 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2387 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2388 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2389 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2390 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2391 * new codec for raw I420 video
2392 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2395 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2396 (although it still misses some important features)
2397 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2400 * new HTTP output support
2401 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2402 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2405 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2408 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2411 * reorderable playlist
2412 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2413 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2414 * support for mono audio output devices
2415 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2416 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2417 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2418 * the messages window remembers more lines
2419 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2420 * http and ogg stream output options
2421 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2424 * new skinnable interface
2425 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2427 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2428 * support for FLAC audio format
2429 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2431 * network tab in the interface
2432 * "apply" handling in preferences
2435 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2436 ---------------------------------
2439 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2440 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2441 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2442 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2444 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2445 * DTS S/PDIF support
2448 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2449 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2450 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2451 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2454 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2455 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2458 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2461 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2464 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2466 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2467 * rc interface is now fully useable
2468 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2471 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2472 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2473 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2474 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2475 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2477 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2478 * support for mouse gestures
2479 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2482 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2483 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2486 * improved ID3 tag detection
2487 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2488 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2489 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2491 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2494 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2495 ---------------------------------
2498 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2499 English was set as the preferred language
2502 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2503 --------------------------------
2506 * new mouse gesture interface
2507 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2511 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2512 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2513 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2516 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2517 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2521 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2524 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2525 without the user consent
2528 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2530 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2531 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2532 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2535 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2536 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2537 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2538 * playlist enhancements
2539 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2540 * new step forward/step backward commands
2541 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2542 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2543 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2546 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2547 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2548 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2551 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2552 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2555 * native video output is working again
2556 * only commandline interface support
2557 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2560 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2561 --------------------------------
2564 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2565 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2566 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2567 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2568 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2569 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2570 and A/52 streams are supported)
2571 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2576 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2577 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2578 * VCD entry points support
2579 * VCD image file support
2582 * support for *.asf format
2583 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2584 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2585 * support for ogg encapsulation
2586 * support for raw DV format
2587 * support for *.wav format
2588 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2591 Stream discovery & playlists:
2592 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2593 * support for .m3u file format
2594 * support for .asx file format
2595 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2598 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2599 (only available with the .avi demux)
2600 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2601 * support for raw PCM data
2602 * support for Cinepak video codec
2603 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2604 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2605 * support for Xvid codec
2606 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2607 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2608 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2610 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2612 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2615 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2618 * new WxWindows interface
2619 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2620 device and the channels configuration
2621 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2622 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2623 format that VLC can play
2624 * new swedish translation
2625 * enhancements of the playlist window
2626 * new messages window to see debug info
2627 * fixed a few crashes
2630 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2631 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2632 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2633 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working