1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
6 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
9 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
10 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
13 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
14 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
15 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
18 * New CAF format module
21 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
22 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
23 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
26 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
27 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
30 * New Oldmovie effect filter
31 * New VHS effect filter
32 * New Freeze effect filter
35 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
38 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
41 * ios video output: use ios2
42 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
45 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0:
46 --------------------------------
49 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
50 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
51 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
52 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
53 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
55 3rd party libraries (contrib):
56 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
60 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
61 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
62 * Partial support for Windows Store App
64 * Add an audio fingerprinter
65 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
68 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
69 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
70 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
71 * Support for Ulead DV audio
72 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
73 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
74 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
75 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
76 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
77 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
78 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
79 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
82 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
83 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
86 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
87 remove support for previous OS X releases
88 * Major improvements in DASH support
89 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
90 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
91 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
92 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
93 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
94 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
95 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
96 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
97 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
98 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
101 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
102 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
103 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
104 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
105 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
106 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
107 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
108 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
109 * Support for more MJPEG streams
110 * Add support for liveleak streams
111 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
112 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV causing the
113 program to terminate.
114 * Add protection against several heap buffer overflow in libebml
117 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
118 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
119 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
120 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
121 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
122 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
123 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
124 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
125 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
126 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
127 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
130 * New remapping channel filter
131 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
132 * New VSXu visualization plugin
133 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
134 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
137 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
138 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
139 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
140 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
141 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
142 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
143 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
144 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
147 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
148 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
149 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
150 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
151 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
152 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
153 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
156 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
157 * Options support for AVIO output module
158 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
159 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
160 * Livehttp stream encryption support
161 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
162 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
165 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
168 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
169 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
170 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
171 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
172 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
173 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
177 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
180 * Add support for multiple video outputs
181 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
183 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
184 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
185 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
186 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
187 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
188 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
189 VLC's internal volume level
190 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
192 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
193 selection and to manage the list of presets
194 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
195 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
196 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
197 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
198 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
199 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
200 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
201 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
202 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
203 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
205 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
206 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
207 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
208 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
209 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
210 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
211 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
212 3rd party applications
213 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
214 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
215 (system-wide settings)
216 * Add support for the Video Title option
217 * Add support for the Boss Key
218 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
219 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
222 * Partial support for Qt5.0
223 * Menus modifications and improvements
224 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
225 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
226 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
227 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
228 * EPG display fixes and improvements
229 * Add SD pixmap sources
230 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
231 * Display playlist total duration
232 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
234 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
235 * Remove language preference
236 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
241 * Extend sliders, offsets options
242 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
243 * Numerous fixes and improvements
244 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
247 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
248 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
249 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
250 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
251 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
252 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
253 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
254 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
255 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
256 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
259 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
260 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
261 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
262 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
263 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
264 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
266 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
267 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
268 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
269 * Broken crop video filter
271 * OSD parser and menu
272 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
273 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
274 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
275 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
279 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
280 --------------------------------
283 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
284 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
288 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
291 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
294 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
297 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
301 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
304 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
307 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
308 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
309 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
312 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
313 --------------------------------
316 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
319 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
322 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
323 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
324 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
325 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
326 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
327 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
330 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
331 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
332 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
333 * 3rd party codecs updates
336 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
337 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
338 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
339 in the advanced preferences panel
340 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
341 * Fix crash within the video output code
342 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
343 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
344 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
345 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
347 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
350 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
353 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
354 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
357 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
360 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
361 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
362 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
363 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
364 Dutch, Danish, translations
365 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
368 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
369 --------------------------------
372 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
375 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
376 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
377 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
380 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
381 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
382 * Fix koreus lua parser
383 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
384 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
385 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
386 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
389 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
390 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
393 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
396 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
397 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
398 * Fix Time counter UI look
399 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
402 * Fix https streaming
405 * Fix audio and video track selection:
406 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
407 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
410 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
411 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
412 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
413 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
414 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
417 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
418 --------------------------------
421 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
422 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
423 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
424 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
425 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
426 during playback on Mac OS X
429 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
430 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
431 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
434 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
435 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
436 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
437 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
438 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
441 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
442 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
443 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
444 * Support Youtube live streams
447 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
450 * Fix media info dialog update
451 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
452 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
453 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
454 * Fix album art display at start
457 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
458 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
459 * Fix menus display and behavior
460 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
461 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
462 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
463 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
464 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
465 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
466 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
469 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
470 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
471 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
472 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
473 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
474 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
475 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
476 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
477 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
480 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
481 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
482 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
483 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
484 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
487 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
488 --------------------------------
491 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
494 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
495 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
498 * Add GateKeeper support
499 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
500 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
501 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
504 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
507 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
508 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
509 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
510 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
511 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
514 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
515 --------------------------------
518 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
519 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
520 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
521 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
522 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
523 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
524 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
525 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
526 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
527 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
528 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
532 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
533 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
534 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
535 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
536 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
537 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
538 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
539 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
540 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
541 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
542 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
543 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
546 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
547 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
549 * Fix MP3 free format support
552 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
553 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
554 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
555 * Fix for DVB channels file support
556 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
559 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
560 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
562 Audio filters and output:
563 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
564 * Fix DirectSound device selection
565 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
566 * Do not apply volume in file output
567 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
568 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
571 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
572 the persistant media library
573 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
574 to the media library or the temporary playlist
575 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
576 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
577 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
578 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
579 press on the Play/Pause button
580 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
581 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
582 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
583 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
584 * Many Fullscreen fixes
585 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
586 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
587 Synchronization panel
588 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
589 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
590 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
591 * Fix crashes on exit
592 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
594 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
595 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
596 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
597 automatically reset on the first launch.
598 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
599 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
600 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
603 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
604 * Fixes for icecast SD
607 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
608 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
609 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
610 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
611 * Fix tags and file names display
612 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
615 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
616 * Fix for key events and focus loss
619 * Fix display of some buttons
620 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
621 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
624 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
625 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
626 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
629 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
630 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
631 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
632 Thai translations update
633 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
636 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
637 --------------------------------
640 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
641 * fix the samba module compilation
642 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
643 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
644 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
645 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
648 * Support for MXPEG files
649 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
650 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
653 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
654 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
655 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
658 * Fix ogm header creation
661 * limit spatializer filter distortions
662 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
665 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
666 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
667 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
668 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
671 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
674 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
675 * allow to hide the sidebar
676 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
677 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
678 * noticebly faster launch time
679 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
680 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
681 * improve track synchronization panel
682 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
683 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
686 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
687 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
688 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
689 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
692 * fix for menus display
693 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
694 * documentation update
697 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
698 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
701 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
702 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
703 * Update Jamendo selections
707 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
708 * fix a crash on VLM close
711 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
712 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
713 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
714 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
717 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
720 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
721 ---------------------------------
724 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
725 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
726 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
727 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
728 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
729 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
730 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
731 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
732 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
733 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
734 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
735 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
736 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
737 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
738 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
739 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
740 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
741 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
742 --http-crl (optional CRL).
743 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
744 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
745 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
746 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
747 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
748 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
749 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
751 Important changes for packagers:
752 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
753 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
754 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
755 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
756 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
757 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
758 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
759 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
760 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
761 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
764 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
765 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
766 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
767 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
768 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
769 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
770 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
773 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
774 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
775 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
776 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
777 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
778 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
779 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
780 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
781 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
782 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
783 * PulseAudio audio input support
784 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
785 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
786 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
787 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
788 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
789 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
790 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
791 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
794 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
795 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
796 are notably concerned.
797 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
798 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
799 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
800 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
801 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
802 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
803 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
804 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
805 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
806 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
807 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
808 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
809 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
810 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
811 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
814 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
815 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
816 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
817 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
818 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
819 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
820 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
821 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
822 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
823 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
824 * Improved support of tracker files
825 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
828 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
829 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
830 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
831 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
832 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
833 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
834 and important cleanups and optimisations
835 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
836 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
837 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
838 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
839 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
840 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
841 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
842 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
843 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
844 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
845 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
846 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
847 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
848 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
849 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
850 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
851 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
852 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
853 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
854 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
855 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
858 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
859 * New video output for iOS platform
860 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
861 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
862 * Various vmem improvements
863 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
864 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
865 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
866 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
867 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
868 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
870 Audio Output and Filters:
871 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
872 * New audio output in memory (amem)
873 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
874 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
875 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
876 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
877 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
878 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
879 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
880 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
883 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
884 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
885 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
886 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
887 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
888 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
889 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
890 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
891 * New anti-flickering filter
892 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
893 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
894 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
895 blackbox and customizable shadow.
896 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
897 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
898 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
901 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
902 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
903 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
904 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
905 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
906 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
907 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
908 * Major rework of VoD support
909 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
910 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
911 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
912 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
913 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
914 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
915 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
916 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
917 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
918 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
921 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
922 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
925 * New capabilities for libVLC:
926 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
927 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
928 list of available audio and video filters
929 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
930 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
931 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
934 * asademux, subsass: use libass
935 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
936 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
938 * upnp: use upnp_intel
939 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
940 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
941 * removal of the noise filter
942 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
943 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
944 removed in Growl's next release, too.
945 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
948 * Update of translations for most languages.
949 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
952 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
953 ----------------------------------
956 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
957 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
960 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
961 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
964 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
965 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
966 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
969 * Camtasia decoding fix.
972 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
973 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
976 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
979 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
980 ----------------------------------
983 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
984 including support for OS X Lion
985 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
986 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
989 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
992 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
993 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
994 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
997 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1000 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1001 ----------------------------------
1004 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1005 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1008 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1009 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1010 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1011 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1012 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1014 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1015 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1016 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1018 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1019 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1022 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1025 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1028 * Fix quitting on Linux
1029 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1033 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1036 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1039 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1040 ---------------------------------
1042 Windows and Mac OS X:
1043 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1046 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1047 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1050 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1053 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1056 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1058 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1059 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1061 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1062 * RTP output and XML export
1063 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1067 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1068 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1069 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1070 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1073 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1074 --------------------------------
1076 Windows and Mac OS X:
1077 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1080 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1083 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1084 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1085 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1086 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1087 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1088 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1091 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1092 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1096 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1097 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1098 * New Luganda Translation
1101 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1102 --------------------------------
1105 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1108 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1109 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1110 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1111 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1114 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1116 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1117 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1118 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1119 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1120 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1121 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1122 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1123 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1125 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1126 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1127 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1128 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1129 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1130 * Configure and build system improvements
1131 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1134 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1135 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1136 * New icelandic translation
1139 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1140 --------------------------------
1143 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1144 #234484 and #260719.
1147 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1148 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1149 and stability reasons
1152 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1156 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1159 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1160 ----------------------------------
1163 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1166 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1167 ---------------------------------
1170 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1171 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1172 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1173 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1176 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1179 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1180 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1181 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1182 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1185 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1186 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1187 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1189 Subtitles and renderer:
1190 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1191 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1192 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1193 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1194 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1197 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1198 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1199 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1200 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1203 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1204 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1206 Miscellaneous fixes:
1207 * KDE device solid actions
1209 * Transcode integer overflow
1210 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1211 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1214 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1215 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1216 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1219 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1220 ----------------------------------
1223 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1227 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1230 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1233 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1234 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1235 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1236 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1239 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1243 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1246 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1249 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1250 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1252 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1256 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1257 * Miscellaneous fixes
1260 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1261 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1262 French and Ukrainian
1263 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1264 * New Asturian translation
1267 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1268 ----------------------------------
1271 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1273 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1276 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1279 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1280 * Various fixes for Windows
1283 * New Armenian translation
1284 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1285 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1288 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1289 --------------------------------
1292 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1293 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1294 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1297 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1298 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1301 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1302 --------------------------------
1304 Access and demuxers:
1305 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1306 * fix for podcasts parsing
1307 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1310 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1311 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1314 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1315 * fix m3u playlists exports
1318 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1321 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1324 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1327 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1330 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1333 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1334 --------------------------------
1337 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1338 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1341 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1342 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1345 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1346 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1347 * fix console output encoding
1349 Interface and extensions:
1350 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1351 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1354 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1355 --------------------------------
1358 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1359 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1360 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1361 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1362 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1363 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1364 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1365 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1366 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1367 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1368 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1369 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1370 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1371 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1372 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1373 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1377 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1378 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1379 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1380 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1381 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1384 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1387 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1388 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1389 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1393 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1396 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1397 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1398 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1401 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1402 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1403 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1404 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1407 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1408 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1411 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1412 --------------------------------
1414 Important changes for users:
1415 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1416 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1418 Important changes for packagers:
1419 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1420 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1421 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1422 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1423 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1425 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1427 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1428 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1429 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1430 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1431 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1434 * Support for the sftp protocol
1435 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1436 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1437 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1438 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1439 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1442 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1443 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1444 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1446 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1447 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1448 * Invmem module improvements
1449 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1450 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1451 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1452 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1453 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1454 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1455 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1456 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1457 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1458 * Support for VP8 codec
1459 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1462 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1463 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1464 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1465 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1466 * Various EGP improvements
1467 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1468 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1471 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1472 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1473 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1474 * Podcast images are now displayed
1477 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1478 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1479 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1480 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1481 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1482 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1483 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1484 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1485 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1486 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1487 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1490 * New content extensions lua framework
1493 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1494 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1495 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1496 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1497 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1498 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1499 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1502 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1503 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1504 * Service discovery based on libudev
1505 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1508 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1509 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1510 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1511 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1512 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1513 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1514 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1517 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1518 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1519 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1522 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1524 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1525 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1528 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1531 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1532 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1533 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1534 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1535 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1536 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1537 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1540 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1541 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1544 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1545 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1546 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1550 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1551 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1552 * Improved Solaris port
1555 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1556 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1559 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1560 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1561 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1562 * transrate: broken since too long
1563 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1564 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1565 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1566 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1567 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1568 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1569 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1570 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1571 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1572 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1573 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1574 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1575 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1576 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1579 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1580 --------------------------------
1583 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1585 Decoders/Packetizers:
1586 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1589 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1590 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1591 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1592 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1593 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1596 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1597 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1600 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1601 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1604 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1605 and Walloon translations updated
1606 * Sinhala translation started
1609 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1610 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1613 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1614 --------------------------------
1617 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1618 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1621 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1624 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1625 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1628 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1629 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1630 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1631 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1634 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1635 --------------------------------
1638 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1639 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1642 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1643 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1646 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1647 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1650 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1653 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1654 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1657 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1658 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1661 * New Walloon translation
1662 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1665 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1666 --------------------------------
1669 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1670 regressions in most popular drivers
1671 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1674 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1675 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1676 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1679 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1680 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1683 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1684 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1685 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1686 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1687 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1690 * New udev module for linux
1693 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1696 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1699 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1700 --------------------------------
1703 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1704 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1705 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1708 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1709 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1712 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1713 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1716 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1719 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1720 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1721 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1722 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1725 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1726 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1727 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1728 - no support for Goom and SDL
1729 - limited text rendering support
1730 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1733 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1734 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1735 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1736 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1737 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1738 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1739 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1740 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1741 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1745 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1748 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1751 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1752 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1753 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1754 Arabic and French translation updates
1757 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1758 --------------------------------
1761 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1762 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1763 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1764 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1765 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1766 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1769 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1770 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1771 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1774 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1775 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1776 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1779 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1782 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1783 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1786 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1787 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1788 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1789 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1790 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1791 * Fix various crashes
1794 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1796 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1800 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1801 ---------------------------------
1805 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1806 See 'Access:' for more info.
1807 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1810 * Instantaneous pausing
1811 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1812 * Finer speed control
1813 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1814 * Timeshift for most medias
1815 * RTSP trickplay support
1816 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1819 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1820 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1821 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1822 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1823 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1824 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1825 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1826 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1827 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1828 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1831 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1832 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1833 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1834 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1835 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1836 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1837 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1840 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1841 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1844 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1845 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1846 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1847 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1848 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1849 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1850 * DVB scanning on linux
1851 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1852 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1853 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1854 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1855 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1856 * MTP device access on Unix
1857 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1858 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1861 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1862 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1863 Windows and Mac OS X.
1866 * Export the playlist in HTML
1867 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1868 * Better metadata handling and reading
1870 Linux/Windows interface:
1871 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1872 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1873 * Recently played items list
1874 * Interface toolbar customizations
1875 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1876 - More menus actions
1877 - Finer speed slider
1878 - Improvements on many dialogs
1879 - New dialog for plugins listing
1880 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1881 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1882 * Better integration in GTK environments
1885 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1886 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1887 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1888 * Additional usability improvements
1891 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1892 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1893 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1894 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1895 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1898 * New Maemo port with:
1899 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1900 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1903 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1906 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1907 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1908 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1909 * Support for latest iSight models
1912 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1913 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1916 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1917 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1918 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1919 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1920 The old image video output has been removed.
1921 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1922 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1925 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1933 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1934 --------------------------------------
1940 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1941 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1942 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1943 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1944 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1945 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1946 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1948 Various fixes to the following modules:
1951 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1952 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1953 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1955 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1960 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1961 ---------------------------------
1964 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1965 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1968 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1969 ---------------------------------
1972 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1975 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1978 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1979 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1980 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1981 main controller window.
1982 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1985 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1990 * Updates of other localizations
1993 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1994 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1995 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1996 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1997 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2000 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2001 ---------------------------------
2004 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2006 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2009 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2010 --------------------------------
2015 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2016 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2019 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2020 --------------------------------
2022 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2023 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2026 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2029 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2030 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2033 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2034 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2037 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2038 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2039 * Various fixed in playlist
2042 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2045 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2048 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2049 ------------------------------------
2051 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2052 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2055 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2056 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2057 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2060 * Stability fix for the video output.
2063 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2064 --------------------------------
2067 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2068 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2069 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2070 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2071 * Fixed update system bugs
2072 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2075 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2076 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2077 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2078 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2079 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2080 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2081 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2082 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2083 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2084 modern Mac OS X versions
2087 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2088 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2090 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2091 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2094 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2095 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2096 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2097 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2098 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2099 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2102 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2103 --------------------------------
2105 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2106 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2107 * Multiple bugfixes.
2110 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2111 --------------------------------
2113 * Multiple bug fixes.
2116 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2117 ---------------------------------
2121 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2122 recent to work correctly
2123 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2124 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2125 edit the ".hosts" file.
2126 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2127 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2128 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2129 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2130 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2131 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2132 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2133 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2134 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2135 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2136 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2137 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2138 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2139 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2140 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2141 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2142 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2143 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2144 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2145 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2146 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2147 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2148 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2149 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2150 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2151 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2152 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2153 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2154 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2155 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2156 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2157 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2158 and postproc modules.
2159 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2160 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2161 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2162 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2164 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2165 filter. For example:
2166 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2167 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2169 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2170 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2176 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2178 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2179 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2182 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2183 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2185 * Shoutcast TV listings
2186 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2188 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2189 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2191 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2194 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2195 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2196 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2197 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2198 * JACK audio input support
2199 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2200 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2201 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2202 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2203 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2204 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2205 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2206 (available as a separate download).
2207 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2208 * RTMP input support
2209 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2210 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2211 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2213 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2214 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2217 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2218 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2219 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2220 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2222 * APEv1/2 tags support
2223 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2224 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2226 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2227 * TiVo Series 2 support
2228 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2233 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2234 * Flash Screen Video support
2235 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2236 * DosBox Capture support
2237 * Karl Morton's Video support
2238 * limited atrac3 support
2240 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2241 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2242 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2243 * H.264 PAFF support
2244 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2245 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2246 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2247 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2248 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2251 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2252 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2253 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2254 * AQTitle subtitles support
2255 * MKV USF subtitles support
2256 * HTML-based subtitles support
2257 * MPSub subtitles support
2258 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2259 * MPL2 subtitles support
2260 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2261 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2262 * Realtext subtitle support
2263 * DKS subtitle support
2264 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2265 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2268 * Flash Screen Video support
2269 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2271 Video outputs and filters:
2272 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2273 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2274 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2275 * New puzzle video output filter
2276 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2277 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2279 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2280 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2281 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2282 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2283 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2284 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2285 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2286 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2287 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2288 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2289 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2290 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2291 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2292 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2294 Audio outputs and filters:
2295 * Replay gain support
2296 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2297 new scaletempo audio filter)
2298 * New spatializer audio filter
2299 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2302 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2303 * New RTP payload formats:
2304 * Speex voice audio codec
2305 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2306 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2307 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2308 * DCCP transport for RTP
2309 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2314 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2315 end-user suitable way.
2316 * Improved user interaction
2317 * Improved mouse gestures
2318 * Vastly improved Update checker
2319 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2321 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2322 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2324 * Improved video output features
2325 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2326 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2327 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2328 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2329 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2331 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2332 if libncursesw is available.
2333 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2334 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2335 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2337 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2338 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2339 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2340 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2341 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2342 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2343 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2344 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2347 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2348 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2349 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2352 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2353 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2354 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2355 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2356 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2357 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2360 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2361 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2371 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2372 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2373 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2376 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2377 ----------------------------------
2380 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2383 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2384 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2385 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2386 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2387 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2388 * Updated Polish translation
2391 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2392 ----------------------------------
2395 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2396 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2397 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2400 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2401 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2402 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2403 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2404 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2405 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2406 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2407 to an unexpected application termination
2408 * New Serbian translation
2409 * Updated Romanian translation
2412 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2413 ----------------------------------
2416 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2417 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2418 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2419 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2420 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2421 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2422 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2423 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2426 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2427 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2428 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2429 * Fixed AAC resampling
2430 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2431 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2434 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2435 ----------------------------------
2438 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2439 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2440 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2441 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2442 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2445 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2446 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2447 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2448 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2449 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2452 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2453 ----------------------------------
2456 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2457 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2460 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2461 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2462 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2463 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2465 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2469 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2472 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2475 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2478 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2481 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2482 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2483 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2484 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2485 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2487 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2488 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2489 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2490 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2493 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2496 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2497 ----------------------------------
2500 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2501 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2502 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2504 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2505 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2507 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2508 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2511 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2513 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2514 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2515 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2516 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2517 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2518 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2519 two different movies
2520 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2521 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2522 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2525 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2528 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2529 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2530 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2531 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2534 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2535 ----------------------------------
2537 Various bugfixes, notably:
2538 * Windows Vista compatibility
2539 * Cropping in Direct3D
2540 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2541 * RSS filter string overflow
2543 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2545 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2546 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2549 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2550 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2553 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2556 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2559 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2562 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2563 ----------------------------------
2565 Various bugfixes, notably:
2566 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2567 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2568 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2569 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2570 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2571 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2574 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2575 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2578 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2580 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2581 * Diverse usability improvements
2582 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2583 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2584 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2587 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2588 ---------------------------------
2590 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2591 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2594 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2597 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2598 --------------------------------
2601 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2604 * Support for RTSP authentication
2605 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2606 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2607 * ATSC support for DVB input
2608 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2609 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2610 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2613 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2614 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2615 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2616 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2617 * Matroska WavPack support
2618 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2619 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2620 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2623 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2624 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2625 * Improved libcaca support
2629 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2630 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2632 * Systray support in skins
2634 * Support for Apple Remote control
2635 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2636 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2637 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2638 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2640 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2643 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2644 Windows 9x/ME users:
2645 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2646 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2647 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2648 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2649 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2651 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2652 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2661 * Updates to the libvlc API
2662 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2665 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2666 --------------------------------
2669 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2670 * Support for downloading updates
2674 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2675 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2676 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2677 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2679 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2680 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2681 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2684 * Cook (Real audio) support
2686 Playlist / Services discovery:
2687 * XSPF playlist support
2689 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2692 * New JACK audio output
2695 * New video filters:
2696 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2697 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2698 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2699 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2700 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2701 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2704 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2707 * System to inform the user and request information
2708 - HTTP authentication
2712 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2713 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2714 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2717 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2718 - Improved playlist handling
2719 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2721 - Embedded Video output
2722 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2723 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2724 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2725 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2726 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2728 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2729 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2732 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2735 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2736 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2737 * Growl "Now playing" support
2740 * Ability to log to syslog
2741 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2744 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2746 * A bit more automatic testing
2749 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2750 ---------------------------------
2753 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2754 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2757 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2758 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2761 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2764 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2765 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2771 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2774 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2775 --------------------------------
2778 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2782 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2783 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2784 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2787 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2788 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2789 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2790 * GnomeVFS input module
2791 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2792 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2795 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2796 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2797 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2800 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2801 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2807 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2808 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2811 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2812 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2813 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2816 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2818 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2819 - New extended controls panel
2820 - New bookmarks window
2821 - Fixed playlist sorting
2822 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2824 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2825 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2826 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2827 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2831 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2832 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2834 - Include macro to include other files
2838 * Should now work outside IE as well
2841 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2844 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2845 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2848 The following languages were added:
2852 * Simplified Chinese
2853 The following languages were re-added:
2857 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2858 --------------------------------
2861 * Rewrite of the playlist
2863 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2864 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2865 * Preferences improvements:
2866 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2867 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2869 * Core image manipulation support
2870 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2871 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2872 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2873 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2874 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2875 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2876 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2877 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2878 * Access filter architecture
2879 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2880 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2884 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2885 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2886 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2887 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2888 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2889 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2890 * Massive Matroska improvements
2891 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2893 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2894 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2895 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2896 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2897 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2899 Decoders / Encoders:
2900 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2901 * PNG decoder/encoder
2902 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2903 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2906 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2909 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2910 * Brand new SAP module
2911 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2912 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2913 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2914 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2915 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2916 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2920 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2923 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2924 * Image file video output (png)
2925 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2926 * Improvements to wall video filter
2927 * Support for font color and opacity
2933 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2934 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2935 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2939 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2940 - Improved preferences
2941 - Improvements to the wizard
2942 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2944 - Redesigned playlist
2945 - Improved preferences
2947 - Support for multiple actions
2950 - Support for the new playlist system
2952 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2955 * Screensaver disabling fix
2956 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2957 * Support for no-decoration windows
2960 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2961 * The OpenGL video output is back
2962 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2963 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2964 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2965 is not yet available in the new module
2966 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2969 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2978 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2981 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2984 The following languages were added:
2990 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2991 --------------------------------
2994 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2995 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2998 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2999 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3000 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3003 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3006 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3009 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3012 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3013 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3014 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3018 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3020 * Support of playlist group announcement
3023 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3024 --------------------------------
3027 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3028 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3029 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3030 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3031 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3032 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3035 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3036 (Stream your desktop)
3037 * Improved DVD support:
3038 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3039 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3040 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3041 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3042 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3043 (selection of titles/chapters).
3046 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3047 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3048 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3049 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3050 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3051 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3052 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3053 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3054 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3055 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3058 * G.726 audio support
3059 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3060 * MPEG-4 text support
3061 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3062 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3063 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3067 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3068 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3069 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3070 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3071 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3072 * DVB subtitles encoder
3073 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3074 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3076 * Text track muxing for mp4
3077 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3078 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3079 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3080 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3081 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3082 * Improved ASF muxer
3084 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3085 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3086 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3089 * New audio equalizer filter
3090 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3091 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3092 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3093 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3096 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3097 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3098 with support for effects.
3099 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3100 - New filters can be streamed.
3101 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3102 - Centralized scaling and blending
3104 - "time", to display current time
3105 - "marq", to display a marquee
3108 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3109 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3110 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3111 * A few skins2 improvements
3112 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3113 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3114 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3115 * Improved CORBA control module
3118 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3119 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3120 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3123 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3124 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3125 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3128 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3129 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3130 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3131 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3132 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3135 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3138 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3139 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3142 * Server/client network synchronization module
3143 * VBrick streams fully supported
3144 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3148 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3149 --------------------------------
3152 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3153 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3154 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3155 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3158 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3159 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3160 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3161 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3162 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3163 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3164 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3167 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3168 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3169 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3170 * Improved directory access module.
3171 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3172 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3173 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3174 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3175 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3178 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3179 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3180 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3183 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3184 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3185 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3188 * Improved session announcement system.
3189 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3190 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3191 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3192 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3193 * Improved transrater.
3194 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3195 * New configuration system.
3196 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3199 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3200 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3201 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3202 * Supports scheduling.
3203 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3204 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3207 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3208 - Ability to embed video output.
3209 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3210 - Lots of improvements.
3211 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3212 - New design and set of icons.
3213 - Ability to embed video output.
3214 - Support for hotkeys.
3215 - Support for bookmarks.
3217 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3218 - Better hotkeys handling.
3221 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3222 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3223 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3224 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3227 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3228 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3229 * Improved Windows installer.
3235 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3236 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3239 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3240 ---------------------------------
3243 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3244 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3247 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3248 --------------------------------
3251 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3252 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3255 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3256 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3257 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3258 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3261 * Internal improvments
3262 * Improved import/export
3265 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3267 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3268 small and strange formats.
3270 * New MOD audio demux.
3271 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3272 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3273 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3274 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3277 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3278 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3279 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3285 * New opengl video output plugin.
3288 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3289 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3292 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3293 --------------------------------
3296 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3297 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3298 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3299 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3300 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3301 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3302 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3303 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3306 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3311 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3312 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3313 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3314 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3315 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3316 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3317 * Better Icecast support.
3318 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3319 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3322 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3323 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3324 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3325 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3326 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3327 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3328 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3331 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3332 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3333 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3334 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3335 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3336 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3337 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3338 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3339 * Preliminary RTP support.
3340 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3345 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3346 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3348 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3349 - Improvements and help in preferences
3350 - New streaming wizard
3351 - Revised Disc Open menu
3353 - Improvements of the standard pages
3354 - Support for new commands
3355 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3358 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3359 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3362 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3363 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3364 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3365 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3366 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3367 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3368 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3369 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3370 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3373 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3375 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3376 * Support for Panther.
3377 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3378 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3381 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3382 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3383 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3384 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3385 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3386 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3387 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3388 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3391 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3392 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3393 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3396 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3399 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3400 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3401 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3402 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3405 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3406 --------------------------------
3409 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3412 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3413 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3416 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3417 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3420 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3423 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3424 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3427 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3430 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3433 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3434 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3438 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3439 --------------------------------
3442 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3443 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3447 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3448 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3449 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3451 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3452 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3455 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3458 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3461 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3462 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3466 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3467 --------------------------------
3470 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3471 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3475 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3476 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3477 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3478 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3479 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3482 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3483 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3484 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3487 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3488 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3489 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3492 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3493 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3494 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3495 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3496 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3499 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3500 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3501 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3504 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3507 * Improved build system.
3508 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3509 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3510 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3511 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3514 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3515 --------------------------------
3518 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3521 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3522 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3523 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3524 * Video 4 Linux support
3525 * CD Digital Audio support
3526 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3529 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3530 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3531 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3532 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3535 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3536 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3537 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3538 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3539 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3540 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3541 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3544 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3545 * New HTTP remote control interface
3548 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3549 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3550 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3551 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3552 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3555 * New reset option for the preferences
3556 * You can set your language in the prefences
3557 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3558 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3559 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3560 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3563 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3564 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3565 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3568 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3569 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3570 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3571 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3572 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3573 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3574 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3575 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3576 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3577 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3580 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3581 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3582 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3583 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3584 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3585 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3586 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3589 * Interface localization
3590 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3591 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3592 * New full-featured Preferences window
3595 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3596 --------------------------------
3599 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3600 * support for skins at the interface level
3601 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3602 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3603 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3604 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3605 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3608 * fixed HTTP redirects
3609 * support for opening an entire directory
3610 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3611 * new video4linux access plug-in
3612 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3615 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3616 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3617 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3620 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3621 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3622 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3623 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3624 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3625 * new codec for raw I420 video
3626 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3629 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3630 (although it still misses some important features)
3631 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3634 * new HTTP output support
3635 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3636 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3639 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3642 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3645 * reorderable playlist
3646 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3647 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3648 * support for mono audio output devices
3649 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3650 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3651 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3652 * the messages window remembers more lines
3653 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3654 * http and ogg stream output options
3655 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3658 * new skinnable interface
3659 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3661 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3662 * support for FLAC audio format
3663 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3665 * network tab in the interface
3666 * "apply" handling in preferences
3669 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3670 ---------------------------------
3673 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3674 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3675 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3676 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3678 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3679 * DTS S/PDIF support
3682 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3683 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3684 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3685 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3688 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3689 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3692 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3695 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3698 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3700 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3701 * rc interface is now fully useable
3702 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3705 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3706 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3707 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3708 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3709 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3711 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3712 * support for mouse gestures
3713 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3716 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3717 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3720 * improved ID3 tag detection
3721 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3722 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3723 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3725 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3728 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3729 ---------------------------------
3732 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3733 English was set as the preferred language
3736 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3737 --------------------------------
3740 * new mouse gesture interface
3741 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3745 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3746 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3747 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3750 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3751 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3755 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3758 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3759 without the user consent
3762 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3764 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3765 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3766 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3769 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3770 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3771 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3772 * playlist enhancements
3773 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3774 * new step forward/step backward commands
3775 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3776 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3777 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3780 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3781 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3782 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3785 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3786 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3789 * native video output is working again
3790 * only commandline interface support
3791 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3794 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3795 --------------------------------
3798 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3799 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3800 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3801 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3802 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3803 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3804 and A/52 streams are supported)
3805 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3810 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3811 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3812 * VCD entry points support
3813 * VCD image file support
3816 * support for *.asf format
3817 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3818 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3819 * support for ogg encapsulation
3820 * support for raw DV format
3821 * support for *.wav format
3822 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3825 Stream discovery & playlists:
3826 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3827 * support for .m3u file format
3828 * support for .asx file format
3829 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3832 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3833 (only available with the .avi demux)
3834 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3835 * support for raw PCM data
3836 * support for Cinepak video codec
3837 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3838 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3839 * support for Xvid codec
3840 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3841 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3842 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3844 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3846 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3849 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3852 * new WxWindows interface
3853 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3854 device and the channels configuration
3855 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3856 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3857 format that VLC can play
3858 * new swedish translation
3859 * enhancements of the playlist window
3860 * new messages window to see debug info
3861 * fixed a few crashes
3864 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3865 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3866 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3867 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working