1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
17 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
20 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
21 * Major improvements in DASH support
22 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
25 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
26 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
27 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
28 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
29 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
30 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
33 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
34 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
37 * new remapping channel filter
38 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
39 * new VSXu visualization plugin
42 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
43 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
44 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
45 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
48 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
49 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
50 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
51 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
54 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
55 * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
56 VLC's internal volume level
57 * added an option to show next / previous buttons
58 * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
59 * added optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
63 * portaudio audio output
64 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
65 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
66 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
69 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
70 --------------------------------
73 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
74 * fix the samba module compilation
75 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
76 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
77 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
78 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
81 * Support for MXPEG files
82 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
83 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
86 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
87 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
88 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
91 * Fix ogm header creation
94 * limit spatializer filter distortions
95 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
98 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
99 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
100 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
101 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
104 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
107 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
108 * allow to hide the sidebar
109 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
110 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
111 * noticebly faster launch time
112 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
113 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
114 * improve track synchronization panel
115 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
116 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
119 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
120 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
121 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
122 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
125 * fix for menus display
126 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
127 * documentation update
130 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
131 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
134 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
135 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
136 * Update Jamendo selections
140 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
141 * fix a crash on VLM close
144 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
145 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
146 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
147 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
150 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
153 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
154 ---------------------------------
157 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
158 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
159 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
160 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
161 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
162 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
163 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
164 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
165 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
166 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
167 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
168 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
169 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
170 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
171 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
172 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
173 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
174 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
175 --http-crl (optional CRL).
176 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
177 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
178 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
179 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
180 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
181 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
182 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
184 Important changes for packagers:
185 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
186 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
187 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
188 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
189 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
190 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
191 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
192 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
193 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
194 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
197 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
198 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
199 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
200 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
201 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
202 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
203 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
206 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
207 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
208 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
209 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
210 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
211 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
212 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
213 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
214 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
215 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
216 * PulseAudio audio input support
217 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
218 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
219 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
220 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
221 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
222 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
223 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
224 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
227 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
228 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
229 are notably concerned.
230 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
231 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
232 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
233 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
234 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
235 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
236 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
237 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
238 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
239 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
240 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
241 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
242 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
243 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
244 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
247 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
248 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
249 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
250 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
251 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
252 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
253 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
254 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
255 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
256 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
257 * Improved support of tracker files
258 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
261 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
262 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
263 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
264 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
265 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
266 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
267 and important cleanups and optimisations
268 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
269 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
270 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
271 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
272 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
273 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
274 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
275 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
276 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
277 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
278 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
279 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
280 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
281 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
282 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
283 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
284 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
285 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
286 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
287 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
288 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
291 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
292 * New video output for iOS platform
293 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
294 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
295 * Various vmem improvements
296 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
297 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
298 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
299 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
300 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
301 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
303 Audio Output and Filters:
304 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
305 * New audio output in memory (amem)
306 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
307 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
308 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
309 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
310 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
311 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
312 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
313 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
316 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
317 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
318 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
319 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
320 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
321 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
322 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
323 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
324 * New anti-flickering filter
325 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
326 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
327 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
328 blackbox and customizable shadow.
329 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
330 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
331 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
334 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
335 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
336 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
337 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
338 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
339 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
340 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
341 * Major rework of VoD support
342 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
343 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
344 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
345 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
346 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
347 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
348 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
349 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
350 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
351 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
354 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
355 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
358 * New capabilities for libVLC:
359 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
360 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
361 list of available audio and video filters
362 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
363 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
364 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
367 * asademux, subsass: use libass
368 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
369 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
371 * upnp: use upnp_intel
372 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
373 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
374 * removal of the noise filter
375 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
376 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
377 removed in Growl's next release, too.
378 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
381 * Update of translations for most languages.
382 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
385 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
386 ----------------------------------
389 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
390 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
393 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
394 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
397 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
398 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
399 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
402 * Camtasia decoding fix.
405 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
406 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
409 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
412 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
413 ----------------------------------
416 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
417 including support for OS X Lion
418 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
419 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
422 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
425 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
426 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
427 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
430 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
433 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
434 ----------------------------------
437 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
438 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
441 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
442 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
443 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
444 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
445 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
447 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
448 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
449 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
451 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
452 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
455 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
458 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
461 * Fix quitting on Linux
462 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
466 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
469 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
472 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
473 ---------------------------------
475 Windows and Mac OS X:
476 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
479 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
480 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
483 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
486 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
489 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
491 Miscellaneous fixes in:
492 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
494 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
495 * RTP output and XML export
496 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
500 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
501 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
502 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
503 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
506 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
507 --------------------------------
509 Windows and Mac OS X:
510 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
513 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
516 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
517 * Improve Apple Remote handling
518 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
519 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
520 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
521 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
524 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
525 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
529 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
530 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
531 * New Luganda Translation
534 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
535 --------------------------------
538 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
541 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
542 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
543 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
544 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
547 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
549 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
550 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
551 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
552 * mp4 demuxer improvements
553 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
554 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
555 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
556 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
558 Miscellaneous fixes in:
559 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
560 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
561 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
562 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
563 * Configure and build system improvements
564 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
567 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
568 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
569 * New icelandic translation
572 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
573 --------------------------------
576 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
580 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
581 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
582 and stability reasons
585 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
589 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
592 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
593 ----------------------------------
596 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
599 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
600 ---------------------------------
603 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
604 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
605 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
606 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
609 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
612 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
613 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
614 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
615 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
618 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
619 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
620 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
622 Subtitles and renderer:
623 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
624 * Mark more freetype options as safe
625 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
626 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
627 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
630 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
631 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
632 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
633 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
636 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
637 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
640 * KDE device solid actions
642 * Transcode integer overflow
643 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
644 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
647 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
648 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
649 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
652 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
653 ----------------------------------
656 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
660 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
663 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
666 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
667 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
668 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
669 * Taglib thread-safety fix
672 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
676 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
679 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
682 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
683 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
685 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
689 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
690 * Miscellaneous fixes
693 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
694 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
696 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
697 * New Asturian translation
700 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
701 ----------------------------------
704 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
706 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
709 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
712 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
713 * Various fixes for Windows
716 * New Armenian translation
717 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
718 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
721 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
722 --------------------------------
725 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
727 * Fix folders opening from the interface
730 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
731 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
734 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
735 --------------------------------
738 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
739 * fix for podcasts parsing
740 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
743 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
744 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
747 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
748 * fix m3u playlists exports
751 * fix video autoresize behaviour
754 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
757 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
760 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
763 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
766 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
767 --------------------------------
770 * Avformat fps displaying fix
771 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
774 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
775 of mono streams, especially on Windows
778 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
779 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
780 * fix console output encoding
782 Interface and extensions:
783 * Youtube and other scripts updates
784 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
787 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
788 --------------------------------
791 * New capabilities for libVLC:
792 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
793 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
794 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
795 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
796 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
797 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
798 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
799 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
800 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
801 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
802 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
803 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
804 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
805 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
806 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
810 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
811 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
812 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
813 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
814 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
817 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
820 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
821 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
822 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
826 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
829 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
830 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
831 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
834 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
835 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
836 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
837 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
840 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
841 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
844 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
845 --------------------------------
847 Important changes for users:
848 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
849 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
851 Important changes for packagers:
852 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
853 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
854 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
855 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
856 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
858 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
860 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
861 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
862 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
863 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
864 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
867 * Support for the sftp protocol
868 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
869 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
870 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
871 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
872 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
875 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
876 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
877 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
879 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
880 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
881 * Invmem module improvements
882 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
883 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
884 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
885 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
886 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
887 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
888 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
889 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
890 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
891 * Support for VP8 codec
892 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
895 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
896 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
897 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
898 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
899 * Various EGP improvements
900 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
901 * Metadata and cover art improvements
904 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
905 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
906 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
907 * Podcast images are now displayed
910 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
911 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
912 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
913 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
914 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
915 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
916 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
917 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
918 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
919 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
920 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
923 * New content extensions lua framework
926 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
927 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
928 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
929 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
930 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
931 * NEON assembly audio converter module
932 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
935 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
936 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
937 * Service discovery based on libudev
938 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
941 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
942 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
943 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
944 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
945 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
946 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
947 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
950 * New smem module, streaming to memory
951 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
952 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
955 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
957 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
958 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
961 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
964 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
965 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
966 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
967 by Andy Matuschak et al.
968 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
969 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
970 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
973 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
974 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
977 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
978 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
979 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
983 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
984 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
985 * Improved Solaris port
988 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
989 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
992 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
993 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
994 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
995 * transrate: broken since too long
996 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
997 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
998 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
999 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1000 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1001 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1002 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1003 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1004 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1005 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1006 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1007 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1008 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1009 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1012 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1013 --------------------------------
1016 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1018 Decoders/Packetizers:
1019 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1022 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1023 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1024 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1025 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1026 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1029 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1030 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1033 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1034 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1037 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1038 and Walloon translations updated
1039 * Sinhala translation started
1042 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1043 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1046 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1047 --------------------------------
1050 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1051 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1054 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1057 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1058 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1061 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1062 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1063 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1064 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1067 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1068 --------------------------------
1071 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1072 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1075 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1076 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1079 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1080 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1083 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1086 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1087 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1090 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1091 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1094 * New Walloon translation
1095 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1098 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1099 --------------------------------
1102 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1103 regressions in most popular drivers
1104 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1107 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1108 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1109 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1112 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1113 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1116 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1117 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1118 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1119 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1120 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1123 * New udev module for linux
1126 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1129 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1132 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1133 --------------------------------
1136 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1137 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1138 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1141 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1142 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1145 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1146 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1149 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1152 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1153 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1154 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1155 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1158 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1159 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1160 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1161 - no support for Goom and SDL
1162 - limited text rendering support
1163 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1166 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1167 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1168 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1169 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1170 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1171 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1172 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1173 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1174 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1178 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1181 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1184 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1185 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1186 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1187 Arabic and French translation updates
1190 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1191 --------------------------------
1194 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1195 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1196 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1197 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1198 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1199 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1202 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1203 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1204 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1207 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1208 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1209 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1212 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1215 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1216 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1219 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1220 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1221 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1222 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1223 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1224 * Fix various crashes
1227 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1229 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1233 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1234 ---------------------------------
1238 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1239 See 'Access:' for more info.
1240 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1243 * Instantaneous pausing
1244 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1245 * Finer speed control
1246 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1247 * Timeshift for most medias
1248 * RTSP trickplay support
1249 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1252 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1253 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1254 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1255 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1256 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1257 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1258 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1259 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1260 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1261 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1264 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1265 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1266 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1267 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1268 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1269 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1270 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1273 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1274 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1277 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1278 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1279 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1280 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1281 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1282 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1283 * DVB scanning on linux
1284 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1285 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1286 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1287 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1288 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1289 * MTP device access on Unix
1290 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1291 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1294 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1295 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1296 Windows and Mac OS X.
1299 * Export the playlist in HTML
1300 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1301 * Better metadata handling and reading
1303 Linux/Windows interface:
1304 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1305 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1306 * Recently played items list
1307 * Interface toolbar customizations
1308 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1309 - More menus actions
1310 - Finer speed slider
1311 - Improvements on many dialogs
1312 - New dialog for plugins listing
1313 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1314 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1315 * Better integration in GTK environments
1318 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1319 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1320 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1321 * Additional usability improvements
1324 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1325 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1326 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1327 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1328 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1331 * New Maemo port with:
1332 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1333 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1336 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1339 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1340 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1341 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1342 * Support for latest iSight models
1345 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1346 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1349 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1350 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1351 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1352 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1353 The old image video output has been removed.
1354 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1355 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1358 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1366 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1367 --------------------------------------
1373 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1374 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1375 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1376 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1377 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1378 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1379 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1381 Various fixes to the following modules:
1384 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1385 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1386 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1388 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1393 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1394 ---------------------------------
1397 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1398 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1401 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1402 ---------------------------------
1405 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1408 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1411 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1412 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1413 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1414 main controller window.
1415 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1418 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1423 * Updates of other localizations
1426 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1427 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1428 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1429 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1430 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1433 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1434 ---------------------------------
1437 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1439 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1442 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1443 --------------------------------
1448 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1449 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1452 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1453 --------------------------------
1455 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1456 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1459 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1462 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1463 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1466 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1467 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1470 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1471 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1472 * Various fixed in playlist
1475 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1478 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1481 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1482 ------------------------------------
1484 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1485 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1488 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1489 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1490 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1493 * Stability fix for the video output.
1496 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1497 --------------------------------
1500 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1501 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1502 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1503 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1504 * Fixed update system bugs
1505 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1508 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1509 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1510 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1511 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1512 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1513 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1514 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1515 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1516 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1517 modern Mac OS X versions
1520 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1521 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1523 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1524 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1527 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1528 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1529 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1530 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1531 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1532 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1535 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1536 --------------------------------
1538 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1539 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1540 * Multiple bugfixes.
1543 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1544 --------------------------------
1546 * Multiple bug fixes.
1549 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1550 ---------------------------------
1554 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1555 recent to work correctly
1556 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1557 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1558 edit the ".hosts" file.
1559 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1560 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1561 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1562 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1563 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1564 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1565 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1566 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1567 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1568 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1569 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1570 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1571 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1572 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1573 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1574 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1575 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1576 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1577 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1578 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1579 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1580 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1581 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1582 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1583 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1584 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1585 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1586 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1587 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1588 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1589 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1590 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1591 and postproc modules.
1592 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1593 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1594 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1595 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1597 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1598 filter. For example:
1599 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1600 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1602 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1603 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1609 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1611 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1612 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1615 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1616 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1618 * Shoutcast TV listings
1619 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1621 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1622 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1624 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1627 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1628 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1629 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1630 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1631 * JACK audio input support
1632 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1633 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1634 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1635 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1636 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1637 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1638 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1639 (available as a separate download).
1640 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1641 * RTMP input support
1642 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1643 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1644 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1646 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1647 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1650 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1651 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1652 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1653 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1655 * APEv1/2 tags support
1656 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1657 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1659 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1660 * TiVo Series 2 support
1661 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1666 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1667 * Flash Screen Video support
1668 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1669 * DosBox Capture support
1670 * Karl Morton's Video support
1671 * limited atrac3 support
1673 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1674 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1675 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1676 * H.264 PAFF support
1677 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1678 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1679 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1680 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1681 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1684 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1685 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1686 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1687 * AQTitle subtitles support
1688 * MKV USF subtitles support
1689 * HTML-based subtitles support
1690 * MPSub subtitles support
1691 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1692 * MPL2 subtitles support
1693 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1694 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1695 * Realtext subtitle support
1696 * DKS subtitle support
1697 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1698 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1701 * Flash Screen Video support
1702 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1704 Video outputs and filters:
1705 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1706 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1707 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1708 * New puzzle video output filter
1709 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1710 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1712 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1713 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1714 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1715 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1716 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1717 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1718 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1719 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1720 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1721 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1722 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1723 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1724 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1725 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1727 Audio outputs and filters:
1728 * Replay gain support
1729 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1730 new scaletempo audio filter)
1731 * New spatializer audio filter
1732 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1735 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1736 * New RTP payload formats:
1737 * Speex voice audio codec
1738 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1739 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1740 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1741 * DCCP transport for RTP
1742 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1747 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1748 end-user suitable way.
1749 * Improved user interaction
1750 * Improved mouse gestures
1751 * Vastly improved Update checker
1752 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1754 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1755 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1757 * Improved video output features
1758 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1759 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1760 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1761 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1762 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1764 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1765 if libncursesw is available.
1766 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1767 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1768 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1770 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1771 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1772 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1773 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1774 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1775 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1776 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1777 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1780 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1781 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1782 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1785 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1786 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1787 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1788 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1789 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1790 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1793 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1794 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1804 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1805 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1806 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1809 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1810 ----------------------------------
1813 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1816 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1817 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1818 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1819 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1820 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1821 * Updated Polish translation
1824 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1825 ----------------------------------
1828 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1829 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1830 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1833 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1834 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1835 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1836 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1837 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1838 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1839 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1840 to an unexpected application termination
1841 * New Serbian translation
1842 * Updated Romanian translation
1845 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1846 ----------------------------------
1849 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1850 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1851 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1852 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1853 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1854 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1855 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1856 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1859 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1860 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1861 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1862 * Fixed AAC resampling
1863 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1864 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1867 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1868 ----------------------------------
1871 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1872 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1873 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1874 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1875 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1878 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1879 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1880 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1881 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1882 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1885 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1886 ----------------------------------
1889 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1890 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1893 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1894 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1895 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1896 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1898 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1902 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1905 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1908 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1911 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1914 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1915 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1916 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1917 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1918 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1920 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1921 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1922 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1923 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1926 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1929 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1930 ----------------------------------
1933 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1934 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1935 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1937 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1938 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1940 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1941 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1944 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1946 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1947 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1948 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1949 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1950 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1951 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1952 two different movies
1953 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1954 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1955 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1958 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1961 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1962 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1963 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1964 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1967 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1968 ----------------------------------
1970 Various bugfixes, notably:
1971 * Windows Vista compatibility
1972 * Cropping in Direct3D
1973 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1974 * RSS filter string overflow
1976 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1978 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1979 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1982 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1983 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1986 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1989 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1992 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1995 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1996 ----------------------------------
1998 Various bugfixes, notably:
1999 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2000 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2001 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2002 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2003 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2004 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2007 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2008 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2011 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2013 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2014 * Diverse usability improvements
2015 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2016 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2017 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2020 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2021 ---------------------------------
2023 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2024 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2027 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2030 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2031 --------------------------------
2034 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2037 * Support for RTSP authentication
2038 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2039 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2040 * ATSC support for DVB input
2041 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2042 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2043 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2046 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2047 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2048 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2049 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2050 * Matroska WavPack support
2051 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2052 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2053 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2056 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2057 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2058 * Improved libcaca support
2062 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2063 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2065 * Systray support in skins
2067 * Support for Apple Remote control
2068 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2069 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2070 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2071 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2073 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2076 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2077 Windows 9x/ME users:
2078 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2079 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2080 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2081 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2082 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2084 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2085 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2094 * Updates to the libvlc API
2095 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2098 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2099 --------------------------------
2102 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2103 * Support for downloading updates
2107 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2108 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2109 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2110 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2112 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2113 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2114 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2117 * Cook (Real audio) support
2119 Playlist / Services discovery:
2120 * XSPF playlist support
2122 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2125 * New JACK audio output
2128 * New video filters:
2129 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2130 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2131 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2132 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2133 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2134 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2137 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2140 * System to inform the user and request information
2141 - HTTP authentication
2145 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2146 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2147 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2150 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2151 - Improved playlist handling
2152 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2154 - Embedded Video output
2155 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2156 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2157 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2158 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2159 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2161 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2162 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2165 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2168 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2169 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2170 * Growl "Now playing" support
2173 * Ability to log to syslog
2174 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2177 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2179 * A bit more automatic testing
2182 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2183 ---------------------------------
2186 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2187 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2190 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2191 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2194 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2197 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2198 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2204 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2207 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2208 --------------------------------
2211 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2215 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2216 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2217 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2220 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2221 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2222 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2223 * GnomeVFS input module
2224 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2225 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2228 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2229 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2230 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2233 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2234 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2240 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2241 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2244 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2245 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2246 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2249 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2251 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2252 - New extended controls panel
2253 - New bookmarks window
2254 - Fixed playlist sorting
2255 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2257 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2258 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2259 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2260 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2264 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2265 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2267 - Include macro to include other files
2271 * Should now work outside IE as well
2274 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2277 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2278 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2281 The following languages were added:
2285 * Simplified Chinese
2286 The following languages were re-added:
2290 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2291 --------------------------------
2294 * Rewrite of the playlist
2296 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2297 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2298 * Preferences improvements:
2299 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2300 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2302 * Core image manipulation support
2303 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2304 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2305 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2306 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2307 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2308 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2309 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2310 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2311 * Access filter architecture
2312 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2313 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2317 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2318 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2319 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2320 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2321 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2322 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2323 * Massive Matroska improvements
2324 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2326 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2327 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2328 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2329 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2330 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2332 Decoders / Encoders:
2333 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2334 * PNG decoder/encoder
2335 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2336 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2339 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2342 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2343 * Brand new SAP module
2344 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2345 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2346 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2347 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2348 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2349 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2353 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2356 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2357 * Image file video output (png)
2358 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2359 * Improvements to wall video filter
2360 * Support for font color and opacity
2366 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2367 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2368 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2372 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2373 - Improved preferences
2374 - Improvements to the wizard
2375 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2377 - Redesigned playlist
2378 - Improved preferences
2380 - Support for multiple actions
2383 - Support for the new playlist system
2385 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2388 * Screensaver disabling fix
2389 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2390 * Support for no-decoration windows
2393 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2394 * The OpenGL video output is back
2395 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2396 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2397 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2398 is not yet available in the new module
2399 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2402 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2411 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2414 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2417 The following languages were added:
2423 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2424 --------------------------------
2427 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2428 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2431 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2432 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2433 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2436 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2439 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2442 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2445 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2446 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2447 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2451 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2453 * Support of playlist group announcement
2456 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2457 --------------------------------
2460 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2461 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2462 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2463 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2464 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2465 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2468 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2469 (Stream your desktop)
2470 * Improved DVD support:
2471 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2472 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2473 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2474 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2475 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2476 (selection of titles/chapters).
2479 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2480 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2481 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2482 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2483 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2484 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2485 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2486 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2487 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2488 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2491 * G.726 audio support
2492 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2493 * MPEG-4 text support
2494 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2495 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2496 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2500 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2501 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2502 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2503 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2504 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2505 * DVB subtitles encoder
2506 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2507 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2509 * Text track muxing for mp4
2510 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2511 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2512 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2513 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2514 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2515 * Improved ASF muxer
2517 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2518 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2519 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2522 * New audio equalizer filter
2523 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2524 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2525 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2526 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2529 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2530 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2531 with support for effects.
2532 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2533 - New filters can be streamed.
2534 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2535 - Centralized scaling and blending
2537 - "time", to display current time
2538 - "marq", to display a marquee
2541 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2542 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2543 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2544 * A few skins2 improvements
2545 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2546 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2547 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2548 * Improved CORBA control module
2551 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2552 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2553 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2556 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2557 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2558 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2561 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2562 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2563 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2564 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2565 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2568 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2571 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2572 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2575 * Server/client network synchronization module
2576 * VBrick streams fully supported
2577 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2581 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2582 --------------------------------
2585 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2586 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2587 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2588 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2591 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2592 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2593 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2594 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2595 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2596 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2597 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2600 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2601 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2602 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2603 * Improved directory access module.
2604 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2605 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2606 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2607 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2608 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2611 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2612 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2613 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2616 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2617 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2618 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2621 * Improved session announcement system.
2622 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2623 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2624 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2625 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2626 * Improved transrater.
2627 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2628 * New configuration system.
2629 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2632 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2633 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2634 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2635 * Supports scheduling.
2636 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2637 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2640 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2641 - Ability to embed video output.
2642 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2643 - Lots of improvements.
2644 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2645 - New design and set of icons.
2646 - Ability to embed video output.
2647 - Support for hotkeys.
2648 - Support for bookmarks.
2650 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2651 - Better hotkeys handling.
2654 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2655 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2656 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2657 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2660 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2661 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2662 * Improved Windows installer.
2668 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2669 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2672 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2673 ---------------------------------
2676 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2677 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2680 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2681 --------------------------------
2684 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2685 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2688 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2689 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2690 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2691 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2694 * Internal improvments
2695 * Improved import/export
2698 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2700 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2701 small and strange formats.
2703 * New MOD audio demux.
2704 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2705 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2706 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2707 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2710 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2711 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2712 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2718 * New opengl video output plugin.
2721 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2722 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2725 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2726 --------------------------------
2729 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2730 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2731 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2732 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2733 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2734 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2735 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2736 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2739 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2744 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2745 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2746 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2747 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2748 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2749 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2750 * Better Icecast support.
2751 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2752 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2755 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2756 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2757 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2758 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2759 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2760 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2761 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2764 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2765 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2766 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2767 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2768 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2769 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2770 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2771 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2772 * Preliminary RTP support.
2773 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2778 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2779 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2781 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2782 - Improvements and help in preferences
2783 - New streaming wizard
2784 - Revised Disc Open menu
2786 - Improvements of the standard pages
2787 - Support for new commands
2788 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2791 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2792 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2795 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2796 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2797 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2798 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2799 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2800 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2801 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2802 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2803 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2806 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2808 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2809 * Support for Panther.
2810 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2811 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2814 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2815 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2816 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2817 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2818 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2819 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2820 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2821 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2824 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2825 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2826 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2829 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2832 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2833 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2834 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2835 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2838 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2839 --------------------------------
2842 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2845 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2846 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2849 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2850 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2853 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2856 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2857 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2860 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2863 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2866 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2867 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2871 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2872 --------------------------------
2875 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2876 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2880 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2881 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2882 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2884 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2885 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2888 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2891 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2894 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2895 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2899 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2900 --------------------------------
2903 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2904 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2908 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2909 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2910 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2911 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2912 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2915 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2916 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2917 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2920 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2921 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2922 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2925 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2926 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2927 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2928 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2929 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2932 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2933 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2934 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2937 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2940 * Improved build system.
2941 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2942 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2943 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2944 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2947 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2948 --------------------------------
2951 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2954 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2955 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2956 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2957 * Video 4 Linux support
2958 * CD Digital Audio support
2959 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2962 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2963 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2964 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2965 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2968 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2969 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2970 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2971 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2972 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2973 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2974 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2977 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2978 * New HTTP remote control interface
2981 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2982 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2983 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2984 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2985 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2988 * New reset option for the preferences
2989 * You can set your language in the prefences
2990 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2991 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2992 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2993 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2996 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2997 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2998 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3001 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3002 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3003 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3004 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3005 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3006 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3007 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3008 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3009 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3010 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3013 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3014 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3015 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3016 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3017 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3018 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3019 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3022 * Interface localization
3023 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3024 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3025 * New full-featured Preferences window
3028 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3029 --------------------------------
3032 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3033 * support for skins at the interface level
3034 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3035 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3036 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3037 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3038 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3041 * fixed HTTP redirects
3042 * support for opening an entire directory
3043 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3044 * new video4linux access plug-in
3045 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3048 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3049 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3050 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3053 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3054 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3055 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3056 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3057 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3058 * new codec for raw I420 video
3059 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3062 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3063 (although it still misses some important features)
3064 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3067 * new HTTP output support
3068 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3069 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3072 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3075 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3078 * reorderable playlist
3079 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3080 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3081 * support for mono audio output devices
3082 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3083 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3084 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3085 * the messages window remembers more lines
3086 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3087 * http and ogg stream output options
3088 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3091 * new skinnable interface
3092 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3094 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3095 * support for FLAC audio format
3096 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3098 * network tab in the interface
3099 * "apply" handling in preferences
3102 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3103 ---------------------------------
3106 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3107 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3108 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3109 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3111 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3112 * DTS S/PDIF support
3115 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3116 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3117 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3118 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3121 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3122 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3125 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3128 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3131 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3133 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3134 * rc interface is now fully useable
3135 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3138 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3139 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3140 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3141 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3142 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3144 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3145 * support for mouse gestures
3146 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3149 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3150 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3153 * improved ID3 tag detection
3154 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3155 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3156 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3158 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3161 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3162 ---------------------------------
3165 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3166 English was set as the preferred language
3169 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3170 --------------------------------
3173 * new mouse gesture interface
3174 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3178 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3179 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3180 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3183 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3184 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3188 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3191 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3192 without the user consent
3195 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3197 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3198 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3199 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3202 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3203 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3204 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3205 * playlist enhancements
3206 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3207 * new step forward/step backward commands
3208 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3209 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3210 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3213 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3214 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3215 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3218 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3219 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3222 * native video output is working again
3223 * only commandline interface support
3224 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3227 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3228 --------------------------------
3231 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3232 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3233 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3234 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3235 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3236 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3237 and A/52 streams are supported)
3238 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3243 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3244 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3245 * VCD entry points support
3246 * VCD image file support
3249 * support for *.asf format
3250 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3251 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3252 * support for ogg encapsulation
3253 * support for raw DV format
3254 * support for *.wav format
3255 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3258 Stream discovery & playlists:
3259 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3260 * support for .m3u file format
3261 * support for .asx file format
3262 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3265 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3266 (only available with the .avi demux)
3267 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3268 * support for raw PCM data
3269 * support for Cinepak video codec
3270 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3271 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3272 * support for Xvid codec
3273 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3274 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3275 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3277 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3279 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3282 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3285 * new WxWindows interface
3286 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3287 device and the channels configuration
3288 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3289 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3290 format that VLC can play
3291 * new swedish translation
3292 * enhancements of the playlist window
3293 * new messages window to see debug info
3294 * fixed a few crashes
3297 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3298 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3299 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3300 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working