1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
9 * Add extensions download from external repositories
12 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
13 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
14 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
15 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
16 * Digital Cinema Package support
19 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
20 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
21 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink
22 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
23 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
24 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
25 * OpenMax IL imrpovements, notably for RaspberryPi
26 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
27 * New jpeg image decoder
30 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
31 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
32 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
33 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
36 * New CAF format module
37 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
38 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
39 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
40 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
43 * Basic support for WebVTT
44 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
45 * Support HDPR TS files
46 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
47 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
48 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
49 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
52 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
53 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
57 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
58 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
59 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
60 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
61 * New Android native window provider module
62 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
63 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
66 * New Oldmovie effect filter
67 * New VHS effect filter
68 * New Freeze effect filter
69 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
70 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
73 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
76 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
77 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
78 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
79 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
80 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
81 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
82 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
83 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
84 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
88 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
89 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
92 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
93 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
96 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
99 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
102 * ios video output: use ios2
103 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
104 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
107 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
108 --------------------------------
111 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
113 * Fix some subtitles track selection
116 * VP9 support in WebM
117 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
118 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
121 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
122 * Support Speex in ogg files
123 * Fix some .mov playlists support
124 * Support Alac in mkv
125 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
126 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
129 * Fix DVB options parsing
130 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
131 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
134 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
135 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
138 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
139 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
142 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
143 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
144 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
145 * Fix play after drag'n drop
146 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
149 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
150 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
153 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
154 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
157 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
158 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
159 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
160 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
161 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
162 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
163 * Improves interface resizings
166 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
167 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
168 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
169 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
170 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
174 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
175 --------------------------------
178 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
179 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
180 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
181 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
182 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
184 3rd party libraries (contrib):
185 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
188 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
189 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
190 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
191 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
192 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
195 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
196 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
200 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
201 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
202 * Support for Ulead DV audio
203 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
204 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
205 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
206 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
207 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
208 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
209 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
210 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
211 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
212 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
215 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
216 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
217 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
220 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
221 remove support for previous OS X releases
222 * Major improvements in DASH support
223 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
224 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
225 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
226 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
227 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
228 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
229 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
230 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
231 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
232 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
233 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
236 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
237 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
238 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
239 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
240 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
241 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
242 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
243 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
244 * Support for more MJPEG streams
245 * Add support for liveleak streams
246 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
247 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
248 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
251 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
252 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
253 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
254 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
255 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
256 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
257 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
258 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
259 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
260 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
261 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
264 * New remapping channel filter
265 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
266 * New VSXu visualization plugin
267 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
268 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
269 * New gain audio filter
272 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
273 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
274 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
275 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
276 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
277 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
278 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
279 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
280 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
283 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
284 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
285 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
286 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
287 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
288 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
289 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
292 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
293 * Options support for AVIO output module
294 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
295 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
296 * Livehttp stream encryption support
297 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
298 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
301 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
304 * configurable password for the HTTP server
305 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
306 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
307 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
308 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
309 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
310 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
311 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
315 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
318 * Add support for multiple video outputs
319 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
321 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
322 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
323 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
324 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
325 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
326 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
327 VLC's internal volume level
328 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
330 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
331 selection and to manage the list of presets
332 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
333 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
334 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
335 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
336 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
337 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
338 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
339 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
340 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
341 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
343 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
344 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
345 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
346 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
347 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
348 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
349 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
350 3rd party applications
351 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
352 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
353 (system-wide settings)
354 * Add support for the Video Title option
355 * Add support for the Boss Key
356 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
357 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
360 * Partial support for Qt5.0
361 * Menus modifications and improvements
362 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
363 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
364 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
365 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
366 * EPG display fixes and improvements
367 * Add SD pixmap sources
368 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
369 * Display playlist total duration
370 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
371 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
372 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
377 * Extend sliders, offsets options
378 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
379 * Numerous fixes and improvements
380 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
383 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
384 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
385 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
386 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
387 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
388 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
389 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
390 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
391 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
392 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
395 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
396 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
397 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
398 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
399 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
400 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
402 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
403 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
404 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
405 * Broken crop video filter
407 * OSD parser and menu
408 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
409 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
410 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
411 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
415 * Update of all translations
418 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
419 --------------------------------
422 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
423 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
426 * Fix modplug security issues
429 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
430 --------------------------------
434 * Fix crash in QTsound
435 * Fix screen mouse file location
436 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
439 * Fix use after free in sgimb
440 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
443 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
446 * Fix interface crashes
447 * Fix autostart playback option
448 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
451 * update Welsh translation
452 * New Kannada translation
455 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
456 --------------------------------
459 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
460 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
464 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
467 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
470 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
473 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
477 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
480 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
483 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
484 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
485 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
488 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
489 --------------------------------
492 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
495 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
498 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
499 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
500 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
501 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
502 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
503 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
506 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
507 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
508 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
509 * 3rd party codecs updates
512 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
513 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
514 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
515 in the advanced preferences panel
516 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
517 * Fix crash within the video output code
518 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
519 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
520 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
521 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
523 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
526 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
529 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
530 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
533 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
536 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
537 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
538 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
539 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
540 Dutch, Danish, translations
541 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
544 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
545 --------------------------------
548 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
551 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
552 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
553 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
556 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
557 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
558 * Fix koreus lua parser
559 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
560 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
561 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
562 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
565 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
566 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
569 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
572 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
573 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
574 * Fix Time counter UI look
575 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
578 * Fix https streaming
581 * Fix audio and video track selection:
582 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
583 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
586 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
587 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
588 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
589 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
590 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
593 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
594 --------------------------------
597 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
598 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
599 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
600 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
601 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
602 during playback on Mac OS X
605 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
606 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
607 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
610 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
611 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
612 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
613 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
614 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
617 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
618 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
619 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
620 * Support Youtube live streams
623 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
626 * Fix media info dialog update
627 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
628 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
629 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
630 * Fix album art display at start
633 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
634 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
635 * Fix menus display and behavior
636 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
637 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
638 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
639 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
640 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
641 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
642 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
645 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
646 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
647 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
648 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
649 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
650 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
651 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
652 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
653 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
656 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
657 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
658 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
659 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
660 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
663 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
664 --------------------------------
667 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
670 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
671 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
674 * Add GateKeeper support
675 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
676 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
677 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
680 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
683 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
684 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
685 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
686 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
687 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
690 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
691 --------------------------------
694 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
695 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
696 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
697 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
698 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
699 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
700 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
701 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
702 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
703 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
704 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
708 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
709 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
710 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
711 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
712 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
713 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
714 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
715 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
716 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
717 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
718 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
719 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
722 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
723 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
725 * Fix MP3 free format support
728 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
729 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
730 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
731 * Fix for DVB channels file support
732 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
735 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
736 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
738 Audio filters and output:
739 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
740 * Fix DirectSound device selection
741 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
742 * Do not apply volume in file output
743 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
744 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
747 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
748 the persistant media library
749 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
750 to the media library or the temporary playlist
751 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
752 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
753 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
754 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
755 press on the Play/Pause button
756 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
757 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
758 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
759 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
760 * Many Fullscreen fixes
761 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
762 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
763 Synchronization panel
764 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
765 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
766 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
767 * Fix crashes on exit
768 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
770 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
771 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
772 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
773 automatically reset on the first launch.
774 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
775 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
776 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
779 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
780 * Fixes for icecast SD
783 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
784 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
785 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
786 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
787 * Fix tags and file names display
788 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
791 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
792 * Fix for key events and focus loss
795 * Fix display of some buttons
796 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
797 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
800 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
801 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
802 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
805 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
806 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
807 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
808 Thai translations update
809 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
812 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
813 --------------------------------
816 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
817 * fix the samba module compilation
818 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
819 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
820 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
821 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
824 * Support for MXPEG files
825 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
826 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
829 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
830 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
831 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
834 * Fix ogm header creation
837 * limit spatializer filter distortions
838 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
841 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
842 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
843 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
844 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
847 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
850 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
851 * allow to hide the sidebar
852 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
853 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
854 * noticebly faster launch time
855 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
856 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
857 * improve track synchronization panel
858 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
859 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
862 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
863 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
864 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
865 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
868 * fix for menus display
869 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
870 * documentation update
873 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
874 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
877 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
878 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
879 * Update Jamendo selections
883 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
884 * fix a crash on VLM close
887 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
888 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
889 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
890 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
893 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
896 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
897 ---------------------------------
900 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
901 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
902 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
903 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
904 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
905 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
906 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
907 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
908 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
909 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
910 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
911 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
912 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
913 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
914 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
915 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
916 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
917 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
918 --http-crl (optional CRL).
919 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
920 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
921 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
922 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
923 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
924 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
925 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
927 Important changes for packagers:
928 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
929 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
930 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
931 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
932 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
933 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
934 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
935 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
936 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
937 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
940 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
941 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
942 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
943 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
944 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
945 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
946 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
949 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
950 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
951 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
952 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
953 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
954 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
955 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
956 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
957 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
958 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
959 * PulseAudio audio input support
960 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
961 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
962 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
963 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
964 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
965 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
966 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
967 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
970 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
971 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
972 are notably concerned.
973 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
974 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
975 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
976 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
977 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
978 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
979 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
980 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
981 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
982 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
983 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
984 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
985 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
986 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
987 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
990 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
991 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
992 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
993 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
994 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
995 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
996 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
997 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
998 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
999 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1000 * Improved support of tracker files
1001 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1004 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1005 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1006 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1007 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1008 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1009 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1010 and important cleanups and optimisations
1011 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1012 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1013 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1014 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1015 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1016 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1017 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1018 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1019 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1020 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1021 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1022 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1023 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1024 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1025 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1026 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1027 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1028 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1029 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1030 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1031 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1034 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1035 * New video output for iOS platform
1036 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1037 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1038 * Various vmem improvements
1039 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1040 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1041 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1042 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1043 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1044 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1046 Audio Output and Filters:
1047 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1048 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1049 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1050 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1051 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1052 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1053 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1054 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1055 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1056 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1059 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1060 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1061 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1062 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1063 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1064 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1065 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1066 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1067 * New anti-flickering filter
1068 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1069 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1070 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1071 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1072 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1073 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1074 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1077 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1078 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1079 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1080 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1081 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1082 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1083 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1084 * Major rework of VoD support
1085 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1086 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1087 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1088 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1089 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1090 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1091 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1092 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1093 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1094 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1097 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1098 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1101 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1102 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1103 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1104 list of available audio and video filters
1105 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1106 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1107 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1110 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1111 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1112 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1113 * id3tag: use taglib
1114 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1115 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1116 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1117 * removal of the noise filter
1118 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1119 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1120 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1121 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1124 * Update of translations for most languages.
1125 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1128 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1129 ----------------------------------
1132 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1133 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1136 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1137 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1140 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1141 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1142 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1145 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1148 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1149 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1152 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1155 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1156 ----------------------------------
1159 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1160 including support for OS X Lion
1161 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1162 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1165 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1168 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1169 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1170 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1173 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1176 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1177 ----------------------------------
1180 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1181 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1184 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1185 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1186 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1187 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1188 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1190 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1191 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1192 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1194 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1195 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1198 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1201 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1204 * Fix quitting on Linux
1205 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1209 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1212 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1215 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1216 ---------------------------------
1218 Windows and Mac OS X:
1219 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1222 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1223 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1226 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1229 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1232 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1234 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1235 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1237 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1238 * RTP output and XML export
1239 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1243 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1244 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1245 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1246 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1249 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1250 --------------------------------
1252 Windows and Mac OS X:
1253 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1256 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1259 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1260 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1261 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1262 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1263 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1264 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1267 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1268 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1272 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1273 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1274 * New Luganda Translation
1277 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1278 --------------------------------
1281 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1284 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1285 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1286 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1287 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1290 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1292 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1293 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1294 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1295 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1296 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1297 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1298 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1299 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1301 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1302 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1303 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1304 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1305 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1306 * Configure and build system improvements
1307 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1310 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1311 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1312 * New icelandic translation
1315 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1316 --------------------------------
1319 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1320 #234484 and #260719.
1323 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1324 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1325 and stability reasons
1328 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1332 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1335 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1336 ----------------------------------
1339 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1342 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1343 ---------------------------------
1346 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1347 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1348 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1349 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1352 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1355 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1356 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1357 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1358 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1361 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1362 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1363 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1365 Subtitles and renderer:
1366 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1367 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1368 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1369 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1370 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1373 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1374 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1375 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1376 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1379 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1380 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1382 Miscellaneous fixes:
1383 * KDE device solid actions
1385 * Transcode integer overflow
1386 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1387 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1390 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1391 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1392 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1395 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1396 ----------------------------------
1399 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1403 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1406 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1409 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1410 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1411 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1412 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1415 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1419 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1422 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1425 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1426 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1428 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1432 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1433 * Miscellaneous fixes
1436 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1437 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1438 French and Ukrainian
1439 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1440 * New Asturian translation
1443 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1444 ----------------------------------
1447 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1449 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1452 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1455 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1456 * Various fixes for Windows
1459 * New Armenian translation
1460 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1461 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1464 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1465 --------------------------------
1468 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1469 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1470 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1473 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1474 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1477 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1478 --------------------------------
1480 Access and demuxers:
1481 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1482 * fix for podcasts parsing
1483 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1486 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1487 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1490 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1491 * fix m3u playlists exports
1494 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1497 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1500 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1503 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1506 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1509 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1510 --------------------------------
1513 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1514 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1517 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1518 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1521 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1522 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1523 * fix console output encoding
1525 Interface and extensions:
1526 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1527 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1530 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1531 --------------------------------
1534 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1535 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1536 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1537 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1538 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1539 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1540 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1541 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1542 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1543 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1544 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1545 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1546 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1547 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1548 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1549 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1553 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1554 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1555 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1556 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1557 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1560 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1563 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1564 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1565 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1569 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1572 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1573 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1574 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1577 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1578 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1579 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1580 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1583 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1584 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1587 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1588 --------------------------------
1590 Important changes for users:
1591 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1592 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1594 Important changes for packagers:
1595 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1596 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1597 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1598 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1599 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1601 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1603 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1604 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1605 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1606 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1607 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1610 * Support for the sftp protocol
1611 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1612 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1613 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1614 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1615 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1618 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1619 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1620 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1622 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1623 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1624 * Invmem module improvements
1625 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1626 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1627 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1628 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1629 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1630 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1631 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1632 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1633 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1634 * Support for VP8 codec
1635 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1638 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1639 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1640 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1641 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1642 * Various EGP improvements
1643 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1644 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1647 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1648 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1649 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1650 * Podcast images are now displayed
1653 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1654 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1655 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1656 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1657 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1658 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1659 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1660 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1661 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1662 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1663 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1666 * New content extensions lua framework
1669 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1670 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1671 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1672 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1673 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1674 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1675 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1678 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1679 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1680 * Service discovery based on libudev
1681 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1684 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1685 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1686 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1687 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1688 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1689 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1690 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1693 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1694 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1695 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1698 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1700 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1701 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1704 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1707 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1708 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1709 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1710 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1711 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1712 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1713 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1716 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1717 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1720 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1721 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1722 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1726 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1727 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1728 * Improved Solaris port
1731 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1732 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1735 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1736 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1737 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1738 * transrate: broken since too long
1739 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1740 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1741 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1742 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1743 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1744 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1745 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1746 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1747 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1748 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1749 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1750 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1751 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1752 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1755 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1756 --------------------------------
1759 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1761 Decoders/Packetizers:
1762 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1765 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1766 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1767 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1768 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1769 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1772 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1773 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1776 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1777 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1780 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1781 and Walloon translations updated
1782 * Sinhala translation started
1785 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1786 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1789 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1790 --------------------------------
1793 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1794 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1797 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1800 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1801 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1804 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1805 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1806 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1807 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1810 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1811 --------------------------------
1814 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1815 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1818 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1819 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1822 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1823 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1826 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1829 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1830 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1833 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1834 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1837 * New Walloon translation
1838 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1841 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1842 --------------------------------
1845 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1846 regressions in most popular drivers
1847 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1850 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1851 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1852 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1855 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1856 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1859 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1860 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1861 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1862 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1863 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1866 * New udev module for linux
1869 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1872 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1875 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1876 --------------------------------
1879 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1880 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1881 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1884 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1885 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1888 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1889 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1892 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1895 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1896 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1897 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1898 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1901 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1902 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1903 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1904 - no support for Goom and SDL
1905 - limited text rendering support
1906 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1909 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1910 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1911 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1912 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1913 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1914 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1915 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1916 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1917 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1921 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1924 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1927 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1928 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1929 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1930 Arabic and French translation updates
1933 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1934 --------------------------------
1937 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1938 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1939 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1940 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1941 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1942 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1945 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1946 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1947 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1950 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1951 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1952 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1955 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1958 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1959 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1962 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1963 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1964 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1965 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1966 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1967 * Fix various crashes
1970 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1972 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1976 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1977 ---------------------------------
1981 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1982 See 'Access:' for more info.
1983 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1986 * Instantaneous pausing
1987 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1988 * Finer speed control
1989 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1990 * Timeshift for most medias
1991 * RTSP trickplay support
1992 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1995 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1996 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1997 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1998 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1999 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2000 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2001 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2002 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2003 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2004 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2007 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2008 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2009 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2010 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2011 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2012 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2013 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2016 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2017 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2020 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2021 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2022 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2023 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2024 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2025 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2026 * DVB scanning on linux
2027 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2028 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2029 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2030 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2031 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2032 * MTP device access on Unix
2033 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2034 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2037 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2038 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2039 Windows and Mac OS X.
2042 * Export the playlist in HTML
2043 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2044 * Better metadata handling and reading
2046 Linux/Windows interface:
2047 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2048 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2049 * Recently played items list
2050 * Interface toolbar customizations
2051 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2052 - More menus actions
2053 - Finer speed slider
2054 - Improvements on many dialogs
2055 - New dialog for plugins listing
2056 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2057 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2058 * Better integration in GTK environments
2061 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2062 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2063 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2064 * Additional usability improvements
2067 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2068 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2069 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2070 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2071 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2074 * New Maemo port with:
2075 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2076 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2079 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2082 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2083 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2084 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2085 * Support for latest iSight models
2088 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2089 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2092 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2093 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2094 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2095 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2096 The old image video output has been removed.
2097 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2098 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2101 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2109 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2110 --------------------------------------
2116 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2117 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2118 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2119 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2120 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2121 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2122 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2124 Various fixes to the following modules:
2127 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2128 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2129 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2131 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2136 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2137 ---------------------------------
2140 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2141 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2144 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2145 ---------------------------------
2148 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2151 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2154 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2155 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2156 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2157 main controller window.
2158 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2161 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2166 * Updates of other localizations
2169 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2170 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2171 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2172 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2173 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2176 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2177 ---------------------------------
2180 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2182 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2185 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2186 --------------------------------
2191 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2192 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2195 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2196 --------------------------------
2198 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2199 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2202 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2205 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2206 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2209 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2210 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2213 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2214 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2215 * Various fixed in playlist
2218 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2221 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2224 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2225 ------------------------------------
2227 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2228 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2231 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2232 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2233 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2236 * Stability fix for the video output.
2239 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2240 --------------------------------
2243 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2244 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2245 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2246 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2247 * Fixed update system bugs
2248 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2251 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2252 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2253 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2254 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2255 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2256 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2257 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2258 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2259 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2260 modern Mac OS X versions
2263 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2264 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2266 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2267 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2270 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2271 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2272 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2273 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2274 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2275 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2278 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2279 --------------------------------
2281 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2282 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2283 * Multiple bugfixes.
2286 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2287 --------------------------------
2289 * Multiple bug fixes.
2292 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2293 ---------------------------------
2297 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2298 recent to work correctly
2299 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2300 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2301 edit the ".hosts" file.
2302 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2303 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2304 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2305 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2306 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2307 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2308 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2309 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2310 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2311 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2312 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2313 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2314 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2315 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2316 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2317 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2318 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2319 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2320 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2321 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2322 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2323 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2324 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2325 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2326 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2327 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2328 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2329 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2330 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2331 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2332 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2333 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2334 and postproc modules.
2335 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2336 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2337 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2338 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2340 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2341 filter. For example:
2342 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2343 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2345 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2346 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2352 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2354 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2355 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2358 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2359 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2361 * Shoutcast TV listings
2362 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2364 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2365 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2367 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2370 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2371 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2372 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2373 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2374 * JACK audio input support
2375 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2376 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2377 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2378 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2379 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2380 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2381 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2382 (available as a separate download).
2383 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2384 * RTMP input support
2385 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2386 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2387 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2389 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2390 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2393 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2394 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2395 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2396 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2398 * APEv1/2 tags support
2399 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2400 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2402 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2403 * TiVo Series 2 support
2404 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2409 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2410 * Flash Screen Video support
2411 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2412 * DosBox Capture support
2413 * Karl Morton's Video support
2414 * limited atrac3 support
2416 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2417 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2418 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2419 * H.264 PAFF support
2420 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2421 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2422 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2423 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2424 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2427 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2428 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2429 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2430 * AQTitle subtitles support
2431 * MKV USF subtitles support
2432 * HTML-based subtitles support
2433 * MPSub subtitles support
2434 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2435 * MPL2 subtitles support
2436 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2437 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2438 * Realtext subtitle support
2439 * DKS subtitle support
2440 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2441 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2444 * Flash Screen Video support
2445 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2447 Video outputs and filters:
2448 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2449 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2450 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2451 * New puzzle video output filter
2452 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2453 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2455 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2456 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2457 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2458 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2459 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2460 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2461 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2462 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2463 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2464 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2465 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2466 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2467 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2468 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2470 Audio outputs and filters:
2471 * Replay gain support
2472 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2473 new scaletempo audio filter)
2474 * New spatializer audio filter
2475 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2478 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2479 * New RTP payload formats:
2480 * Speex voice audio codec
2481 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2482 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2483 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2484 * DCCP transport for RTP
2485 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2490 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2491 end-user suitable way.
2492 * Improved user interaction
2493 * Improved mouse gestures
2494 * Vastly improved Update checker
2495 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2497 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2498 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2500 * Improved video output features
2501 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2502 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2503 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2504 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2505 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2507 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2508 if libncursesw is available.
2509 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2510 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2511 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2513 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2514 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2515 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2516 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2517 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2518 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2519 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2520 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2523 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2524 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2525 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2528 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2529 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2530 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2531 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2532 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2533 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2536 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2537 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2547 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2548 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2549 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2552 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2553 ----------------------------------
2556 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2559 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2560 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2561 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2562 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2563 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2564 * Updated Polish translation
2567 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2568 ----------------------------------
2571 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2572 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2573 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2576 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2577 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2578 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2579 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2580 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2581 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2582 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2583 to an unexpected application termination
2584 * New Serbian translation
2585 * Updated Romanian translation
2588 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2589 ----------------------------------
2592 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2593 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2594 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2595 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2596 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2597 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2598 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2599 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2602 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2603 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2604 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2605 * Fixed AAC resampling
2606 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2607 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2610 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2611 ----------------------------------
2614 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2615 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2616 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2617 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2618 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2621 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2622 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2623 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2624 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2625 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2628 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2629 ----------------------------------
2632 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2633 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2636 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2637 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2638 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2639 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2641 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2645 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2648 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2651 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2654 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2657 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2658 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2659 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2660 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2661 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2663 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2664 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2665 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2666 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2669 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2672 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2673 ----------------------------------
2676 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2677 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2678 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2680 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2681 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2683 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2684 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2687 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2689 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2690 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2691 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2692 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2693 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2694 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2695 two different movies
2696 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2697 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2698 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2701 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2704 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2705 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2706 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2707 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2710 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2711 ----------------------------------
2713 Various bugfixes, notably:
2714 * Windows Vista compatibility
2715 * Cropping in Direct3D
2716 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2717 * RSS filter string overflow
2719 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2721 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2722 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2725 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2726 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2729 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2732 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2735 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2738 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2739 ----------------------------------
2741 Various bugfixes, notably:
2742 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2743 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2744 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2745 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2746 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2747 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2750 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2751 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2754 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2756 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2757 * Diverse usability improvements
2758 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2759 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2760 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2763 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2764 ---------------------------------
2766 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2767 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2770 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2773 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2774 --------------------------------
2777 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2780 * Support for RTSP authentication
2781 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2782 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2783 * ATSC support for DVB input
2784 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2785 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2786 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2789 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2790 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2791 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2792 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2793 * Matroska WavPack support
2794 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2795 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2796 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2799 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2800 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2801 * Improved libcaca support
2805 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2806 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2808 * Systray support in skins
2810 * Support for Apple Remote control
2811 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2812 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2813 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2814 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2816 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2819 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2820 Windows 9x/ME users:
2821 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2822 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2823 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2824 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2825 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2827 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2828 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2837 * Updates to the libvlc API
2838 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2841 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2842 --------------------------------
2845 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2846 * Support for downloading updates
2850 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2851 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2852 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2853 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2855 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2856 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2857 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2860 * Cook (Real audio) support
2862 Playlist / Services discovery:
2863 * XSPF playlist support
2865 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2868 * New JACK audio output
2871 * New video filters:
2872 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2873 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2874 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2875 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2876 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2877 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2880 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2883 * System to inform the user and request information
2884 - HTTP authentication
2888 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2889 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2890 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2893 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2894 - Improved playlist handling
2895 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2897 - Embedded Video output
2898 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2899 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2900 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2901 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2902 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2904 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2905 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2908 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2911 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2912 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2913 * Growl "Now playing" support
2916 * Ability to log to syslog
2917 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2920 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2922 * A bit more automatic testing
2925 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2926 ---------------------------------
2929 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2930 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2933 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2934 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2937 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2940 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2941 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2947 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2950 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2951 --------------------------------
2954 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2958 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2959 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2960 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2963 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2964 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2965 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2966 * GnomeVFS input module
2967 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2968 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2971 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2972 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2973 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2976 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2977 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2983 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2984 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2987 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2988 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2989 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2992 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2994 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2995 - New extended controls panel
2996 - New bookmarks window
2997 - Fixed playlist sorting
2998 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3000 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3001 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3002 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3003 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3007 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3008 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3010 - Include macro to include other files
3014 * Should now work outside IE as well
3017 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3020 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3021 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3024 The following languages were added:
3028 * Simplified Chinese
3029 The following languages were re-added:
3033 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3034 --------------------------------
3037 * Rewrite of the playlist
3039 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3040 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3041 * Preferences improvements:
3042 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3043 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3045 * Core image manipulation support
3046 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3047 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3048 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3049 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3050 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3051 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3052 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3053 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3054 * Access filter architecture
3055 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3056 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3060 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3061 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3062 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3063 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3064 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3065 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3066 * Massive Matroska improvements
3067 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3069 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3070 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3071 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3072 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3073 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3075 Decoders / Encoders:
3076 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3077 * PNG decoder/encoder
3078 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3079 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3082 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3085 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3086 * Brand new SAP module
3087 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3088 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3089 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3090 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3091 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3092 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3096 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3099 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3100 * Image file video output (png)
3101 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3102 * Improvements to wall video filter
3103 * Support for font color and opacity
3109 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3110 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3111 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3115 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3116 - Improved preferences
3117 - Improvements to the wizard
3118 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3120 - Redesigned playlist
3121 - Improved preferences
3123 - Support for multiple actions
3126 - Support for the new playlist system
3128 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3131 * Screensaver disabling fix
3132 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3133 * Support for no-decoration windows
3136 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3137 * The OpenGL video output is back
3138 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3139 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3140 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3141 is not yet available in the new module
3142 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3145 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3154 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3157 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3160 The following languages were added:
3166 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3167 --------------------------------
3170 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3171 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3174 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3175 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3176 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3179 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3182 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3185 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3188 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3189 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3190 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3194 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3196 * Support of playlist group announcement
3199 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3200 --------------------------------
3203 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3204 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3205 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3206 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3207 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3208 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3211 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3212 (Stream your desktop)
3213 * Improved DVD support:
3214 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3215 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3216 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3217 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3218 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3219 (selection of titles/chapters).
3222 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3223 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3224 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3225 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3226 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3227 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3228 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3229 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3230 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3231 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3234 * G.726 audio support
3235 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3236 * MPEG-4 text support
3237 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3238 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3239 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3243 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3244 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3245 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3246 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3247 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3248 * DVB subtitles encoder
3249 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3250 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3252 * Text track muxing for mp4
3253 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3254 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3255 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3256 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3257 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3258 * Improved ASF muxer
3260 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3261 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3262 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3265 * New audio equalizer filter
3266 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3267 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3268 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3269 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3272 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3273 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3274 with support for effects.
3275 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3276 - New filters can be streamed.
3277 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3278 - Centralized scaling and blending
3280 - "time", to display current time
3281 - "marq", to display a marquee
3284 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3285 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3286 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3287 * A few skins2 improvements
3288 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3289 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3290 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3291 * Improved CORBA control module
3294 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3295 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3296 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3299 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3300 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3301 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3304 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3305 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3306 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3307 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3308 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3311 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3314 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3315 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3318 * Server/client network synchronization module
3319 * VBrick streams fully supported
3320 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3324 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3325 --------------------------------
3328 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3329 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3330 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3331 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3334 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3335 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3336 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3337 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3338 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3339 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3340 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3343 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3344 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3345 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3346 * Improved directory access module.
3347 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3348 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3349 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3350 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3351 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3354 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3355 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3356 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3359 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3360 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3361 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3364 * Improved session announcement system.
3365 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3366 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3367 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3368 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3369 * Improved transrater.
3370 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3371 * New configuration system.
3372 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3375 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3376 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3377 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3378 * Supports scheduling.
3379 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3380 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3383 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3384 - Ability to embed video output.
3385 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3386 - Lots of improvements.
3387 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3388 - New design and set of icons.
3389 - Ability to embed video output.
3390 - Support for hotkeys.
3391 - Support for bookmarks.
3393 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3394 - Better hotkeys handling.
3397 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3398 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3399 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3400 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3403 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3404 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3405 * Improved Windows installer.
3411 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3412 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3415 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3416 ---------------------------------
3419 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3420 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3423 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3424 --------------------------------
3427 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3428 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3431 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3432 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3433 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3434 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3437 * Internal improvments
3438 * Improved import/export
3441 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3443 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3444 small and strange formats.
3446 * New MOD audio demux.
3447 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3448 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3449 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3450 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3453 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3454 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3455 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3461 * New opengl video output plugin.
3464 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3465 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3468 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3469 --------------------------------
3472 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3473 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3474 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3475 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3476 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3477 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3478 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3479 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3482 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3487 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3488 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3489 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3490 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3491 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3492 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3493 * Better Icecast support.
3494 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3495 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3498 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3499 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3500 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3501 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3502 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3503 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3504 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3507 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3508 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3509 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3510 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3511 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3512 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3513 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3514 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3515 * Preliminary RTP support.
3516 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3521 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3522 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3524 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3525 - Improvements and help in preferences
3526 - New streaming wizard
3527 - Revised Disc Open menu
3529 - Improvements of the standard pages
3530 - Support for new commands
3531 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3534 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3535 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3538 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3539 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3540 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3541 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3542 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3543 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3544 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3545 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3546 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3549 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3551 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3552 * Support for Panther.
3553 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3554 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3557 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3558 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3559 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3560 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3561 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3562 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3563 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3564 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3567 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3568 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3569 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3572 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3575 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3576 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3577 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3578 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3581 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3582 --------------------------------
3585 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3588 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3589 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3592 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3593 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3596 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3599 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3600 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3603 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3606 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3609 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3610 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3614 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3615 --------------------------------
3618 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3619 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3623 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3624 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3625 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3627 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3628 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3631 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3634 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3637 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3638 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3642 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3643 --------------------------------
3646 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3647 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3651 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3652 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3653 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3654 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3655 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3658 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3659 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3660 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3663 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3664 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3665 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3668 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3669 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3670 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3671 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3672 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3675 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3676 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3677 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3680 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3683 * Improved build system.
3684 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3685 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3686 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3687 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3690 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3691 --------------------------------
3694 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3697 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3698 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3699 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3700 * Video 4 Linux support
3701 * CD Digital Audio support
3702 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3705 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3706 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3707 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3708 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3711 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3712 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3713 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3714 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3715 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3716 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3717 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3720 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3721 * New HTTP remote control interface
3724 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3725 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3726 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3727 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3728 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3731 * New reset option for the preferences
3732 * You can set your language in the prefences
3733 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3734 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3735 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3736 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3739 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3740 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3741 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3744 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3745 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3746 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3747 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3748 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3749 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3750 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3751 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3752 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3753 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3756 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3757 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3758 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3759 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3760 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3761 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3762 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3765 * Interface localization
3766 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3767 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3768 * New full-featured Preferences window
3771 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3772 --------------------------------
3775 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3776 * support for skins at the interface level
3777 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3778 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3779 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3780 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3781 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3784 * fixed HTTP redirects
3785 * support for opening an entire directory
3786 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3787 * new video4linux access plug-in
3788 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3791 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3792 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3793 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3796 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3797 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3798 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3799 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3800 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3801 * new codec for raw I420 video
3802 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3805 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3806 (although it still misses some important features)
3807 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3810 * new HTTP output support
3811 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3812 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3815 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3818 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3821 * reorderable playlist
3822 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3823 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3824 * support for mono audio output devices
3825 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3826 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3827 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3828 * the messages window remembers more lines
3829 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3830 * http and ogg stream output options
3831 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3834 * new skinnable interface
3835 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3837 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3838 * support for FLAC audio format
3839 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3841 * network tab in the interface
3842 * "apply" handling in preferences
3845 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3846 ---------------------------------
3849 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3850 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3851 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3852 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3854 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3855 * DTS S/PDIF support
3858 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3859 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3860 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3861 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3864 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3865 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3868 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3871 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3874 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3876 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3877 * rc interface is now fully useable
3878 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3881 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3882 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3883 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3884 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3885 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3887 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3888 * support for mouse gestures
3889 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3892 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3893 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3896 * improved ID3 tag detection
3897 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3898 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3899 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3901 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3904 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3905 ---------------------------------
3908 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3909 English was set as the preferred language
3912 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3913 --------------------------------
3916 * new mouse gesture interface
3917 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3921 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3922 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3923 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3926 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3927 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3931 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3934 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3935 without the user consent
3938 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3940 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3941 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3942 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3945 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3946 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3947 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3948 * playlist enhancements
3949 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3950 * new step forward/step backward commands
3951 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3952 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3953 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3956 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3957 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3958 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3961 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3962 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3965 * native video output is working again
3966 * only commandline interface support
3967 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3970 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3971 --------------------------------
3974 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3975 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3976 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3977 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3978 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3979 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3980 and A/52 streams are supported)
3981 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3986 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3987 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3988 * VCD entry points support
3989 * VCD image file support
3992 * support for *.asf format
3993 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3994 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3995 * support for ogg encapsulation
3996 * support for raw DV format
3997 * support for *.wav format
3998 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4001 Stream discovery & playlists:
4002 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4003 * support for .m3u file format
4004 * support for .asx file format
4005 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4008 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4009 (only available with the .avi demux)
4010 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4011 * support for raw PCM data
4012 * support for Cinepak video codec
4013 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4014 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4015 * support for Xvid codec
4016 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4017 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4018 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4020 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4022 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4025 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4028 * new WxWindows interface
4029 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4030 device and the channels configuration
4031 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4032 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4033 format that VLC can play
4034 * new swedish translation
4035 * enhancements of the playlist window
4036 * new messages window to see debug info
4037 * fixed a few crashes
4040 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4041 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4042 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4043 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working